Eddie Money

I was sadly dissapointed with the sound quality of this disc. I found it lacking any brightness. I can not reccomend this disc.

An excellent compilation of Eddie Money's music. It's got all the hits I remember turning up on the radio back in the 80s. Eddie's not doing anything fancy, just providing great, solid rock from the 80s. In the era of hair bands, Eddie focused on the tunes. This CD would make for excellent road music for sure. Great choice for 80s rock fans. Particularly good songs, and there are a number of them, are:

2 Tickets to Paradise
Shakin
Take Me Home Tonight
Walk on Water
We Should Be Sleeping
Trinidad
I Wanna Go Back
Peace in Our Time

As you can see, just the really good ones make quite a list. This album lives up to "greatest hits" label.

Eddie Money's (Mahoney)best music. This music gets constant play on rock 'n roll radio stations and rightly so. This album is a winner and will be for a long time to come.

It is said that Eddie Money was a cop until he followed his heart and started in the music business.I remember myself when I was driving home in my car during a hot summer day.I turned on my radio and listened to a tune called"TAKE ME HOME TONIGHT".I was blown away.Eddie Money is pure Rock'n Roll, pure music and most of it all,music you can listen while driving or working out etc.I'm sure you know all the songs notably BABY HOLD ON or TWO TICKETS TO PARADISE.Don't wait too long.Eddie will never let you go.

I had forgotten how many Eddie Money songs were so good! This is a nice compilation. I am happy with my purchase.

"Hey! How are my Ladies from the '80's?!" That was Eddie Money's rallying cry when he performed at our local county Fair this summer.
Well, I'm pretty good, thanks, Eddie! And this greatest hits CD was just the thing to brush up on all of the hits that made him so much of a guilty pleasure back in the day. This is a fairly complete collection of hits,and you'll be singing along to 95% of them, I guarantee. The only glitch was the lack of inclusion of "Give Me some Water", which was a huge hit for him and also a great song! In fact, I'd totally forgotten about it until he performed it live, and I said to myself,"Now why wasn't THIS on the CD?"

I have a problem with reviewers who probably have all of their favorite artist(s)' albums and go on record complaining that this song or that song wasn't on the "greatest hits" or "best-of" collection. I was a fan of Eddie Money's from the beginning, and was a little surprised to find that one reviewer thought his debut album was lame. I for one thought it was a super start to his career, with a couple of huge hit singles (the shorter single version of "Two Tickets" is even hotter than the album version...good luck finding it outside of eBay or one of those places you find in Goldmine that specialize in 45RPM singles only, if you find a copy of that one, it's worth your effort to track it down...if you're wondering, it isn't an edited version but a total remake with more guitars and more harmonies).

The additional tracks: Peace in Our Time, Stop Steppin' On My heart, Looking Thru the Eyes of a Child and the live version of Where's the Party are all typically radio-friendly Eddie Money tracks (that is definitely NOT a complaint) that show him in his element of being a rock-solid performer. His live shows, of which I've seen several, will put any doubt aside. If you have all the original albums these songs came from, the bonus material makes this one worth your money. I'm still a fan and it's all good.

EDDIE MONEY-GREATEST HITS-SOUND OF MONEY: Regular Joe raspy voiced rocker Eddie Money (formerly New York cop Eddie Mahoney) is not given his due on this short summary of career songs. Although the basic classics are here, from the early RNB-tinted BABY HOLD ON and TWO TICKETS TO PARADISE to later high water marks TAKE ME HOME TONIGHT (a retro Ronnie Spector tribute featuring the sultry siren herself) and the steamy SHAKIN', too much CD space is given over to pedestrian "new" tracks and non-hits. Why his stellar second album CAN'T HOLD BACK (which featured choice efforts MAYBE I'M A FOOL and GIMME SOME WATER) was ignored in favor of PEACE IN OUR TIME and the misleadingly titled WHERE'S THE PARTY is one for the books. And why are the lovely TRINIDAD and his soulful take on Smokey Robinson's YOU REALLY GOT A HOLD ON ME nowhere to be heard here? If you're a true fan of Money (the man, not the moolah), you already have his best albums anyhoo, so do yourself a favor; fire up your CD burner and create a compilation worthy of his legacy. Just think of all the cute monickers you could apply to it...EDDIE MONEY'S TREASURE CHEST, EDDIE MONEY-GOLD, EDDIE MONEY-COP ROCK, etc., etc., etc. RATING: THREE BILLS

