Editorial Review:Album Description:2006 two CD collection celebrating George's 25 years as a recording artist, both solo and with Wham! He has been British Pop royalty ever since he took the charts by storm with Wham! in 1982. He's been a solo star for over 20 years, achieving huge international success, selling over 80 million records worldwide with hits like 'Faith' and his most recent acclaimed album Patience. He has since been hailed as the Most Played Artist on British Radio in the last 20 years! Features plenty of hits pluse four new songs including the recent radio favorite 'An Easier Affair', 'Heal The Pain' (a duet with Paul McCartney) 'Understand' and the brand new single 'This Is Not Real Love', a duet with Mutya Buena, former member of the Sugababes. Sony/BMG.
From Amazon.co.uk:The last quarter-century has been nothing if not colorful for George Michael. But through all the controversy--the high-profile arrests and audacious videos, the falling-outs and band splits--he has emerged intact as a vital figure on the global pop scene--a fact compounded by his current
25 Live tour and this accompanying Greatest Hits package.
Twenty Five is the fourth such collection in Michael's career, though it carries the obvious advantage of being more up to date than 1998's lauded
Ladies & Gentlemen and features not only solo material but music from the early Wham! days. As such, it's the most comprehensive anthology yet, featuring upbeat Wham! classics like 'Wake Me Up Before You Go Go' and 'Freedom' amidst somber solo material like 'Praying for Time' and 'Jesus to a Child.' Spread across two discs (29 songs in total), the collection not only includes a host of evergreen classics but also recent singles 'An Easier Affair' and 'This Is Not Real Love' (with former Sugababe Mutya Buena) and two unreleased tracks. There are some notable absences from the collection-–'I Want Your Sex' and 'Kissing a Fool' are two glaring omissions-–but it still remains the most comprehensive survey of the artist's legacy to date.
--Danny McKenna
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Disc 1:- Everything She Wants
- Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go
- Freedom
- Faith
- Too Funky
- Fastlove
- Freedom! '90
- Spinning the Wheel
- Outside
- As - George Michael, Wonder, Stevie
- Freeek!
- Shoot the Dog
- Amazing
- Flawless (Go to the City)
- An Easier Affair
Disc 2:- Careless Whisper
- Last Christmas
- A Different Corner
- Father Figure
- One More Try
- Praying for Time
- Heal the Pain
- Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me - George Michael, John, Elton
- Jesus to a Child
- Older
- Round Here
- You Have Been Loved
- John and Elvis Are Dead
- This Is Not Real Love
Customer Reviews
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Very Talented Cat
George Michael made some of the tightest cuts back in the day. the guy truly could write and Sing. his wham days had moments,but his Solo career is what made him a household name. and I still feel with the right type of record now he could easily come back.he has serious talent and for my Money Justin Timberlake could't hold one of George Michael's Choose Life Shirts. Carless Whisper, Jesus to a child, fastlove, one more try,praying for time,etc... George Michael was that dude back in the day who had style,charisma and brought alot of feeling in his music. i'd like to see him make one more serious run because he has the kind of talent that could easily hang today and even longer if he wanted to. this is a very good collection and a reminder of a true talent. in truth the Cat is very Underrated.
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george michael is the true king...or queen
The CD I FINALLY received was surprisingly a good addition to my George Michael collection. It had some new tracks that I have never heard before. I have nothing but good things to say about the CD. I do however, have bad things to say about AMAZON. I paid for 2day delivery and received the product about a week and a half later. Upon arrival, the cover of it seemed in tact. When I opened it, the little plastic pins that hold the discs in were broken. I really had to hurry to download it to my comp fearing it would get scratched because their was nothing to hold the discs in place. Over all, the product is exceptional. The service of AMAZAN and UPS needs a total overhaul.
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In a class of his own!
Anyone who has managed 25 years in the music industry deserves some credit and respect especialy while maintaining integrity and dignity against sometimes impossible odds. Whether you love or hate George, you can't deny that he's done it his way while standing up against the might of the major labels. I am not interested in his private life but rather to the unique style, vibe and rythum this guy offered to the world for 25 years.
Twentyfive is broken down into three discs - the first of which -
For Living - is the dancier, more upbeat of the trio.
For Loving, the second disc, is more ballady, containing last-slow-dance, from his first solo outings Careless Whisper and several duets ex. (Paul McCartney, Elton John, Pavarotti, Sugababe Mutya, Aretha Franklin, Elton John)
And then there's the final disc, For The Loyal, containing B-sides, rarities and curiosities.
Overall, a must-have for any George Michael fun!
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NOT MY USUAL SCENE
It is well over twenty years since I first heard Careless Whisper. My children were playing a tape of it during a long car journey, and it caught my attention and has haunted my recollection ever since. My own musical home ground is classical, and I have never followed the charts to any great extent. However music to me is just music, its effect is unpredictable and irrational, and there is never any mistaking the unaccountable thrill that some music can give me, whatever category of music it supposedly belongs in.
This set has just been given to me as a birthday present by one of the children, who are now of course adults. The idea is apparently to take me out of my classical comfort zone, but if one thing has consistently struck me in half a century of hearing pop music it is just how conservative it is in certain ways. The harmonisation would in general have seemed unenterprising to composers in the year 1700, yet this is the kind of music that millions really listen to and are really affected by. From this I have to draw the conclusion that a simple harmony that lasts unaltered through untold numbers of changes of musical fashion, style and idiom can hardly be thought of as outmoded, whatever the earnest intellectual theories of the 20th century.
George Michael has apparently composed most of the music here himself, and I certainly seem to detect a resemblance in the style of many of the numbers. Unsurprisingly, I like some of them better than some others, and still none matches up to Careless Whisper for me. Bottom of the charts for me is the joint number with Elton John `Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me', I have to say. However something that does a lot for even the items that interest me less from a musical viewpoint is George Michael's voice. This is really most striking and distinctive in its higher register, a fine tenor sound that will continue to keep me listening to songs that would not hold my attention otherwise.
Whether I was in that much of a musical comfort zone I rather doubt, but the matter is not for me to judge. I am not at all comfortable with some 20th century `classical' music and I am rarely uncomfortable with the pops, even if only intermittently interested. This set is going to be chiefly background music for me, I'm sure, but it's mainly new music to me at the moment. I'm not shaken in the least although I genuinely am stirred up to a point. Why should that be otherwise? It's music innit?
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gotta have a little faith, eh?
This is a greatest hits collection, spread over two CDs, including hits from GM's Wham! days. It's great for listening when reading, or reflecting back on the days when we all had mousse or gel in our spiky hair. Careless Whisper is an old friend, as is Freedom 90, but a couple of songs are missing here (Somebody to Love, with Queen, and my guilty fave, I Want Your Sex). An enjoyable collection nonetheless.