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Deborah Cox - Ultimate Deborah Cox (2004)

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Deborah Cox - Ultimate Deborah Cox (2004)

Deborah Cox - Ultimate Deborah Cox (2004)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & M4A(Tracks) & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
BMG Strategic Marketing Group, 82876592712 | ~ 551 or 555 or 187 Mb | Scans Included
R&B / House

Released in 2003, Remixed was already a greatest-hits collection of sorts for Deborah Cox, even if it was more of a gift for fans of her dance diva persona. This makes the rapid 2004 appearance of Ultimate Deborah Cox a little weird. Still, the latter is a bit richer retrospectively, touching on all the facets of the Canadian vocalist, from her initial success in the contemporary R&B genre through the pop crossovers and her emergence as a dancefloor icon. It's remastered for sonic continuity, and is arranged more or less chronologically. The liners also provide extensive production and chart information. As it sticks almost exclusively to singles – the ones helmed by powerhouse producers like Dallas Austin, Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, and Hex Hector – Ultimate Deborah Cox is a strong set. This makes it a good pickup for the casual radio listener, who might be more interested in Cox's vocals than the club beats of Remixed. However, there's still the attempt to flash Ultimate up with remixes of its own, making it awkward and only half-rewarding. The same modern stylization of soul that permeated the Maxwell classic Urban Hang Suite guides "Sentimental" here, and "Who Do U Love" still holds up, even if its grooves have dulled a bit in the warm glow of lite FM. "It Could've Been You"'s spare hip-hop mix, too, is enjoyable, but the "Hani Remix" of "I Never Knew" is pretty darn close to the version on Remixed, and Morning After's "Play Your Part" needlessly becomes twittering club/dance generica. Likewise, "Things Just Ain't the Same" and Cox's club version of Phil Collins' "Something Happened On the Way to Heaven" seem to have been lifted whole from Remixed. Despite these missteps, the underrated title track from 2002's Morning After is left in duskily untouched, and Ultimate's "Up & Down (In & Out)" jettisons the Jadakiss contributions of After's original in favor of a breathy, more sharply cutting mix. The rub here is that Ultimate Deborah Cox tries to please everyone, as its name would suggest, and gets spread too thin in the process. It might content all the camps of Cox's audience for a little while, but it's problematic the morning after.

by Johnny Loftus, AMG
Deborah Cox - Ultimate Deborah Cox (2004):

Deborah Cox - Ultimate Deborah Cox (2004)

Tracklist:

01. Sentimental
02. Who Do U Love
03. It Could've Been You [Mass Avenue Hip Hop Remix]
04. Where Do We Go From Here
05. Just Be Good To Me
06. Things Just Ain't The Same [Dance Mix]
07. September [Radio Edit]
08. We Can't Be Friends
09. Nobody's Supposed To Be Here
10. I Never Knew
11. Absolutely Not
12. Up & Down [Godson Remix]
13. The Morning After
14. Play Your Part
15. Mr. Lonely
16. Something Happened On The Way To Heaven
17. Same script, Different Cast

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Deborah Cox / Ultimate Deborah Cox 2004

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Exact Audio Copy V1.0 beta 3 from 29. August 2011

EAC extraction logfile from 24. May 2014, 11:05

Deborah Cox / Ultimate Deborah Cox 2004

Used drive : HL-DT-STDVDRAM GSA-T50L Adapter: 1 ID: 0

Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : No
Make use of C2 pointers : Yes

Read offset correction : 667
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
Gap handling : Appended to previous track

Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 1024 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
Command line compressor : C:\Program Files\Exact Audio Copy\Flac\flac.exe
Additional command line options : -8 -V -T "ARTIST=%artist%" -T "TITLE=%title%" -T "ALBUM=%albumtitle%" -T "DATE=%year%" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%tracknr%" -T "GENRE=%genre%" -T "PERFORMER=%albuminterpret%" -T "COMPOSER=%composer%" %haslyrics%–tag-from-file=LYRICS="%lyricsfile%"%haslyrics% -T "ALBUMARTIST=%albumartist%" -T "DISCNUMBER=%cdnumber%" -T "TOTALDISCS=%totalcds%" -T "TOTALTRACKS=%numtracks%" -T "COMMENT=%comment%" %source% -o %dest%


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Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector
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1 | 0:00.00 | 4:26.30 | 0 | 19979
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3 | 8:48.17 | 4:15.33 | 39617 | 58774
4 | 13:03.50 | 4:16.42 | 58775 | 78016
5 | 17:20.17 | 5:47.10 | 78017 | 104051
6 | 23:07.27 | 4:11.30 | 104052 | 122906
7 | 27:18.57 | 4:08.23 | 122907 | 141529
8 | 31:27.05 | 4:41.15 | 141530 | 162619
9 | 36:08.20 | 3:42.37 | 162620 | 179306
10 | 39:50.57 | 4:04.28 | 179307 | 197634
11 | 43:55.10 | 3:34.05 | 197635 | 213689
12 | 47:29.15 | 4:49.35 | 213690 | 235399
13 | 52:18.50 | 4:25.22 | 235400 | 255296
14 | 56:43.72 | 4:00.03 | 255297 | 273299
15 | 60:44.00 | 4:04.27 | 273300 | 291626
16 | 64:48.27 | 4:09.73 | 291627 | 310374
17 | 68:58.25 | 4:55.67 | 310375 | 332566


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Deborah Cox - Ultimate Deborah Cox (2004)

All thanks go to the original releaser