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While I do not think all of the songs are great, many are, and I would definitely recommend this collection to anyone looking for a good starting point on her works. It's a comprehensive collection of Edith Piaf's works.
I am writing this before I have listened to the third disk. The second disk is technically much better with a few exceptions, and of course the chantuese. While the first cd is technically poor (much noise and static), the chanteuse is riveting. Maybe you can pretend that you are listening to her on a radio of that time.
It will kill you,but in a good way. Well.rendering me helpless ,at least.I am listening to this 3-CD set as I type this,and I am marveling at the depth of emotion in her voice.She was a little waif of a woman,but her voice could have guided ships through the fog.Unbelievably powerful,fraught with emotion in every note.I am trying to learn French,and immersing myself in her music has helped.Of all of her torch songs,my favorite is "Adieu,Mon Couer." Without understanding most of the words,(until I translated them)I still feel the emotion she is feeling.She was and will always be a treasure.May I suggest that you buy/rent "La Vie en Rose," the movie made about Piaf last year.
Marvellous as I have always thought of her, and I now listen uninterrupted as I drive along motorways, singing along desperately out of tune, but imagining myself in a Left Bank cafe. this is a compilation of all my favourite Piaf songs, many of which I only had on old tapes, so I now have them on one CD.
Disks 1 and 2, the older songs, are mediocre; disk # 3 is musically and technically superb.
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