The Temptations - The Ultimate Collection
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Artist: The TemptationsEdition: Music CD
Format: Explicit Lyrics
CD Release Date: 1997-03-25
Music Label: Motown
Soundtracks:
- The Way You Do the Things You Do - The Temptations, Robinson, Smokey
- My Girl - The Temptations, Robinson, Smokey
- It's Growing - The Temptations, Moore, Warren
- Since I Lost My Baby - The Temptations, Moore, Warren
- Don't Look Back - The Temptations, Robinson, Smokey
- Get Ready - The Temptations, Robinson, Smokey
- Ain't Too Proud to Beg - The Temptations, Holland, Eddie
- (I Know) I'm Losing You - The Temptations, Holland, Eddie
- All I Need - The Temptations, Holland, Eddie
- You're My Everything - The Temptations, Whitfield, Norman
- Angel Doll - The Temptations, Wonder, Stevie
- I Wish It Would Rain - The Temptations, Whitfield, Norman
- Cloud Nine - The Temptations, Whitfield, Norman
- I Can't Get Next to You - The Temptations, Whitfield, Norman
- Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today) - The Temptations, Whitfield, Norman
- Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me) - The Temptations, Whitfield, Norman
- Papa Was a Rollin' Stone - The Temptations, Strong, Barrett
- Shakey Ground - The Temptations, Bowen, Jeffrey
- Treat Her Like a Lady - The Temptations, Williams, Otis [Tem
- Error of Our Ways - The Temptations, Williams, Otis [Tem
- My Girl - The Temptations, Robinson, Smokey
Music reviews of The Ultimate Collection
Music Review: What great music. . . .
Rating: 5 Stars
Recently, an Amazon friend reviewed this book. Since I gave up my old vinyl collection, I have not had any Temptations' CDs in my collection. That review just mentioned impelled me to begin adding some of the group's music to the set of CDs that I own.
Just got the CD and is it glorious! Obviously, one CD will not hold all of the best music of this group. However, what appears here is pretty terrific. From 1964, "The Way You Do the Things You Do" and "My Girl"; from 1972, "Just My Imagination (Running away with Me)" and, maybe, my all-time favorite work, "Pap Was a Rolling Stone"; from 1994, "Error of Our Ways."
A few examples of their work. . .
The sunny "My Girl." A cheerful instrumental introduction followed by opening lines such as:
"I've got sunshine on a cloudy day;
When it's cold outside, I got the month of May."
Why? "My girl." A nice uptempo, upbeat tune, something that the Temptations could do so well.
Of course, more lugubrious feelings can be elicited as well. Take "Just My Imagination (Running away with Me)." The singer speaks of the joy of having a wonderful girl"
". . .I watch her as she passes by.
I say to myself, I'm such a lucky guy.
To have a girl like her is truly a dream come true."
But the reality?
"It was just my imagination, running away with me."
Good instrumentals and fine vocal backing. One of the classics among all Temptations' songs. The Rolling Stones did a nice cover of this, but this version is the "real deal."
Then, my personal favorite of all their oeuvre, "Pap Was a Rolling Stone." A 2 minute introduction, as funky as one could wish, with wailing horns and an hypnotic beat before vocals come into play. The first lines:
"It was the third of September,
A day I'll always remember. . .
That was the day that my Daddy died."
This is the story of a person being apart from a father and hearing lots of bad things about him. Then asking his mom why. Her answer?
"Papa was a rolling stone,
Wherever he laid his hat was his home."
Song after song. These bring memories flooding back as I recalled hearing some of these songs for the first time when they were first released. Want to know something about this group? This is a good starting point.
Description of The Ultimate Collection
A brave effort at cramming one disc full of Temptations classics, The Ultimate Collection nevertheless makes a couple of puzzling choices. Why, for instance, include "Error of Our Ways," a very minor mid-'90s hit, and ignore "Beauty Is Only Skin Deep" or "I Could Never Love Another (After Loving You)," both number ones from their classic period? Still, for the price, it's hard to argue with. --Rickey WrightGeneral CDs
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