Posted by admin
Wham Greatest Hits Rar
Wham Greatest Hits Rar Rating: 3,6/5 720 reviews
Aug 14, 2016 - wham the best of rare More from Jehzlau Concepts. Nintendo DS Game Reviews and Demo Downloads (480) This post about Nintendo DS.
Jump to navigationJump to search| The Best of Wham!: If You Were There.. | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Greatest hits album by | |||
| Released | 1997 | ||
| Recorded | 1981–1986, 1996 | ||
| Genre | Pop | ||
| Length | 70:24 | ||
| Label | Epic CK-91200 Columbia Records (CAN) | ||
| Producer | George Michael, Andrew Ridgeley, Steve Brown | ||
| Wham! chronology | |||
| |||
| Professional ratings | |
|---|---|
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic | [1] |
The Best of Wham!: If You Were There.. is the second UK-released compilation, released in 1997 to summarize the career of British pop duo Wham!. It peaked at number 4 on the UK Albums Chart. The end of the album features a hidden track that was first heard on their debut album, Fantastic.
Many Wham! fans[who?] consider this compilation vastly inferior to the band's previous compilation, 1986's The Final, not only due to the non-inclusion of 'Bad Boys', but also discarding 'Careless Whisper' and 'A Different Corner'.[citation needed] Although the latter two songs were credited as George Michael solo singles, they did appear on official Wham! studio albums. This compilation was compiled by George Michael to present the band as more serious artists and to draw connections with his solo career. As a result of his endorsement of it, it is more widely available than The Final.
- 1Track listing
- 2Charts
Track listing[edit]
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | 'If You Were There' (from Make It Big, 1984) | The Isley Brothers | George Michael | 3:43 |
| 2. | 'I'm Your Man' (Non-album single: 1985, also from Music from the Edge of Heaven, 1986) | Michael | Michael | 4:06 |
| 3. | 'Everything She Wants' (from Make It Big, 1984) | Michael | Michael | 6:30 |
| 4. | 'Club Tropicana' (from Fantastic, 1983) |
| 4:30 | |
| 5. | 'Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go' (from Make It Big, 1984) | Michael | Michael | 3:51 |
| 6. | 'Like a Baby' (from Make It Big, 1984) | Michael | Michael | 4:16 |
| 7. | 'Freedom' (from Make It Big, 1984) | Michael | Michael | 5:20 |
| 8. | 'The Edge of Heaven' (from Music from the Edge of Heaven, 1986) | Michael | Michael | 4:37 |
| 9. | 'Wham Rap!' (from Fantastic, 1983) |
| Bob Carter | 6:46 |
| 10. | 'Young Guns (Go for It!)' (from Fantastic, 1983) | Michael | 3:41 | |
| 11. | 'Last Christmas' (from Music from the Edge of Heaven, 1986) | Michael | Michael | 6:48 |
| 12. | 'Where Did Your Heart Go?' (from Music from the Edge of Heaven, 1986) | Michael | 5:42 | |
| 13. | 'Everything She Wants '97' | Michael | 6:01 | |
| 14. | 'I'm Your Man '96' | Michael |
| 4:32 |
| Total length: | 51:52 | |||
Notes
- 'Everything She Wants '97' is a remix of the original song
- 'I'm Your Man '96' is a re-recording of the original song
Video[edit]
Released on VHS, VCD and DVD.
- 'Wham Rap!' (Michael, Ridgeley) – 3:15
- 'Club Tropicana' (Michael, Ridgeley) – 4:31
- 'Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go' – 3:45
- 'Last Christmas' – 4:20
- 'The Edge of Heaven' – 4:25
- 'Where Did Your Heart Go?' (Was, Was) – 5:10
- 'I'm Your Man' – 5:40
- 'Everything She Wants' – 6:30
- 'Freedom' – 6:32
Charts[edit]
Weekly charts[edit]
| Year-end charts[edit]
|
Certifications[edit]
Album
| Manuale installazione condizionatori carrier. Video/DVD
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
References[edit]
- ^Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. Review: The Best of Wham!: If You Were There... AllMusic. Retrieved on 2010-07-18.
- ^'australian-charts.com Wham! – The Best of Wham!: If You Were There..'(ASP). Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved 18 December 2013.
- ^'austriancharts.at Wham! – The Best of Wham!: If You Were There..'(ASP). Hung Medien (in German). Retrieved 26 February 2012.
- ^'ultratop.be Wham! – The Best of Wham!: If You Were There..'(ASP). Hung Medien (in Dutch). Ultratop. Retrieved 18 December 2013.
