Greatest Hits 1970-2002 | 
| Artist: Elton John
Label: Universal Import
Category: Music
Buy New: $59.09
New (2) Used (8) from $41.69
Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 316385
Format: Import, Limited Edition
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 766483221447
EAN: 0060249865570
ASIN: B0000C5ROQ
Release Date: September 30, 2003
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Your Song | | • | Tiny Dancer | | • | Honky Cat | | • | Rocket Man (I Think It's Going to Be a Long, Long Time) | | • | Crocodile Rock | | • | Daniel | | • | Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting | | • | Goodbye Yellow Brick Road | | • | Candle in the Wind | | • | Bennie and the Jets | | • | Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me | | • | Bitch Is Back | | • | Philadelphia Freedom | | • | Someone Saved My Life Tonight | | • | Island Girl | | • | Don't Go Breaking My Heart - Kiki Dee, Elton John | | • | Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word |
Disc 2
| • | Blue Eyes | | • | I'm Still Standing | | • | I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues | | • | Sad Songs (Say So Much) | | • | Nikita | | • | Sacrifice | | • | One | | • | Kiss the Bride | | • | Can You Feel the Love Tonight? | | • | Circle of Life | | • | Believe | | • | Made in England | | • | Something About the Way You Look Tonight | | • | Written in the Stars - Elton John, LeAnn Rimes | | • | I Want Love | | • | This Train Don't Stop There Anymore | | • | Song for Guy |
Disc 3
| • | Levon | | • | Border Song | | • | Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds | | • | Pinball Wizard | | • | True Love - Kiki Dee, Elton John | | • | Live Like Horses - Elton John, Luciano Pavarotti | | • | I Don't Wanna Go on With You Like That | | • | Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me - Elton John, George Michael | | • | Your Song - Elton John, Alessandro Safina | | • | Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word - Blue, Elton John | | • | Are You Ready for Love |
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Album Description
Limited UK edition of 2002 compilation includes a bonus disc with 11 tracks, 'Levon' (appears on the U.S), 'Border Song', 'Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds', 'Pinball Wizard', 'True Love' With Kiki Dee, 'Live Like Horses' With Pavarotti (Studio Version), 'I Don't Wanna Go On With You Like That' (appears on the U.S.), 'Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me' With George Michael, 'Your Song' With Alessandro Safina, 'Sorry Seems to Be The Hardest Word' Blue Feat. Elton John, & the re-released single 'Are You Ready For Love' ('79 Version Radio Edit). Additionally, the UK edition features five tracks which don't appear on the U.S., 'Blue Eyes', 'Kiss The Bride', 'Made In England' (Radio Edit), 'This Train Don't Stop There Anymore', & 'Song For Guy', but omits 'Little Jeannie' & 'Blessed'. 45 remastered tracks in all. Rocket. 2003.
Album Details
2003 Edition of the Digitally Remastered 34 Track Updated Collection that Replaces the Previously Available "The Very Best of Elton John". This Limited Edition also Includes a Third Disc of Bonus Hits, Raising the Total Amount of Tracks to 45. Includes 13 Tracks Not Found on the USA Edition, Including the Remake of "Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word" with Blue and "Are You Ready for Love" from the Original Thom Bell Sessions. Also Includes a Detailed 40 Page Booklet with Classic Photographs and an Excellent Summary of John's Marvelous Career.
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Misses Some Songs, but Better than the U.S. Collection April 14, 2006
Lonnie E. Holder (Columbus, Indiana, United States)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Elton John has been a force in music for more than 30 years. He has an incredible amount of talent, both as an author of music, and as a performer. This collection attempts to pull together some of the best of Elton's work from his career, beginning with the "Elton John" album and ending with "Songs from the West Coast".
Nearly every song on this CD is musically good to excellent. Most of these songs were hits. As a sampler of Elton's music, this collection is a very good start. This CD may have a few flaws, but it does have hits missing from the U.S. version, including "Blue Eyes," "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" and "Pinball Wizard." However, other top 10 songs are missing from this collection. It is impossible to represent Elton's greatest hits with only two CDs, and that is the main flaw of this collection.
The difficulty with most "greatest hits" collections is choosing the songs. Regardless of how good a job you do, there will be a fan who thinks a song was neglected. Conversely, there will be other fans that think a song on the collection should have been excluded. Rather than complain about what was or wasn't on this collection, the focus should be on this collection alone. At this time, this collection is the best single representation of Elton over the bulk of his career. For the songs that were missed from this collection, you can add "Rare Masters" and "Love Songs", which pick up a lot more of Elton's early career and fills in more of Elton's best.
With more than 40 albums, comprising hundreds of songs, choosing the 34 best is an absolutely terrible job. Similar to those people who would have added other songs, or subtracted some of those included, I too would have done something similar. However, we would never have agreed on the best. So take this CD as the best collection available to sample Elton's career. From that viewpoint, this CD rates 5 stars. Then you can add the other CDs I mentioned, and in the case of the classic albums and a few others, add original albums as well. We live in an imperfect world, thus a less than perfect collection of Elton's career is better than not having this collection at all.
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