The Best of Smokie [BMG]

by Smokie

Overview

This three-disc budget-priced (and packaged) set of material from Yorkshire-based pop/rock outfit Smokie may appeal more to European listeners than the U.S market, where the band never managed to climb high enough chart-wise to develop the kind of following that similarly themed acts like America, the Hollies, and Bread did. They did, however, land an impressive number of U.K. hits, including "If You Think You Know How to Love Me," "Don't Play Your Rock 'n' Roll to Me," "Living Next Door to Alice," "It's Your Life," and "Oh Carol," all of which appear here. That said, 52 tracks is more Smokie than any listener has the right to inhale, making the more streamlined collections like Paradiso's The Best of Smokie and BMG International's With Love from...Smokie: The Best of the Ballads better bets for the casual fan. ~ James Christopher Monger

Product Details

Release Date:	07/29/2002
Label:	Bmg/Ariola Express
UPC:	0743219507426
Rank:	81874

Tracks

Disc 1

1. If You Think You Know How to Love Me
2. Don't Play Your Rock 'n' Roll to Me
3. Something's Been Making Me Blue
4. Wild Wild Angels
5. I'll Meet You at Midnight
6. Living Next Door to Alice
7. Walk Right Back
8. It's Your Life
9. Love Remains a Stranger
10. For a Few Dollars More
11. Oh Carol
12. Mexican Girl
13. Do to Me
14. Babe It's Up to You
15. San Francisco Bay
16. Take Good Care of My Baby
17. I Do Declare

Disc 2

18. Run to Me
19. Little Town Flirt
20. When My Back Was Against the Wall
21. Little Lucy
22. Now You Think You Know
23. Will You Love Me
24. Goin' Tomorrow
25. Power of Love
26. Baby It's You
27. Love's a Riot
28. Lay Back in the Arms of Someone
29. No One Could Ever Love You More
30. Light Up My Life
31. The Other Side of the Road
32. I Can't Stop Loving You
33. Don't Take Your Love Away This Time
34. Falling for You
35. Headspin

Disc 3

36. Needles and Pins
37. Yesterday's Dreams
38. You'll Be Lonely Tonight
39. The Loser
40. Don't Turn Out Your Light
41. The Coldest Night
42. I Can't Stay Here Tonight
43. Sunshine Avenue
44. The Dancer
45. It's Natural
46. We're Flyin' High
47. Changing All the Time
48. Back to Bradford
49. Daydreamin'
50. Think of Me
51. Julie
52. It Makes Me Money

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Smokie   Primary Artist

Technical Credits

Jack Nitzsche   Composer
Dieter Zill   Photography
Nicky Chinn   Composer
David Courtney   Composer
Alan Silson   Composer
Sonny Bono   Composer
Leo Sayer   Composer