Very Best Of Sandra

Growing up in the U.K., Sandra was not an artist I was ever exposed to. I blame Radio 1 & "Top Of The Pops", "The Chart Show" etc for that. It's a shame because she would have (should have) slotted right in there between my Madonna, Kylie obsessions & thus she is the missing piece of the puzzle that strangely did create a (now filled) void in me.Despite never really having ever holidayed abroad, upon purchasing the Blank & Jones Extended Mix Compilation some three years ago, I realised that somehow (in some way) echos were somehow being stirred in my subconscious of several tracks (mainly "Heaven Can Wait", "Secret Land" & "In The Heat of the Night").This was a truly bizarre deja vu experience for me to have as I still can't define the actual moment in either time & space where I heard them (or by what medium) but somehow I had & all the pieces started to fall into place that they originated from this woman (& her then husband "Mr Enigma" Michael Cretu).I love this album, it was a revelation from start to finish to discover so many strong, very well seagued (predominately) classic synth driven, melodic tracks that were so successfully airbrushed from my consciousness by the U.K. Music Media.I can only describe it as strange (yet fascinating) to realise that by & large the mysterious whispery voiced female vocalist in the background of several key Enigma Recordings (who of course did break the U.K. Market in the 1990's), in fact belonged to this mysterious & enigmatic woman who was so successfully veiled from U.K. public view.I have since purchased every studio album in Sandra's back catalogue & especially love most of them. I have never been on a musical voyage of discovery like this before & really do feel like a void within me that I suspected was there has now been filled musically!I can only assume the rumours that Sandra was blocked from BBC playlists by D.J. Mike Read (on account of her being German) are true. I hate that the alleged prejudice of this silly man A.K.A "Veteran Broadcaster" (in his role as BBC Youth Tastemaker in Chief) effectively altered the natural course of my childhood.Getting to know an entire back catalogue is usually an organic process that happens over many years as that catalogue forms & is then released, so to instead discover such a rich in texture, woven musical tapestry stretching over 4 decades (in only three short years) has been a very rich & rewarding experience indeed. I'm just going to say it, I love Sandra (as an artist) but am totally pissed of with those in U.K. Media who so ruthlessly engineered her almost complete blanket U.K. Media blackout over so many years!This album is truly a treasure to behold (made all the more worthwhile due to its inclusion of a DVD of all Sandra's music videos - none of which I had ever seen before). This compilation truly is a genuinely fascinating & comprehensive collection of Sandra's body of work, I simply never tire of consuming all three discs (without skipping anything) back to back.. . Now, to go back to collecting what remains of her CD Single Collection in order to complete my "Sandra SoSo 90's+" Remix Collection!

Absolutely amazing! 30 tracks chosen by her fans to celebrate 30 year's in the music business what could go wrong? Deep breaths the answer is nothing at all!! The only track missing for me is Seal It Forever but that is a minor minor quibble. The real bonus points here for me is the Dvd which basically mirrors the complete collection but has 3 extra songs The Night Is Still Young. Infinite Kiss and Secrets Of Love and the videos have been remastered and are in 16:9 widescreen ratio. If you are a Sandra fan you HAVE to have this anyone curious purchase and prepare to be astounded by greatness

Love the 80's, got this Cd for a friend and he loved it.

Always been a fan...back when I used import all her releases from Germany (not the cheapest of hobbies). So this has updated my collection..little disappointed with the dude formatting as I've already 4:3 on vhs...maybe I misread somewhere but thought video had been brought up to date

What a great album!, full of great pop songs, a perfect all year round album.

Bought as a gift for my dad and he loves it

This is a super collection of Sandras greatest hits. Can hear it again and again

the best of Sandra for fans

Calidad de sonido,Las mejores canciones de Sandra.

Une pure merveille, On ne parle pas assez de Sandra qui pourtant mérite le rang de grande chanteuse, en tout cas ce Best Off est formidable, je l'écoute en boucle mais il faut dire aussi que c'est de ma génération

Bello bello! Per chi ama la musica anni 80 è una raccolta da avere!

