A few surprises
Patrick J. Neals | Toronto, ON, Canada | 04/04/2004
(4 out of 5 stars)
"This is a good album for Astley completists. Not quite as comprehensive as the U.S. or UK greatest hits releases, but this album has a few tracks that were previously unavailable on North American Astley albums - "I'll Never Set You Free", "Just Good Friends", "I'll Be Fine", "Some Kinda Love". There is also a good short mix of the somewhat popular "My Arms Keep Missing You", whereas the U.S. greatest hits has the 12" mix. The liner notes are brief but interesting; they err however by stating , "After four albums and a string of hit singles, Rick walked away from the record biz with no regrets." They neglect to mention Rick's fifth album, "Keep It Turned On" from 2001, and of course there are no tracks from it here. For the price, you can't go wrong on this one, and you'll get some rare tracks."