20th Century Masters-The Millennium Collection: The Best of Glenn Frey Glenn Frey Artist

The problem with assembling a {|Glenn Frey|} compilation -- and this discount-priced one is the second, following 1995's full-priced {|Solo Collection|} -- is that his debut solo album, {|No Fun Aloud|} (1982), was released on {|Asylum Records|}, mak... Read more

The problem with assembling a {|Glenn Frey|} compilation -- and this discount-priced one is the second, following 1995's full-priced {|Solo Collection|} -- is that his debut solo album, {|No Fun Aloud|} (1982), was released on {|Asylum Records|}, making it the property of {|Warner|}, while the rest of his solo recordings were released on {|MCA Records|}, the property of {|Universal|}, and the two major record labels have not shown an interest in pooling their resources. Thus, {|Frey|}'s first three Top 40 hits, {|I Found Somebody,|} {|The One You Love,|} and {|All Those Lies,|} are unavailable to {|MCA|} in their original form, though both {|Solo Collection|} and this album have used the live version of {|The One You Love|} from 1993's {|Glenn Frey Live|}. A compilation is particularly important for the collection of a {|Frey|} fan, because his two biggest hits, {|The Heat Is On|} and {|You Belong to the City,|} appeared on soundtracks, not his solo albums. Those two are here, of course, along with what turns out to be a slightly more comprehensive selection of his singles than {|Solo Collection|} contained. That 16-track album featured only nine of the 17 tracks {|Frey|} placed on one chart or another between 1982 and 1993; this one has ten, including the minor hit {|The Allnighter,|} which is not on {|Solo Collection|}. Given the more favorable price point, this album gets the edge as the {|Frey|} album for casual fans. ~ William Ruhlmann Less