- ^'ultratop.be Wham! – The Best of Wham!: If You Were There..'(ASP). Hung Medien (in French). Ultratop. Retrieved 18 December 2013.
- ^'dutchcharts.nl Wham! – The Best of Wham!: If You Were There..'(ASP). Hung Medien. MegaCharts. Retrieved 26 February 2012.
- ^'finnishcharts.com Wham! – The Best of Wham!: If You Were There..'(ASP). Retrieved 2 February 2010.
- ^'Album Search: Wham! – The Best of Wham!: If You Were There..' (in German). Media Control. Retrieved 26 February 2012.
- ^'ザ・ベスト／ワム!-リリース-ORICON STYLE-ミュージック' [Highest position and charting weeks of If You Were There: The Best by Wham!]. oricon.co.jp (in Japanese). Oricon Style. Retrieved 18 December 2013.
- ^'charts.org.nz Wham! – The Best of Wham!: If You Were There..'(ASP). Hung Medien. Recording Industry Association of New Zealand. Retrieved 26 February 2012.
- ^'Wham! – The Best of Wham!: If You Were There.. – hitparade.ch'(ASP). Hung Medien (in German). Swiss Music Charts. Retrieved 26 February 2012.
- ^'Wham! > Artists > Official Charts'. UK Albums Chart. Retrieved 1 May 2013.
- ^'Jaaroverzichten 1997'. Ultratop (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 25 January 2014.
- ^'Rapports annuels 1997'. Ultratop (in French). Hung Medien. Retrieved 26 January 2014.
- ^'Jaaroverzichten 1998'. Ultratop (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 25 January 2014.
- ^'Rapports annuels 1998'. Ultratop (in French). Hung Medien. Retrieved 26 January 2014.
- ^'ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 1997 Albums'. Australian Recording Industry Association.
- ^'Ultratop − Goud en Platina – albums 1997'. Ultratop. Hung Medien. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
- ^'RIAJ > The Record > March 1999 > Certified Awards (January 1999)'(PDF). Recording Industry Association of Japan (in Japanese). Archived from the original(PDF) on September 28, 2013. Retrieved April 3, 2014.
- ^'Dutch album certifications' (in Dutch). Nederlandse Vereniging van Producenten en Importeurs van beeld- en geluidsdragers.
- ^'Polish album certifications – Wham! – The Best of Wham!: If You Were There..' (in Polish). Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry.
- ^'Solo Exitos 1959–2002 Ano A Ano: Certificados 1996–1999'. Solo Exitos 1959–2002 Ano A Ano.
- ^'British album certifications – Wham! – The Best of Wham!: If You Were There..'British Phonographic Industry.Select albums in the Format field.Select Platinum in the Certification field.Type The Best of Wham!: If You Were There.. in the 'Search BPI Awards' field and then press Enter.
- ^'British video certifications – Wham – The Best of'. British Phonographic Industry.Select videos in the Format field.Select Gold in the Certification field.Type The Best of in the 'Search BPI Awards' field and then press Enter.
Retrieved from 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Best_of_Wham!:_If_You_Were_There..&oldid=881712624'
Categories:
The Best Of Wham
Hidden categories:
DOUBLE LP : EPIC 88681K7 : EPIC 40-88681
CD : CD EPC 88681
2XLP + Box Set : EPIC WHAM 2
CHARTED : 19 JULY 86
HIGHEST CHART POSITION : 2 Number of Weeks : 45
Front Cover
A week after the Wembley Stadium final concert, a double album called The Final was in the shops in Europe. This took the place of the planned third album, and proved just as popular as that would have been.
For many, it remains the definitive Wham! purchase containing all the hits, most of them in their single and 12' mixes.
The album entered the U.K Chart at #2. That week, Madonna was number one for the second time with her third album True Blue, and stayed there for 4 more weeks, keeping off Wham! to the top spot.
The Final was certified Platinum by BPI in December 1986.
The album entered the U.K Chart at #2. That week, Madonna was number one for the second time with her third album True Blue, and stayed there for 4 more weeks, keeping off Wham! to the top spot.
The Final was certified Platinum by BPI in December 1986.
