The Definitive Collection

Lionel Richie - The Definitive Collection

The Definitive Collection
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Artist: Lionel Richie
Brand: RICHIE,LIONEL
Edition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2003-02-04
Music Label: Motown
Soundtracks:
  1. Hello
  2. Just To Be Close To You
  3. Easy
  4. Running With The Night
  5. Three Times A Lady
  6. Still
  7. All Night Long (All Night)
  8. Endless Love
  9. Truly
  10. Penny Lover
  11. You Are
  12. Sail On
  13. Stuck On You
  14. Say You, Say Me
  15. Dancing On The Ceiling
  16. Do It To Me
  17. Ballerina Girl
  18. Angel
  19. To Love A Woman
  20. Goodbye

Music reviews of The Definitive Collection

Music Review: Two words: About Time
Rating: 5 Stars

From the booklet: "Lionel likes to reflect. He loves to talk music."

Of course he does. Wouldn't you if you had as much success as he's had for the last 20 + years? The Definitive Collection follows the example of Richie's previous two compilations, Back To Front and Truly: The Love Songs, in that it includes big hits from both Lionel Richie's stay with The Commodores and his solo projects. But it's not exactly like those two previous compilations, it's better.

For one, it's expanded to 20 songs, including 2 new recordings. What Lionel Richie is best known for is his skill in writing and performing love songs. Most of the classic sappy ballads that we all know by heart are here: "Hello", "Easy", "Sail On", "Truly", "Endless Love", etc. Most of them are excellent to listen to when you're feeling peaceful or good about life in general.

I like nearly all of the 'love songs', especially "Say You, Say Me", "Easy", and "Stuck On You". The side of Lionel Richie's music that I've always been most fond of, however, are the more upbeat tracks. Just listen to the flawless vocals of "Running With The Night" as synthesizers are heard in the background. "You Are" is perhaps another love song, but it's also rather up-tempo and extremely catchy. And then there's the ultimate party song that never ceases to lift your spirits and make you want to dance even if you're like me and you don't dance, "All Night Long (All Night)". Finally, you may not have ever heard the song "Angel" in your life, but don't skip over it. It's VERY underrated, in my opinion. It has the poetic lyrics you'd expect from Lionel Richie, the familiar voice, and what you don't expect: a nice, modern up-tempo beat. "Angel" has something in common with the last two songs on the album ("To Love A Woman" being a duet with Enrique Iglesias): It proves that Lionel still has it.

The Definitive Collection IS the most definitive collection the world has seen from Lionel Richie so far. Of course it's not perfect, though. You'll notice that there are a few missing gems that you wish were on here, such as "My Love" and "Love Will Conquer All". But until I see a better compilation and have it in my hands, The Definitive Collection will be a 5-star recommendation from me.

P.S. - The booklet that comes with the CD is great. It includes a short biography of Lionel Richie's music career and a list of how high each song reached on the pop, r & b, and adult contemporary charts.

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Description of The Definitive Collection

Includes the Commodores classics \Three Times a Lady
After mounting successes with the Commodores during the late '70s, Lionel Richie exploded into one of the biggest stars of the '80s, then enigmatically disappeared from the music business for nearly a decade. Fourteen of the tracks on this 20-track anthology (which also includes a five-cut bonus disc compiled by Richie) topped the charts, ample testimony to Richie's remarkable success in shifting from the Commodores' roots in the Smokey Robinson and Marvin Gaye Motown to a pioneering career as a crossover balladeer. His willful drift to the middle of the road found that its yellow line was nothing but gold. This collection charts the singer's upbeat successes with his former band, segues gracefully into the ballads and party-lite sensibility that made him such an unlikely '80s icon, and touches on his late-'90s reemergence. A newly recorded duet with Enrique Iglesias on "To Love a Woman" suggests that the elder popmeister hasn't lost his touch; indeed, his voice seems more warm and soulful than ever. --Jerry McCulley

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