{"id":2561,"date":"2011-02-27T11:33:52","date_gmt":"2011-02-27T18:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cherscholar.com\/cherblog\/cher-comiliation-catch-up\/"},"modified":"2023-02-20T08:30:44","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T15:30:44","slug":"cher-comiliation-catch-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cherscholar.com\/cherblog\/2011\/02\/cher-comiliation-catch-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Cher Compilation Catch-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;ve been avoiding reviewing a stack of Cher compilations, both old and new, that I&#39;ve been picking up new on Amazon and at Amoeba Records in Los Angeles. May as well get it over with.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/cherscholar.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341d6c7753ef0147e2dfe76c970b-popup\" onclick=\"window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false\" style=\"float: left;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Allireallycover\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341d6c7753ef0147e2dfe76c970b\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cherscholar.com\/cherblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/6a00d8341d6c7753ef0147e2dfe76c970b-150wi.jpg?w=676&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"width: 150px; margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Allireallycover\" \/><\/a> cher: all I really want to do: best of the early years<\/strong><br \/>Microwerks, 2009<\/p>\n<p>First, awkward cover photo. Both this one and the inside&#0160;photo show off her gargantuan rings of the time. This is a modest solo compilation, not the most comprehensive or unique selection, not remastered, has the major hits (&quot;All I Really Want to Do,&quot; &quot;Bang Bang,&quot;&#0160;&#0160;&quot;Mama,&quot; &quot;You Better Sit Down Kids&quot;) and the&#0160;almost hits or not-really-hits-by-cher (&quot;Where Do You Go,&quot; &quot;Alfie,&quot; &quot;Needles &amp; Pins&quot;). The fillers are common compilation selections (&quot;Behind the Door,&quot; &quot;Hey Joe&quot;) and not-so-common ones (&quot;Elusive Butterfly,&quot; &quot;I Go to Sleep,&quot; &quot;Don\u2019t Think Twice,&quot; The Click Song&quot;). Thankfully the packaging is somewhat green.&#0160;Bill Dahl did the liner notes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>\u201ca beloved entertainment icon for so long we can barely remember a time when Cher wasn\u2019t basking in superstardom.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p>How about 1964.<\/p>\n<p>But these liner notes taught me that &quot;Behind the Door&quot; was&#0160;penned by Graham Gouldman, later of the band&#0160;10cc. They wrote&#0160;these 70s tunes: remember&#0160;&quot;I\u2019m Not in Love&quot; (Big boys don&#39;t cry) and &quot;The Things We do for Love&quot; (like walkin in the rain and the snow when there&#39;s no where to go and you&#39;re feelin&#39; like a part of you is dyin&#39;).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>&quot;You&#0160;Better Sit Down&#0160;Kids unfolded from the male perspective\u2026Cher\u2019s legion of followers weren\u2019t disturbed by the gender jumble, sudden tempo switches and jazzy sax interjections\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Cher Scholar\u2019s husband was.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/cherscholar.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341d6c7753ef0147e2dfe7c0970b-popup\" onclick=\"window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false\" style=\"float: left;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Icon\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341d6c7753ef0147e2dfe7c0970b\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cherscholar.com\/cherblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/6a00d8341d6c7753ef0147e2dfe7c0970b-150wi.jpg?w=676&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"width: 150px; margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Icon\" \/><\/a> CHER ICON <\/strong><br \/>Geffen Records ICON series, 2011<\/p>\n<p>The cover is a Herb Ritts chain mail photo\u2026and that&#39;s all the photos you get, no liner notes, just a cheap series cash-in from Geffen.