TRACKLISTING
Side One
Wham Rap! (Enjoy What You Do) — 6:43
Young Guns (Go For It) — 5:09
Bad Boys — 4:52
Club Tropicana — 4:25
Side Two
Wake Me Up Before You Go Go — 3:51
Careless Whisper (Extended Mix) — 6:30
Freedom* — 5:20
Last Christmas (Pudding Mix) — 6:47
Side Three
Everything She Wants (Remix) — 6:38
I'm Your Man (Extended Stimulation) — 6:50
Blue (Armed With Love) — 3:50
Side Four
A Different Corner — 3:59
Battlestations — 5:27
Where Did Your Heart Go ? — 5:45
The Edge Of Heaven — 4:37
Wham Rap! (Enjoy What You Do) — 6:43
Young Guns (Go For It) — 5:09
Bad Boys — 4:52
Club Tropicana — 4:25
Side Two
Wake Me Up Before You Go Go — 3:51
Careless Whisper (Extended Mix) — 6:30
Freedom* — 5:20
Last Christmas (Pudding Mix) — 6:47
Side Three
Everything She Wants (Remix) — 6:38
I'm Your Man (Extended Stimulation) — 6:50
Blue (Armed With Love) — 3:50
Side Four
A Different Corner — 3:59
Battlestations — 5:27
Where Did Your Heart Go ? — 5:45
The Edge Of Heaven — 4:37
*The 5:20 version of Freedom is different from the 7' version released as a single in 1984.
CASSETTE Front Open (Europe)
CASSETTE Back Open (Europe)
CASSETTE Front Open (Europe)
CASSETTE Back Open (Europe)
CD Front Cover
The CD version, released in October 1986, does not contain the track Blue (Armed With Love), and extended versions of Bad Boys, Careless Whisper and I'm Your Man are replaced by the single versions.
At Christmas, a special limited edition boxed set of The Final was released. 25000 copies were issued, each with a numbered certificate. Besides gold vinyl pressing of the two discs, the set included a t-shirt, a notebook, a pencil and a 1987 calendar.
That reissue had some effect in the chart, as the album crept back up the charts to #15, before copies of the boxed set started to run out.Press Promo for Christmas 1986
THE FINAL REVIEW
by Iain Moffat - The Quietus
(www.thequietus.com)
You know what not enough greatest hits albums start with? Politicised UK hip-hop tracks from 1982, that's what. Yet here we find 'Wham! Rap (Enjoy What You Do)' telling the three million unemployed not to give up on the life they want while the backing singers butchly chirp 'D.H.S.S.!'. Has there been a band - pop or otherwise - since that have gone for such an enticingly bizarre opening gambit? Alright, probably, but not exactly on an everyday basis, which is part of what makes The Final something of a prince among its peers. To new listeners, it's bound to be full of genuinely unaccountable surprises. For those who were fans at the time, it's a marvellous vindication. And for those for whom Wham! were the enemy in the 1980s, it shows them unexpectedly ripe for reassessment..
Not that they actually were seen as the enemy in the early days. In fact, the NME wouldn't be this excited about pop rap again until the resistance-anihilating emergence of Betty Boo almost a decade later, and the attraction is pretty clear even now. Subsequent singles would move the band further into the white-boy soul territory that the likes of 'No Parlez' and the early Style Council singles would occupy to tremendous commercial and critical effect, and their penchant for teenage kicks coupled with a sharp observational edge (consider, for instance, 'Young Guns (Go For It)''s reference to 'sleepless nights on an HP bed') rang far truer than the fantastical farces then peddled by the rest of the New Pop brigade. Plus, they had a keen ear for the iconic moment (the dropped-out instrumentation at the 'caution pays' point of 'Young Guns' still delights, while Dee C Lee's cartoon purr on 'Bad Boys' is a hoot, and that single's 'wooh!wooh!'s were clearly custom-built for their ubiquity), and, while 'Club Tropicana' was roundly criticised as being too Thatcherite, hindsight renders it an interesting snapshot of a culture in flux. 'Y Viva Espana', eleven years earlier regarded holidays as impossilby exotic, while 'Girls And Boys', eleven years later, would paint them as blase bacchanalia, whereas, for Wham!, there was fun to be had in the world becoming available to all.
