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Robert Palmer - Very Best Of Robert Palmer (1995)

Track listing:
  1. Addicted To Love 4:25
  2. Bad Case Of Loving You (Doctor 3:10
  3. Simply Irresistible 4:12
  4. Get It On 5:30
  5. Some Guys Have All The Luck 3:09
  6. I Didn't Mean To Turn You On 3:37
  7. Looking For Clues 4:58
  8. You Are In My System 4:59
  9. Some Like It Hot 5:06
  10. Respect Yourself 4:06
  11. I'll Be Your Baby Tonight 3:23
  12. Johnny & Mary 4:00
  13. She Makes My Day 4:21
  14. Know By Now 4:09
  15. Every Kinda People 3:21
  16. Mercy Mercy Me / I Want You 5:51

Notes

Despite my (yet rationalized) fondness for his 1980 electro-pop hit "Johnny and Mary" (included here), the 16-track collection The Very Best of Robert Palmer mostly leaves me cold. Palmer has the tools, but the mechanicals lack potency and soul. Still, if combining mid-'80s hits like "Addicted to Love" and "Simply Irresistible" with a whiff of earlier material, several more recent constructions, and a pair from side project the Power Station sounds like your kind of fun, this disc does the job...efficiently. Includes a new cover of the Staple Singers' "Respect Yourself."