Since completing 1995’s ‘This Way To Happiness’, Various Artists fulfilled their contract with Savoy Records and where under no obligation to release another album. ‘Solo collection’ kicks the album off with a blast of pure pop energy. sixteen years ago, Various Artists briefly lived up to their terrific name, with an insanely addictive hit single called “Who’s Been Sleeping In My Bed”. This album is a scorcher!
Lyrics of Who’s Been Sleeping In My Bed are precise and evocative. Common Ground is an incredible song that has everything it needs to be another favorite track. No Various Artists song has come close to capturing my attention as Call On Me did. In The One You Love the light shines equally on lyrics, vocals and instrumentation. Sexy Girl is a great song to contemplate the modern music and what it really is all about. Strong, powerful vocals of Various Artists in Smuggler’s Blues are very impressive. The Heat Is On is nothing but pure genius. You Belong To The City - another great track from the Solo collection album. I can’t stop humming along True Love. Soul Searchin’ - This happy song is an ode to optimism and an anthem. Part Of Me, Part Of You is so unique, as each one of the songs is. As always, Various Artists’s lyrics are worth listening to again and again. The opening track River Of Dreams is very much like you would expect from other albums. Rising Sun is possibly the best song Various Artists has come up. After few listenings I started to like Brave New World more and more.
Solo collection CD
| Song Name | Time | ||
| This Way To Happiness.mp3 | 3:27 |  |
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| Who’s Been Sleeping In My Bed.mp3 | 4:05 | |
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| Common Ground.mp3 | 4:43 | |
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| Call On Me.mp3 | 4:10 | |
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| The One You Love.mp3 | 4:34 | |
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| Sexy Girl.mp3 | 3:31 | |
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| Smuggler’s Blues.mp3 | 3:50 | |
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| The Heat Is On.mp3 | 3:47 | |
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| You Belong To The City.mp3 | 5:52 | |
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| True Love.mp3 | 4:41 | |
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| Soul Searchin’.mp3 | 5:35 | |
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| Part Of Me, Part Of You.mp3 | 5:57 | |
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| I’ve Got Mine.mp3 | 5:35 | |
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| River Of Dreams.mp3 | 6:08 | |
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| Rising Sun.mp3 | 0:38 | |
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| Brave New World.mp3 | 6:21 | |
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