Published by on 4 de agosto de 2026 The Ultimate Isley Brothers [CD] Track Listing: 1 It's Your Thing 2 That Lady (Part 1 & 2) 3 Harvest for the World 4 Work to Do 5 Spill the Wine 6 Summer Breeze 7 Caravan of Love - Isley Jasper Isley 8 For the Love of You (Part 1 & 2) 9 Groove with You 10 Twist and Shout 11 Live It Up (Part 1) 12 Fight the Power (Part 1) 13 The Pride (Part 1) 14 Shout (Parts 1 & 2) 15 Love the One You're with 16 Between the Sheets 17 Don't Say Goodnight (It's Time for Love) (Part 1) The Isley Brothers have had such a long and varied career that trying to sum up their highlights in a best-of package is bound to fall short of the mark. That hasn't, of course, kept people from trying to do so, in both single-disc and multi-disc sets. Although every song on this 17-song, single-disc anthology was a hit, it severely short-changes their vital (and extensive) pre-1970 output. The pre-"It's Your Thing" era is represented by just two tracks, "Twist and Shout" and "Shout," omitting not just bona fide hits like "This Old Heart of Mine," but great cuts like "Nobody But Me" and "Testify." As a survey of their 1970s and early-'80s hits, this does a more reasonable job. But still, few would agree that their cover of Seals & Crofts' "Summer Breeze," for instance, is among their best 17 songs, even if it did make number ten on the R&B listings in 1973. One good thing this collection does manage to do is include their cool 1971 cover of "Spill the Wine," which somehow did not make it onto the three-CD 1999 box set, It's Your Thing: The Story of the Isley Brothers. Other than "Spill the Wine," every song here appears on that box set, which is a recommended alternative if you can cough up a little more dough. Or better yet, try to find Rhino's two-volume, three-CD Story series, which not only has better selection and packaging than the Epic/Legacy collections, but sensibly divides the pre-"It's Your Thing" era and the post-"It's Your Thing" era into separate installments. ~ Richie Unterberger, AllMusic Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE
