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| Artist: Tracy Chapman
Label: Warner Bros UK
Category: Music
List Price: $17.98
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Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 2862
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 075596270021
EAN: 0075596270021
ASIN: B00005NSPV
Release Date: October 30, 2001
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| Tracks:
| • | Fast Car | | • | Subcity | | • | Baby I Can Hold You | | • | The Promise | | • | I'm Ready | | • | Crossroads | | • | Bang Bang Bang | | • | Telling Stories | | • | Smoke and Ashes | | • | Speak the Word | | • | Wedding Song | | • | Open Arms | | • | Give Me One Reason | | • | Talkin' Bout a Revolution | | • | She's Got Her Ticket | | • | All That You Have Is Your Soul |
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Album Description
Import only collection spanning all five albums the acclaimed singer/songwriter's produced in her first 12 years. 16 tracks including 'Fast Car', 'Crossroads', 'Telling Stories' & 'Give Me One Reason'.
Album Details
Digitally Remastered 16 Track Anthology Personally Chosen by the Artist. Her Alluring Voice and Unique Perspectives of Life Are Razors in all the Cotton Candy that Surrounds her on the Charts. She Remains True to her Art and Herself. This Collect Ion is Testimony to One of the Finest Talents to Emerge and Endure in the Pop Wasteland.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 16 more reviews...
 Was so excited April 11, 2008
Happy Notes (New York)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I ordered the Tracy Chapman Collection album. I was so excited when my order arrived. However, as soon as I played it my excitment died. The whole CD is full of static. I thought perhaps it was my CD player so I tried it on a couple different ones all with the same result. I had seen this mentioned in some other reviews and had hoped the problem would have been corrected by the time I made my purchase. Wrong. I'm sure Ms. Chapman would be upset to know that the reputation she has for the caliber of work she puts out has been sullied by this shoddy product.
And Amazon: you should be ashamed.
 She's Got a Ticket April 7, 2008
Not Miss Havisham
My listening to Chapman goes back to the time of vinyls, and if that makes me seem impossibly old, it's ok, the music was great then and enjoy it as much now. I can still remember listening to her first album in my friend's living room, picking out lyrics together.
This CD works well in that it pulls songs from different periods and moods, associated with different times in Chapman's career, and more importantly in the listeners' personal lives. The music sparks memories of dreams one held, ideals aspired to, people, experiences, even TV programmes watched and books read.
The themes running through the colllection- such as the quest for personal liberation ('She's got a ticket, I think she's gonna use it', Fast Car), personal integrity (Soul), love and the loss of it (The Promise)- can't not touch the introspective listener. The subtlety of Chapman's lyrics is also evident here: the line 'If you can make a promise, if it's one that you can keep, I vow to come for you' in The Promise evidences this clearly. Life is never straightforward for Chapman, or indeed for any of us. Things always depend on such a wide variety of factors. This is further recognised in All That You Have Is Your Soul, such a powerful song about how women often 'sell out' to expectatations of those around them, rather than doing that which they truly believe in, 'Don't be tempted by the shiny apple, don't you eat of a bitter fruit'. Even though Chapman's interpretation of the shiny apple may be completely different to any other listener, the principle remains. It reminds and inspires me to use my 'ticket', whenever I slip too far back into the old comfort zone.
A super collection, I thoroughly enjoy listening to it.
No cd quality issues to speak of.... March 1, 2008
Brian (Boston, MA)
I just bought this having never seen or heard of it before and upon listening decided to pull up some reviews on amazon. I have grown up with Tracy for many years as my dad had the first album back when I was a young lad. I was going to pick up her 1st album when I saw this. I agree with other reviews in that For My Lover should have been included on this. I am a bit confused by the sound issues as this cd was an import from the UK but made in germany. Perhaps some of you got the cd that was made in argentina? I saw one of those in the used section of newbury comics today and took no chances going with the new UK import version. My dad who is a complete stereophile swears cd's from the UK sound better than those made in the US. I am listening on my home stereo complete with JM Lab speakers and Naim CD player and receiver. Sounds great to me so far!
 From the soul January 29, 2008
Long Ago
I've listened to Tracy since 1992 and to this compilation album for the last three years. There isn't a song I don't like here; however, this isn't an album I listen to daily or even weekly. To me Tracy Chapman's music, and my appreciation of it, has a lot to do with my mood. Her songs lend themselves to a mood of solemnity and solitude. Her sometimes heavy but always heartfelt and genuine lyrics are not to be taken lightly. The social contexts of many of her songs don't lend themselves to generally light-hearted, "fluff" music listening.
This album is great listening when lying in the dark in a state of personal ponderance or driving the back roads of a rural countryside while perusing personal relationships. Any Tracy Chapman fan, or any fan of serious music in general, should own this album.
 Tracy Chapman - Collection December 3, 2007
J. Lattone (thornton, CO United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Extremely disappointed in this CD. The lineup of tunes looked very impressive, but quality of sound was poor to say the least. There was "buzzing" and static on the first 4 tracks that finally forced us to stop the CD. This will make me think twice about purchasing an import CD again.
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