Tavares - Anthology (2004)

Very few groups need to be anthologized less than Tavares. That's not to say that they don't deserve to be anthologized at all; that's to say that they've been anthologized far too much, often in the form of poorly packaged budget-bin jobs. By the time this two-disc package was released through Capitol's The Right Stuff, the number of Tavares compilations was on track to double the group's number of studio albums by 2010. Despite this, Anthology finally gets it right and wipes the floor with everything that came before it. It's thorough enough to show that the group was deeper than those big hits, and it doesn't pad out the process with too much album-cut filler. You know you're in good hands when David Nathan writes the liner notes and has a hand in the set's production. This is no exception to that rule.

Tracklist:

CD 1

01. Check It Out
02. The Judgement Day
03. That's the Sound that Lonely Makes
04. Strangers in Dark Corners
05. Too Late
06. She's Gone
07. Remember What I Told You To Forget
08. Hard Core Poetry
09. It Only Takes A Minute
10. Free Ride
11. The Love I Never Had
12. In The City
13. Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel
14. Don't Take Away The Music
15. To The Other Man

CD 2

01. Whodunit
02. Pleasant Dreams (Goodnight My Love)
03. Fool Of The Year
04. More Than A Woman
05. The Ghost Of Love
06. Timber
07. Never Had A Love Like This Before
08. Straight From The Heart
09. Madam Butterfly
10. Bad Times (Theme From Defiance)
11. I Can't Go On Living Without You
12. Why Can't We Fall In Love
13. Love Uprising
14. Loneliness
15. Turn Out The Nightlight
16. Loveline