Your own Greatest hits!

[Gabriëlle]

I you would be able to put together your own Greatest hit album of Chris Rea, which numbers would you put on the album?

My greatest hits:

1. Driving home for Christmas
2. Road to hell
3. Ace of hearts
4. Tennis
5. Julia
6. Josephine
7. Texas
8. Winning
9. Candles
10. Auberge
11. On the beach
12. Fool if you think it over
13. I can hear your heartbeat
14. Set me free
15. Tell me there's a heaven.

[Bart]

I you would be able to put together your own Greatest hit album of Chris Rea, which numbers would you put on the album?

That's a great list you put together ! Do you mean Texas from Water Sign or from The road ? Texas from the road album is one of my LESS favorite tracks, while Texas from the water sign album is high in my top 20 !!

If I had to make my own best of... it would be a 10-CD collection ! I know; I have started making a "best of selection" on MINIdisc once (in 1998) and when I had selected the tracks from "The blue cafe" I had (have). I had 7 discs of 74 min. I still use this collection; when I go on vacation i take this with me, so I always have my complete (till '98) REA-collection with me (song I like). Do you also have this; when you are on the most impossible places (like on vacation) you MUST listen to this one song; a very unknown B-side... This best of collection comes out handy then ! Well, back to my own top songs...
I think you must include only "studio" recordings in this compilation; because I think live tracks are best heard as a whole concert... besides: then my list would get even (much) longer!

My all-time favorite song (in my opinion the best song ever written) is "the road to hell..."

Also in my top 10:

Seabird
Winning
Texas (water sign)
Set me free
From love to love
Driving home ...
Twisted wheel
Letter from Amsterdam
Loving you again

...as you can see, Deltics is one of my favorite albums !

[COLB-UK]

I could not choose which tracks to place on a CD
to create my Own Best Of...
So I went out & purchased an ipod
& placed all his Albums, Singles, & Mini Albums I have onto it.
I can sit back & listen to nearly 350 tracks which is over 27 hours.
Switch the ipod onto Random & you get to listen to a great variety.

[Zgred]

The Best of? 70% of songs :mrgreen:

I'm trying now to compose the list, uhhhhh that's really hard task... still 24 left, that's too much, let's give them deeper selection... all outstanding tracks........

okay after half an hour it's still not very clear, but the prizes go to:

Sweet summer day
Driving home for christmas
Windy town
Tennis
Shadows of the big man
E
All summer long (new from KOTB)
90's blues
Soft top, hard shoulder
Good morning
Firefly
Baby don't cry

But the truly complete Best Of would contain about 30 songs.

[Gerby]

1.September Blue
2.Tell me there's a heaven
3.Wired to the moon
4.All summer long
5.One golden rule
6.Texas (from Water Sign)
7.Gone fishing
8.Driving home for Christmas
9.Tell me there's a heaven
10.Sing a song of love to me

No particular order it's just if I had to make a personal "best of ".

[Guest]

Hi

here's my Greatest Hits compilation (in chronological order):

CD1:
1. Whatever happened to Benny Santini?
2. Deltics
3. Seabird
4. Dance (don't think)
5. Everytime I see you smile
6. Freinds across the water
7. Do it for your love
8. Do you still dream?
9. Nothing's happenening by the sea
10. I can hear your heartbeat
11. Urban samurai
12. Bombollini
13. Winning
14. True love
15. Josephine
16. Sunrise
17. Hired gun

CD2:
1. Steel river
2. Everytime it rains
3. On the beach
4. Little blonde plaits
5. Crack that mould
6. It's all gone
7. Let's dance
8. September blue
9. Danielle's breakfast
10. Yes I do
11. Driving home for christmas
12. Texas
13. Daytona
14. Set me free
15. True to you
16. Looking for the summer
17. Teach me to dance
18. Winter song

CD3:
1. God's great banana skin
2. I saw you coming
3. Black dog
4. Espresso logic (Single Mix)
5. New way
6. That's the way it goes
7. Between the devil and the deep blue sea
8. Three little green candles
9. Olive oil
10. Thinking of you
11. The blue cafe
12. Square peg, round hole
13. Can't get through (Edit)
14. All summer long
15. King of the beach
16. Saudade

That's my favourite list...I wish there would come a day, when all B-sides will be published

Ok, I'm still waiting

Greetings from Germany
Tobi



11.

[Mike Dixon]

Well, here's mine.

1. Fool (if you think it's over)
2. Diamonds
3. Cleveland calling
4. Raincoat and a rose
5. Urban Samurai
6. Loving you
7. Candles
8. Texas (and that's the Watersign version)
9. Love to love.
10. Ace of hearts
11. Stainsby Girls
12. On the beach
13. It's all gone
14. Let's dance
15. Working on it

[blueskev]

It's interesting that most people have listed early stuff. Here's my current favourite 10 tracks:-)

Nothing to Fear
Stony Road
Heading for the City
Electric Guitar
All Night Long
Cry For Home
Lone Star Boogie
Angelina
Texas Blue
Changing Times

Kev.