From Time to Time: The Singles Collection＜完全生産限定盤＞

80年代 "ブルー・アイド・ソウル" シーンの中核を担ったポール・ヤング
1991年にリリースされた、自身初のグレイテスト・ヒッツ・コレクション『From Time To Time: The Singles Collection』(アナログ盤)

80年代ブルー・アイド・ソウルを代表するシンガー、ポール・ヤングの1991年にリリースされた自身初のグレイテスト・ヒッツ・コレクション『From Time To Time: The Singles Collection』(アナログ盤)。初期4枚のアルバムから厳選された楽曲に、それまでどのアルバムにも収録されていなかった「I'm Only Foolin' Myself」「Senza una Donna (Without a Woman) 」「Don't Dream It's Over」「Both Sides Now」の4曲が追加収録。アルバムはUKアルバム・チャートで1位を獲得し、イギリスでの売上枚数が90万枚を超えたことで、英国レコード協会からトリプル・プラチナ認定を受けた。
ニューウェイヴ、ブルー・アイド・ソウル、アダルト・コンテンポラリーを融合させたヤングの音楽は、常に最先端の制作技術を駆使し、その表現力豊かで切ない歌声と相まって、彼のヒット曲は時代を超越した名曲として今もなお語り継がれている。

Paul Young's retrospective From Time to Time: The Singles Collection brings together all his major U.S. and European hits from the 1980s and early 1990s. Some of these, including his only U.S. number one "Every Time You Go Away," were remixed when released as singles and to radio -- this collection intelligently includes those versions. Young's music, which bridged new wave, British soul, and adult contemporary, always sported state-of-the-art production, and, coupled with his soulful, yearning voice, has gone on to become some of the finest and most timeless the 1980s had to offer. The songs sound just as lush and energetic as when first released. Highlights include his bewitching breakthrough U.S. single "Come Back and Stay," its reggae-flavored follow-up "Love of the Common People," his massive "Every Time You Go Away," the electrifying "I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down," the timeless and sadly underrated "Everything Must Change," his breakthrough U.K. cover of Marvin Gaye's "Wherever I Lay My Hat (That's My Home)," his last U.S. Top Ten hit "Oh Girl," and the international smash "Senza Una Donna" (with Italian star Zucchero). Paul Young was a superb interpreter of other people's hits, evident here by two new tracks -- his stirring renditions of Crowded House's "Don't Dream It's Over" and Joni Mitchell's "Both Sides Now." The only hit missing is his smash from Fried Green Tomatoes "What Becomes of the Broken-Hearted," but, then again, that song was released the year after this collection. ~ Jose F. Promis