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The Very Best of Chicago: Only the Beginning | 
| Artist: Chicago
Label: Rhino / Wea
Category: Music
List Price: $24.98
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Rating:  120 reviews
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.7 x 4.9 x 0.5
UPC: 081227617028
EAN: 0081227617028
ASIN: B000068ZVQ
Release Date: July 2, 2002
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Make Me Smile | | • | 25 Or 6 To 4 | | • | Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? | | • | Beginnings | | • | Questions 67 And 68 | | • | I'm A Man | | • | Colour Of My World | | • | Free | | • | Lowdown | | • | Saturday In The Park | | • | Dialogue (Part I & II) | | • | Just You 'N' Me | | • | Feelin' Stronger Every Day | | • | (I've Been) Searchin' For So Long | | • | Wishing You Were Here | | • | Call On Me | | • | Happy Man | | • | Another Rainy Day In New York City | | • | If You Leave Me Now |
Disc 2
| • | Old Days | | • | Baby, What A Big Surprise | | • | Take Me Back To Chicago | | • | Alive Again | | • | No Tell Lover | | • | Love Me Tomorrow | | • | Hard To Say I'm Sorry/Get Away | | • | Stay The Night | | • | Hard Habit To Break | | • | You're The Inspiration | | • | Along Comes A Woman | | • | Will You Still Love Me? | | • | If She Would Have Been Faithful... | | • | Look Away | | • | What Kind Of Man Would I Be? | | • | I Don't Wanna Live Without Your Love | | • | We Can Last Forever | | • | You're Not Alone | | • | Chasin' The Wind | | • | Sing, Sing, Sing (w/ The Gipsy Kings) |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
From 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 McCulley
Album Description
Subtitled - Only The Beginning. Double disc with 39 hit singles spanning Chicago's complete 35-year history. Including the #1 singles 'If You Leave Me Now,' 'Hard To Say I'm Sorry' and 'Look Away'. Booklet features detailed liner notes by Bill DeYoung. Rhino Records. Slipcase. 2002.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 115 more reviews...
 Awesome CD November 27, 2008
Elizabeth Bright (Cleveland, TN USA)
This Chicago CD is a compilation of all the songs that Chiago did best. I would definately recommend this CD to anyone who is avid Chicago fan.
Any age group October 18, 2008
S. Kay Murphy (Mt. Baldy, CA USA)
If you're a youngster trying to experience all of pop/rock, this set is a must. If you're an oldster--like me--buy this and then kick back on an afternoon with some friends while you barbecue and re-visit those all important teen/young adult years. (Well, for me, it would be the junior high years....) Chicago's sound was unique (though Blood, Sweat and Tears gave us something similar) and was always clean and tight. A nice package in terms of building songs, here--good lyrics, good vocals, good instrumentation/musicianship--and ya gotta love the brass.
great collection in one package... July 25, 2008
MIDI Maven (Reno, NV)
If you're as old as dirt, like I am, you probably have all the Chicago albums you ever want or need on vinyl. That's why this is such a must have for the jewel case or digital collection. The sound is great, virtually all their hits are here. What else could you want? (OK, still having Terry Kath would be nice...)
Excellent!! An Intro to Soft Rock! July 19, 2008
Lyndall S. Smith (Carlsbad, NM USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
First of all let me say I was introduced to Chicago by way of Peter Cetera. I really enjoyed every one of P.C. albums and a friend of mine told me that he had been a part of Chicago before he went solo, so this was the very first Chicago CD that I purchased.
I was fairly familiar with most of the songs (Your the Inspiration, Baby What a big Surprise, Hard to Say I'm Sorry, Saturday in the Park) having heard them on the classic rock radio station in my town. It also includes a few of their lesser known songs (at least for me). I have since purchased all 32 albums and have thoroughly enjoyed each one.
If you are not very familiar with Chicago or just want most of their best songs, this would be a wonderful introduction to a great soft rock band.
However, as other reviewers have said if have most of their albums this is not the album for you.
I will say this though even though I have all 32 albums, I still listen to this album the most.
Can you REALLY live without this album . . . January 8, 2008
JST (PAKYTXNCNMCA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Not if you are of my generation . . . This music and this deal are unbelievable. These songs take me back (cliqued but true, and no pun intended). Time for my generation to get nostalgic . . . we had some great music back in the good old days (can you believe WE are saying that) and time to relive the experience and accept the reality that the days when we are the "old guys" are here . . . .
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