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Robert Palmer ‎– The Essential Selection / Simply Irresistible, I'll Be Your Baby Tonight, She Makes My Day, Girl U Want, You Blow Me Away, She Can Rock It / Disky Audio CD 2000 / SI997942

Name: Robert Palmer ‎– The Essential Selection / Simply Irresistible, I'll Be Your Baby Tonight, She Makes My Day, Girl U Want, You Blow Me Away, She Can Rock It / Disky Audio CD 2000 / SI 997942
SKU: 0724389979428
Price: 33.33 USD
Availability: InStock

UPC 0724389979428

Product Details:

Label: Disky ‎– SI 997942

Format: CD, Compilation

Country: Europe

Released: 04 Sep 2000

Genre: Rock, Pop

Style: Hard Rock, Pop Rock, Classic Rock

Editorial Review:

"Special thanks to Robert Palmer for his help in compiling this collection," reads a sleeve note on this Dutch compilation, and while you can understand Disky's desire to acknowledge the artist's own involvement in the set, you also can't help thinking that it's a way of shifting responsibility for the choices. The Essential Selection consists of recordings Palmer made for EMI Records between 1988 and 1996, including his work with the Power Station. Drawing from his albums Nova, Don't Explain, and Honey, from the Power Station album Living in Fear, and from one-off singles, it features some of his hits from the period, notably "Simply Irresistible," which made the U.S. Top Five, and "She Makes My Day" and "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight" (recorded with UB40), which made the U.K. Top Ten. But this is not a hits collection; it ignores other successful singles in both England and America in favor of album tracks from albums that were not commercially successful, such as Honey, which spent only four weeks in the U.K. charts and did not chart in the U.S. at all, and the marginally selling Living in Fear. With this selection, Palmer seems to be arguing that his EMI work was misunderstood and inadequately appreciated, which may be true at least in part. Certainly, there are many other hard rock tracks in the style of "Simply Irresistible" that could have been just as big. Potential buyers can read the contents on the back of the album or on a website before purchasing it, so they are unlikely to be fooled into thinking this is more of a greatest-hits set than it is. But nobody should buy this album expecting a full-scale look at Palmer's recording career or even the popular highlights of his late-'80s and '90s work.

Tracklist:

1	–Robert Palmer	Wham Bam Boogie	3:18
2	–The Power Station	Notoriety	5:06
3	–Robert Palmer	You Can't Get Enough Of A Good Thing	4:07
4	–Robert Palmer	Girl U Want	2:23
5	–Robert Palmer	I'll Be Your Baby Tonight	3:27
6	–The Power Station	Life Forces	4:08
7	–Robert Palmer	Light Years	4:28
8	–The Power Station	Scared	4:08
9	–Robert Palmer	Your Mother Should Have Told You	3:41
10	–Robert Palmer	Simply Irresistible	4:14
11	–The Power Station	She Can Rock It	4:17
12	–Robert Palmer	You Blow Me Away	4:34
13	–Robert Palmer	She Makes My Day	4:22
14	–Robert Palmer	Dreams Come True	3:13

About the Artist:

Robert Allen Palmer (19 January 1949 – 26 September 2003) was an English singer-songwriter, musician and record producer. He was known for his powerful, distinctive, gritty and soulful voice, sartorial elegance and for combining soul, jazz, rock, pop, reggae and blues.

Palmer's involvement in the music industry began in the 1960s, covered four decades and included a spell with the band Vinegar Joe. He found success both in his solo career and with the Power Station, and had Top 10 songs in both the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. Three of his hit singles, "I Didn't Mean to Turn You On", "Addicted to Love" and "Simply Irresistible", were accompanied with stylish music videos directed by British fashion photographer Terence Donovan.

Palmer received a number of awards throughout his career, including two Grammy Awards for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance, an MTV Video Music Award and two Brit Award nominations for Best British Male Solo Artist. He died aged 54, following a heart attack on 26 September 2003.

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