The Collection

The Collection Artist: Paolo Conte
Label: BMG
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 743215656524
EAN: 0743215656524
ASIN: B00000FYA3


Release Date: 1998-09-30

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Tracks:

  1. Hemingway
  2. Chi Siamo Noi
  3. La Ragazza Fisarmonica
  4. La Fisarmonica Di Stradel
  5. Pittori Della Domenica
  6. Lo Scapolo
  7. Naufragio A Milano
  8. Tango
  9. Con Te Sempre Piu Solo
  10. Dancing
  11. La Ricostruzione Del Moca
  12. Avanti Bionda
  13. Wanda
  14. La Giarrettiera Rosa
  15. Genova Per Noi
  16. Una Giornata Al Mare
  17. Luna Di Marmellata
  18. Questa Sporca Vita

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Finally!.......2000-09-04

Conte's style is an amalgam of musical genres from the twenties and thirties--tango and early jazz--together with rhumba, chanson, samba and other influences. Oddly, he succeeds in digesting all of this into what is always a "Conte song." His songs are best if you understand the melancholy and nostalgia of the words, but even without them the music carries the snort of pride and condescension, the laughter, solitude, and understatement they would convey. This is NOT a collection of greatest hits or his most accessible songs--though it includes many of them: the battered idealistic love of "Con Te Sempre Piu Solo" and "La Ricostruzione del Mocambo" and "Luna di Marmellata" (Marmelade Moon), the delightful "Wanda," the surreally comic "La Giarrettiera Rosa" (the pink garter belt), and the searching "Genova per Noi." While we wait for the rest of Conte's stuff (which puts to shame America's false, bombastic, ideological, puerile poetic prophets like Dylan et al, ad nauseam) to be released in the U.S., this will help.

2 out of 5 stars The Collection-Paolo Conte.......2000-01-05

Although I am not a regular listener of foreign music, I enjoyed Paolo Conte's Greatest Hits very much. However, my second attempt at this type of music has left me disappointed. The Collection contains songs with rather unusual tempos and rhythms which, I believe, require an acquired taste to enjoy. If you are not a regular listener of Paolo Conte, I would suggest trying his more popular works before purchasing this one.

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  4. Il Grande Sogno ~ Roberto Vecchioni
  5. Shadow of the Wind ~ Bekki Williams
  6. Elysian Fields ~ Bekki Williams
  7. Threesixzero ~ David Wright
  8. Sanbanme No Senorita ~ Kodama Central Station
  9. Marilynmba ~ David Wright
  10. Ocean Watch ~ David Wright

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