Customer Reviews
A Fine Collection Of Bonnie's Music! - By: Jake M, 19 May 2008 
This CD is a good introduction to anyone who is looking for an overview of the music of Bonnie Tyler. "The Best" focuses mainly of her CBS recordingsin the mid 80s when she had huge hits with "Total Eclipse Of The Heart", "Holding Out For A Hero", "Faster Than The Speed Of Night" & "Have You Ever Seen The Rain". Here you will also find choice album tracks, a hit duet with Shaken Stevens & four of her early hits, "Lost In France", "More Than A Lover", "It's A Heartache" & "Married Men".
If you like good rock music sung by a powerful female artist or a diehard Bonnie fan or simply as casual admirer, this CD is well worthing having even though there a better compilations out there such as "Total Eclipse -The Anthology".
Big Rock Sound - By: Pieter, 27 Jul 2007 Bonnie Tyler had hits with Lost In France & It's A Heartache before she teamed up with Jim Steinman & created the album Faster Than The Speed Of Night which was a sort of female version of Meat Loaf's Bat Out Of Hell. The album was a megahit on both sides of the Atlantic & gave her top 5 hitsin the form of Total Eclipse Of The Heart & the title track.
Her husky voice is backed by powerful rock instrumentation, rolling, pounding drums, shimmering keyboards & blistering guitar riffs. This comprehensive Best Of collection includes her other great hit Holding Out For A Hero plus a stunning version of Have You Ever Seen The Rain & a duet with Shakin' Stevens.
The tracks from Faster Than The Speed Of Night are exuberant & theatrical, but her sensitive side is also displayed here on songs like the aforementioned Lost In France. If you love the hook-filled big rock sound of artists like Pat Benatar, Joan Jett, Meat Loaf, Ellen Foley, Tina Turner or Jim Steinman, you'll love this album.
All the obvious tracks - By: Peter Durward Harris, 24 Feb 2005 This compilation focuses on Bonnie's eighties music recorded for CBS, but her four UK hits for RCA (Lostin France, More than a love, It's a heartache, Married men) are also included under license. So this collection contains all of Bonnie's UK hits, plus a selection of her other tracks from the eighties.
Apart from the RCA hits already mentioned (two of which made the UK top ten), Bonnie's other UK hits to be found here are Total eclipse of the heart (a number one hit), A rocking good way (a top five hit duet with Shaking Stevens), Holding out for a hero (a number two hit) & three minor hits, these being Have you ever seen the rain (a cover of the Creedence Clearwater Revival classic), Faster than the speed of night & Loving you is a dirty job.
Also here is Bonnie's original recording of The best. Generally known as Simply the best, it completely missed the charts, but Tina Turner covered the song a year later & had a major international hit with it. Another song that you may be familiar with is To love somebody. Originally written & recorded by the Bee Gees, the song has been a hit for several different singers around the world. Nina Simone (in 1969) & Jimmy Somerville (in 1990) both took it into the UK top ten.
There are many Bonnie Tyler compilations to choose from. I wouldn't describe this as the strongest but it contains all the essential tracks that most people expect & it is reasonably priced.
Bonnie Tyler, The Best - By: , 01 Sep 2004 
If you like rock music, pop music or country music this is the album for you! It has it all! Bonnie Tyler may of only had a few hits, Total eclipse of the heart, Its a Heartache & Holding Out For A Hero but this album Is amazing, Im going to run through the track listing & give the song my comment:
1. Total eclipse of the heart. Greatest song shes ever done, very emotional & very powerful! A great Power ballad
2. Faster than the speed of night. Fast & rocky! very good & fun!
3. Have you ever seen the rain. A Great cover makes it into an arena Rock anthem!
4. If you were a woman (and I was a man). Great pop song! Very good chours to sing along to!
5. Here she comes. A good song not one of her best but a good pop song!
6. Loving you's a dirty job but someone's got to do it. Amazing! Great deut! Very emotional & powerful!
7. Getting so excited. I have to be honest i dont like this one its quite boring!
8. Save up all your tears. Not bad, chers cover version was better!
9. Best. Again not bad, but Tina Turners cover version was better!
10. Holding out for a hero. Great song! Its pop, Dance & a bit of rock chuckedin to!
11. Married men. This is one of her country songs i dont like it!
12. Rockin' good way (to mess around & fallin love). Her worst song. Its camp & just bad!
13. More than a lover. Another country one, this song grows on you over time! its very good
14. Don't turn around. A good song! One of her rock ones. I do like this!
15. Lovers again. Very good a really sad & romantic love song!
16.Lostin France. A great pop song! it gets stuckin your head & its a good tune!
17. It's a heartache. Another country one! its here best & very catchy!
18. To love somebody. A good cover song! Very catchy!
Overall 4 stars. The bad points are:
Total eclipse of the heart is made shorter!
Its missing very good songs : Tears, Take Me Back, Straight From the heart, Ravising & Rebel without a clue!
So 4 stars & a great buy!
Excellent album! - By: Sam (ScorpioStar84@aol.com), 05 Aug 2000 There's not much I can say except that I enjoyed almost every one of the songs on this album & that it's definitely worth buying if you don't have anything by Bonnie Tyler.The only thing I was disappointed about was that it did not have "Take Me Back".