This cd aint a bad buy for a casual fan,plus its cheap.But of course like most best of and greatest hits packages there is a shortage of songs."Endless Nights" should have been on here,and a few others.This was made before the newer hits cds that are out now with 15+ songs."Looking Through The Eyes Of A Child" would have been a big hit had it been a single...oh well i still love it.Maybe my favorite here. I crank it up in my car when i play it because of the good songs all here.With all the Eddie hits cds out there compared to this one there isnt much of a difference.With the exception of a few different songs.Which ever one you get you are sure to get the biggest hits first and foremost.

Being only a casual Eddie Money fan, I picked up this cd years ago just to get the favorites that I would often hear on the radio. Recently I've been considering purchasing one of the newer compliations (last year's best of or the new Essential cd) in order to get a better range of his songs and also to get the remastered versions of some of my favorites. Having not listened to this cd in quite a while, I took this one of the cd rack and had a listen. Most of these songs are still great and still hold up today. Here's a song-by-song rating:

1) Baby Hold On - 5 stars
2) Two Tickets To Paradise - 5 stars
3) Peace In Our Time - 5 stars
4) Where's The Party? (Live) - 2 stars (poor attempt at an anthem-type song)
5) I Wanna Go Back - 5 stars
6) Walk On Water - 3 stars (okay song but I don't think this one holds up as well because it sounds a little too 80's-ish)
7) Shakin' - 5 stars
8) Take Me Home Tonight - 5 stars
9) Think I'm In Love - 5 stars
10) Looking Through The Eyes of A Child - 4 stars
11) No Control - 1 star (probably the worst song on the cd)
12) We Should Be Sleeping - 2 star (just feel this one is mediocre even though it is uptempo)
13) Stop Steppin' On My Heart - 3 stars (not terrible but not that great either)

Overall, this is a really good cd (if only Sony would remaster it but that's not likely considering the newer compilations) and is right up near the top of the list of the best Eddie Money compilations. As other reviewers have noted, none of these compliations have all the "essential" songs. I think I would have rather seen the 3 songs I rated as 1 or 2 stars replaced with other songs that were either bigger hits or just better songs like "Endless Nights", "Maybe I'm A Fool", and say "Gimmie Some Water".

After this outstanding debut, Eddie Money never made a recording that was as good or as consistent track to track. This album has really held up well over three decades and still holds a solid spot in the rotation. "Rock and roll the place" indeed!

Sometime in 1976 a friend of mine had the opportunity to attend a special live taping of "Eddie Money" for KQED television in a small area at San Francisco's Cow Palace. He asked me if I'd like to go see the taping with him.

"Eddie Who? Money What?" I asked.

Nope, we never went to that show! I think we decided that going to see a movie at the drive-in, which was practically next-door to the Cow Palace, with a couple of girls from school was a much better way of spending the evening.

Okay, I'm an idiot on both counts. We didn't get lucky at the drive-in with those girls...and we missed seeing Eddie Money perform before anyone knew who he was.

I remember hearing this debut album from Eddie Money for the first time. I was really blown away and remember liking it the very first time I listened all the way through. I was into much heavier stuff, but I also had/still have a soft spot for pop music disguising itself as "Heavy" rock. Money's albums aren't really "Heavy", but they do have a very hard edge and lot's of guitar work that could classify him, to some, as a "Heavy Rocker".

From his New York accented, sort-of-raspy, Cindy Brady-esque mouth movement style of singing, comes an unforgettable voice that till this day is a one of a kind. With the exception of maybe "Don't Worry", I feel that any of the tracks from this album could have been singles. If you like his 80's stuff, this may be a bit too...umm....RAW....for you. If you just want to hear a great rock record, then it'll be MONEY well spent.

