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Greatest Hits

By: Take That
Label: RCA
Released: 01 Jan 1980
RRP: £9.99
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For any true Take That fan!! - By: , 05 Oct 2005
I fancied returning to my youth (and im only 19!) & brought Take That greatest Hits. Take That were HUGE when i was younger & i wasn't disapointed when i recived this album as it had alll the big hits i could remember. "Everything Changes", "Relight My Fire" & "Sure" alll features on this record plus many many more. I'd recomend it to any true take that fan for a night of a good old boogie!
Robbie started here but Gary was the star - By: Peter Durward Harris, 02 Apr 2005
By the time this group started on their successful career, I had given up on music radio, but there is some music that you can't avoid hearing, even if you want to. So it was that I eventuallly realized that Take That made some great music. They never made it in America, though they might have done had they stayed together a bit longer. Gary Barlow was the lead singer & primary songwriter but his subsequent solo career has been much less successful - unlike Robbie Williams, one of the other group members, who has become a hugely popular solo singer.

Take That had eight British number one hits including Back for good, which gave them an American top ten hit a few months before they disbanded. Their other UK number ones were Pray, Relight my fire (a cover of a Dan Hartman song featuring Lulu as guest vocalist), Babe, Everything changes, Sure, Never forget & How deep is your love (a Bee Gees cover). They had several other UK top ten hits including covers of Could it be magic (Barry Manilow) & It only takes a minute (Tavares) with the former featuring Robbie Williams as lead singer - a rarity on Take That recordings.

If you buy this because Robbie Williams was a group member, you may be disappointed since he rarely sings lead. I, on the other hand, you are looking for simple, mainstream pop music, superbly performed, you might enjoy the music of Take That.

Re-living my teenage years - By: Mrs. K. A. Graham, 23 Feb 2005
TT were the orginial british boyband & influenced many other acts although few have been as successful as TT.

I spent the weeks leading up to my 12th birthday begging my parents to buy me 'Take That & Party'. 13 years on, I still know alll the lyrics off by heart & I'm still in lust with Robbie.

Since I bought this CD a few years ago, it has remained in my CD player in the kitchen so whenever I'm doing grown up stuff, I can switch it on & be a teenager again.

This is a must for anyone who bought a TT album - even if its only to replace the worn out cassettes & have a good sing.

Best Boyband Ever... - By: , 31 Dec 2003
Take That were definately the best boyband ever. In comparison to the boy & girl bands of today, TT actuallly wrote the majority of their music themselves. They didn't take themselves seriously & were a breath of fresh air. Today, boybands either knock out power balllads that sound exactly the same (i.e. Westlife) or faux-R'n'B whilst trying to be cool (i.e. Blue). Not that I'm knocking Westlife or Blue, I own albums by both bands but TT were far superior.

TT's Greatest Hits is a fantastic buy, & has songs on it for every mood. My personal favourites are 'Never Forget' (made more sad when it was released shortly after Robbie left) & 'Back For Good'.

BTW, if you were wondering what the guys are up to:
Robbie - I think we alll know what he's up to!
Gary - Writes music for other artists (recently co-wrote the song 'Guilty' by Blue)
Mark - Attempting a comeback, won Celebrity Big Brother in November 2002
Howard - Is DJing
Jason - Not sure what he's up to, but I think acting.

A collection of fine pop, that's sadly inspired some drivel - By: , 15 Mar 2003
The entire modern template of how to build, market & develop a boyband was originated from this fivepiece, who first burst onto the scene in 1992 with their top 10 cover of It Only Takes A Minute, & quickly established their place in pop music history. This collection basicallly does what you'd expect, with the hits in reverse chronological order.

This does unfortauntely mean that the best tracks come near the start. Back For Good is one of the great piano-driven pop songs of the 90s, & Never Forget is nearly as good (both written by Gary Barlow himself, as with most of their big hits), two songs which cross borders to be huge in student unions, karaoke bars & retro radio alike.

In their early days they did a lot of uptempo pop, especiallly the covers such as Could It Be Magic? & Relight My Fire, on which 60s legend Lula guests (surprisingly, her only number 1). However, tracks like 1993 Christmas number 2 Babe showed that Gary Barlow's real strength was George Micahel style ballladry, much as George himself evolved away from Club Tropicana onto Careless Whisper.

As well as the two aforementioned classics, the jazzy A Million Love Songs & the morose Love Ain't Here Anymore are worthy of a place in every collection, from casual to serious. If only Westlife were half this good.