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there's new looks and then there's transformations... all I can say is... wow.

 

As for the album....

 

Alison Moyet will mark her incredible three-decade spanning career on 19 October 2009 with the release of The Best Of Alison Moyet through Sony Music. A deluxe version of the album will contain 11 brand new interpretations of Alison’s favourite songs from her back catalogue recorded with her current live band.

 

The Best Of Alison Moyet is a true reflection of the extraordinary music produced by Alison Moyet over the last 25 years and a testament to the diversity of her talents. The songs included on the album form a definitive representation of her stunning and vivacious vocal style and range, from subtle blues and bombastic soul to big pop chart hits.

 

"For a while in the mid-80s, it was amusing to be a pop bitch, but that changed, and it stopped being enough. Now I am able to put my early work into context and find pleasure in the innocence of it. It matters to connect with your audience and these songs have had their place in more lives than my own.” comments Moyet.

 

The Top 10 singles All Cried Out, Love Resurrection, Invisible and Is This Love are all included on this 20 track anthology, as are the heartbreakingly honest ballad This House and the modern soul of Hoodoo. Timeless cover versions of That Ole Devil Called Love and Love Letters, which both cracked the Top 5 upon release in 1985 and 1987 respectively, and Windmills Of Your Mind and Almost Blue from 2004’s Voice album, perfectly demonstrate the smoky range of Alison’s blues vocals, are all included on this comprehensive collection of solo work.

 

Between 1984 and 1987, Moyet was Britain's biggest selling female solo star. Covers of That Old Devil Called Love and Love Letters confirmed her reputation as an interpreter of classic songs, while her own self-penned hits like Love Resurrection and All Cried Out confirmed her gifts as a songwriter. She won BRIT Awards, performed at Live Aid, toured extensively and broke the Billboard Top 40. After that, she started to explore what she could do with her wonderful voice, a powerful but sensitive instrument that never forgot its Essex roots, but yearned to experiment in a world beyond pop.

 

In the last decade, Moyet has taken other career turns. She has played Mama Morton in the West End hit musical, Chicago; acted with best friend Dawn French in the Kathy Burke-directed play, Smaller; narrated jazz documentaries for Jazz FM; reformed Yazoo with Vince Clarke for a triumphant reunion tour in 2008, and recently toured the UK as the guest of the Academy Award-winning French composer, Michel Legrand.

 

Final word goes to Alison: "After all, a retrospective is strange. It pinpoints you at certain stages in your life that you don't have to revisit if you're not a recorded and photographed musician. But if you stop remembering what you didn't like about yourself at certain stages - your crassness and arrogance as a young person, for instance - you start to regard your life as a constant learning curve. And although I recognise myself more now in my later songs, I also look at my younger selves, see the battles I had to fight, and I'm proud of what I achieved, and the lessons that I learnt."

 

Alison Moyet – The Best Of Alison Moyet CD Tracklisting

 

1. Love Resurrection

2. All Cried Out

3. Invisible

4. Where Hides Sleep

5. That Ole Devil Called Love

6. Is This Love?

7. Weak In The Presence

8. Ordinary Girl

9. Love Letters

10. It Won't Be Long

11. This House

12. Hoodoo

13. Footsteps

14. Whispering Your Name

15. Should I Feel That Its Over

16. More

17. Yesterday’s Flame

18. Windmills Of Your Mind

19. Almost Blue

20. One More Time

 

Alison Moyet – The Best Of: 25 Years Revisited CD 2 Tracklisting

 

1. All Cried Out

2. Ski

3. Hoodoo

4. Ordinary Girl

5. Midnight

6. This House

7. Find Me

8. Footsteps

9. Is This Love?

10. Situation

11. Wishing You Were Here

 

 

Go watch the 'Love Resurrection' video and then look at those pics. She looks younger now. :o

 

WOAH.

how come shes so skinny? is she well?... surely it was her size that gave her that powerful voice in the first place, can such an emaciated frame carry her former power?