This combined with his second effort, "Life for the Taking" is really all of the eddie Money I need. Anything after seemed to have been the record companies taking over and pushing the AOR bit for Eddie.

Every track on his second effort is also a gem...well, maybe except for the biggest single from that one. Anyone remember the track "Maybe I'm A Fool"? Eddie with a disco-styled song...Still, it does work. You won't find one like this in his debut effort though. His first two albums could have been released as a double set and they sound like maybe they came from the same sessions. (I remember seeing some of that performance from the KQED special and I think he did, "Gimme Some Water" live even before the first release.)

Doubts? Go buy it, listen and dare to write me and tell me it's not a great Rock record! I dare ya!

Eddie Money's debut album features "Two Tickets to Paradise", and "Baby Hold On." Not bad having two hit singles from one album back in the late 70's. The above mentioned hits are the strongest tracks on the album, but overrall it's not a bad listen, but I'd go with his greatest hits instead.

Nice debut album, with some cuts that have held up well... The cover of Smokey's You've Really Got A Hold On Me is the real gem on this release for me!

Eddie Money's self-titled debut album is a great piece of straight rock. Such songs as "Baby Hold On" and "Wanna Be A Rock And Roll Star" are among the songs that dominated AM radio in 1977. There are a couple of filler cuts here, but get this one, LIFE FOR THE TAKING, and NO CONTROL, and you have all the Eddie Money you really need.

Clara Beller would have asked, "Where's the beef?!!!" if she'd ever seen this "Playlist" rehash of mostly lesser unknown "hits" from the Money Man. Eddie had several hardcore rock FM Radio staple hit singles - actual "45"'s that were issued and got massive airplay - which desperately need representation on at least one of his countless "Hits" collections that have popped up over the years since he first took us rockin' down the highway. When will Sony/Columbia Records finally issue an ULTIMATE Hits Compilation or Anthology that does justice to this impressive rock vocalist's catalogue instead of reissuing mostly latter day throwaway singles grouped in with the mandatory half dozen or so Top 10 trail blazers Eddie gave us? Sorely missing for the umpteenth time release are his other high visibility & high priority "singles" tracks that made Eddie a household name, such as the memorable hardcore melodic rockers like "Gimme Some Water" - "Can't Keep A Good Man Down" - "Trinidad" - and - "Love The Way You Love Me". Keep the mandatory "hits" such as "Baby Hold On" - "Two Tickets To Paradise" - "Maybe I'm A Fool" - "Take Me Home Tonight" - "Shakin'" - "Think I'm In Love" - "Walk On Water", but, PLEASE add the meat & potatoes music noted above from his back catalogue. This set gets 3 stars only for that half dozen plus real hits Eddie Money delivered. Now...they're mostly out of print, can we have the rest?

I've been looking for the single version of "Two Tickets To Paradise" for months. This is the only cd with that version! It was well worth the money.

Eddie Has been around since 1977
he did 8 albums for columbia
from 77- 91 which is a real acheivement by today's standards.
any artist today is luckey to get one cd out the music company
before they cut you loose. he got 15 years".
Then he did two more albums under different music companies.


Eddie Money is the last of the line of american rockers
that has lasted of 20 years
Three of ten of eddies albums failed
Playing For Keeps , Wheres The Party & Love Or Money, which is A+ with me.
Anyways, this whole Compilation of 13 to 16 songs
to represent his whole carrer is a shame!
Foreigner has better compilations to represent them.
I say buy hits greatest hits cd that came out in 89
it has three non Lp songs Peace In Our Time,Looking Through the Eyes Of a Child, Stop Steppin On My Heart
And buy his all his cds, and judge for youreself.
If he is just greatest hits package? or something more.

Title track kicks ***. Eddie's vocals and Jimmy Lyon's guitar solo make for one of the all-time best rock tracks. "Gimme Some Water", "Can't Keep A Good Man Down", and, "Rock and Roll The Place", are all solid tracks. The track "Maureen" will have you snappin' your fingers and feeling good.

