I feel like 'Song For The Lonely' is more well-regarded/remembered than 'Music's No Good Without You' (and is 100x better)

 

I wonder why it didn't get a proper single release in the end :unsure:

I’ll admit im not the biggest fan exactly but the track list for this really feels underwhelming to me

Song for the Lonely is a banger

 

But yea, that track list of the standard edition is absolutely dreadful for someone of her caliber.

I feel like 'Song For The Lonely' is more well-regarded/remembered than 'Music's No Good Without You' (and is 100x better)

 

I wonder why it didn't get a proper single release in the end :unsure:

 

 

I agree Song for the lonely is a better song, my favourite from that album is A different kind of love song, however TMNGWY was at least a hit in the UK that people might remember / recognise.

 

It must be nigh on impossible choosing a tracklist for someone like Cher who has such a massive back catalogue, however I am really underwhelmed with this one, I mean 2 Abba tracks wtf? I say that as a huge Cher fan, she is my favourite solo artist ever.

I've been waiting for an updated Cher greatest hits for so long! It is odd that the likes of 'Love and Understanding' and 'Just Like Jessie James' aren't on the main edition, plus I'm a big fan of 'All or Nothing' and 'The Music's No Good Without You', but I otherwise think the tracking list is decent! It looks like the tracking list flows rather well and I'm happy to see the likes of 'Song for the Lonely', 'Save Up All Your Tears' and 'You Haven’t Seen the Last of Me' on there.

 

Do you think Cher's personal taste affected the tracking list? I know she's said 'Song for the Lonely' is her favourite Cher song and that she's a big fan of her ABBA covers.

I've been waiting for an updated Cher greatest hits for so long! It is odd that the likes of 'Love and Understanding' and 'Just Like Jessie James' aren't on the main edition, plus I'm a big fan of 'All or Nothing' and 'The Music's No Good Without You', but I otherwise think the tracking list is decent! It looks like the tracking list flows rather well and I'm happy to see the likes of 'Song for the Lonely', 'Save Up All Your Tears' and 'You Haven’t Seen the Last of Me' on there.

 

Do you think Cher's personal taste affected the tracking list? I know she's said 'Song for the Lonely' is her favourite Cher song and that she's a big fan of her ABBA covers.

 

 

I'm guessing it must be because she has spoken out in the past and said she doesn't like Jesse James she finds it "too wordy." Also I can see no reason why they would leave Bang, Bang off the tracklisting otherwise as it was her biggest solo hit of the 60s? On her 1992 Greatest Hits I think she included the rock version of Bang, bang (which is awesome btw) so perhaps that was done because she is not a fan of that song either?

 

 

Honestly Bang, Bang and I got you babe not being on the main tracklisting is baffling.

 

In fact, there is nothing on there to represent the 60's which is weird with the press release being all about it being a collection to represent her seven decades in the music industry?

I feel like 'Song For The Lonely' is more well-regarded/remembered than 'Music's No Good Without You' (and is 100x better)

 

I wonder why it didn't get a proper single release in the end :unsure:

I remember seeing Song for the Lonely's music video on a music channel more than once and I loved the song, so I was very :unsure: when no CD single materialised! I wonder if early signs weren't positive to the label and they thought it best to pull the plug?

 

I don't recall any further Living Proof singles being given moments in the UK either, even though overall the era got 5 singles. A strange era here after it got off to a reasonably good start with The Music's No Good Without You getting to #8!

I remember seeing Song for the Lonely's music video on a music channel more than once and I loved the song, so I was very :unsure: when no CD single materialised! I wonder if early signs weren't positive to the label and they thought it best to pull the plug?

 

I don't recall any further Living Proof singles being given moments in the UK either, even though overall the era got 5 singles. A strange era here after it got off to a reasonably good start with The Music's No Good Without You getting to #8!

 

 

Coming off the back of Believe, it wasn't the best start in 2001 really was it!? By Cher's standards yes, but in the Pop landscape not so much. The album bombing in the charts as it did still shocks me to this day though :blink:

I remember seeing Song for the Lonely's music video on a music channel more than once and I loved the song, so I was very :unsure: when no CD single materialised! I wonder if early signs weren't positive to the label and they thought it best to pull the plug?

 

I don't recall any further Living Proof singles being given moments in the UK either, even though overall the era got 5 singles. A strange era here after it got off to a reasonably good start with The Music's No Good Without You getting to #8!

 

I did some further research into this and something online seemed to suggest she decided to keep 'Song For The Lonely' exclusively for the US because the song/video became a tribute to the 9/11 victims (although I don't know how true that is!)

 

I suppose the poor performance of the album here can't have helped matters though.

 

Coming off the back of Believe, it wasn't the best start in 2001 really was it!? By Cher's standards yes, but in the Pop landscape not so much. The album bombing in the charts as it did still shocks me to this day though :blink:

 

I can understand why it did, the years between 1998 - 2001 were quite pivotal and it felt like she'd been gone a long time. Added to that the single was really poor and basically came and went like a tumbleweed.

I did some further research into this and something online seemed to suggest she decided to keep 'Song For The Lonely' exclusively for the US because the song/video became a tribute to the 9/11 victims (although I don't know how true that is!)

 

I suppose the poor performance of the album here can't have helped matters though.

I can understand why it did, the years between 1998 - 2001 were quite pivotal and it felt like she'd been gone a long time. Added to that the single was really poor and basically came and went like a tumbleweed.

 

 

I mean it's not the best song on the album or in her discography by far, but it's not THAT bad. I can see why it was the first single tbh, I reckon they thought it was a clubby intro with the more poppy stuff to come later and help keep the album selling.

It's so annoying that Forever Fan is download/streaming only. But I've bought it on iTunes today because I really wanted the whole thing, some of the remasters of the older tracks sound fanastic.

 

I'll buy the CD of Forever some point too or ask for it for Christmas...

So I’ve just discovered Song For The Lonely, how have I been sleeping on this for 22 years?

It's a fantastic track, did you hear the Claire Richards cover on her Euphoria album?

It's a fantastic track, did you hear the Claire Richards cover on her Euphoria album?

 

I completely forgot that was on Claire’s album until you mentioned it. :lol:

 

Maybe that’s why the chorus was slightly familiar.

I like both Chers and Claires version of the song.

Love and Understanding is a belter of a tune - can’t believe it was overlooked from the standard version

I like both Chers and Claires version of the song.

 

Yes, I listened to both versions a but yesterday. Both good versions.

I suppose they can get away with being selective cos it's "personally curated", and my personal choices would be quite a bit different from the tracklisting in places, and talking of covers, Heart Of Stone is a cover of a Bucks Fizz single that was a minor hit (and one I loved) as the Fizz writers realised they needed to move towards big solo singers to get their songs to be hits - Bucks fizz were not getting the hits by this time.

 

Tracks omitted I would consider essential not on the digital edition:

 

Little Man

All I Ever Need Is You

A Cowboy's Work Is Never Done

Half Breed

Train Of Thought

Take Me Home

Deadringer For Love

I Hope You Find It

 

and especially I Walk Alone

 

there's a lot of good 90's tracks but any more would overload that era. The Abba tracks obv didnt need any remastering so a quick win there...but they aren't essential in any way.

 

 

I just find having 2 Abba tracks on there and not having I got you babe or Bang, Bang two of her biggest hits, on the standard tracklisting very strange. I guess they have been represented on different compilations several times in the past but omitting two original hits one which was one of her biggest #1s in favour of songs that didn't chart is bizarre.