As the title suggests, this is a compilation CD from Chicago - there are many; this is the fifth Chicago compilation set to appear on this blog. It's pleasant enough as I usually enjoy Chicago tunes (although, admittedly, I gave up on them in the later half of the 1980's). I have all but two of these tracks on other CDs, those two mediocre tracks being recorded for this disc in a shameless attempt to have serious, completist fans to spend more money. And, to be honest, if "completist fan" described me, I would have bought this package in 1998 just for those two tracks, regardless of quality, because that's what we music junkies do.
Tracks appear to be selected and sequenced arbitrarily. You're better off with the Rhino 2 CD set, Only The Beginning: The Very Best Of Chicago.
Peak on the US Billboard Top 200 chart: #154
Tracks:
Song | Album | Year | Hot 100 | AC |
Dialogue (Part I & II) | V | 1972 | 24 | - |
Old Days | VIII | 1975 | 5 | 3 |
All Roads Lead to You | - | 1998 | - | 14 |
Love Me Tomorrow | 16 | 1982 | 22 | 8 |
Baby, What a Big Surprise | XI | 1977 | 4 | 8 |
You're Not Alone | 19 | 1989 | 10 | 9 |
What Kind of Man Would I Be? | 19 | 1989 | 5 | 2 |
No Tell Lover | Hot Streets | 1979 | 14 | 5 |
Show Me a Sign | - | 1998 | - | 28 |
(I've Been) Searchin' So Long | VII | 1974 | 9 | 8 |
Call On Me | VII | 1974 | 6 | 1 |
I Don't Wanna Live Without Your Love | 19 | 1988 | 3 | 5 |
Feelin' Stronger Every Day | VI | 1973 | 10 | - |
Stay the Night | 17 | 1984 | 16 | - |
I'm a Man | I | 1969 | 49 | - |
25 or 6 to 4 | II | 1970 | 4 | - |
Personal Memory Associated with this CD: None, IIRC, it appeared here at blog headquarters a few years back as part of a large menagerie of CDs.
Previously revisited for the blog:
Only The Beginning: The Very Best Of Chicago (2002)
Greatest Hits 1982-1989 (1989)
Chicago 17 (1984)
Chicago 16 (1982)
Greatest Hits, Vol. II (1981)
Greatest Hits (1975)
Chicago Transit Authority (1969)
I actually like the two new songs, as well as the two that are on the first Heart of Chicago album. I don't actually own those two CDs, I have the box set which includes the four new tunes.
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