One of Eddie Money's best ever! This,and most of his pre-"walk On Water" material is a rockers paradise> Include his first C.D, No Control and you have truly the Best of Eddie Money

LIFE FOR THE TAKING is Eddie Money's second great album in a row. It contains several great songs, but the standouts are "Can't Keep A Good Man Down" and the outlaw anthem "Gimme Some Water." A few songs are obvious filler, but there are enough good ones to make this a 5-star album.

When I look up music from this era, I never find it on cd unless its a "Super Group', believe it or not, I still have it on vinyl, bought when it first was released!!! And Eddie is the only guy to write a love song titled with my name,lol. I hated it as a teen, but now it is a honor, although I would not want my oldest girlfriends to serenade me again. Its a great album. Will definately get it on cd.

this is eddie money at a creative peak! gimme some water sounds so awesome driving in a car , it's a powerful beginning, middle and end story.. it rocks! ( the opening is the key ) life for the taking is a great song too! eddie plays this song at all of his concerts now and is one of his most popular true life hits! can't keep a good man down! we hear this in all of our daily conversations with people we know! i buy the paper every day but i ain't got time to read ... there ain't no jobs in there for me anyway! we all have said that verse right? maybe i'm a fool has a disco twist and is a nice tune , rock n roll the place is about eddie singing for his fans and partying! the great thing about eddie money is all of his big songs have a real life story!

I have this album on LP (and just recently bought it on CD), and it's one of my favorite albums. No Control is probably Eddie's most consistent work. The album gets off to a great start with Shakin', a great guitar song with catchy lyrics and hooks ("Sh...sh..sh..sh we were Shakin'!"). Songs like No Control, Think I'm in Love, Hard Life, and Runnin' Away prove that The Money Man was on top of his game back then.

I don't know if it's different anywhere else, but the only place I've been able to find Eddie's studio albums is either eBay or Amazon. The only Money albums I've seen in stores is the dozens of Greatest Hits sets. With "Green Cases" (paper jewel cases instead of plastic) being the latest craze, hopefully Eddie will have all his albums digitally remastered and repackaged in the "Green Cases".

This is what Eddie Money is about. If you like him at all, this one should be in your collection.

NO CONTROL is Eddie Money's best album ever, which is amazing, considering that it came right after the flop PLAYING FOR KEEPS. The songs here just plain ROCK!!!!! "Shakin'", "Think I'm In Love", and the title song show Money at the top of his game, making the Springsteen/Seger Heartland rock style, as well as the hard rock of Ted Nugent and Foghat, slightly more accessible to pop fans. This wonderful CD/cassette is one that no true 80s rock fan can do without.

If you're a child of the eighties, you can't help but appreciate the songs of Eddie Money. Listening to it brought back some great memories. This cd is a great addition to anyone that appreciates the memories of the 80's.

Alright now, I'm doing a little stepping back in time reviewing NO CONTROL, Eddie Money's sharp, 1982, pink `n' black album which found his slim frame in a suit and tie and looking so....."money."

When Eddie's debut album came to my attention in 1978 due to the radio airplay of "Baby Hold On" [#11 in Billboard] I bought it but didn't spin it often. I thought most of the songs were too spare and unadventurous musically and that his voice was nondescript. I never purchased another Money collection until 1982's NO CONTROL, though I scarcely remember acquiring it because I was drunk that year. And the next. In truth, those first 4 years of that decade were the height of my partying life. I was living in a house (it's now a condominium) at 824 Bay Street in Santa Monica (just a block from the skateboarding Z-Boys former surf shop hangout). At that time, 824 had to have been the most consistently rowdy house in the greater Los Angeles metropolitan area. John Belushi and National Lampoon's `ANIMAL HOUSE'? Ha and pish! That was us when we were BEHAVING ourselves! We were THE LEAGUE OF SOUL CRUSADERS, and as Pooh said, "We drank. We drank a lot. We drank more than we did not." And yeah, you might have heard some of these hard-rocking Eddie Money tunes blasting from 824 back in the day...and the night. (Our neighbors loved us so much that the entire street signed a petition to send us packing. I guess they enjoyed our act to such a degree that they wanted to see us take it on the road.)

