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Notes From Planet Earth is not Chris De Burgh's first "best of". Best Moves compiled his beguiling historico-fantasy-laden early material, Spark to a Flame popped up in 1989; The Love Songs Album was as obvious as its title; and The Lady in Red: The Best Of gave Americans in a hurry the precis and a weepy Diana tribute to boot. But this self-styled "Ultimate" package certainly plays to the diminutive singer's strengths as soft rock's Milk Tray man. And if the lady loves soft-centred ballads with a frosting of 80s synths, the author of the deservedly evergreen karaoke/wedding monster about the bird in the froc
Notes From Planet Earth is not Chris De Burgh's first "best of". Best Moves compiled his beguiling historico-fantasy-laden early material, Spark to a Flame popped up in 1989; The Love Songs Album was as obvious as its title; and The Lady in Red: The Best Of gave Americans in a hurry the precis and a weepy Diana tribute to boot. But this self-styled "Ultimate" package certainly plays to the diminutive singer's strengths as soft rock's Milk Tray man. And if the lady loves soft-centred ballads with a frosting of 80s synths, the author of the deservedly evergreen karaoke/wedding monster about the bird in the frock is well-represented in this tray of hymns to the fairer sex. New song "Two Sides To Every Story", meanwhile, is a polite version of Meat Loaf/Ellen Foley dynamics in a duet with Shelley (Tin Tin Out) Nelson. Hidden amongst the candlelit dinners, however, is a more dramatic and inventive storyteller: "Borderline" weaves Al Stewart-style wartime dramatics; "A Spaceman Comes Travelling" goes (ray) guns-a-blazing at Christianity's greatest story; and a blowsy, vaudeville-jazzy re-recording of "Patricia The Stripper" is Coward-esque mischief incarnate. Perhaps most surprising is "I Want It (And I Want It Now)", which musically outstrips its lyrical musings on consumer society with prowling beats and gloriously un-"Adult Contemporary" swathes of dirty guitars. --Jennifer Nine
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Manufacturer: Mercury
Release date: 19 March 2001
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0606949089924 UPC: 606949089924
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