Barbra Streisand - The Essential (2002) CD-Rip

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Artist: Barbra Streisand
Title: The Essential
Year Of Release: 2002
Label: Columbia #C2K 86123
Genre: Pop, Traditional Pop, Soft Rock, Vocal Jazz
Quality: EAC Rip -> FLAC (Img+Cue, Log)
Total Time: 2CD (01:15:40 + 01:17:03)
Total Size: 0,97 Gb (Full Scans)
WebSite: Album Preview

The Essential Barbra Streisand (retitled The Ultimate Collection in some European countries) is the fifth greatest hits album by American singer Barbra Streisand, released on January 29, 2002, by Columbia Records. The compilation features 38 songs from Streisand's catalog, in addition to two previously unreleased tracks (covers of "Someday My Prince Will Come" and "You'll Never Walk Alone"). It includes material from 26 of the singer's albums and was described as a collection of, mainly, her pop songs. Critically, the album was noted for being a comprehensive and complete view of her discography, unlike her previous greatest hits releases. It topped the charts in Ireland, Scotland, and the United Kingdom, and peaked at number 15 on the Billboard 200 in the United States. The Essential Barbra Streisand also reached the top ten in several countries and was included on four year-end lists. The album has since been certified Platinum in Australia, Europe, New Zealand, Spain, and the United States, and multi-platinum in the United Kingdom.

Although Barbra Streisand has recorded for the same company, Columbia Records, throughout her career, her work has not been particularly well represented on compilations. Four single-disc best-ofs dot her discography, but the listener who wanted to do something as simple as purchase an album containing the original studio recordings of both her first Top Ten hit, "People," and her first number one, "The Way We Were," without plumping for the four-CD box set Just for the Record , was out of luck. Complicating the compiling of her career highlights is her position as essentially an album artist, despite having scattered 11 Top Ten pop hits across 32 years. The ideal collection would have to do justice to her popular early albums of the '60s, her mid-career singles hits of the '70s, and her renewed album success in the '80s and '90s. Here it is. At a CD-busting length of over two and a half hours, this 40-track double-disc set encapsulates Streisand's recording career in chronological order from her 1963 debut album to 1999. (Two previously unreleased tracks sound like outtakes from her later album projects. "Someday My Prince Will Come" probably got left off of A Love Like Ours, while the gospel-tinged "You'll Never Walk Alone" must have been intended for Higher Ground.) Intelligently picking signature performances from her best and most popular albums, it largely eschews a raft of singles that got into the bottom half of the Top 40, but leaves out only one Top Ten hit, "What Kind of Fool." The singer's versatility and her ability to impose her immediately identifiable vocal style on a variety of material are emphasized in recordings that range from Broadway show tunes to disco. A collection like this has been needed for a long time as a gateway to Streisand's bountiful, indeed overwhelming, catalog.

~ William Ruhlmann, All Music

Track List CD1:

01. A Sleepin' Bee [4:25]
02. Cry Me a River [3:40]
03. I Stayed Too Long at the Fair [4:23]
04. Lover, Come Back to Me [2:20]
05. People [3:43]
06. My Man [3:01]
07. Second Hand Rose [2:12]
08. He Touched Me [3:13]
09. Don't Rain on My Parade [2:46]
10. Happy Days Are Here Again [3:14]
11. On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever) [2:12]
12. Stoney End [3:03]
13. Since I Fell for You [3:28]
14. What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life? [3:21]
15. The Way We Were [3:32]
16. All in Love Is Fair [3:52]
17. Lazy Afternoon [3:50]
18. Evergreen (Love Theme from 'A Star Is Born') [3:07]
19. My Heart Belongs to Me [3:24]
20. You Don't Bring Me Flowers [3:27]
21. The Main Event / Fight [4:55]
22. No More Tears (Enough Is Enough) [4:43]

Track List CD2:

01. Woman in Love [3:54]
02. Guilty [4:26]
03. Comin' In and Out of Your Life [4:11]
04. Memory [3:55]
05. Papa, Can You Hear Me? [3:32]
06. A Piece of Sky [4:24]
07. Putting It Together [4:22]
08. Not While I'm Around [3:31]
09. Send in the Clowns [4:43]
10. Somewhere [4:57]
11. All I Ask of You [4:04]
12. Children Will Listen [4:10]
13. As If We Never Said Goodbye [4:46]
14. I Finally Found Someone [3:44]
15. Tell Him [4:55]
16. I've Dreamed of You [4:54]
17. Someday My Prince Will Come [4:08]
18. You'll Never Walk Alone [4:36]

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