Ultimate Collection

Ultimate Collection Artist: Y&T
Label: Hip-O Records
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Format: Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 606949088927
EAN: 0606949088927
ASIN: B00005LNHY


Release Date: 2001-07-03

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  6. Metal Music - 80s #2
  7. Eric Andrews' NOW Series: 1985 (personally burned on CD)
  8. The best '80's metal music you might not remember...A to Z

Tracks:

  1. Dirty Girl
  2. Hurricane
  3. Rescue Me
  4. I Believe In You
  5. Black Tiger
  6. Open Fire
  7. Forever
  8. Midnight In Tokyo
  9. Mean Streak
  10. Don't Stop Runnin'
  11. Summertime Girls
  12. 25 Hours A Day (Live)
  13. Contagious
  14. Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark
  15. I'm Lost
  16. God Only Knows
  17. Beautiful Dreamer (Live)

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars This And BEST OF 1981-1985 Are All The Y&T You Need.......2005-07-28

This complilation, along with BEST OF 1981-1985, helps provide the best way to experience Y&T. In their early days their sound combined hard-rock and blues-rock styles from Texas, Detroit, California, the Southeast, England, and the Great Plains states, but as time went on, their sound became more conventional AOR. However, their Geffen years appear not to have been entirely wasted, so get both collections at once.

5 out of 5 stars GET READY TO ROCK.......2005-02-16

THIS IS A GREAT CD WHICH COVERS Y&T'S CAREER MORE THOROUGH THAN THE BEST OF Y&T 1981-1985. THIS CD REALLY ROCKS HARD FROM START TO FINISH AND IS A GREAT VALUE FOR THE MONEY WITH 17 SONGS ON THE CD.IT'S A CRIME THAT THESE GUYS DON'T GET PLAYED ENOUGH ON THE RADIO WHEN THEY ARE BETTER THAN SO MANY THAT ARE PLAYED EVERY DAY. BUY THIS AWESOME CD IF YOU WANT TO HEAR SOME GREAT TALENTED ROCK MUSICIANS WHO CAN DEFINATELY JAM.

4 out of 5 stars Good compilation by an awesome band.......2004-04-06

I'm surprised that Y&T (originally called Yesterday and Today) didn't achieve the huge success that they deserved but they were fairly big back in their prime and they earned alot of respect from their fans and they got strong reviews by the press as well, the singer's voice reminds me of Sammy Hagar back when he was in Montrose.

My only gripe about this CD is that they didn't put Lipstick 'N' Leather on this compilation but it's no big deal cause this CD, but if you're a casual fan of Y&T or a casual fan of hard rock/metal music then this CD is a must have but I would recommend their other hits compilation Best of '81-'85 which contains their best songs from their prime period and this CD has most of their songs from the late 70's stuff to the mid 90's.

4 out of 5 stars A Great Collection From a Largely Overlooked Group.......2004-01-31

I like Y & T. While they earned the respect of their peers, they never achived the same commercial success. Maybe it was because there was a glut of metal bands on the market at the time: Ratt, Motley Crue, Whitesnake, Bon Jovi, etc... Each was very good in their own right and achieved fantastic commercial success. These bands had their own style and appearance, but catered to a common audience. While they were the headliners, Y & T always seemed to remain the perpetual opening band.

Dave Meniketti was the band's lead vocalist, songwriter and guitarist. He's got a bit of a deeper voice, but it grows on you after awhile. He's still at it today, releasing an album every few years under his own name, and playing live. Y & T was a very tight group. To use a worn out cliche, they were all about the music. They had some great riffs!

Now that the heyday of Hard Rock and Heavy Metal is gone, it's interesting to go back and look at all of these groups again to see if there was any "staying power" to the music. I find myself coming back to only a few of them -- one of them being Y & T.

This album is a great starting to point to get an idea of the band's sound. This collection gives you the highlights from their 25+ year career, from 1976's "Yesterday and Today" to 1997's "Endangered Species." You get a mix of ballads (I Believe in You) and good 80's hard rock (Forever).

If you loved the hard rock music scene from the 80's and haven't heard of these guys, do yourself a favor and pick this album up. It's a great starting point to redsicover a great, sadly neglected band.

5 out of 5 stars Too bad they were ahead of thier time..........2002-08-31

The band's biggest failing was that they came along a little bit too early - they were just great; talented, great songwriting and great performers, only 'under-rated'. Y&T would have been a worldwide success, like many Metal bands in the '80s only if they had better timing. I highly recommend this album, as well as their live album: Open Fire.

Music CD:

  1. Time to Burn ~ Giant
  2. The Poison ~ Bullet for My Valentine
  3. Razorbliss ~ Flowing Tears
  4. World Wide Live ~ Scorpions
  5. Vivid ~ Living Colour
  6. The Chemical Wedding ~ Bruce Dickinson
  7. In Rock We Trust ~ Y&T
  8. Giant Robot ~ Buckethead
  9. Into the Electric Castle ~ Ayreon
  10. World Coming Down ~ Type O Negative

Music CD

Music CD

Music CD

On a Planet Where it Rains ~ Sherry Lawson

Killswitch Engage ~ Killswitch Engage

Short Songs for Short Attention Spans ~ The Nobodys

Dreams of Ordinary Men ~ Hunter

Salma Ya Salama ~ Dalida

Polynesian Polyphonies: Musique du Monde ~ Himene

Mirmama ~ Eddi Reader

Tangerine Dream ~ Kaleidoscope

Mario the Music ~ Original Game Soundtrack

Nervous Hard House ~ Various Artists