The Essential Alison Moyet

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The Essential Alison Moyet
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Greatest hits album by
Alison Moyet
Released10 September 2001
Recorded1982-2001
GenrePop
Length73:48
LabelColumbia/Sony Music Entertainment
Alison Moyet chronology
Singles
(1995) 		The Essential Alison Moyet
(2001) 		Hometime
(2002)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic4/5 stars[1]

The Essential Alison Moyet was essentially a third re-release of Singles, the 1995 greatest hits album of recordings by singer/songwriter Alison Moyet. The album was released in 2001[2] by Sony Music Entertainment in response to renewed interest in the singer, after she was finally released from her contract with the label and able to sign with Sanctuary Records, regain the artistic control of her musical output and move back into the public eye - resulting in 2002 comeback album Hometime. However, there are some differences in the track listings of the two Sony compilations. The Essential Alison Moyet excludes "Only You", "Situation', "Ordinary Girl", "Ode To Boy II", "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" and "Solid Wood", and replaces them with "Don't Go", "Winter Kills", "Blue" and "Our Colander Eyes" (the latter two recorded in 1995/1996, and listed in the wrong order in accompanying material[3]) plus cover versions "Ne Me Quitte Pas" and "There Are Worse Things I Could Do".

Track listing[]

  1. "Don't Go" (Vince Clarke) - 2:51
  2. "Nobody's Diary" (Moyet) - 4:31
  3. "Winter Kills" (Alison Moyet) - 4:04
  4. "Love Resurrection" (Jolley, Moyet, Swain) - 3:52
    • From 1984 album Alf
  5. "All Cried Out" (7" Edit) (Jolley, Moyet, Swain) - 3:42
    • From 1984 album Alf
  6. "Invisible" (Lamont Dozier) - 4:08
    • From 1984 album Alf
  7. "That Ole Devil Called Love" (Fisher, Roberts) - 3:05
    • 1985 non-album single
  8. "Is This Love" (Guiot, Moyet) - 4:01
  9. "Weak in the Presence of Beauty" (Michael Ward, Robert E. Clarke ) - 3:33
  10. "Love Letters" (Heyman, Young) - 2:51
    • 1987 non-album single
  11. "It Won't Be Long" (Pete Glenister, Moyet) - 4:09
  12. "Wishing You Were Here" (Glenister, Moyet) - 3:58
  13. "This House" (Moyet) - 3:55
  14. "Falling" (Glenister, Moyet) - 3:39
  15. "Whispering Your Name" (Single Mix) (Shear) - 3:49
  16. "Getting Into Something" (Glenister, Moyet) - 4:15
  17. "Blue" (Glenister, Moyet) - 3:21
    • Recorded 1995, previously issued on single "Solid Wood"
  18. "Our Colander Eyes" (Glenister, Moyet) - 3:32
    • Recorded 1996, previously issued as promo single.
  19. "Ne Me Quitte Pas" (Acoustic) (Jacques Brel) - 3:45
    • Previously issued on single "Getting Into Something"
  20. "There Are Worse Things I Could Do" (Casey, Jacobs) - 2:27
    • Studio version. Previously unreleased.

Production tracks 17-20[]

  • "Blue" - mixed by Bob Kraushaar
  • "Our Colander Eyes" - produced by Mike Hedges, mixed by Corin Dingley
  • "Ne Me Quitte Pas" - produced by Victor van Vugt
  • "There Are Worse Things I Could Do" - engineer Neil Brockbank

References[]

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ Alison Moyet - The Essential Alison Moyet at Discogs
  3. ^ Alison moyet - The Essential Alison Moyet, booklet of the promotional copy at Discogs

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