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I grew up after the Temptations era but I totally love their music. This CD collection is awesome.
The Temptations are from way before my time, but I discovered The Temptations as a great group from Motown. I think The Temptations are (together with the great Marvin Gaye) the best discovery from Motown Records.And this is the best and most complete collection of their songs, including classics suck as 'My Girl', 'Ain't Too Proud to Beg', 'Cloud Nine', 'Papa Was A Rollin' Stone', and many more. The first disc is a more R&B cd while the second is more a funk oriented cd. This CD is really a must have for everyone who calls himself/herself a music fan.
It has most of their known best songs and minute by minute, you'll relish the mastery of producers and songwriters like Smokey, Norman, Kenneth.and the soulful voices of the Temptations from the original to the changed lineup/s. A classic.If you love classic R&B, what I call 'Soul' music, this is a must-have for you. This is one of the very best anthologies that have ever been compiled on the Temptations. The songs are very good and this is a classic album to have for your collection. Definitely a collectible album alongside many of the Temptations' albums.
I just recieved this cd last week and I have already copied a tape of it for my car. It has all of the old favorites we know and love, but it also has some that I had not heard, so I was so happy to get this anthology of the Temptations. If you love the Temptations like I do they could sing the ABC's and you would still tremble.
And, except for a few audiophiles who bemoan the fact that it's in mono, it would have been 5 stars across the board.Having said that, you just know this one is a jewel when the vast majority of the reviews posted to date give it the maximum. And this, in my opinion, is not just based upon the outstanding music but also the insert which contains eight pages of comprehensive liner notes by Harry Weinger, numerous photographs, a complete Temptations Family Tree from 1961 to 1995, a full discography of the contents, and a listing of their many albums.Inducted into the R&R Hall of Fame in 1989, they put 55 songs into the Billboard Pop Hot 100 singles charts from 1964 to 1991, and had another three "Bubble Under" to go along with six on the Adult Contemporary charts - and scored no less than 87 times on the R&B charts.This 46-selection, 2-CD set provides 36 of those 55 Hot 100 singles although, being a selfish completist collector of hit singles, I would have preferred to have seen tracks 8, 11, 14, 27 [each album cuts] - 3, 7, 10, 17 [each B-sides] - and 26 [previously unreleased] on Disc One, and track 15 [album cut] on Disc Two - replaced by omitted hits.These could have included the following, some of which remain hard to find in CD format: Ungena Za Ulimwengu (Unite The World) - # 8 R&B/# 33 Hot 100 1970]; Take A Look Around [# 10 R&B/# 30 Hot 100 1972]; Mother Nature [# 27 R&B/# 92 Hot 100 1972]; The Plastic Man [# 8 R&B/# 40 Hot 100 1973]; Heavenly [# 8 R&B/# 43 Hot 100 1974; Happy People [# 1 R&B/# 40 Hot 100 1975]; Glasshouse [# 9 R&B/# 37 Hot 100 1975]; Keep Holding On [# 3 R&B/# 54 Hot 100 1976]; Aiming At Your Heart [# 36 R&B/# 67 Hot 100 1981]; and Sail Away [# 13 R&B/# 54 Hot 100 1984].Even so, this does not take away from the beauty of the set, part of a series which also includes Smokey Robinson & The Miracles and The Supremes, and dedicated to group member Melvin Franklin who passed away at age 52 on February 23, 1995.
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