The Ultimate Collection: Diana Ross & The Supremes

This album includes all of the Supremes biggest and best hits and then some. Everything from When The Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes to the final Someday Well Be Together. This is an album where I can listen straight through without any stops. The only thing that I was disappointed in is the sound quality of the songs. With all the digital master machines they have today, I would hope they would be able to have better sound quality than this. The vinyl copy of my Supremes albums sound better than this. But as for the songs, they are fantastic. Baby Love,Where Did Our Love Go?,Come See About Me,The Happening,etc...they all are here. I recommend this album to you. Enjoy!!

With the exception of maybe a few "little known" songs, this is all you need to satisfy a craving of The Supremes' music. All of the hits are included in their original recordings. My personal favorites are "Stop! In the Name of Love" and "Someday We'll Be Together." One of the great Girl Groups of the 1960s and 70s, and for that, we salute Diana, Flo, and Mary!

This "Ultimate Collection" is essentially only about the songs and not about the sound. The remastering is absolutely appalling. While there is an adequate job with bass and midrange presentation, the top end is so bright that at moderate listening levels it is almost unbearable. None of the old Motown LPs sounded this bad and they were nowhere near audiophile quality. If you have an inexpensive audio set up, you can probably withstand the high end onslaught. But if your system is capable of accurate sound presentation, skip this one.

A very poor version of upgrade. I did'nt like the sound quality at all. I was searching for the original sound

I am writing this review on the assumption that you are familiar with the musical offerings of this legendary girl group inducted into the R&R Hall of Fame in 1988, and whose hits and top performances are well covered in any of the other 5-star reviews here.

My purpose in submitting this is to inform you that it is but one of a wonderful series from Motown. However, a search in Music under the heading Ultimate Collection will garner you thousands of hits, and even searching in Album Title will result in quite a few, ranging from Benny Hill and George Formby to 10cc and The Who, and just about everyone in between. Even Motown uses Ultimate Collection on a number of their CDs, but the best of the lot where they are concerned is this series, each with 25 tracks and similar cover art by David Irvin, and involving The Four Tops, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, The Marvelettes, Martha (Reeves) & The Vandellas, Jr. Walker & The All Stars, Gladys Knight & The Pips, and Mary Wells.

It would seem, judging by the number of reviews submitted to date for each that Diana Ross & The Supremes were at the head of the Motown class in terms of public appeal. That might have been challenged had there been a release for each of Marvin Gaye, The Jackson 5, The Temptations and Stevie Wonder in this specific series but, alas, they were not included (or at least I haven't come across them). There are Jackson 5 and Temptations "Ultimate Collections" issued by Motown, but they don't follow this format. A Marvin Gaye Ultimate Collection is also available, but that is an import from the Dutch offices of Universal.

Forget the carping elsewhere about the sound quality. It is just fine, thank you, and as bonuses you get a complete discography of the contents, numerous photographs, and detailed liner notes, in this instance three pages by journalist Diane Marie Weathers.

One of the best such series available and may it never go out of circulation.