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Music CD - The Temptations: My Girl: The Very Best of the Temptations
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Music CD: My Girl: The Very Best of the Temptations
Artist: The Temptations
List Price: $24.98
Our Price: $12.86
Your Save: $ 12.12 ( 49% )
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Manufacturer: Motown
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Tracks:
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1. Dream Come True
2. I Want A Love I Can See
3. The Way You Do The Things You Do
4. My Girl
5. It's Growing
6. Since I Lost My Baby
7. Don't Look Back
8. Get Ready
9. Ain't Too Proud To Beg
10. Beauty Is Only Skin Deep
11. (I Know) I'm Losing You
12. All I Need
13. You're My Everything
14. I Wish It Would Rain
15. I Could Never Love Another (After Loving You)
16. Cloud Nine
17. I'm Gonna Make You Love Me
18. Runaway Child, Running Wild
19. I Can't Get Next To You
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0044001729829
Format: Original recording remastered
Label: Motown
Manufacturer: Motown
Number Of Discs: 2
Publisher: Motown
Release Date: 2002-04-16
Studio: Motown
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Summary: A less expensive version is available.
Comment: The track listing and features for My Girl: The Very Best...is the exact same as the Temptations Gold album. Only, Gold is a few dollars cheaper. Get that one and save yourself some money. This is very odd for the same album to be packaged two different ways.
As far as the music: it's the Temptations and the music is really good. The latter end of the second cd lags due to the unmistakable and dated 80s sound.
I'll give a more in depth review for the Gold album. I just wanted to warn people this is a more expensive version of an album that already exists.
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Summary: It don't get better than this
Comment: This is a classic that everybody should have. The music and performance will take you back to a time when artist had to have talent, and this CD is abundant with this. Motown classic
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Summary: Almost Perfect
Comment: I'm only a casual fan of Motown music but the Temptations are by far my favorite Motown group. I got this CD to replace my 1985 Command Performances 17 Greatest Hits CD and this collection does not disappoint.
The highlights for me are the cleaner, stronger bass sound on my favorite Temp song - "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone." The remastered sound on this alone is worth the price of this CD. Also, "Ain't Too Proud to Beg" has never sounded better. All the early songs are in stereo (or semi-stereo) which is great. I also appreciate the liner notes about each song by the remaining original member, Otis Williams.
I have only a few complaints. First, Disk 1 is only 58 minutes and could have used a few more of their early songs. One I wish was on it is "Girl (Why You Wanna Make Me Blue)" (it's on the Command Performances CD). Not my favorite but a good song that should be on this collection. Disk 2 is a healthy 75 minutes - but I am not as excited about the songs recorded after 1973, so the last few songs on this CD seem like filler.
My second complaint is that for someone like me that did not follow this group closely, it would have been nice if the liner notes would have indicated who the lead singer was on each song but they do not.
Third, for most of the songs, the remastered sound is superior to the Command Performances CD. But on some songs, like the fabulous "I Could Never Love Another", the remastered violins (or should I say strings)seem to dominate too much. The Command Performance version of this song has a better blend. I'm not too crazy about the strings that were on most of these old Motown songs anyway. It would be interesting to hear them with the strings removed.
But these are minor complaints and all in all this is a great collection by an incredible group.
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Summary: "Just my imagination {runnnin away with me}"?
Comment: I recently watched part of the movie on MTV and was so impressed by the acting and singing that I bought the movie.
Watching the movie brought back alot of memories. My pal Louie was a HUGE fan.I was more of a psychedelic rock guy.My how times do change.
I first bought some other Temps cd of 16 recordings which were not original . So I bought this here and WHOAH. I am now a HUGE fan. The talent of these guys was truly inspired. The attention to detail ,the lyrics ,the sheer romantic intensity of the love songs and the social commentary of some of the others is still relevant today. The high pitched voice of David and the boss tone quality of Melvin with the other's each having a pivotal role is exhilirating. What a pleasure to hear and reknow this class act.Bet my pal Louie is harmonizing with Paul, Al ,Melvin,,Eddie,Dave and the rest right now. Or is it :"Just my imagination {runnning away with me}"?
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Summary: The Best Temptations Compilation To Date
Comment: If you want only one Temptations cd in your collection, than this is the on to get. This two disc set has it all. Every major hit the band had, remastered with fantastic sound, accompanied by a fantastic booklet with commentary on each song by original member Otis Williams. "My Girl", "Ain't Too Proud To Beg", "I Can't Get Next To You", "Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)", "Papa Was A Rolling Stone" and every other classic hit is on here. This is by far the one to get.
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Editorial Reviews:
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In Motown hierarchies, the Temptations occupied pretty much the same exalted place at the legendary label as the Lincoln division did at Ford; both had a marquee reputation for class and quality that endured time and trend for decades. The group was also a tribute to the glorious possibilities of an erstwhile assembly line: the early hits here (including the signature song that gives this 36-track, double-disc anthology its name) were penned by fellow legend Smokey Robinson, supervised by label founder Berry Gordy, and backed by one of music's greatest house bands. But even as Robinson's role segued into Norman Whitfield's as the 1960s rolled into the '70s, and as David Ruffin and Eddie Kendricks left the group for solo careers--echoing the splintering of their superstar label counterparts the Supremes--the Temptations' juggernaut rolled on through a rich series of hits that were by turns traditional ("Just My Imagination"), timely ("Ball of Confusion"), and hard-edged ("Papa Was a Rolling Stone"). But if the hit Motown sound they so long personified became displaced by waves of funk and middle-of-the-road music on the R&B charts, the Tempts adapted remarkably well, scoring hits like the P-Funk collaboration "Shakey Ground," 1984's "Treat Her Like a Lady," and 1998's million-seller "Stay," the last cut nearly 40 years after the band's first Motown session. This collection chronicles their journey across several disparate epochs of soul music history, and includes a concise historical note for each song, as well as track-by-track commentary from founding Temptations member Otis Williams. --Jerry McCulley
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