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| What A Crying Shame, Foolish Heart, O What A Thrill, Hey Good Lookin', There Goes My Heart, Here Comes My Baby, Dream River, Blue Moon, This Broken Heart, more. |
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| 1 The End of the Line |
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| 2 Mr. Jones |
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| 3 This Broken Heart |
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| 4 Excuse Me (I Think I've Got a Heartache) |
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| 5 I Got You |
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| 6 From Hell to Paradise |
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| 7 Hey Good Lookin' |
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| 8 I Should Have Been True |
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| 9 There Goes My Heart |
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| 10 Pretend |
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| 11 What a Crying Shame |
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| 12 All That Heaven Would Allow |
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| 13 The Things You Said to Me |
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| 14 O What a Thrill |
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| 15 Foolish Heart |
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| 16 Here Comes the Rain |
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| 17 Missing You |
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| 18 I'm Not Gonna Cry for You |
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| 19 The Writing on the Wall |
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| 20 Loving You |
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| 21 All You Ever Do Is Bring Me Down |
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| 22 Blue Moon |
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| 23 I Don't Care (If You Don't Love Me Anymore) |
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| 24 La Mucara [#] |
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| 25 Dance the Night Away |
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Album Review
Given the consistent strength of The Mavericks' back catalog, compiling a single-disc "best-of" collection that gives an accurate picture of their music has been something of a challenge, so "Gold" has one key advantage over the other Mavericks anthologies MCA/Universal has released in the past -- with close to two-and-a-half hours of music spread over two CDs, "Gold" offers the Mavericks' story writ large, and there's no question their material merits the attention. "Gold" offers plenty of representative selections (seven each) from the band's four MCA studio albums, as well as cuts from the 1998 live set "It's Now! It's Live!", a few single sides, compilation and soundtrack appearances, and import-only bonus tracks that receive stateside release for the first time on this set. While the rare material helps make this a near-definitive Mavericks set, it also means loyal fans will be buying a lot of songs they already own to get some worthy rarities, such as the surf-flavored "Trampoline" outtake "Panatella," and the groovy cover of "A World Without Love" from a German collection. But if you're only going to buy one Mavericks album in your lifetime, "Gold" is probably the one to get -- for a change, the band's unique blend of honky tonk swing ("There Goes My Heart"), rockabilly spunk ("Hey Good Lookin'"), Latin swagger ("Dance The Night Away"), countrypolitan shuffle ("Foolish Heart"), vintage pop smoothness ("Dream River"), and sophisticated modern country ("What A Crying Shame") is given the room to show off all its accents, and Raul Malo's vocals and songwriting are in stellar form throughout (while Robert Reynolds and Paul Deakin lend equally excellent support). The Mavericks were one of the best and most unique acts to scale the country charts in the '90s, and while the albums "Trampoline", "Music for All Occasions" and "What a Cryin' Shame" are all well-worth owning, "Gold" does a splendid job of boiling their essence down into one fine collection, and it's a splendid overview of the band's first decade. ~ Mark Deming, All Music Guide
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