By 1982, Money had learned how to write a solid, head-banging hard Rock tune, and how to use that slight croak in his voice to maximum effect. The rockers on this set, starting with the great road tune, SHAKIN', are all fiercely guitar-propelled and rhythmically driving songs that had all of us liquidated bad boys breaking out the air guitars nearly twenty-five years ago. (We eventually grew up and changed.)

And that's something else I liked about NO CONTROL: Five years after that other Eddie had revolutionized the electric guitar and had every player emulating him with Van Halenesque "tapping", here we had Jimmy Lyon and Marty Walsh playing in the old Rock style - more sustain and distortion - and it suddenly sounded fresh and exciting again. And on DRIVIN' ME CRAZY, Tony Brock sits behind the drum kit. Tony Brock? C'mon, dude! He was the stickman for The Babys, and for my "money", one of Rock's more formidable and underrated drummers - in ANY OTHER BAND he would have received the attention he deserved.

I don't listen to Rock a great deal anymore; I graduated to the upper I.Q. of Jazz long ago. But every once in awhile - and especially after all my beloved Christmas songs at the conclusion of the Holiday season - I need to hear some fast tunes with loud guitars, and Eddie's NO CONTROL is right on the money.

Interspersed between the 80 mile-an-hour road runs on NO CONTROL, Eddie has some school zone ballads that drop us back down into first gear. Necessary I suppose for balance, but they suffer by comparison, seeming a little droopy. But the one great exception for me is MY FRIENDS, MY FRIENDS, which is really the principal reason I reacquired this album on compact disc. It's a wistful look back at the friends who made our old times so special and so memorable. It's a sad song made sadder by some truly mournful harmonica playing beautifully rendered by the Moneyman himself:

"My memories are happy / My memories are sad / But I love to take my pictures out / And see the things I had... / My friends, my friends / We never got together again / But I really do miss my friends"

THE LEAGUE OF SOUL CRUSADERS: Torch, Pooh, Twinkie, Cranium, Napoleon - it's me, Mr. Intense. I want you guys to know that I still take my pictures out and remember what we had. And I still love you guys.....wherever you are.

*Actually, I do know where my Brother, Napoleon, is. He's outside beating up the biker and his pit bull again. I can tell by the dog's whining and the biker's crying. I guess it's nice that one of us never grew up and changed.

Title track kicks ***. Eddie's vocals and Jimmy Lyon's guitar solo make for one of the all-time best rock tracks. "Gimme Some Water", "Can't Keep A Good Man Down", and, "Rock and Roll The Place", are all solid tracks. The track "Maureen" will have you snappin' your fingers and feeling good.

One of Eddie Money's best ever! This,and most of his pre-"walk On Water" material is a rockers paradise> Include his first C.D, No Control and you have truly the Best of Eddie Money

LIFE FOR THE TAKING is Eddie Money's second great album in a row. It contains several great songs, but the standouts are "Can't Keep A Good Man Down" and the outlaw anthem "Gimme Some Water." A few songs are obvious filler, but there are enough good ones to make this a 5-star album.

When I look up music from this era, I never find it on cd unless its a "Super Group', believe it or not, I still have it on vinyl, bought when it first was released!!! And Eddie is the only guy to write a love song titled with my name,lol. I hated it as a teen, but now it is a honor, although I would not want my oldest girlfriends to serenade me again. Its a great album. Will definately get it on cd.

this is eddie money at a creative peak! gimme some water sounds so awesome driving in a car , it's a powerful beginning, middle and end story.. it rocks! ( the opening is the key ) life for the taking is a great song too! eddie plays this song at all of his concerts now and is one of his most popular true life hits! can't keep a good man down! we hear this in all of our daily conversations with people we know! i buy the paper every day but i ain't got time to read ... there ain't no jobs in there for me anyway! we all have said that verse right? maybe i'm a fool has a disco twist and is a nice tune , rock n roll the place is about eddie singing for his fans and partying! the great thing about eddie money is all of his big songs have a real life story!

