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 22 Tracks Represents the Very Best of ONJ on one CD! January 5, 2005
ABCeDar
17 out of 17 found this review helpful
I guess 'Grease' really sums up Olivia's contribution to the pop scene - cool, calm and collected as the country girl with the silky voice, with tracks like 'Sam', 'I Honestly Love You', 'A Little More Love', 'Deeper than the Night', 'Take Me Home'......et al. Middle road with the early tracks in Grease....., progressing to the 'chick' at the end, with 'You're the One that I Want'! brA dynamic image change from 'Sandra Dee' to Pink Lady, 'Sandie'!pThis CD is a mix of the lively and the lovely, with the lyrics to 'Banks of the Ohio', surprising the odd new listener!brOur personal favourites are:- 'Magic', 'Xanadu', 'Physical', 'Heart Attack' and 'Long Live Love'.brPersonally we would have omitted the 'Grease Megamix' at the end - it sounds like it has been slotted in as a last minute filler!pOverall, a great listen and representing excellent value for money from Amazon, today.
Simply the best of Ms Newton-John. December 6, 2004
F. V. L. Buliciri (London, UK)
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
What a superb CD! This is an excellent compilation of Olivia Newton-John's greatest hits. The problem with some of Olivia Newton-John's previous greatest hits CD's is that they cover far too many songs from her pre-Grease days or either her later career. This CD compilation is wonderful because it really does feature a wide range of songs across her long and illustrious singing career. 'Country Roads,' 'The Banks of the Ohio,' 'I Honestly Love You,' 'Landslide,''Xanadu,' and 'Physical,' are among some of the many songs on this great CD. For any Oliva Newton-John fan this is definitely one CD that must be added to your collection.
Definitive British hits collection October 18, 2004
Peter Durward Harris (Leicester England)
35 out of 52 found this review helpful
Like most major artists, Olivia has had some truly international hits but has had other hits that have charted in just one or two countries. This British compilation contains all except two of her UK hits, both of them minor and neither of them essential. Note that fifteen of the twenty-one tracks that can be found on the American compilation (Magic - Very best of) from a few years back. So if you've got that, you probably don't need this.pOlivia established her position in the UK pop charts a few years before breaking through in America. This compilation contains all those early hits (If not for you, Banks of the Ohio, What is life. Take me home country roads, Long live love). None of those charted for Olivia in America and are therefore omitted from the American compilation. Olivia's next two UK hits (I honestly love you, Sam) both charted in America too and can be found on both compilations. However, during that time Olivia had a lot of American hits that didn't chart in Britain (Let me be there, If you love me let me know, Have you never been mellow, Come on over, Don't stop believing) so those are omitted from this compilation.pOlivia's most commercially successful period music began in 1978 with the release of Grease, featuring two major international hit duets with John Travolta (You're the one that I want, Summer nights), which both topped the UK charts, plus a solo ballad, Hopelessly devoted to you, which made number two. The follow-up album yielded two further hits (A little more love, Deeper than the night).pNext came Xanadu, Olivia's third and last UK number one hit, this time featuring ELO. It is odd that Olivia had three UK chart-toppers but none of them were solo recordings. She was far more successful in America where she had several solo number one hits. Following Xanadu came the outstanding ballad, Magic, which was only a minor UK hit but it was one of her biggest American hits. It was followed by Suddenly, a duet with Cliff Richard that made the UK top ten.pThen came Physical, a monster American hit although it didn't make the UK top ten. The follow-up, Landslide, did make the UK top ten and is included here although omitted from the American compilation. Make a move on me and Heart attack were both minor UK hits. Another minor UK hit, Twist of fate, is one of only UK hits omitted from this collection although it is included on that American compilation.pA revival of interest in Olivia's greatest triumph took The Grease megamix into the UK top three but the follow-up, The dream mix, was only a minor UK hit and is not included either here or on the American compilation, which also omits Olivia's final UK hit, I need love.pThis is the strongest collection of Olivia's British hits yet released. It would require a double CD to provide a truly definitive Olivia compilation with all her British and American hits. Until and unless such a compilation is released, we now have a choice. If you want all of Olivia's important British hits, buy this. If you want her American hits, buy Magic - Very best of.
 A very good album for Olivia Newton John fans! October 21, 2004
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
Olivia Newton-John's album combines the hit singles of her singing career coupled with her successes from the film Grease such as Summer Nights. Her enormous diversity of appeal from Country and Western hits like "Take Me Home Country Roads", to the unmemorable "Long Live Love", the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest UK Entry - airbrushed from history by Abba;s runaway success of Waterloo, and soft rock songs like "Magic", "Xanadu", and "A Little More Love" are also present along with her pop music/headband + workout look era with "Physical". ONJ has demonstrated a unique ability to maintain her popular fan base, while at the same time successfully reinventing herself to broaden her appeal. She was the first wave of the Australian music invasion and a forerunner of an international phenomenon, breaking new territory where female artists like Madonna and Kylie Minogue were eventually to follow. Ive given this album 4 stars instead of 5 because sadly her magnificent duets with the late Andy Gibb (Bee Gees brother) are missing. Nevertheless a great release for those fans who wish to consolidate their collections with a definitive best of album and a very good introduction to a new generation of fans not familiar with her work.
Olivia's Greatest Hits, in no particular order December 18, 2004
Mr. R. B. Ager (Nottingham, UK)
10 out of 19 found this review helpful
Call me soft if you like, but as someone who had all of Olivia's albums on vinyl up to and including "Physical" I have to say that I always preferred her early work, and wasn't that keen on what she did after "Grease", mainly because it all sounded the same to me. Nevertheless it is nice to have a complete Greatest Hits CD package such as this, as it complements the collections previously available, which have tended to concentrate on her earlier work.pThe running order is quite random, rather than chronological or thematic. I suppose it makes sense to start with a big bang, and they don't come much bigger than "You're The One That I Want". However, sprinkling some of her earlier songs, for example "Have You Never Been Mellow" and her cover of George Harrison's "What Is Life?", in amongst the later ones, serves to emphasise and triple-underline the total change in style that she took after "Grease", and it jars a bit, not least because the earlier productions are much simpler, cleaner (and louder).pThe most recent track is "I Need Love" (reached No 75 for one week in 1995) and is actually rather good, a smouldering, sultry number on which she sounds not unlike Kylie Minogue of that time, with (I hope) a tongue-in-cheek, slightly suggestive lyric.pSo overall this is a definitive collection of Olivia's greatest hits, but I think that it is one that would have definitely benefitted from a chronological running order of tracks.
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