398 - The Temptations - Anthology

[csberry]

I enjoyed this collection (both discs) a lot more than I have the other Motown collections I've listened to so far. The Temptations' stayed relevant for enough years that there isn't a big drop in the quality of songs at the beginning of the collection and the latter releases at the end of the collection. The album is fairly split with the first disc highlighting the Motown-sound era of the group. The second disc sees the group evolve in a soul sound. Even though it was a couple of hours worth of music, I was never more than a few songs away from a song I knew.

Songs I knew I liked: "The Way You Do the Things You Do," "My Girl," "Don't Look Back," "Get Ready," "Ain't To Proud to Beg," "I Wish It Would Rain," "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me," "I Can't Get Next to You," "Ball of Confusion," "Just My Imagination," "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone," Treat Her Like a Lady"

Songs I didn't know but now like: "What Love Has Joined Together," "Since I Lost My Baby," "Beauty is Only Skin Deep," "(I Know) I'm Losing You," "All I Need," "It's You That I Need," "Cloud 9," "Psychedelic Shack," and "A Song For You"

Songs I can go the rest of my life without hearing again: "The Impossible Dream"