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50 Number Ones
George Strait
50 Number Ones
Genres: Country, Pop
 
  •  Track Listings (26) - Disc #1
  •  Track Listings (25) - Disc #2

No Description Available. Genre: Country & Western Media Format: Compact Disk Rating: Release Date: 5-OCT-2004

     
   

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All Artists: George Strait
Title: 50 Number Ones
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 8
Label: Mca Nashville
Release Date: 10/5/2004
Genres: Country, Pop
Styles: Western Swing, Today's Country, Neotraditional
Number of Discs: 2
SwapaCD Credits: 2
UPCs: 008817039022, 0008817039022

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Genre: Country & Western
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 5-OCT-2004

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If you like George Strait this has to be for you, all the best!

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+ 1/2 stars...Buyer Beware!!!
Steve Vrana | Aurora, NE | 11/29/2004
(3 out of 5 stars)

"This two-disc collection of 50 No. 1 hits from the past twenty-two years sounded too good to be true. Turns out, it is. In order to squeeze 50 tracks onto two CDs, it was necessary to edit most of the songs on this collection. While I don't have a problem with fading out a song a few seconds early, many of these songs have been seriously edited. No fewer than eight songs have been shortened by at least twenty seconds and another six have been shortened by thirty seconds or more. The worst offender is the truncated version of "Carrying Your Love With Me," which was shortened by forty-three seconds.



To the casual fan this may be no big deal, but any serious George Strait fan will notice the difference. It would have made more sense to simply add a third disc, as well as a few other top 10 songs. This may seem to fly in the face of the title, but they already included two tracks ("True" and "Run") which only reached no. 2.



For nearly a quarter of a century Gearge Strait has been one of the best of country music's traditionalists, and he certainly needed an updated greatest hits package. However, fans deserved better than this doctored version. As for me, I'm going to stick with 1995's STRAIT OUT OF THE BOX."
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Ryan | 11/06/2004
(2 out of 5 stars)

"I am heartened to find that there are purists out there who share the same complaint I have about this CD. Cramming 51 number ones into a package is impressive...until you realize that they chopped down many of the songs (particularly the older ones) to make it all fit. They give us premature fade-outs and deleted lyrics in an attempt to market another Greatest Hits CD. It is inexcusable and not worthy of the purchase. Still, if you do happen to own this compilation, you can journey back to George's early days and experience the evolution of country music from the early '80's to today. The debate will forever rage on about the state of country music then and now and which time period was preferable, but this album can highlight those differences by charting the career of a constant bright star in country music who is now in his third decade of music-making. Outside of these historical musings, skip this album. There are several Strait Greatest Hits packages that you can buy very cheaply that encompass almost all of the songs on this album. The other albums also include many other worthy offerings that don't appear on this one like the classic, "Amarillo by Morning," "Unwound," "The Fireman," "The Cowboy Rides Away," and "Marina Del Ray." If older country isn't to your taste, just wait a few years until RCA puts out yet another compilation. Either way, give this album a pass."