Beautiful People: The Greatest Hits of Melanie

Melanie
Label: Buddha
Number of Discs: 1
Format: Audio CD
Release date:13th July 1999

Original recording remastered ^{Audio CD}	$4.42

Original recording remastered ^{Audio CD}

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Track Listing

1. Summer of Love II
2. Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)
3. Ring the Living Bell
4. What Have They Done to My Song, Ma
5. Brand New Key
6. Love to Lose Again
7. Lover's Cross
8. Ruby Tuesday
9. The Nickel Song
10. Bobo's Party
11. The Good Book
12. Christopher Robin
13. Animal Crackers
14. Psychotherapy [Live]
15. Beautiful People
16. Together Alone
17. Leftover Wine
18. Peace Will Come (According to Plan)
19. I Will Get Over

Amazon.com

Melanie was the Jewel of the Woodstock Generation. Like her three-decades-down-the-road heir, the woman born Melanie Safka made a quick splash as a radio-friendly singer-songwriter. Something of a male Donovan (what is this, no-surname syndrome?), Melanie took hits (like Jewel, too) for delivering what critics considered hippie-dippy platitudes. (She came to resent her "bliss ninny" image and rebelled against it following her late-'60s, early-'70s heyday.) But, also like Donovan, Melanie's best songs have aged nicely, thanks in large part to her knack for integrating her distinctive rasp into ingratiating hooks and solid folk-rock arrangements. Alternating between melismatic sing-alongs ("Lay Down," here in unedited seven-minute-plus form, her splendid cover of "Ruby Tuesday," "What Have They Done to My Song, Ma?") and precious novelty numbers ("The Nickel Song," "Brand New Key," "Animal Crackers"), Melanie wrote her own little bit of pop history, which is celebrated in this worthy 19-song retrospective. All the hits are here, remastered by art-rock avatar Robert Fripp. --Steven Stolder

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