Gary Moore - The Essential (1995)

This ill-advised compilation rudely splices early ballads from Gary Moore's "metal period" ("Empty Rooms," "Johnny Boy") with his better-known latter-day blues experiments ("Midnight Blues," "Story of the Blues"). It's mostly solid material notwithstanding; however, this record can only be described as a doomed marriage - the kind that could only have made sense to awful people like record company execs. Even worse, the record exposes the troubling similarity between 1979's "Parisienne Walkways" (co-written by Thin Lizzy main man Phil Lynott) and 1990's "Still Got the Blues" (Moore's biggest stateside success) in a blatant case of self-plagiarism.

Tracklist
01. Always Gonna Love You
02. Still Got The Blues
03. Empty Rooms (Single Version / Summer 1985)
04. Parisienne Walkways (Live At Royal Albert Hall, London / 1993)
05. One Day
06. Separate Ways
07. Story Of The Blues
08. Crying In The Shadows
09. With Love (Remember)
10. Midnight Blues
11. Falling In Love With You (Single Version)
12. Jumpin' At Shadows
13. Blues For Narada
14. Johnny Boy