Singles (Alison Moyet album)

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Essex
Essex cover
Greatest hits by Alison Moyet
Released 27 June 1995
Recorded 1982-1995
Genre Pop
Length 74:46 (Germany: 73:06)
Label Columbia Records/Sony Music Entertainment
Professional reviews

All Music Guide 4.5/5 stars [1]
Alison Moyet chronology
Essex
(1994)		 Singles
(1995)		 The Essential Alison Moyet
(2001)
Alternate cover
Re-release, two-disc set
Re-release, two-disc set

Singles is the title of the greatest hits album of singer Alison Moyet, released in 1995. The album includes two previously unreleased tracks, Moyet's version of "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" and "Solid Wood", as well as a number of hits from the singer's stint in 80s electro-pop band Yazoo.

The album was re-released by Sony the following year as a two-disc set, Singles/Live, the second disc being a live recording of Alison on tour, again in 2000 as a one-disc set under the title Best of The Best - Gold and a third time in 2001 as The Essential Alison Moyet with a slightly revised tracklisting.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

  1. "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" (Maccoll) - 3:19
    • Previously unreleased
  2. "Only You" (Clarke) - 3:12
  3. "Nobody's Diary" (Moyet) - 4:31
  4. "Winter Kills" (Clarke, Moyet) - 4:04
    • Performed by Yazoo, from 1982 album Upstairs at Eric's. NB: German edition: "Situation" - 2:24, performed by Yazoo
  5. "Love Resurrection" (Jolley, Moyet, Swain) - 3:52
    • From 1984 album Alf
  6. "All Cried Out" (7" Edit) (Jolley, Moyet, Swain) - 3:42
    • From 1984 album Alf
  7. "Invisible" (Lamont Dozier) - 4:08
    • From 1984 album Alf
  8. "That Ole Devil Called Love" (Fisher, Roberts) - 3:05
    • 1985 non-album single
  9. "Is This Love" (Guiot, Moyet) - 4:01
  10. "Weak in the Presence of Beauty" (Michael Ward, Robert E. Clarke ) - 3:33
  11. "Ordinary Girl" (7" Edit) (Bailey, Driscoll, Moyet) - 3:08
  12. "Love Letters" (Heyman, Young) - 2:51
    • 1987 non-album single
  13. "It Won't Be Long" (Glenister, Moyet) - 4:09
  14. "Wishing You Were Here" (Glenister, Moyet) - 3:58
  15. "This House" (Moyet) - 3:55
  16. "Falling" (Glenister, Moyet) - 3:39
  17. "Whispering Your Name" (Single Mix) (Shear) - 3:49
  18. "Getting Into Something" (Glenister, Moyet) - 4:15
  19. "Ode to Boy II" (Moyet) - 2:57
  20. "Solid Wood" (Moyet) - 4:38
    • Previously unreleased

[edit] Production

  • Pete Glenister - producer (tracks: 1, 13, 14, 19)
  • Mark Saunders - producer (track: 1)
  • Eric Radcliffe - producer (tracks 2-4)
  • Yazoo - producers (tracks 2-4)
  • Steve Jolley - producer (tracks: 5-7)
  • Tony Swain - producer (tracks: 5-7)
  • Pete Wingfield - producer (track: 8)
  • Jimmy Iovine - producer (tracks: 9-11)
  • Manu Guiot - producer (track: 9)
  • Steve Brown - producer (track: 12)
  • Dave Dix - producer (track: 15)
  • Ian Broudie - producer (tracks: 16-18)

[edit] Tracklisting Live (1996)

  1. "Getting into Something" (Glenister, Moyet) - 5:16
  2. "Chain of Fools" (Covay) - 5:05
  3. "Love Letters" (Heyman, Young) - 4:43
  4. "All Cried Out" (Jolley, Moyet, Swain) - 4:08
  5. "Dorothy" (Glenister, Moyet)- 3:24
  6. "Falling" (Glenister, Moyet) - 3:44
  7. "Ode to Boy" (Moyet) - 3:07
  8. "Is This Love?" (Guiot, Moyet) - 3:59
  9. "Nobody's Diary" (Moyet) - 4:30
  10. "Whispering Your Name" (Shear) - 3:53
  11. "There Are Worse Things I Could Do" (Casey, Jacobs) - 3:05
  • Recorded at the Royal Albert Hall, London and The Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow.

[edit] Non-album tracks, Singles era

  • "Blue" 2:53
  • "First Time (Are You Sure It's Your...)" (Remix of "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face") - 4:11
  • "Our Colander Eyes" - 4:21 (withdrawn 1996 single)

[edit] References



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Alison Moyet
With Yazoo/Yaz
Studio albums
Alf (1984) · Raindancing (1987) · Hoodoo (1991) · Essex (1994) · Hometime (2002) · Voice (2004) · The Turn (2007)
Compilations
 · Singles (1995) · Singles/Live (1996) · Best of The Best - Gold (2000) · The Essential Alison Moyet (2001)