There are those who will claim that this double-disc best-of is worth its price based on the inclusion of three new songs alone, and given their smolder, its hard to argue with them. First single and disc one opener "Open Arms" is a stuff-strutting affair, with the leggy rock icon letting loose a vocal torrent to prove that in Tina years 60 is the new 25, not the new 40, and "Complicated Disaster" and "Something Special" dont sit uneasily alongside disc mates like "Typical Male" and "We Dont Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)." Undiminished vocals and still-vital rock instincts aside, though, the reason to pick up this anthology is its classics. Unlike 1991s Simply the Best which pulled from 1983 till then, All the Best reaches back to 1966 for the soul-steeped "River Deep Mountain High" and chugs through the decades, dipping into the 70s for the Iked-up hit "Nutbush City Limits" and hanging around the 80s and 90s for the bulk of 33 tracks. "Proud Mary," a 1993 rendition, keeps on burning, and "Private Dancer" and "Whats Love Got to Do With It" land as seductively on the ears as ever, but the lesser-known numbers dont lack for heat either: too many spins of swamp-rocker "Steamy Windows," for example, may require new wiper blades. -Tammy La Gorce



Tracklist:

Disc 1:
1. Open Arms
2. Nutbush City Limits /whit Ike/
3. What You Get is What You See
4. Missing You
5. The Best
6. River Deep Mountain High
7. When the Heartache is Over
8. Lets Stay Together
9. I Dont Wanna Fight
10. Whatevr You Need
11. I Cant Stand the Rain
12. GoldenEye
13. I Dont Wanna Lose You
14. Great Spirits
15. Proud Mary
16. Addicted to Love (Live)

Disc 2:
1. In Your Wildest Dreams
2. Private Dance
3. Why Must we Wait until Tonight
4. Typical Male
5. Tonight (live) /with David Bowie/
6. Complicated Disaster
7. On Silent Wings
8. Something Special
9. We Dont Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)
10. Its Only Love /with Bryan Adams/
11. Cosa Della Vita /with Eros Ramazzotti/
12. Steamy Windows
13. Paradise is Here
14. Whats Love got to do With It
15. Better be Good to Me
16. Two People
17. Something Beautiful Remains




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