Clannad - Best of Clannad: In a Lifetime

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Music Review: Another hits 1 Stars

To me this really erodes the poetic beauty of the songs on this collection.

List of compilations I'm aware of. There are likely more that I may not be aware of but here it goes:

1. Past Present
2. Rogha: Best of Clannad
3. Greatest Hits
4. Magical Gathering: Anthology
5. Best of Clannad: In A Lifetime
6. An Diolaim
7. Ultimate Collection
8. The Celtic Voice
9. Celtic Collection
10. Themes
11. Magical Elements
12. Celtic Collections

THere are probably more compilations that may have slipped past my radar with this review but I find it rather disturbing how the record companies are recycling Clannad's songs like as many times as an airplane propeller completes as many revolutions during a flight from New York to Chicago. This really has eroded the punch that many of Clannad's songs once have.

"In A Lifetime", "I Will Find You", and numerous others really suffered badly from this. It's almost like taking real diamond and mass-producing numerous carbon copies of it the way glass was. While I'm not trying to change the subject of this review but glass was once precious but since it could be mass-produced, it started being thrown away like household garbage.

To me, some of Clannad's finest music has suffered a similar fate with the songs being recycled countless times on too many compilations. This is just my opinion. Many of you all might disagree and I can respect that.

What Clannad should do is stop releasing all these useless compilations and record a new album because it's been years since we heard anything new from them. Their most album "Landmarks" came out wwwaaaayy back in 1998. It's time for something new now. Your so-called hits CDs are now starting to stack as high or higher than you albums!!!!

If not a new album, the Clannad should re-release all of their regular studio albums remastered and in SACD form to give their music, especially their earliest recordings a MUCH needed audio clean-up job. It would be a much wiser move than just anther useless compilation.

"Best of Clannad: In A Lifetime" is a great collection when looking at it from a musical perspective but it is just a waste of time and money and aimed at milking the money out of the audiences. Clannad deserve better than this.

A much better move is to just buy all of their regular studio albums or the studio albums that you want instead of wasting one's time on these 'hits' or 'best of' collections. Even if it means spending much more money on them, their regular studio albums offer a lot more than these countless 'Hits' or 'best of' CDs can even dream of offering.

Just leave this collection to go out of print. End of story!

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