Beautiful Best Of with some quirks

After four albums and the expiring record deal now a best-of CD with two new songs (both not written by Annie Lennox) appears even in the deluxe edition with bonus CD and nine rarities and a DVD with 15 music videos ,
That Annie Lennox is an excellent singer with a dazzling exceptional voice, no one will seriously doubt. And even if you have lost in their solo recordings mE the bite former Eurythmics days, she was musically always worth hearing what this CD proves quite. No less than five titles are from solo debut "Diva" (six, if you want to count the soundtrack single "Love Song For A Vampire", which dates from the same time), the remaining three albums are represented, each with two titles.
However, if the single versions of some titles expected in the best-of, will be partially disappointed. "Little Bird" and "Precious" appear in their album versions, the latter in a shortened version. Only "Sing" and "Cold" differ from their album versions. When selecting the tracks you have kept strictly to the tracks that have been released as a single or what has been declared as a single from 2003, without appearing physically on CD in stores.
Why has managed only on the bonus disc of rarities of the Oscar-winning song "Into The West", me remains a mystery. Similarly, why not at least there "Put A Little Love In Your Heart" (duet with Al Green) is included. And "Wonderful", another "single" from the album Bare would also fit beautifully on the CD.
The DVD is relatively simple. All videos of the respective tracks of CD 1 (with the exception of "Love Song For A Vampire", but with "Waiting in Vain" and "Something So Right", two singles of Medusa, which were not considered on CD 1), all only available individually. Great video as "Little Bird" and "Why" and "Shining Light" (in the Annie Lennox equal personified the whole band) alternate with total failures as "Pavement Cracks" and the new "Pattern Of My Life". Because the record company had obviously not want to invest money. Given the unbearable quality of these works could have been the same but better omitted. Also the video for "Sing" by Annie Lennox very ambitious aid for Africa demands (2 go while buying the Deluxe Edition of this project), looks pretty unprofessional, almost homemade.
The booklet contains all the text after all the tracks from CD 1, each with an introductory comment by Annie Lennox. The latter also applies to the rare, since it was not enough only for the lyrics.
The three CDs come in a rather awkward and unstable digipack therefore, is not withstand great stress.

Ingsesamt ie an almost complete collection of singles from Annie Lennox, with a huge video packet and interesting rarities, but now and then it is clear that the record company was unwilling to invest in high-quality material. Given an exceptional artist like Annie Lennox is a shame.