Chicago Story: Complete G.H. 1967-2002

Artist: Chicago
Label: Wea International
Category: Music

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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 2
EAN: 9325583016776
ASIN: B0000793RA

Release Date: 2002-10-24

Chicago Story: Complete G.H. 1967-2002

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Tracks:

If You Leave Me Now
Hard To Say Im Sorry
Your The Inspiration
Hard Habit To Break
Will You Still Love Me
Baby What A Big Surprie
Look Away
What Kind Of Man Would I Be
I Dont Wanna Live Withwout Your Love
Love Me Tomorrow
Just You N Me
Happy Man
Youre Not Alone
Chasing The Wind
Wishing You Were Here
No Tell Lover
( Ive Been ) Searchin So Long
Colour My World
You Come To My Senses
We Can Last Forever
25 Or 6 To 4 - DISC 2
Saturday In The Park
Questions 67 And 68
Im A Man
Stay The Night
Only You
Dialogue (part I & I I )
Old Days
Beginnings
Lowdown
Another Rainy Day In New York City
Call On Me
Feelin Stronger Every Day
Take Me Back To Chicago
Sing Sing Sing With The Gipsy Kings
Along Comes A Woman
Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is
Make Me Smile
Street Player

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Album Description

Subtitled - The Complete Greatest Hits. The soft rock stars' import exclusive best of compilation featuring 39 tracks. Highlights include, 'If You Leave Me Know', 'Hard To Say I'm Sorry' (Single Edit), 'You're The Inspiration', 'Hard Habit To Break', & 'Will You Still Love Me?'. Rhino/WSM. 2002.

Album Details

The First Definitive Chicago "Best Of" that Includes all Former Cbs and Warner Recordings from 1967-2002! all 39 Tracks have Been Digitally Remastered. Features a 16 Page Booklet with Liner Notes and Photographs.

Customer Reviews:

ALL THE BEST, THE SOUND'S GREAT !.......2006-02-25

CD: 1 LOVE SONGS & BALLADS.
CD: 2 UPTEMPO & POP.
ALTHOUGH "DOES ANYBODY..." IS THE SAME HORRIBLE EDIT THAT THEY INCLUDE IN EVERY GH, IT DESERVES 5 STAR STATUS, VERY COMPLETE ANTHOLOGY, GOOD REMASTER THAT MAKES IT SOUND LIKE NEVER BEFORE.

It's all here but you can skip most of it .......2005-11-28

I agree with Misha below who says this band's music went south (as in sour) after Terry Kath used a gun on himself. Within a few years of his death, their material, once innovative and revolutionary, became commercial, pretty and boring! They retained the horn sound, but it became less discernible amid the ever- more- prominent syrup and pabulum that dressed their recordings. Similar to what that same reviewer said, if Kath were still around to hear it today, I think he'd be vomiting in the rows (as he often did anyway but for much different reasons). Having said that, if you were to put together a collection of songs which accurately reveals the musical history of a band that, despite its revised approach and now almost unrecognizable personnel, has endured for almost 40 years, this would be the set. Indeed, the 3 rating is for the music, not for this particular edition of it. It's got all the hits you'd want, including the not-so-exciting ones. With such a bonanza, you can easily witness the transformation of this group as it went through its metamorphosis to match the whims of the top 40 pop market: the political lyrics and the gritty, intrepid music of the early years compared to the later lame, love-song efforts which would unfortunately become their trademark. Lamentable though that journey may have been, these discs do take you through almost all of it with an astounding number of selections. It's unquestionably the most complete and comprehensive assortment of songs by Chicago that you could have in one place, re-mastered and re-engineered as well for superior reproduction quality on a CD.

One of the best bands I've ever heard!.......2004-12-28

Honestly speaking, by the time I was old enough to comprehend music as something more than a bunch of babble as a mixture of sounds were playing, Chicago was long dead. Sure, the band was still there, but I have never heard anyone spoke of them.

Then one day, I was finally fed up with modern music, so I return to listening to radio. One day, my favorite station played "Baby, What A Big Suprise". I thought the song was great, but it wasn't much to go off of. Later on, I heard "You're The Inspiration". It was then that I became interested. I became curious as to who this Chicago band was. So what better way to become acquainted with a band than to get their greatest hits album?

That was what exactly I did and here I am. Today, I am a big fan of Chicago. Yes, that is how good this album is. I've only listen to a relatively small number of tracks, but I already couldn't get enough. This greatest hits collection epitomizes what I love about this band. Good music, good lyrics, good band!

If it could turn a former rap-lover like me into a fan, then I'm sure you would love it too! I highly recommend this album to all lovers of music!

Awesome in Concert.......2004-02-09

I went and saw Chicago in concert last Friday (6th Feb 2004) with the Beach Boys opening first. Wasn't really there to see Beach Boys, but when Chicago came on stage, they were fantastic!
I only bought The Chicago Story - Complete Greatest Hits a few months ago and is by far the best album to have with all the hits I know and listen to. I am only 27 so you can't say that I am in that generation.
So the concert was awesome, they played all my favourites and a couple I didn't know but all the older people around me did. My only wish for this CD is that they had the extended version of 'Your The Inspiration' which they played at the concert and sounded awesome, heaps better than listening to it on radio or CD.

Chicago was two different bands..and one blows.......2004-01-27

Chicago is one of those rare bands that
overcame tragedy ( the death of guitarist Terry
Kath ) and commercial disfavor to reinvent
themselves. That is, to my mind,the unfortunate
part. Those of us who loved the radical politics
and ambitious,hard edged material of the
first seven albums are forgotten these days.
Everyone now thinks of Chicago as an easy
listening band; doing those wretched "soft
n' easy favorites ". Yuck ! Gag !
My beef with all Chicago reissues is simply

that the stuff after Chicago XI ( not coincidentally,
the last record Kath appeared on ) is just
lightweight dreck. OK, I own the first seven
anyway, so a greatest hits disc doesn't offer
me anything, anyway. I suppose I'm just shaking
my fist at the sky bemoaning that the band
that shook my world up with "South California
Purples" in 1970 "Mother" in 1971..and so many
others..now has a record out called "What's It
Gonna Be, Santa " Terry is rolling over in his

grave like he's on a barbeque spit. And spit

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