The Essential Collection

Artist: Starship Label: Masters Intercontine Category: Music Average customer rating: Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 1 UPC: 024266126922 EAN: 0024266126922 ASIN: B00009PJPK Release Date: 2003-05-20

The Essential Collection

Tracks:

1. Jane
2. Sara
3. Find Your Way Back
4. Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now
5. It's Not Enough
6. It's Not Over ('Til It's Over)
7. Fooled Around and Fell in Love
8. We Built This City
9. No Way Out
10. Layin' It on the Line

Customer Reviews:

Some great remakes of Starship related tunes.......2004-07-04

The rerecorded tracks sound great, the guitars and songs are a little harder and crunchier. The keyboards and synthesizers have either been toned down significantly or removed entirely. Some of the songs, of course, were not originally recorded by Starship (but rather Jefferson Starship, etc.), but those sound good too, and they were remade because Mickey Thomas sung on the original versions of them anyway. As mentioned, this is 10 songs taken off an import only cd containing fourteen tracks originally. I do knock off a star for the fact they didn't use all 14 songs from "Greatest and Latest." It is tough to complain, though, since it is about the only way to hear these remakes unless you pay for a "Greatest and Latest" import. These remakes also appear on these albums by Starship in the US:

Starship s/t, 2004
"Forever Gold" 2003
Greatest Hits-Brilliant (label name is Brilliant) 2003
Greatest Hits-Delta (label name)

The best one to get is the 'Brilliant' label, but this collection here "Essential" isn't so bad. Again, the remakes sound good, it's just that there are no liner notes (some of these other US packagings have liner notes) and it only takes ten of fourteen songs from the original import. Otherwise, a good collection and some great remakes with the current lineup. Some of the songs stayed relatively the same and others have a few differences ("We built this city" has some different parts).
The best remakes: 'Sara', 'Fooled around and fell in love' 'We built this city' and 'Nothing's gonna stop us now', the last one sounds better without the studio polish.

Music Album:

1. Best of the Josh Joplin Group ~ Josh Joplin
2. Friends ~ Backyard Babies
3. Here Comes Trouble ~ The Eyeliners
4. Get the Picture? ~ The Pretty Things
5. XL ~ Blue Flannel
6. God Bless the Red Krayola & All Who Sail With It ~ Red Krayola
7. Camere Zimmer Rooms ~ Picchio Dal Pozzo
8. The Brass Serpent ~ Akacia
9. Motor City's Burnin', Vol. 2 ~ Various Artists
10. Twenty Eight Orange Street ~ Common Rotation

Music Album

Music Album

Music CD

Somalia ~ Billy Harper

I Got a Woman & Some Blues ~ George Benson

The Sound of Jazz, Vol. 1 ~ Various Artists

The Art of the Ballad: Ernie Krivda and Bill Bobbins ~ Ernie Krivda, Bill Dobbins

Let It All Out ~ Nina Simone

Flamenco Festival ~ Carlos Montoya

Guitarra Portuguesa ~ Carlos Paredes

Millennium ~ Companhia Do Pagode

Samba Me Pegou ~ Edil Pacheco

Polyphony for Holy Week ~ Various Artists