Don't know what to think about this. It's nice to get a twelve track vinyl retrospective of his solo carreer including a couple of rather rare ones. But to me not totally perfect for rekindling since a large part are odd edits and/or alternate versions. Only three of the cuts - "Solsbury Hill", "Big Time" and "Family Snapshot" - comes in original album shape. For the rest I get one re-recording ("Here Comes The Flood"), one re-mix ("Shaking The Tree") and seven divergent edits. I do enjoy having the 45 edit of "Sledgehammer" and the radio one of "Shock The Monkey" on LP, though on the whole I'm confused. Don't know if to recieve it as innovative or a result of pseudo-creative meddling. Maybe time will tell. As it is now I do feel welcomed, just not by arms open wide. Issued on vinyl in some countries as "Twelve Golden Greats" and world wide on CD and cassette as "Sixteen Golden Greats". Not sure why the vinyl wasn't a 2xLP set with all sixteen tracks, maybe it was a way for the label to make fans go for the CD instead as that format was meant to take over at the time. Premiere UK had labels as shown here in a fully laminated stickered cover with pic/lyric/credit inner. (GYÄ*)
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