Artist: Elton John
Title: The Very Best Of Elton John
Year Of Release: 2009
Label: Rocket
Genre: Pop
Quality: APE (image+.cue)
Total Time: 67:30:33 + 70:54:39
Total Size: 798 mb
Tracklist:
CD1
01. Your song (4:04)
02. Rocket man (I think it's going to be a long, long time) (4:42)
03. Honky cat (5:15)
04. Crocodile rock (3:58)
05. Daniel (3:56)
06. Goodbye yellow brick road (3:17)
07. Saturday night's alright for fighting (4:57)
08. Candle in the wind (3:51)
09. Don't let the sun go down on me (5:39)
10. Lucy in the sky with diamonds (6:16)
11. Philadelphia freedom (5:42)
12. Someone saved my life tonight (6:47)
13. Pinball wizard (5:16)
14. The bitch is back (3:51)
CD2
01. Don't go breaking my heart (4:33)
02. Bennie and the jets (5:21)
03. Sorry seems to be the hardest word (3:50)
04. Song for guy (6:41)
05. Part time love (3:16)
06. Blue eyes (3:28)
07. I guess that's why they call it the blues (4:45)
08. I'm still standing (3:04)
09. Kiss the bride (3:56)
10. Sad songs (say so much) (4:11)
11. Passengers (3:24)
12. Nikita (5:45)
13. I don't wanna go on with you like that (4:00)
14. Sacrifice (5:08)
15. Easier to walk away (4:25)
16. You gotta love someone (5:06)
The 1990 collection The Very Best of Elton John (available in the U.K. and Australia) is an excellent 30-track summary of his peak years, running from "Your Song" to "You Gotta Love Someone." In a sense, it's the concise counterpart to the box set To Be Continued, released that same year but spanning four discs and filled with rarities. Although that set has several great songs that aren't here, this set has nothing extraneous -- just the biggest hits from a time when John was hitting the U.S. and U.K. Top 40 every single year. There are no American collections that perform the same task, which is a shame because there isn't a better Elton John hits collection than this; if you're looking for all the biggest hits on one album, it's certainly worth the import prices.
