Joe Cocker:The Definitive Collection

   

Another Cocker tour, another Cocker compilation, huh? This 18-track collection boasts being "definitive" so you get some of the early hits (She Came in Through the Bathroom Window, a live version of The Letter from '70, Delta Lady, Darling Be Home Soon, Hitchcock Railway), a few from the middle period (notably the zen-simplicity of You Are So Beautiful) and then those career-reviving efforts like You Can Leave Your Hat On, Have A Little Faith in Me, Up Where We Belong with Jennifer Warnes, and Many Rivers to Cross.


Unchain My Heart appears as its 90s remake, there's his bloodless reggae treatment of Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood, and the truly horrible and over-produced Night Calls. Most of these were "hits" (familiar if not chart-threatening) but any Cocker collection without The Moon's A Harsh Mistress, I Can Stand A Little Rain and Cry Me a River falls a little short of being "definitive". Still, this is what the local compilers thought was a good overview timed for the tour.

1.    Unchain My Heart (90's Version)

2.    You Can Leave Your Hat On


3     She Came In Through The Bathroom Window

4     Delta Lady

5     Summer In The City

6     Hitchcock Railway

7     The Letter

8     Have A Little Faith In Me

9 Darling Be Home Soon

10 With A Little Help From My Friends

11 Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood

12 Many Rivers To Cross

13 Up Where We Belong

14 Night Calls

15 Feelin' Alright

16 Could You Be Loved

17 When The Night Comes

18 You Are So Beautiful