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Track List:
- Disc 1 -
1 Make Me Smile
2 25 or 6 to 4
3 Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
4 Beginnings
5 Questions 67 and 68
6 I'm a Man
7 Colour of My World
8 Free
9 Lowdown
10 Saturday in the Park
11 Dialogue (Part I & II)
12 Just You 'N' Me
13 Feelin' Stronger Every Day
14 (I've Been) Searchin' for So Long
15 Wishing You Were Here
16 Call on Me
17 Happy Man
18 Another Rainy Day in New York City
19 If You Leave Me Now
- Disc 2 -
1 Old Days
2 Baby, What a Big Surprise
3 Take Me Back to Chicago
4 Alive Again
5 No Tell Lover
6 Love Me Tomorrow
7 Hard to Say I'm Sorry/Get Away
8 Stay the Night
9 Hard Habit to Break
10 You're the Inspiration
11 Along Comes a Woman
12 Will You Still Love Me?
13 If She Would Have Been Faithful
14 Look Away
15 What Kind of Man Would I Be?
16 I Don't Wanna Live Without Your Love
17 We Can Last Forever
18 You're Not Alone
19 Chasin' the Wind
20 Sing, Sing, Sing (W/ the Gipsy Kings)
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Description
xFrom the perspective of 15 subsequent platinum albums and 20 top-10 hits, it's hard to imagine that Chicago began their career as a bona fide prog-fusion act, an early FM radio favorite whose jazz-tinged, album-length suites found them a hip cult following even as they confounded label execs. Ironically, when the pioneering horn band (a contemporary of Blood, Sweat & Tears and inspiration for one-hit wonders like Lighthouse, Ides of March, and Ten Wheel Drive) relented and allowed their music to be edited down to single length, their success was explosive. Most of the "single edits" on disc 1 of this 39-track anthology provide ample evidence of that de facto formula: a catchy riff ("25 or 6 to 4," "Saturday in the Park," "Color My World") develops into a hook-filled, pop-savvy production rife with the band's trademark horn perfection. One could argue that that sensibility--and a midcareer tilt toward producer David Foster, songwriter Diane Warren, and the MOR ballads that became some of their biggest successes--degenerated into formula. Indeed, there's much on the second disc to support that notion. This set spans it all, showcasing newly refocused edits of some their biggest early hits and lesser-known tracks like their lively '95 cross-cultural collaboration with the Gipsy Kings on a cover of Louis Prima's swing classic "Sing, Sing, Sing." --Jerry McCulleyProduct DescriptionChicago
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