<\/p>\n<p>Common of these Geffen releases, there&#39;s no &quot;Believe,&quot; just &quot;If I Could Turn Back Time&quot; (without the parenthetical title), &quot;I Found Someone,&quot; &quot;After All,&quot; jumping back to &quot;Half Breed,&quot; &quot;Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves&quot; (spelled right and yet wrong), back forward to &quot;We All Sleep Alone,&quot; back to &quot;Dark Lady,&quot; forward to &quot;Just Like Jesse James,&quot; back to &quot;The Way of Love,&quot; up to &quot;Love and Understanding,&quot; back to &quot;Living in a House Divided,&quot; back up to &quot;The Shoop Shoop Song.&quot; This thing gave me whiplash. For no good reason.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/cherscholar.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341d6c7753ef014e5f850f01970c-popup\" onclick=\"window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false\" style=\"float: left;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Classics\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341d6c7753ef014e5f850f01970c\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cherscholar.com\/cherblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/6a00d8341d6c7753ef014e5f850f01970c-150wi.jpg?w=676&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"width: 150px; margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Classics\" \/><\/a> Classics Sonny &amp; Cher <\/strong><br \/>Rhino imprint Flashback or Collectables Records (it was hard to tell), 2007<\/p>\n<p>The artwork really&#0160;annoys me in that it\u2019s clearly a 60s compilation but it uses one 60s pic and two S&amp;C 70s pics (inside) which says to me the person putting this together has no idea about the timeline of Sonny &amp; Cher. This greatly perturbs me. It\u2019s historically inaccurate. Scholars hate shit like this.<\/p>\n<p>Also, here is a compilation without &quot;I Got You Babe&quot;&#0160;which makes it one&#0160;people are most unlikely to buy. The hit in the mix is&#0160;&quot;Baby Don\u2019t Go;&quot; nonhits are &quot;Living for You,&quot; &quot;500 Miles&quot; (which I&#39;ve always liked),&#0160;&quot;Let it be Me, &quot;Unchained Melody,&quot; &quot;Then He Kissed Me,&quot; &quot;You\u2019ve Really Got a Hold on Me&quot; (tunes are heavily taken from the <em>Look at Us<\/em> album).<\/p>\n<p>John and I listened to this one when we were heading up through the Chama Valley in New Mexico. I said &quot;Unchained Melody&quot; has always sounded to me like&#0160;she\u2019s singing from another room. And then there&#39;s that awkward splice at the end. Caesar and Cleo&#39;s &quot;Love Is Strange&quot; is also included as are Sonny\u2019s &quot;Laugh at Me&quot; and&#0160;&quot;The Revolution Kind.&quot; We both agreed we liked &quot;You\u2019ve Really Got a Hold on Me&quot; and&#0160;I promised someday to play for him Cher and Gregg Allman\u2019s version.<\/p>\n<p>While in the car listening to these I was trying to explain to John how these reissues come to be, who picks the songs, what is the defining principle? Without liner notes you can\u2019t usually tell. Hell, sometimes <em>with <\/em>liner notes you can\u2019t tell either. My theory of creation is pure random sloppiness:&#0160;seven monkeys in a room picking out song titles from a hat.<\/p>\n<p>The one-page&#0160;CD sleeve for this one has a very ugly advertisement for www.oldies.com on the back.&#0160;The cover is very fugly and loud too. I hate this thing. It is trash polluting our universe.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/cherscholar.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341d6c7753ef0147e2e002f1970b-popup\" onclick=\"window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false\" style=\"float: left;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Definitive\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341d6c7753ef0147e2e002f1970b\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cherscholar.com\/cherblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/6a00d8341d6c7753ef0147e2e002f1970b-150wi.jpg?w=676&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"width: 150px; margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Definitive\" \/><\/a> Sonny &amp; Cher The Definitive Pop Collection <\/strong><br \/>Rhino\/Atco, 2006<\/p>\n<p>First of all this is a far cry&#0160;from &quot;definitive&quot; although there are 2 CDs.&#0160;On this one, I do like the cover art. Very mod.&#0160;The thing is needlessly overpackaged but I do appreciate the <em>Good-Times<\/em>-era living room photo inside with&#0160;Sonny pouring Cher tea.