Platinum & Gold Collection

Platinum & Gold Collection Artist: Cowboy Junkies
Label: RCA
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 1.5 out of 5 stars
Format: Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 828765516327
EAN: 0828765516327
ASIN: B0000BXMZD


Release Date: 2003-09-09

Platinum & Gold Collection


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Tracks:

  1. Sweet Jane
  2. Blue Moon Revisited (Song For Elvis)
  3. Anniversary Song
  4. This Street, That Man, This Life
  5. Misguided Angel
  6. A Horse In The Country
  7. The Post
  8. Murder, Tonight, In The Trailer Park
  9. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
  10. Seven Years
  11. Dreaming My Dreams With You
  12. Powderfinger

Similar Items:

  1. Pale Sun, Crescent Moon
  2. Open
  3. Studio: Selected Studio Recordings 1986-1995
  4. Long Journey Home
  5. Best of Cowboy Junkies

Customer Reviews:

1 out of 5 stars SIMPLY NOT RECOMMENDED.......2006-01-03

How would one consider the best of one's artist if the songs here are mostly taken from just one album. I am a Cowboy Junkies fan, I got 12 out of their 16 albums, all of them aren't available in my own country. Why waste time purchase an album that even the band doesn't recommend? The band doesn't only put so much effort on their music, they also put a great art on their CD's label.

I give this album a 1 rating simply for its unauthorized release.

1 out of 5 stars Trying to make another buck off the band.......2004-01-10

Well normally i would have rated this album 5 stars as anything done by the Junkies deserves 5 stars.But when the band has no say in this particuler album i give it a big thumbs down.This is the second album of songs released by their old record label trying to rehash the stuff in a "Greatest hits" CD.
12 total tracks and 5 are off the Trinity Sessions album alone?! Why not buy that album anyway? Thats what got me hooked on the band and is my favorite. For an album that is similer in sound to the Trinity Sessions CD is Lay it Down. They have plenty of albums to buy rather then this one.

1 out of 5 stars poorly-done compilation.......2003-12-30

RCA/BMG have released the third best-of compilation in seven years. Like one of the previous efforts, this compilation was done without the knowledge of the band and without their blessing. The band, via their website, has asked their fans not to purchase it.

Even if yu don't consider the band's wishes, there really is no reason to purchase this album. As a collection of Cowboy Junkies tunes, it misses the mark completely. It has a mere 12 tracks, and doesn't include many of their best-known and best-loved songs.

If you are looking for a compilation by this band, look for the album named "Studio". It is a much better retrospective of their career (to that point), and is the one compilation that is actually sanctioned by the band.

Other albums in the band's catalog will also serve as an introduction. Most fans consider their second album, "The Trinity Session", to be their quintessential release. My favourite album is "Black-Eyed Man", which includes their inspired cover of Townes Van Zandt's "To Live is to Fly". I rarely recommend live albums, but the two-disc "200 More Miles" is also an excellent introduction to a band that spends a lot of time on the road, has an excellent relationship with their fans, and always puts on a fine performance.

I give this album one star, and would give it zero if that were an option. This isn't a reflection on the music on the album: it is all top-notch. My rating is a reflection of a poorly-done compilation by a record label that should know better.

1 out of 5 stars Unauthorized Release.......2003-12-06

The Cowboy Junkies, on their own official website, mention that they objected to the release of this album and urge their fans not to purchase it. I have not heard it, so I can't comment on the quality of songs presented here, but, like the reviewer before, would urge those new to the Cowboy Junkies to start with The Trinity Sessions or (my other favorite) Pale Sun Crescent Moon--or anything else, since they're all good. The one star is not a reflection of the band or this album--only that THEY don't recommend it.

4 out of 5 stars

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  2. The First League out from Land ~ The Tossers
  3. The Red Machine ~ Monday in London
  4. The Best of Stray Cats ~ Stray Cats
  5. 219 Days ~ Kalan Porter
  6. Nobody's Cool ~ Lotion
  7. The Curious City ~ Modey Lemon
  8. Method Fail Repeat ~ Kite-Eating Tree
  9. Gratitude ~ Earth Wind & Fire
  10. Medway Wheelers ~ The Buff Medways

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Triptych ~ Lotte Anker, Craig Taborn, Gerald Cleaver

Different Perspectives ~ Robin Eubanks

Festival Of Irish Music, Vol. 6 ~ Various Artists

Voyager Series: Sahara ~ Various Artists

Blues Guitar Greats ~ Various Artists

Remix Sertanejo V.3 ~ Grupo Remix Sertanejo

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