Ultimate Collection (Eurythmics album)

Infobox Album | Name = Ultimate Collection
Type = Compilation album
Artist = Eurythmics


Released = November 8 2005
Recorded = 1981-2005
Genre = New Wave, Synth Pop
Length = 79:50
Label = Arista
Producer = David A. Stewart
Reviews =
* [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:egde4jn78waq~T1 Allmusic.com] Rating|4.5|5| Last album = "Peace"
(1999)
This album = "Ultimate Collection"
(2005)
Next album = "Boxed"
(2005)

"Ultimate Collection" is the second greatest hits compilation album released by Eurythmics. It was issued by Arista Records in November 2005. This set preceded (by one week) the re-issuing of all eight Eurythmics back-catalogue albums originally released on the RCA/BMG label. These re-issues include remastered tracks and bonus material. The fact that the "Ultimate Collection" was closely connected to these re-issues is also the chief reason for the omission of "Sexcrime (Nineteen Eighty-Four)." While that song gave Eurythmics a #4 hit in the UK in 1984 and was later featured on the previous Greatest Hits album released in 1991, it is actually taken from the 1984 Virgin Records soundtrack album 1984 (For the Love of Big Brother), Eurythmics' only album to date not to be released through RCA/BMG.

Unlike 1991's "Greatest Hits", "Ultimate Collection" contains two newly-recorded songs and all of the tracks have been remastered.

One of the new songs recorded for this collection, "I've Got a Life," was released as a single. It entered the UK singles chart at number fourteen and spent three weeks at number one on the Hot Dance Club Play chart in the United States.

"Ultimate Collection" peaked at no.5 on the UK album charts and was later certified Platinum by the BPI. It peaked at no.116 on the US Billboard 200.

Track listing

All songs written by Annie Lennox and David A. Stewart.
# "I've Got a Life"
# "Love Is a Stranger"
# "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)"
# "Who's That Girl?"
# "Right By Your Side"
# "Here Comes the Rain Again"
# "Would I Lie to You?"
# "There Must Be an Angel (Playing with My Heart)"
# "Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves" (with Aretha Franklin)
# "It's Alright (Baby's Coming Back)"
# "When Tomorrow Comes"
# "Thorn in My Side"
# "The Miracle of Love"
# "Missionary Man"
# "You Have Placed a Chill in My Heart"
# "I Need a Man"
# "I Saved the World Today"
# "17 Again"
# "Was It Just Another Love Affair?"

Chart performance

External links

* [http://www.eurythmics.me.uk/ Ultimate Eurythmics - Discography, Gigography, Lyrics and more]