&#0160;I don\u2019t appreciate the 70s pic in the back of the booklet. No 70s songs, no 70s pics. Cher Scholar law.<\/p>\n<p>Sheryl Farber\u2019s liner notes have been&#0160;reused from <em>The Essentials: Sonny &amp; Cher <\/em>and are a good historical review on Sonny\u2019s early efforts in the music business and meeting Cher as <em>\u201ca teen runaway\u2026with dark, mysterious eyes and world-wise alto.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>\u201cThe (Phil) Spector presence is so strong on the fisrt S&amp;C cuts\u2026it\u2019s as if the soundboard knobs used to record were still greasy from Spector\u2019s corned-beef sandwich.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, Farber claims the song \u201cJust You\u201d is perilously close to The&#0160;Ronettes&#39; \u201cBaby I Love You.\u201d And she talks about early evidence of Sonny&#39;s politics in his lyrics:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>\u201cWhile the couple\u2019s outsiderness was referred to in many of their songs, the future Republican Congressman Bono managed to keep that image in check by making sure the public knew they weren\u2019t real radicals, but genuine patriots, in 1965\u2019s The Revolution Kind.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>These 30 tracks&#0160;<em>have<\/em>been digitally remastered&#0160;and include the big duets: &quot;IGUB,&quot; &quot;Baby Don\u2019t Go,&quot; &quot;What Now My Love,&quot; &quot;The Beat Goes On,&quot;&#0160;and Cher hits: &quot;All I Really Want to Do,&quot; &quot;Bang Bang,&quot; &quot;You Better Sit Down Kids.&quot;&#0160;Side one is otherwise filler from <em>Look At Us<\/em> and Sonny\u2019s <em>Inner Views<\/em> (&quot;Laugh at Me,&quot; &quot;The Revolution Kind&quot;) and the b-side&#0160;&quot;Have I Stayed Too Long,&quot; ending with filler from <em>The Wonderous World of Sonny &amp;Cher.&#0160;<\/em>Side two is filler from <em>In Case You\u2019re In Love <\/em>with non-album&#0160;singles &quot;A Beautiful Story,&quot; &quot;Plastic Man,&quot; &quot;Good Combinations&quot; and &quot;Inner Views (&quot;My Best Friend\u2019s Girl Is Outa Sight&quot;) and two songs from <em>Good Times <\/em>(&quot;It&#39;s the Little Things,&quot; &quot;Don&#39;t Talk to Strangers&quot;).<\/p>\n<p>Again\u2026randomness.&#0160;&#0160;My husband (who likes&#0160;many Sonny songs) gafawed during Sonny\u2019s French hamming in &quot;Sing C\u2019est La Vie.&quot; I told him I liked &quot;Why Don\u2019t The Let Us Fall In Love&quot; (a favorite from childhood)&#0160;and he was appalled when I told him &quot;It\u2019s Gonna Rain&quot; almost beat out &quot;IGUB&quot; as the first Sonny &amp; Cher&#0160;single in 1965. It sounds so dated and lyrically inferior to &quot;IGUB.&quot;&#0160; John likes &quot;The Beat Goes On&quot; and &quot;Bang Bang&quot; (who doesn\u2019t) although he didn\u2019t get the gypsy interlude in&#0160;the western saga. We both snickered through the lyrics of &quot;Monday&quot; but I came to a new appreciation for Sonny&#39;s music and lyrics for the song &quot;Cheryl\u2019s Going Home.&quot; &quot;Plastic Man&quot; and &quot;My Best Friends\u2019s Girl is Outa Sight&quot; (I don\u2019t get the ending\u2026did his friend get married or was the girl available at the end?)&#0160;are both&#0160;painful to sit through. John loves &quot;It\u2019s the Little Things&quot; as do I.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Good Combination&quot; is manic, as John said many of Sonny\u2019s arrangements were. I said, didn\u2019t you know Sonny was a big proponent of the 60s movement called Speed Saxing? He said, &quot;Really?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>And with a straight face I said, &quot;Oh Yeah.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>These compilations will never end; and they&#0160;already feel dated without Cher\u2019s latest hit from <em>Burlesque<\/em>: &quot;You Haven\u2019t Seen the Last of Me.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;ve been avoiding reviewing a stack of Cher compilations, both old and new, that I&#39;ve been picking up new on Amazon and at Amoeba Records in Los Angeles. May as well get it over with. cher: all I really want to do: best of the early yearsMicrowerks, 2009 First, awkward cover photo. 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