The Ultimate Collection (Solution album)

Infobox Album
Name = The Ultimate Collection
Type = compilation
Artist = Solution


Released = 2005
Recorded = 1971-1983
Genre = Progressive rock,
symphonic rock
Length =
Label = Hunter Music
Producer =
Reviews =
Last album = "Solution Live" (1983)
This album = "The Ultimate Collection" (2005)
Next album = "Collections" (2006)

"The Ultimate Collection" is a three-CD compilation of music by the Dutch symphonic rock band Solution. The first in-depth retrospective of the group, it was released by Universal and Hunter Entertainment in 2005. The sound is digitally remastered.

Contents

The first two discs feature studio recordings and the third comprises the entirety of their 1983 album "Solution Live". Every song from their debut album "Solution" is included on the first CD, and five of the six from the follow-up "Divergence". The track "Fever" was omitted from previous CD editions of "Solution/Divergence" and makes its first digital appearance at the end of the live disc.

"The Ultimate Collection" features one version of every song Solution released, meaning that the studio recordings of tracks performed on "Solution Live" are not included. The rest of the set takes in three tracks from third album "Cordon Bleu", and four each from "Fully Interlocking", "...It's Only Just Begun..." and "Runaway".

The 1975 song "Third Line" is split into two parts to end the first disc and begin the second. On "Cordon Bleu" they segue into each other and are virtually indistinguishable.

Packaging

The three discs are housed in a fold-out Digipak case with a biographical booklet. The photograph of the band on the front cover itself is from the vinyl edition of the "Divergence" LP.

Tracklisting

CD 1

#"Koan"
#"Preview"
#"Phases"
#"Trane Steps"
#"Circus Circumstances"
#*The album "Solution".
#"Second Line"
#"Concentration"
#"Theme"
#"New Dimension"
#*From "Divergence".
#"Whirligig"
#"Third Line (Part 1)"
#*From "Cordon Bleu".

CD 2

#"Third Line (Part 2)"
#*From "Cordon Bleu".
#"Carousel"
#"Sonic Sea"
#"Free Inside"
#"French Melodie"
#*From "Fully Interlocking".
#"On My Own"
#"Mirror"
#"Logic"
#"It Happened In September"
#*From "...It's Only Just Begun..."
#"Shame On You"
#"Evil Love"
#"Who's to Blame"
#"Lovin' You Was Easy"
#*From "Runaway".

CD 3

#"Move On"
#"Downhearted"
#"Black Pearl"
#"Song for You"
#"Give Some More"
#"Last Detail"
#"It's Only Just Begun"
#"Divergence"
#"Bad Breaks"
#"Captain Willie"
#"Runaway"
#"100 Words"
#"Chapaqua" "(sic)"
#"Empty Faces"
#*The album "Solution Live".
#"Fever"
#*From "Divergence".