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| 1. Refugee |
| 2. Similar Features |
| 3. Like The Way I Do |
| 4. Bring Me Some Water |
| 5. You Can Sleep While I Drive |
| 6. No Souvenirs |
| 7. Ain't It Heavy |
| 8. I'm The Only One |
| 9. Come To My Window |
| 10. If I Wanted To |
| 11. I Want To Come Over |
| 12. Angels Would Fall |
| 13. Lucky |
| 14. Christmas In America |
| 15. Piece Of My Heart (live at the Grammys) |
| 16. This Is Not Goodbye |
| 17. I Run For Life |
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4.0 out of 5 stars
An honest yet slightly narrow overview of Melissa's career.,
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This review is from: Greatest Hits: The Road Less Traveled (Audio CD)
"Greatest Hits" packages are always a devil's bargain. On one hand, they're often incomplete and slightly narrow, giving only a slight overview of an artist's creative skills. On the other hand, they're usually a good deal for both the diehard fans and the newcomers : you get the hits, you usually get a couple of new songs, and if you're lucky you get a solid packaging with cool liner notes.Melissa's very first compilation is no exception to the rule. It is a satisfying and honest overview of her career, pounding out the major hits that managed to send Melissa to the stratosphere of rock and roll stardom : "Like the way I do", "Bring me some water", "No souvenirs", "Come to my window", "I'm the only one" and so on. It is also worth mentionning that this compilation includes five new recordings, a proof that Melissa wanted to offer something more to the diehard fans who already had all of her studio albums. However, "The road less traveled" is indeed slightly restrictive. Many singles that reached a significant spot on the rock charts are missing ("Nowhere to go", "The angels", "Enough of me", "Your little secret", "Breathe", "I want to be in love", "I take you with me", "Let me go"). The album "Skin" is not represented, and her last album ("Lucky") is only represented by its title track, which was definitely not a hit single in spite of its obvious qualities. Melissa's output has been consistant and solid over the years, and she would have deserved a more complete career retrospective. The new songs are great, especially the closing "I run for life"; but since there are so many new songs on this compilation, maybe it would have been a better idea to include a few more of her more familiar tunes instead. This is, after all, a "Greatest Hits", not a new solo album. Maybe Melissa's generosity got the best of her. And it has to be mentioned that the packaging is disappointing, with no liner notes from either the artist or a writer, and no charting information on the singles. It does feature some great pictures of Melissa, though ! Still, these are minors observations. Maybe I'm just too much of a diehard fan - it is well known that the regular customers are the hardest ones to please ! This "Greatest Hits" is an honest package that will most likely appeal to those who don't already own her albums. Those who wish to go further than this retrospective ought to check out her most playful and melodic work, 1989's "Brave and crazy". It features her most touching song ever, the intimate "You can sleep while I drive", which rightfully found a place on this compilation.
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4.4 out of 5 stars (88 customer reviews) 29 of 30 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Seventeen songs for seventeen years,
By Amanda Richards - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Greatest Hits: The Road Less Traveled (Audio CD)
Picking songs for a "Greatest Hits" album is always tough for veteran performers like Melissa Etheridge, and although these are great choices, there are deserving songs that didn't make the cut. Songs that come to mind are "Your Little Secret", "Breathe", "This Moment" and "Nowhere To Go".Twelve of the tracks are from seven of her eight albums (with nothing from "Skin" making the list), two are covers, one is a Christmas song and the other two are new material. The two covers are "Refugee", originally by Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, and Janis Joplin's "Piece of My Heart", both very well done. The Christmas song "Christmas in America" is about celebrating Christmas while loved ones are away at war, and the tearful "This is Not Goodbye" was written while she was undergoing chemo and observing the effect it had on her partner. The other new song "I Run for Life" was written for Ford's "Race for the Cure" project for breast cancer, and is about surviving, living with cancer, and preparing oneself to face the disease. This album reflects a history of the life of this great performer, and is highly recommended for all Melissa Etheridge fans. Amanda Richards, November 5, 2005 35 of 38 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Travels Through A Career,
By Thomas Magnum - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Greatest Hits: The Road Less Traveled (Audio CD)
Melissa Etheridge has always wore her heart on her sleeve. Whether be with her sexuality or her battle with cancer, she has left herself out there for all the world to see. Coming from Kansas, she shares the same meat and potatoes approach to music as fellow Midwestern rockers Bob Seger and John Mellencamp. Her songs have personal lyrics built around arena friendly riffs. Her self-titled debut album still remains her best and the three tracks included her are superb. "Like The Way I Do" is a bluesy rocker that shows Ms. Etheridge's great sense of building tension in a song, "Similar Features" has a slick keyboard riff while "Bring Me Some Water" is her greatest hit and one of the best rock songs from the 80's. The album contains a few new tracks for fans who have all her albums. There is a studio version of "Piece Of My Heart" that is good, but it would have been nice to include her Grammy performance with Joss Stone as that was an uplifting, almost spiritual performance. Her take on Tom Petty & The Heartbreaker's "Refugee" is the best of the new tracks.
17 of 18 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not definitive: Selling Melissa short,
By Tim Brough "author and music buff" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Greatest Hits: Road Less Travelled (Audio CD)
Melissa Etheridge is, simply stated, one of the most important female artists of the last two decades. She not only made it as a woman rocking on her own terms, she also put her sexuality on the line and then made her personal battle with cancer into a public crusade. These qualities frame her as a person and are important markers of her integrity.But more importantly, she has made some brilliant music with at least two five star albums. Both the debut and her breakthrough, "Yes I Am," are must-own records. Naturally, they are the two CD's from which the lion's share of "The Road Less Traveled" is culled; six of the 18 songs here. Add the six songs that are previously unreleased, and that leaves only six songs culled from the rest of Melissa's library. The diference between this and the previous version is the addition of the Oscar winning "I Need To Wake Up" from "An Inconvenient Truth." The CD booklet is gone to make it more environmentaly friendly and the plastic jewel box is replaced by a recycled paper shell with foam tray. While it changes the packaging, it doesn't change the fact that there are too many ommissions here to make it listener friendly. This presents a problem. It leaves off such terrific popular favorites and singles. "Dance Without Sleeping," "Your Little Secret," "Breathe" and the entire contents of "Skin" wind up being neglected. That is not to say that "The Road Less Traveled" is a poor collection; it's just that it is not as thorough as it could have been. As for the new material, it's all good stuff. Melissa's covers of Tom Petty's "Refugee" and (finally!) a studio version of Janis Jopin's "Piece Of My Heart" are, alone, worth the price of the disc. Her anthems of survival "This Is Not Goodbye" and "I Run For Life" are heartfelt and solid. Too bad the collection is a little too tame and not enough crazy. I am sure the inevitable double disc collection will eventually appear, but for now, "The Road Less Traveled" is a less than perfect primer. |
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