The title is a bit of a misnomer: The Supremes are anthologized in more comprehensive fashion on Motown's three-volume Greatest Hits series, while this package is denser, and has a higher hit-per-track ratio. But if you'd rather pick up one collection than three, and if you want a good, thorough skimming of cream from the group's catalog, this is the better choice. All of the familiar songs are here, with no major omissions--and they're packed in with a liberal helping of second-magnitude hits. For a collection that samples only the extreme top end of the Supremes' output, there's Every Great No. 1 Hit, also on Motown. It's missing a lot, but it delivers exactly what it promises. --Gavin McNett Amazon.com
This album includes all of the Supremes biggest and best hits and then some. Everything from When The Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes to the final Someday Well Be Together. This is an album where I can listen straight through without any stops. The only thing that I was disappointed in is the sound quality of the songs. With all the digital master machines they have today, I would hope they would be able to have better sound quality than this. The vinyl copy of my Supremes albums sound better than this. But as for the songs, they are fantastic. Baby Love,Where Did Our Love Go?,Come See About Me,The Happening,etc...they all are here. I recommend this album to you. Enjoy!!
April 17, 2008With the exception of maybe a few "little known" songs, this is all you need to satisfy a craving of The Supremes' music. All of the hits are included in their original recordings. My personal favorites are "Stop! In the Name of Love" and "Someday We'll Be Together." One of the great Girl Groups of the 1960s and 70s, and for that, we salute Diana, Flo, and Mary!
January 16, 2008 |  | Superlative Content Awful Remastering |  |
This "Ultimate Collection" is essentially only about the songs and not about the sound. The remastering is absolutely appalling. While there is an adequate job with bass and midrange presentation, the top end is so bright that at moderate listening levels it is almost unbearable. None of the old Motown LPs sounded this bad and they were nowhere near audiophile quality. If you have an inexpensive audio set up, you can probably withstand the high end onslaught. But if your system is capable of accurate sound presentation, skip this one.
November 20, 2007A very poor version of upgrade. I did'nt like the sound quality at all. I was searching for the original sound
September 30, 2007I am writing this review on the assumption that you are familiar with the musical offerings of this legendary girl group inducted into the R&R Hall of Fame in 1988, and whose hits and top performances are well covered in any of the other 5-star reviews here.
My purpose in submitting this is to inform you that it is but one of a wonderful series from Motown. A search in Album Title under the heading Ultimate Collection will garner you close to 500 hits, ranging from Benny Hill and George Formby to 10cc and The Who, and just about everyone in between.
Even Motown uses Ultimate Collection on a number of their CDs, but the best of the lot where they are concerned is this series, each with 25 tracks and similar cover art by David Irvin, and involving Diana Ross & The Supremes, The Temptations, The Four Tops, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, The Marvelettes, Martha (Reeves) & The Vandellas, Jr. Walker & The All Stars, Gladys Knight & The Pips, and Mary Wells.
The order in which I list them above reflects those with the most reviews submitted to date to the least, and from that alone it would seem that Diana Ross & The Supremes were at the head of the Motown class in terms of public appeal. That might have been challenged had there been a release for each of Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder in this series but, alas, they were not included (or at least I haven't come across them). There is a Marvin Gaye Ultimate Collection available, but that is an import from the Dutch offices of Universal, and although there is also one from Motown for The Jackson Five, it does not appear to be part of this series.
Forget the carping elsewhere about the sound quality. It is just fine, thank you, and as bonuses you get a complete discography of the contents, numerous photographs, and detailed liner notes, in this instance three pages by journalist Diane Marie Weathers.
One of the best such series available and may it never go out of circulation.
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