''The Ultimate Collection'' is a 3-CD anthology of recordings by

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, released in 2006 by

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Background

Although usually listed as a box set, ''The Ultimate Collection'' is packaged in a double gatefold cardboard sleeve, and was released by the Dutch label CCM, a subsidiary of Universal Music Holland. CCM had previously issued similar 3-CD sets by artists like

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and others. ''The Ultimate Collection'' features songs newly

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ed in

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sound. The album includes tracks from Jones'

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period (1976–79), most noticeably the album version of her 1978 hit " Do or Die", which was then available on compact disc for the first time in more than a decade. ''The Ultimate Collection'' was not intended to be a singles collection, as several single releases are missing (most notably " On Your Knees", the primary single from the album ''

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''). ''The Ultimate Collection'' is more or less an expanded re-issue of Universal's ''

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'', released earlier that same year, with a few notable changes. Disc one omits "That's the Trouble" but adds the aforementioned album version of "Do or Die", "All on a Summers Night" as well as the original long versions of "

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", "

Love Is the Drug "Love Is the Drug" is a 1975 song from English rock band Roxy Music's fifth studio album ''Siren'', released as a single in September 1975. Co-written by Bryan Ferry and Andy Mackay, the song originated as a slower, dreamier track until the b ...

" and "

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". However, Universal did not correct the faulty edit of "Saved" that had also appeared on ''The Grace Jones Story'', which means that the two first minutes of the song were again left out. Disc two uses the album version of "

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" instead of the 7" edit as well as the original long version of "

The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game "The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game" is a 1966 song written by Smokey Robinson. It was a hit single in 1967 for the American girl group The Marvelettes for the Motown label, from their self-titled album released that same year. In 1980, Jamaican ...

". It adds "Inspiration", " Slave to the Rhythm" (not the well-known single version but the album track that confusingly bears the same title) and "

Victor Should Have Been a Jazz Musician "Victor Should Have Been a Jazz Musician" is a 1987 single by Grace Jones. Background The song was the third European single from Grace Jones' 1986 album '' Inside Story'', co-produced by Jones and Nile Rodgers. It was released simultaneously w ...

", but omits "Someone to Love" and moves "

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" and "

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" to disc three, which otherwise consists of alternate versions previously issued on 1998's '' Private Life: The Compass Point Sessions''.

Track listing

Notes: This CD, just like ''

'', skips the first two minutes of "Saved", subsequently starting with the first line of the second verse (original length of the track is 7:13). The version of "Slave to the Rhythm" included here is track five on the '' Slave to the Rhythm'' album, not the hit single version. Tracks 1–4 and "Slave to the Rhythm" from disc 3 appear in their 1998 edited forms.

References

External links

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