Sheena Easton - The World of Sheena Easton: The Singles Collection

Always Sheena in my heart

The name Sheena Easton takes me back to the 80's growing up in high school .Do you remember her singing on the show Solid Gold? I do , but it seems just yesterday I was watching. The World of Sheena Easton so far is one of my favorites of hers, it is based on the singles collection. I listened to most of these and fell in love with her voice and the lyrics.
My all time favorites are: Weve Got Tonight, I wouldnt beg for water, Almost over you and Sugar Walls.
That would be one amazing concert to go to . I would cry.
Thanks Sheena February 8, 2008

Amazing...

Well, I was very suprised when I found this cd. I got it at a new/used book and music store. The only songs of Ms.Easton's I had heard up until then was "Strut" and "Sugar Walls." I was very excited to hear more from this Scottish lass.
What amazed me was her talent to lay on the sweetness and then pump it up with power. Songs that really show her vocal talents are: "When He Shines" "We've Got Tonight" "Sugar Walls" "Jimmy Mack"
The one thing that confused me was in the cd insert. It mentions all these other hits of her's that SHOULD be on the cd. Why didn't they? It would have been a perfect all-round collection. But this just leaves me to explore her albums which I'd love to hear more from her incredible voice.

I am very dissapointed she didn't get the attention she deserved because people are missing out on a woman like her. I hope she decides to make a comeback album. Then all we can say is "Watch Out Kylie, Here Comes Sheena!" May 22, 2006

The Best Sheena Easton Compilation that's out there!

There's a lot to be said about getting things done right the first time. Even whole schools of thought resulting in terms such as ISOs and Six Sigma have evolved around that very same concept and here in this case, I'm glad someone actually adhered to it. What am I babbling about? Well, this is not a remastered cd but that's okay because the sound quality of the tracks is simply excellent! I've heard proudly proclaimed remastered discs that sound nowhere as good as this disc does. Thanks Kevin Reeves (credited with the mastering on the disc) for getting it right the first time.

Sheena Easton's singles have never sounded better and the track selections here are great. As these are just the singles, this means inevitably some very good album tracks are missing but still given that there are 19 tracks here and the great sound quality and selections, these more than make up for that.

"Sheena Easton" was one of the very first albums that I had ever heard and I remember all those years ago how much I enjoyed her debut album. A remastered version of that album will be next on my list of discs to get. In any case, if you are looking for the best compilation of Sheena Easton's hits, this is clearly it. Highly recommended! October 29, 2005

The best Sheena Easton Collection!

If you need a Greatest Hits from this princess of Pop Music, this one is the best, I own other greatest hits from hers, and I can totally said that this version is the best, because includes all the singles releases by this artist from the EMI Label. The best cuts are Strut and Sugar Walls. The worst cut is Machinery, it's sound too robotic. Great pictures of all single sleeves and albums, also Billboard positions. Way to go Sheena! Good Luck in Las Vegas! August 28, 2003

For Your Ears Only...Sheena's greatest

Scottish pop doll Sheena Easton was more a singles artist than an album artist, so it was only fair to collect the two or three singles into one album. This collection comprises singles from her first seven albums from her first label, EMI Records, from 1981 to 1987. Key: [on original studio album], {on remastered reissue album}

Ahh, "Morning Train", Sheena's debut single and only US #1! A sensation was born with the combined brass and 80's synthesizer, that sweet/perky/sultry vocal and the irresistible chorus--"My baby takes the morning train/He works from 9 to 5 and then/he takes another home again." At least the guy plays hard as well, so... "Modern Girl" takes it from the woman's perspective: "she manages a smile as he walks out the door/she's a modern girl who's been through this movie before." "She don't fill her world about no single man/but she's getting burnt doing what she can/she is free to be/what she wants to be/all she wants to be is a modern girl." Both these upbeat singles explore the soulless, compartmentalized corporate Wall Street/Madison Avenue world of the 1980's; the first single seems to celebrate it, the loneliness of it slips through. [Sheena Easton]

One of the loveliest, lushest James Bond songs and ballads, "For Your Eyes Only," deserved the #1 and not the #4 spot with Sheena's potent vocals. {You Could Have Been With Me}

Another ballad, the radio-friendly 80's soul of "You Could Have Been With Me" further demonstrates her ability to carry a good ballad. "When He Shines" is a ballad of a man with conflicting sides, "man/child" "mild/bold" "tramp/dude", "a song not easy to write." [You Could Have Been With Me]

Kazoo-like horns introduce the upbeat "Machinery" about a man who seems to flick a girl on like she is a piece of machinery. "I Wouldn't Beg For Water" is a classic 80's-style ballad, with Sheena's crystal clear voice accompanied by a piano. Kind of reminds me of Lionel Richie's "Say You Say Me" without the synthesizers. [Madness, Money and Music]

"We've Got Tonight", her duet with Kenny Rogers, is another classic 80's ballad sounding like Lionel Richie or 80's-Whitney Houston. Kenny's soft and rangy voice is complemented by Sheena's lush voice. Nice! {Best Kept Secret}

"Telefone" has a constant Nile Rodgers' bass disco synth backbeat, i.e. "Material Girl", except with richer sounds, then the chorus sounds like the theme to some 80's TV show. Another sweet but sad ballad, "Almost Over You" about a louse of a man from whom she's almost gotten over. "Devil In A Fast Car" has a dark synthesizer, like a restrained version of Van Halen's "I'll Wait" and rock guitar. [Best Kept Secret]

With "Strut" her best-charting album (#15), a white-funk sound was introduced. Think a white version of Prince's "Cream." As for the notorious Sheila E.-sounding "Sugar Walls", which is a euphemism for a woman's <>, this was written by Alexander Nevermind, an alias for someone who in 1995 changed his name to an unpronouncable symbol. Yes, that guy! Figures, right? "Swear" has a rock guitar and beat like Cyndi Lauper's "She Bop", except quicker. [A Private Heaven]

The next three Niles Rodgers-produced singles represents another shift in sound, especially "Do It For Love." The skippy stomping beat of "Jimmy Mack" is irresistible, but "Magic Of Love" is merely passable. [Do You]

"So Far So Good," from the About Last Night soundtrack, is a carbon-copy of Whitney Houston's "How Will I Know" down to the "wooo!" in the beginning.

The reason "Eternity" sounds like a C-side reject from Sign 'O' The Times is that Prince wrote it for her. [No Sound But A Heart].

What I really like about this is that it lists the albums and singles chronologically, lists their peak positions on Billboard, and the B-side singles. However, puzzling is how it lists material that is NOT on this compilation, i.e. her duets with Prince and singles from her MCA albums, The Lover In Me and What Comes Naturally. Great collection if you can get it. April 17, 2003

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