All the Best (EMI compilation album series)

Released2012

Length2CD

All The Best series

Compilation album by Various EMI artists
Released	2012
Length	2CD
Label	EMI Music Germany

All the Best is a 2012 compilation album series of 2CD albums by EMI Records Germany featuring EMI and Virgin artists. Many of the artists had already been covered in a 1CD EMI compilation series as Essential in 2011. Others, particularly for the German artists, were new compilations, and listed on artist websites.^[1]

The compilations' choice of music reflected what had been popular in Germany, causing Allmusic's reviewer to criticize the All the Best - UB40 issue in the series with the conclusion "All the Best really means All the Non-Political Best".^[2]

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↑ "Boy George official website - All the Best - Boy George review". Archived from the original on 2014-06-25. Retrieved 2014-06-25.
↑ All the Best - UB40 All music review by David Jeffries "their early calling card hit "One in Ten" is left off, along with some other songs with sobering commentary, suggesting that All the Best really means All the Non-Political Best. Even if this collection is a great asset to any pool party where it's played, this isn't the whole UB40 picture."
↑ All Music compilation review David Jeffries " There are plenty of Stranglers compilations to choose from, but All the Best places in the upper half and maybe even the upper ten percent, although it still has its drawbacks....odd choices like "N'Emmenes Pas Harry" (the French version of "Don't Tell Harry") and "You Hold the Key to My Love in Your Hands" (an early demo) come right from the world of rarities and make the set's title entirely arguable. Still, this beats any of those "best-ofs" that replace the original recordings with live performances from the later band, but missing big numbers like "Skin Deep" and "Always the Sun" also came from these years when Hugh Cornwell was frontman, so All the Best is up for debate. Get it at the right price and you're in for a jackbooted, melodic, and wry time, or think of it as "Plenty of the Best, and Some Really Interesting Stuff Too."
↑ All music review All the Best Crowded House (EMI Germany) Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine "The first-ever double-disc retrospective of Crowded House's entire career (minus anything from the second comeback album, Intriguer), ... As the title promises, the hits are all here .. -- and if the sequencing is sometimes a little off, it's nevertheless a terrific, thorough summation of the many things that make Crowded House great."
↑ All the Best The Dubliners (EMI Germany) "This German import anthology from the James Joyce-inspired, venerable Irish folk band The Dubliners features 40 of the group's most notable songs. Culled from four of the band's late-'60s EMI offerings ... all of which were remastered in 2012"
↑ Allmusic compilation review All the Best Eddie Cochrane (EMI Germany) "Purists should keep in mind that many of these are the 1999 remastered versions of the recordings and are labeled as such on the album. That said, this is one of the best two-disc anthologies for one of the most influential rock & roll musicians of all time."

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