Had no idea this even existed until I just came upon this thing by chance 2-3 weeks ago!! HUGE Sandra fan, since the late 80s when the PWL mix of her cover of "Everlasting Love" was being promoted in the US and played on this popular NYC dance radio station. I flipped because it's one of my all-time fave songs and that was the best version I ever heard, partly due to it having a 2nd verse missing in the early versions, like Carl Carlton's 1976 Top 10 hit. Anyhoo, been a huge fan ever since, and everything related to Sandra that I find out is usually by accident or meant to happen.So I was browsing Amazon, curious if she had anything in the works...and boom, this collection (surprised it's on Polydor/Island Germany, not longtime label Virgin/EMI, but EMI was split in two, some going to Universal and some over to Parlophone/Warner, and I guess her's went to Universal, and Polydor/Island was a key label and game to have Sandra and her catalogue), and even better, this 2CD/1DVD deluxe with the updated video collection was the label's first Sandra release (I hope remasters of her albums on CD are to follow, some like "The Long Play" sound like crap, sound too low in volume!!!!)...too bad the DVD is still the PAL format, I can still play it on my laptop but not my DVD/recorder, was hoping to do that...will try it on a BluRay player. But I love the packaging, the photos, liner notes in English, her letter, the way Sandra included her fans to pick the tracklisting...too bad I was not involved as I didn't know about it in 2016, nor did I know about a, gulp, US TOUR(?!?!), but not NYC, just Dallas (Dallas??? That's a weird random choice, not even Nashville!!), LA & Chicago...I woulda known if she played NYC, but I woulda taken a roadtrip or flown to Chicago cheap to see her live!! Also found out in the booklet that she rerecorded some Arabesque songs, would love to hear those and see what she chose cuz Arabesque are amazing.Anyhoo, the tracklisting is almost perfect...it's fan chosen too..."Platinum" in 2009 had 40 tracks on Discs 1 & 2 (not counting the remix disc 3 because the "So80s Sandra" 2CD makes that disc obsolete with its completeness)...this only has 34 and coulda fit more to make it almost 40...but I guess the rule was choose 30 and 4 are bonus tracks. They took off the album tracks, added missing singles and updated tracks...and I am really happy her 1984 12" of her German language cover of Alphaville's "Big In Japan" FINALLY made its CD debut here...and the B-side "Sekunden"...YET they coulda went even further and added her 1976 debut single of "Andy Mein Freund" and B-side while they were at it...the song WAS on the DVD of "The Complete History" in the bonuses...and maybe an Arabesque song or two...just saying, and there IS enough room for em.The remastering sounds great, and they have all the right versions but 2 have me curious...these were on "Platinum" and not on the albums...the single mixes of "Around My Heart" and "Midnight Man"...was hoping they were on here, not album versions, espesh "Midnight Man" with the xylophone hook. Some album tracks that shoulda been singles that were on "Platinum" remastered too and not on here and shoulda been were "Lovelight In Your Eyes" (from "Paintings In Yellow"), "Celebrate Your Life" (from "Into A Secret Land"), "Sisters And Brothers" (from "The Long Play"), & "Won't Run Away" (from "Fading Shades"), but they were only selecting 30 and fans didn't choose them. However, there are a couple of others which are great, "You And I" & "You'll Be Mine"...if "Two Lovers Tonight" or "Mirror Of Love" were included (my favourite overlooked album tracks & shoulda been singles), I woulda fallen outta my chair in delight and shock, haha.But because of these omissions and wrong choices in a coupla mixes, and the lovely booklet, you still need to hang onto your "Platinum" if you still have it....the 2CD, not the 3, even tho the packaging was better on that triple. Yet, this new collection is worth it, espesh for the updated DVD (it's still missing the extended 7 minute vidclip of "Everlasting Love", shoulda been included as a bonus, perfect opportunity blown, as well as "Don't Cry (The Breakup Of The World)", it was on the "Ten On One" video collection VHS only), but hang onto your "Complete History" for the Sandra interview and bonus tracks and fun quiz...The beautiful Sandra is still amazing...

Honestamente vale la pena ..ya que de canciones pues aunque es casi la misma del platinum ..aporta los singles no editados antes as como la colección de videos ...por lo que hace mucho mejor y la calidad remasterizada de las canciones la hace agradable de escuchar