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The Very Best of Chicago: Only the Beginning |  | Artist: Chicago
Label: Rhino
Category: Music
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Sales Rank: 809
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.7 x 4.9 x 0.5
UPC: 081227617028
EAN: 0081227617028
ASIN: B000068ZVQ
Release Date: July 2, 2002
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Disc 1
| • | Make Me Smile | | • | 25 Or 6 To 4 | | • | Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? | | • | Beginnings | | • | Questions 67 And 68 | | • | I'm A Man | | • | Colour Of My World | | • | Free | | • | Lowdown | | • | Saturday In The Park | | • | Dialogue (Part I & II) | | • | Just You 'N' Me | | • | Feelin' Stronger Every Day | | • | (I've Been) Searchin' For So Long | | • | Wishing You Were Here | | • | Call On Me | | • | Happy Man | | • | Another Rainy Day In New York City | | • | If You Leave Me Now |
Disc 2
| • | Old Days | | • | Baby, What A Big Surprise | | • | Take Me Back To Chicago | | • | Alive Again | | • | No Tell Lover | | • | Love Me Tomorrow | | • | Hard To Say I'm Sorry/Get Away | | • | Stay The Night | | • | Hard Habit To Break | | • | You're The Inspiration | | • | Along Comes A Woman | | • | Will You Still Love Me? | | • | If She Would Have Been Faithful... | | • | Look Away | | • | What Kind Of Man Would I Be? | | • | I Don't Wanna Live Without Your Love | | • | We Can Last Forever | | • | You're Not Alone | | • | Chasin' The Wind | | • | Sing, Sing, Sing (w/ The Gipsy Kings) |
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Album Description
Subtitled - Only The Beginning. Double disc with 39 hit singles spanning Chicago's complete 35-year history. Including the #1 singles 'If You Leave Me Now,' 'Hard To Say I'm Sorry' and 'Look Away'. Booklet features detailed liner notes by Bill DeYoung. Rhino Records. Slipcase. 2002.
Amazon.com
From the perspective of 15 subsequent platinum albums and 20 top-10 hits, it's hard to imagine that Chicago began their career as a bona fide prog-fusion act, an early FM radio favorite whose jazz-tinged, album-length suites found them a hip cult following even as they confounded label execs. Ironically, when the pioneering horn band (a contemporary of Blood, Sweat & Tears and inspiration for one-hit wonders like Lighthouse, Ides of March, and Ten Wheel Drive) relented and allowed their music to be edited down to single length, their success was explosive. Most of the "single edits" on disc 1 of this 39-track anthology provide ample evidence of that de facto formula: a catchy riff ("25 or 6 to 4," "Saturday in the Park," "Color My World") develops into a hook-filled, pop-savvy production rife with the band's trademark horn perfection. One could argue that that sensibility--and a midcareer tilt toward producer David Foster, songwriter Diane Warren, and the MOR ballads that became some of their biggest successes--degenerated into formula. Indeed, there's much on the second disc to support that notion. This set spans it all, showcasing newly refocused edits of some their biggest early hits and lesser-known tracks like their lively '95 cross-cultural collaboration with the Gipsy Kings on a cover of Louis Prima's swing classic "Sing, Sing, Sing." --Jerry McCulley
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