Sylvia - RCA Country Legend [2002/224kbps]

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Sylvia - RCA Country Legends

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Artist...............: Sylvia

Album................: RCA Country Legends

Genre................: Country

Year.................: 2002

Codec................: FhG

Version..............: MPEG 1 Layer III

Quality..............: Extreme, (avg. bitrate: 224kbps)

Channels.............: Stereo / 44100 hz

Tags.................: ID3 v1.1, ID3 v2.3

Posted by............: bitsarah.com on 3/15/2008

Included.............: NFO, SFV, M3U





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Tracklisting

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1. (00:03:13) Sylvia - Tumbleweed

2. (00:03:19) Sylvia - Nobody

3. (00:02:58) Sylvia - Cry Baby Cry

4. (00:02:54) Sylvia - No News Is Good News

5. (00:02:37) Sylvia - Anytime, Anyplace

6. (00:02:27) Sylvia - Drifter

7. (00:02:54) Sylvia - Tonight I'm Getting Friendly With the Blues

8. (00:03:19) Sylvia - So Complete

9. (00:03:07) Sylvia - True Blue

10. (00:03:54) Sylvia - Eyes Like Mine

11. (00:03:46) Sylvia - Come to Me

12. (00:03:25) Sylvia - Makes You Wanna Slow Down

13. (00:03:36) Sylvia - I Never Quite Got Back (From Loving You)

14. (00:03:36) Sylvia - Bobby's in Vicksburg

15. (00:03:00) Sylvia - Cry Just a Little Bit

16. (00:03:31) Sylvia - The Boy Gets Around



Playing Time.........: 00:51:35

Total Size...........: 82.70 MB



NFO generated on.....: 3/15/2008 2:07:31 PM





Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine



It's easy to see why hardcore country listeners expressed nothing but



disdain for Sylvia during her hitmaking peak in the early '80s. At a time



when country music already trending toward light, sweet pop music, Sylvia's



records were the aural equivalent of cotton candy, so light they nearly



floated in the air. Add her good looks to the equation, and she seemed like



a model marketed as country to the legions of country purists. And they did



have a point, since Sylvia's music was only marginally country. There was a



bit of twang here and there, some traditionally country themes and song



structures, but it was sugar-coated and polished to a gloss, fitting in



better aurally with the soft rock of the time instead of even the



country-pop. All this is evident on her 16-track installment of BMG



Heritage's RCA Country Legends series. What makes this series interesting



is that it doesn't use the Billboard charts as the sole guideline for



compilation; instead, it takes the biggest hits and expands them with album



cuts, B-sides, and rarities intended to draw a clearer picture of the



artist's depth as a country artist. Usually, this has produced some very



interesting, revealing collections, but it's an approach that's kind of odd



for Sylvia, since her entire career only makes sense in terms of the



charts, and this comes up short on hits. Of the 16 tracks, only six were



hits, leaving 12 charting hits behind, including big ones like "Fallin' In



Love," "Snapshot," "Sweet Yesterday," and "Like Nothing Ever Happened." For



a chart-oriented artist, that's a lot of missing material, but RCA Country



Legends still works -- and, in fact, functions as a nice counterpoint to



Renaissance's comprehensive 1997 hits package Anthology -- because it's



sequenced well, contains the biggest and best hits, while digging up a few



choice cuts like "Cry Baby Cry," "No News Is Good News," "Tonight I'm



Gettin' Friendly With the Blues," and "Eyes Like Mine" that prove that



Sylvia did depth outside of the charts. That said, RCA Country Legends



won't change any minds about her musical attributes -- this is still very



soft country-pop, and even condensed to a collection, there are a few duff



moments here and there -- but for those that like Sylvia or early-'80s soft



rock, this is quite enjoyable and nearly as an effective an introduction to



her as the hit-laden Anthology