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List Price: $11.99 | | Label: MSI:NASHVILLE
Salesrank: 68396
Released: December 2, 2003 |
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Very Best of George Strait, 1981 - 1987 Track Listing:
1. Unwound
2. Down and Out
3. If You're Thinking You Want a Stranger (There's One Coming Home)
4. Fool Hearted Memory
5. Marina del Rey
6. Amarillo by Morning
7. Fire I Can't Put Out
8. You Look So Good in Love
9. Right or Wrong
10. Let's Fall to Pieces Together
11. Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your Mind
12. Cowboy Rides Away
13. Fireman
14. Chair
15. You're Something Special to Me
16. Nobody in His Right Mind Would've Left Her
17. It Ain't Cool to Be Crazy About You
18. Ocean Front Property
19. All My Ex's Live in Texas
20. Am I Blue
Editorial Review:
Of the 20 songs on The Very Best Of George Strait 1981-1987, 'Down and Out', 'Marina Del Rey', 'Right Or Wrong' & 'Let's Fall To Pieces Together' are some of the more catchy, well sung tunes which you can't help but sing along to. On this collection, you get the songs that made him a star in the first place, beginning with 'Unwound', a top ten country hit. This was followed by 'Down And Out' which was only a top twenty hit. After that, his career really took off. He proved his ability to sing songs in a variety of moods and tempos, ranging from tender ballads to swinging up-tempo songs, all delivered in his particular style - a blend of traditional country and western swing, suitably updated from the eighties. Universal.
Very Best of George Strait, 1981 - 1987 Reviews:
Really is the very best of George Strait 
2009-03-08 - This cd is for George Strait fans. There is not a bad song on this cd.
Well worth the money, I am glad that I ordered it. I never had any cd's from George Strait before and now I have all his early hits.
It's 'Greatest Hits' and 'Greatest Hits Vol. 2' combined!
2008-04-27 - I have always wondered why 'Greatest Hits' and 'Greatest Hits Vol. 2' had never been put together on one CD. And obviously the record company (MCA) wondered that to. In the United Kingdom, substituting the 'Greatest Hits' records, Universal released 'The Very Best of George Strait 1981-1987.'
I love this CD! It's got all of George's classics from the 1980s on one CD. 'Ocean Front Property,' 'Right Or Wrong,' 'You Look So Good In Love,' 'All My Ex's Live In Texas,' and 'The Chair' are all on this set for your listening pleasure.
And, Universal gets some extra points for remastering this set. The sound quality is just great!
Overall, if you like George Strait and you haven't bought (but are considering) buying 'Greatest Hits' and 'Greatest Hits Vol. 2,' don't. Buy this set instead.
Highly recommended for any George Strait fan. A must-have. ENJOY!!!
DON'T BUY THIS CD 
2005-01-03 - I happen to be a huge George Fan, and I would NEVER buy this CD. This is George and Universal Music acting like "The Who", and releasing YET ANOTHER greatest hits package (I think they are up to a DOZEN) You could actually SAVE money, by buying the boxed set, and 50 Strait Hits (So you can get music within the past 10 years), instead of this CD and the Very Best Of Strait (1998-1993).
Between this CD, 1998-1993, "50 Strait Hits", and "The Platinum Collection", GS has released FOUR greatest hits packages in LESS then a year, enough is enough. I am a GS completist, who has bought EVERY GS non-greatest hits package (I have the boxed set "50 Strait Hits", and "Latest Greatest Straitest Hits" (For "The Best Day and "Murder On Music Row")), so I know this man's music. I also know when they want to rip fans off, and that is what they are trying to do. DON"T let them get away with it, and do not buy anymore "New" GS CDs until we get some BRAND NEW MUSIC.
George's first 20 hits
2003-02-18 - You could say that this compilation is unimaginative - it simply contains the first twenty hits of George's long and distinguished career, in date order. Yet that is exactly what makes this collection so good. George was one of the most important new stars of country music in the eighties, and he sustained a successful career throughout the nineties and beyond.
On this collection, you get the songs that made him a star in the first place, beginning with Unwound, a top ten country hit. This was followed by Down and out which was only a top twenty hit. After that, his career really took off. He proved his ability to sing songs in a variety of moods and tempos, ranging from tender ballads to swinging up-tempo songs, all delivered in his particular style - a blend of traditional country with western swing, suitably updated from the eighties.
Among the classics included here, you will find Does Fort Worth ever cross your mind,, All my ex's live in Texas, Right or wrong and Let's fall to pieces together. In case you're thinking that this CD stops too soon, don't worry - there is a second volume covering the period to 1993. Buy and enjoy them both.
