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This album was released for two reasons; 1, to ride on the success of “When You’re Gone” and “Cloud Number Nine”, BA’s biggest singles in the UK for years, and 2, it was the end of the millennium and everyone was releasing a greatest hits. If you’ve read my So Far So Good review, you’ll know I believe a “best of” should be a true representation of who the artist is. Bryan Adams is a rock star. If you listen to his albums or go to his concerts you’ll know he is a rock star. You can call it pop rock, soft rock, mainstream rock, or whatever, but it is still rock. This is why I can’t stand this collection. Individually, I don’t have a problem with any of the songs, but as a collection it creates such a poppy image of BA. Only 4 out of the 16 tracks are real rock songs (“Can’t Stop”, “69”, “Run To You”, “The Only Thing”). The live version of “Back To You” is certainly a rock song, but the unplugged version I would classify as pop. The same for “The Best Of Me”, “When You’re Gone” and “Cloud Number Nine”. “Don’t Give Up” is more trance than pop, but it certainly ain’t rock. The rest are ballads! SEVEN ballads!! “Inside Out” just shouldn’t be on here. I know they half thought about releasing it as single, put together a naff video, and then gave up. But anyone who actually listens to the track knows it works perfectly on On A Day Like Today, but it is NOT a single. “The Best Of Me” is an excellent song, and could have done really well if BA actually bothered to promote it. Instead they just put the single out, after the album was released, did no promotion at all and then wondered why it didn’t make the top 40 in the UK. This album is like a stain on BA’s discography, it just shouldn’t be there. A collection simply put together to make the record company some money. I won’t give it 1 star, because like I said, individually all the songs are great. Plus the 5 song limited edition bonus disc, Live From South Africa, was awesome.
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