Artist: Joan Armatrading
Title: Gold
Year Of Release: 2005
Label: A&M
Genre: Blues, Rock
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 74:48 + 79:58
Total Size: 974 mb
Tracklist:
CD1
01 - Cool Blue Stole My Heart
02 - Travel So Far
03 - Dry Land
04 - Down To Zero
05 - Help Yourself
06 - Love And Affection
07 - Water With The Wine
08 - Save Me
09 - Somebody Who Loves You
10 - The Flight Of The Wild Geese
11 - Woncha Come On Home
12 - Show Some Emotion
13 - Warm Love
14 - Kissin' And A Huggin'
15 - Willow
16 - Barefoot And Pregnant
17 - Bottom To The Top
18 - You Rope You Tie Me
19 - Your Letter
20 - Mama Mercy (Live)
21 - Steppin' Out (Live)
CD2
01 - Rosie
02 - How cruel
03 - He wants her
04 - I really must be going
05 - Me myself I
06 - Ma-me-o-beach
07 - Friends
08 - It is tomorrow yet
09 - Turn out the light
10 - All the way from America
11 - Feeling in my heart (for you)
12 - Simon
13 - I'm lucky
14 - When I get it right
15 - The weakness in me
16 - No love
17 - (I love it when you) call me names
18 - Drop the pilot
19 - Everbody gotta know
20 - What do boys dream
21 - Frustration
22 - Heaven
Gold is a solid, top to bottom look at Joan Armatrading's ambitious, iconoclastic if often under-noticed career between the years 1975 and 1983. The two discs are literally packed, with 43 cuts, and all the hits and fan expectations are included in wonderfully remastered sound. From "Cool Blues Stole My Heart," to "Love and Affection," and "Show Some Emotion," to "Drop the Pilot," "(I Love It When You) Call Me Names," and even lesser known tunes like "Feelin In My Heart for You," and "Heaven," which closes the set. There is little that's left out, making this one of the most glorious "Best Of's" to come out in the Chronicles series. If there was a true introduction to Armatrading, this one serves the role far better than a mere ten-cut greatest hits. Her depth and breadth across genres and styles and even instrumentation and vocal phrasing are dizzying in their scope.