It's a good question, she looks a bit TOO thin... Looks good though otherwise. Glad to see Whispering Your Name is on the best of, supposedly a Pet Shop Boys proudction (under pseudonyms), it should have been number 1 for weeks and weeks, but charted just inside the top 30 :(

I have a promo of the 'In Session' CD due to be released in October - it's all one-take live renditions of some of the old songs - and losing weight has definitely not diminished her voice one bit - she sounds incredible on it.

 

Also, she recently played some gigs in Poland and with Michel LeGrand (who wrote Windmills Of Your Mind among others) on a UK and European tour - and she sounds as good if not better than usual.

 

I think she looks amazing. She's on a huge keep fit binge, partly due to her fitness fanatic husband and partly due to the fact she didn't fancy growing old and infirm fat, which she explained in the Mail on Sunday supplement this week where these photos came from.

 

Tom... much as I'd love Alison to work with Pet Shop Boys - Whispering Your Name's production was all Vince Clarke's work.... have to admit, despite her former Yazoo cohort's best efforts, it's my least favourite single of the whole lot (bar the dreadful Invisible).

Stunning new look, she definately looks younger than she is.

Tracklisting looks great.

I own her Alf & Rain Dancing albums, and her most recent one, and her

covers of standards album she released a few years ago.

 

Actually like the Status Quo dvd post, is this retro? It's a new release isn't it?

 

Edited October 6, 200915 yr by Charts UK

I agree, this is new music - but mention a real, bona fide talent like Alison Moyet on any other section than this one on Buzzjack and it gets about as much attention as Danni Minogue would standing next to her older sister....

 

As much as I liked Moyet's 2 massively successful first 2 albums at the time, I have to say I think they're her weakest works.... 2002's 'Hometime' is the one for me - one of my albums of all-time, that one. 'The Turn' has its moments, too.

Too skinny yes. Wonder if she does "nobody's diary" live. I'd pay to hear her sing that.

Well Yazoo reformed briefly last year - she did it then.... and she does sometimes slip Nobody's Diary into her solo setlist, albeit a very different, stripped-down version that works pretty well.

well it doesn't get much better than this - the Moyet on Paul O'Grady this week - looking nothing short of fabulous.... and putting paid to any fears her weight loss would affect her voice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epvWg-TsdPA

patently as popular as bad breath on Buzzjack... but hey... here's Moyet on daytime TV doing All Cried Out this week - the weight loss continues it seems... alarming... but she looks pretty fantastic all the same... and those rich velvety tones thankfully remain... :heart:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LNNgMExgP8

i wouldnt take it personally russ, retro is pretty slow atm for some reason..

to be honest...unless it's Cheryl Cole, XFactor or The Saturdays, this whole site seems to be at a new low.... know of any other good music boards out there anyone? I think Buzzjack may finally be dying a death under a torrent of 13 year olds.... :( :( :(

to be honest...unless it's Cheryl Cole, XFactor or The Saturdays, this whole site seems to be at a new low.... know of any other good music boards out there anyone? I think Buzzjack may finally be dying a death under a torrent of 13 year olds.... :( :( :(

 

let me know if you find one, i agree...

This is pretty funny.... Alison's pianist, Steve Corley, gets his fingers stuck between his piano keys in Bristol night before last whilst playing 'Only You' and gets a ticking off.... and great to see the lady herself looking and sounding damn fine...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdsWWUD8Opg

not entirely sure why I bother here any more as it's like p***ing in the wind...but.... here's AM last night in Warwick.... sure proof you don't need to be fat to have lungs...bloody good lungs, too...

The graphics look brill. Back to normal. anyone know anything about it??

Indeed!

Alison looks stunning!!!

And I love this album!!

The graphics look brill. Back to normal. anyone know anything about it??

 

the tour, you mean?

 

I saw Moyet weekend before last in Cardiff and can honestly say she's sounding greater than ever... a phenomenal live artist, worthy of any ticket price, a real must-see for anyone who hasn't ;)