I was vaguely familier with Eddie Money's music, back in the late 70's during my adolescent years by hearing his songs on the radio. I was in High school in 1980 and remember when this album was released. I can still remember seeing his performance of Trinidad on the Midnight Special while promoting the new album. It's a great Eddie Money album. The first three releases of: Eddie Money, Life for the Taking, and Playing For Keeps make one solid trilogy of work. Jimmy Lyons guitar work is simply phenomenal.

I've never understood why this cd was not as widely available as his first two? To me, it's just as good. I was lucky enough to spot a copy of this in my local record store back in the early 90's and purchase it before it went right back out-of-print, seemingly ever since. I once heard an interview with Eddie in the mid-eighty's (possibly on Rock-Line) where he commented on this album saying "instead of going Gold, it went straight to cardboard". Obviously, sales of this album were very poor, and the record company has never forgotten that. His other two albums did produce a few hits like "Two Tickets to Paradise" and "Baby Hold On" but, an album doesn't have to have a "Hit" to be good. Hopefully, if Eddie's catalog of work is ever "remastered" the fans will finally get to purchase this gem without spending a fortune.

If you can get a copy, grab it! You won't be dissappointed.

I happened to see Eddie Money in concert a few weeks before his very first album came out in 1977. I was in college at Bama and since he was unknown at the time the crowd was very small. In the years following I played all the early albums quite a bit and noticed the progression of sound as the albums went by. This, the third, (summer of 1980) was my favorite. It best blends the songwriting team's strenghts and understated but creative guitar work of Jimmy Lyons. The first 3 albums appeared to me at the time as a strong collaboration between Lyons and Money. The songs "Trinidad," and "Million dollar girl" form a combination (the first and last tracs) that are only matched by the "Two tickets" and "Jealousies" tracs of the first album. The characteristic early years hint of optimism in the lyrics, coupled with the tasteful mix of clean + distorted guitar stylings (Lyon), makes "Playing for Keeps" Money's most listenable album. (nothing fancy, but consider for example the treble guitar riffs in Trinidad). Others may favor Money's later efforts, but this reviewer will hold-on to the third album as the one to keep.

well first I want to say Eddie and his band doesnt get enough credit for their tunes. this album is a great one. from the tracks "The Wish" and to others as "Get A Move On" the last track "Million Dollar Girl" are all good driving songs. and as always his voice is ever amazing. people ask me how I get into this kind of music because im pretty young. I tell them well this is when music was music and when it was done for the pure enjoyment and the fun of just writing and making records. and they always say back yeah you're right. I looked for this album for a looong time and finally got it off ebay for yah 22 bucks but well worth it. if your a fan of this group then if you see it somewhere pick it up bc its out of print. so grab it and spin it. keep rockin.

Honestly, I thought this album would be mediocre because it is relatively far removed from Eddie Money's most prolific eras (late 70s to late 80s). However, I must give this guy credit for being able to produce a rock-solid album.
It was apparent to me almost right away that a strong effort went into this album with my personal favs being, "Run Right Back", "Fire And Water", "Prove It Every Night". All three of these songs have some fantastic riffs and guitar work.
Eddie Money comes across (to me, anyway) as a classy guy who puts a lot of energy into his tunes and he has proven himself to be a noteworthy figure of rock for the ages.

eddie released 3 full length cds in the 90's this i believe is the best one. the only song that really doesn't fit here is heaven in the backseat. heaven in the backseat was the lead single but failed to capture any chart space. if this cd had a strong lead single like "walk on water" this cd would have sold tons. every other song flowed perfectly together and represented a great inspiration. why columbia let this run out of print is beyond me! singles released were fall in love again and i'll get by and they were pretty medium hits. exciting songs here are she takes my breath away and run right back. if you combine right here with ready eddie you will have eddie's best rock hits!

this is classic and pop rock at it's best from eddie! heaven in the backseat was the first single released and it hit the top 100! i'll get by was a top 10 hit and fall in love again was a top 25 hit! the coolest tune on here is she takes my breath away! prove it every night , think twice and run right back are all awesome rock trax!

Good album if you're a fan of Eddie Money. If you're not, well, I guess I can't help that. Regardless, not too bad of an album.