Singles (Alison Moyet album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Essex
Type = Greatest Hits
Artist = Alison Moyet


Released = 27 June, 1995
Recorded = 1982-1995
Genre = Pop
Length = 74:46 (Germany: 73:06)
Label = Columbia Records/Sony Music Entertainment
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://wc10.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:jpfwxq9hld0e link]
Last album = Essex
(1994)
This album = Singles (1995)
Next album = The Essential Alison Moyet (2001)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Alternate cover
Type = studio


Lower caption = Re-release, two-disc set

"Singles" is the title of the greatest hits album of singer Alison Moyet, released in 1995. The album includes two previously unreleased tracks, Moyet's version of "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" and "Solid Wood", as well as a number of hits from the singer's stint in 80s electro-pop band Yazoo.

The album was re-released by Sony the following year as a two-disc set, "Singles/Live", the second disc being a live recording of Alison on tour, again in 2000 as a one-disc set under the title "Best of The Best - Gold" and a third time in 2001 as "The Essential Alison Moyet" with a slightly revised tracklisting.

Track listing

#"The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" (Maccoll) - 3:19
#* Previously unreleased
#"Only You" (Clarke) - 3:12
#* Performed by Yazoo, from 1982 album "Upstairs at Eric's"
#"Nobody's Diary" (Moyet) - 4:31
#* Performed by Yazoo, from 1983 album "You and Me Both"
#"Winter Kills" (Clarke, Moyet) - 4:04
#* Performed by Yazoo, from 1982 album "Upstairs at Eric's". NB: German edition: "Situation" - 2:24, performed by Yazoo
#"Love Resurrection" (Jolley, Moyet, Swain) - 3:52
#* From 1984 album "Alf"
#"All Cried Out" (7" Edit) (Jolley, Moyet, Swain) - 3:42
#* From 1984 album "Alf"
#"Invisible" (Lamont Dozier) - 4:08
#* From 1984 album "Alf"
#"That Ole Devil Called Love" (Fisher, Roberts) - 3:05
#* 1985 non-album single
#"Is This Love" (Guiot, Moyet) - 4:01
#* From 1987 album "Raindancing"
#"Weak in the Presence of Beauty" (Michael Ward, Robert E. Clarke ) - 3:33
#* From 1987 album "Raindancing"
#"Ordinary Girl" (7" Edit) (Bailey, Driscoll, Moyet) - 3:08
#* From 1987 album "Raindancing"
#"Love Letters" (Heyman, Young) - 2:51
#* 1987 non-album single
#"It Won't Be Long" (Glenister, Moyet) - 4:09
#* From 1991 album "Hoodoo"
#"Wishing You Were Here" (Glenister, Moyet) - 3:58
#* From 1991 album "Hoodoo"
#"This House" (Moyet) - 3:55
#* From 1991 album "Hoodoo"
#"Falling" (Glenister, Moyet) - 3:39
#* From 1994 album "Essex"
#"Whispering Your Name" (Single Mix) (Shear) - 3:49
#* From 1994 album "Essex"
#"Getting Into Something" (Glenister, Moyet) - 4:15
#* From 1994 album "Essex"
#"Ode to Boy II" (Moyet) - 2:57
#* From 1994 album "Essex"
#"Solid Wood" (Moyet) - 4:38
#* Previously unreleased

Production

* Pete Glenister - producer (tracks: 1, 13, 14, 19)
* Mark Saunders - producer (track: 1)
* Eric Radcliffe - producer (tracks 2-4)
* Yazoo - producers (tracks 2-4)
* Steve Jolley - producer (tracks: 5-7)
* Tony Swain - producer (tracks: 5-7)
* Pete Wingfield - producer (track: 8)
* Jimmy Iovine - producer (tracks: 9-11)
* Manu Guiot - producer (track: 9)
* Steve Brown - producer (track: 12)
* Dave Dix - producer (track: 15)
* Ian Broudie - producer (tracks: 16-18)

Tracklisting "Live" (1996)

#"Getting into Something" (Glenister, Moyet) - 5:16
#"Chain of Fools" (Covay) - 5:05
#"Love Letters" (Heyman, Young) - 4:43
#"All Cried Out" (Jolley, Moyet, Swain) - 4:08
#"Dorothy" (Glenister, Moyet)- 3:24
#"Falling" (Glenister, Moyet) - 3:44
#"Ode to Boy" (Moyet) - 3:07
#"Is This Love?" (Guiot, Moyet) - 3:59
#"Nobody's Diary" (Moyet) - 4:30
#"Whispering Your Name" (Shear) - 3:53
#"There Are Worse Things I Could Do" (Casey, Jacobs) - 3:05
* Recorded at the Royal Albert Hall, London and The Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow.

Non-album tracks, "Singles" era

* "Blue" 2:53
* "First Time (Are You Sure It's Your...)" (Remix of "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face") - 4:11
* "Our Colander Eyes" - 4:21 (withdrawn 1996 single)

References

* [http://www.alisonmoyet.com/ Alison Moyet's official website]
* http://www.alisonmoyetforums.net

succession box
before = "Stanley Road" by Paul Weller
title = UK number one album
years = June 3 1995 – June 9 1995
after = "P-U-L-S-E" by Pink Floyd