And didn't the world just welcome them for it? Neil Tennant's often spoken of the Pet Shop Boys having an imperial phase in '87/'88, but, really, it had nothing on the one illustrated here, since, frankly, few do. 'Wake Me Up Before You Go Go', 'Careless Whisper', 'Freedom', 'Last Christmas' (included here in its 'Pudding Mix', which is essentially the familiar version with an inexplicable hula intro) and 'Everything She Wants' all reached number two or above in under eight months, and all remain key elements of the pop canon. It's interesting, hearing them back-to-back, to note that all five are driven by real or imagined infidelity (fascinatingly, in later years George Michael's 'Spinning The Wheel' would be effectively the horrific moment at which his 'Wake Me Up..' self actually wakes), which makes it all the more intriguing that they were so utterly embraced, and also that there's some startlingly audacious songwriting going on at this stage. 'Last Christmas' in particular demands a staggering amount of conviction to sidestep the risk of cheese overload, yet George manages to perform lines like 'Happy Christmas' / I wrapped it up and sent it / With a note saying I loved you / I meant it' (awful written down, obviously) unbeatably. And anyone that can tackle the Doris Day and guilty feet lyrics that well as well has to be applauded for sheer chutzpah even if the tunes themselves were lacking, which their enduring populist winningness would indicate is very far indeed from the case.
Of course, like everyone else involved in Band Aid (with the notable exception of U2), their momentum would dissolve immediately thereafter, and reinventing themselves in 1985 as the All-New, All-Different SexWham! really didn't help. After all, 'I'm Your Man' might still work on some terms, and can thankfully blot out all memory of the Alfie Moon version when listened to now, but the truth is that, for reasons that are rather clearer now, George couldn't really do sex all that well at that point (in retrospect, this makes 'Fastlove and 'Outside' even greater achievements), but by then their work was pretty much done anyway. He sounds far more at home in balladeering mode on 'A Different Corner', which cemented his Terribly Serious reputation in spite of the fact that the shuttlecocks-in-shorts era really wasn't that distant a memory by then, and 'The Final Single', all of which appears here bar the re-done 'Wham! Rap', is a decent enough coda to the pair's career : 'The Edge Of Heaven' is, by their own standards, marginally by-numbers, although 'Battlestations', with its remarkable breathiness and oddly Soft Cell-reaclling synthesised brass, is this album's real curio, and the cover of Was (Not Was)'s 'Where Did Your Heart Go' proves to be a soaring fusion of their soulful roots and the grown-up pop instincts that George was keen to hone.
And then there was no more, and, in fairness, there really doesn't need to be. Afterwards, Andrew Ridgeley tried an ill-advised solo album before realising he could retire cheerfully to the south coast and live as Mr One Of Bananarama, while George, occasional troubles notwithstanding, put the whole of music royalty in his rolodex, met the man of his dreams, and carried on selling kajillions of records, which must count as happy endings all round. Even after 22 years, the Wham! story remains an incredibly useful one for new bands, given that they managed to never outstay their welcome, never squander an ounce of goodwill, and never descend into acrimony, and, as an accompanying textbook to just what pop can do in the right hands, The Final still feels like a sizeable success today.
Of course, like everyone else involved in Band Aid (with the notable exception of U2), their momentum would dissolve immediately thereafter, and reinventing themselves in 1985 as the All-New, All-Different SexWham! really didn't help. After all, 'I'm Your Man' might still work on some terms, and can thankfully blot out all memory of the Alfie Moon version when listened to now, but the truth is that, for reasons that are rather clearer now, George couldn't really do sex all that well at that point (in retrospect, this makes 'Fastlove and 'Outside' even greater achievements), but by then their work was pretty much done anyway. He sounds far more at home in balladeering mode on 'A Different Corner', which cemented his Terribly Serious reputation in spite of the fact that the shuttlecocks-in-shorts era really wasn't that distant a memory by then, and 'The Final Single', all of which appears here bar the re-done 'Wham! Rap', is a decent enough coda to the pair's career : 'The Edge Of Heaven' is, by their own standards, marginally by-numbers, although 'Battlestations', with its remarkable breathiness and oddly Soft Cell-reaclling synthesised brass, is this album's real curio, and the cover of Was (Not Was)'s 'Where Did Your Heart Go' proves to be a soaring fusion of their soulful roots and the grown-up pop instincts that George was keen to hone.
And then there was no more, and, in fairness, there really doesn't need to be. Afterwards, Andrew Ridgeley tried an ill-advised solo album before realising he could retire cheerfully to the south coast and live as Mr One Of Bananarama, while George, occasional troubles notwithstanding, put the whole of music royalty in his rolodex, met the man of his dreams, and carried on selling kajillions of records, which must count as happy endings all round. Even after 22 years, the Wham! story remains an incredibly useful one for new bands, given that they managed to never outstay their welcome, never squander an ounce of goodwill, and never descend into acrimony, and, as an accompanying textbook to just what pop can do in the right hands, The Final still feels like a sizeable success today.