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| | Review, buy Pop: Evita 2006 London Cast Recording, A Girl Like Me, The Best of Santana, Ski Surfin', We'll Bring the ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Songs such as "Jungleland", "Thunder Road", "Backstreets" and the title track are epic productions, both sonically and lyrically, borrowing from Phil Spector, Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley and West Side Story. |
 | | The other 17 tracks include some of their most beloved non-hits ("Richard Cory", "The 59th Street Bridge Song", "The Only Living Boy in New York") and eight live 1967-1969 performances, none of them found in studio counterparts on this compilation, though all are drawn from previously released albums or anthologies. |
 | | Her perspective is a little alien-it's no accident that the first song talks about "getting close to a human"-but her levelling of genre distinctions has some wonderful results, especially the eroticised easy-listening reggae sway of "Venus As a Boy". |
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