The Absolute Best

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Strong as Death, Sweet as Love
  4:20
  5.0 ★
• 2
  Love and Happiness
  5:08
  3.7 ★
• 3
  Let's Stay Together
  3:19
  4.5 ★
• 4
  I'm a Ram
  3:48
  4.6 ★
• 5
  I've Never Found a Girl
  3:42
  5.0 ★
• 6
  Driving Wheel
  3:01
  4.5 ★
• 7
  La La for You
  3:31
  5.0 ★
• 8
  I Can't Get Next to You
  3:49
  4.2 ★
• 9
  So You're Leaving
  2:56
  5.0 ★
• 10
  Tired of Being Along
  2:53
  4.5 ★
• 11
  Look What You Done for Me
  3:07
  4.4 ★
• 12
  I'm Still in Love With You
  3:14
  4.8 ★
• 13
  Sweet Song
  3:26
  5.0 ★
• 14
  Love Is Real
  4:43
  5.0 ★
• 15
  Funny How Time Slips Away
  5:34
  5.0 ★
• 16
  You Ought to Be With Me
  3:18
  3.2 ★
• 17
  How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?
  6:24
  3.7 ★
• CD 2
• 1
  Love Ritual (remix)
  5.0 ★
• 2
  Here I Am (Come and Take Me)
  4.2 ★
• 3
  Call Me, Come Back Home
  4.5 ★
• 4
  Livin' For You
  4.0 ★
• 5
  Rhymes
  5.0 ★
• 6
  God Blessed Our Love
  5.0 ★
• 7
  Let's Get Married (LP version)
  5.0 ★
• 8
  Sha-La-La (Make Me Happy)
  4.6 ★
• 9
  Take Me to the River
  4.8 ★
• 10
  Oh Me, Oh My (Dreams in My Arms)
  5.0 ★
• 11
  L-O-V-E (Love)
  4.3 ★
• 12
  Got to Be More (Take Me Higher)
  5.0 ★
• 13
  Together Again
  5.0 ★
• 14
  Full of Fire
  5.0 ★
• 15
  Belle
  5.0 ★
• 16
  Keep Me Cryin'
  5.0 ★
• 17
  Simply Beautiful
  5.0 ★

More by Al Green

Let’s Stay Together

Let’s Stay Together 1972

Al Green Is Love

Al Green Is Love 1975

Call Me

Call Me 1973

I’m Still in Love With You

I’m Still in Love With You 1972

Lay It Down

Lay It Down 2008

Compact Command Performances: 14 Greatest Hits

Compact Command Performances: 14 Greatest Hits 1984

Release credits

• Al Green
  performer [2], producer [2.2-3, 1.2, 1.11-12, 1.15-16], vocal [3]
• Al Jackson, Jr.
  drums (drum set) [1.2-3, 1.11-12, 1.15-17, 2.2-3]
• Andrew Love
  tenor saxophone [2.2-3, 1.2, 1.11-12, 1.15-16]
• Archie Turner
  piano [1.15-16, 2.2-3]
• Charles Chalmers
  background vocals [1.2-3, 1.11-12, 1.15-17, 2.2-3], strings [2.2-3, 1.2, 1.11-12, 1.15-16]
• Charles Hodges
  organ [1.2-3, 1.11-12, 1.15-17, 2.2-3], piano [2.2-3, 1.2-3, 1.11-12, 1.15-17]
• Donna Rhodes
  background vocals [2.2-3, 1.2-3, 1.11-12, 1.15-17]
• Ed Logan
  tenor saxophone [2.2-3, 1.2-3, 1.11-12, 1.15-17]
• Howard Grimes
  drums (drum set) [1.2-3, 1.11-12, 1.15-17, 2.2-3]
• Jack Hale
  trombone [2.2-3, 1.2-3, 1.11-12, 1.15-17]
• James Mitchell
  baritone saxophone [2.2-3, 1.2, 1.11-12, 1.15-16], saxophone [3, 17], strings [2.2-3, 1.2, 1.11-12, 1.15-16]
• Leroy Hodges
  electric bass guitar [1.2-3, 1.11-12, 1.15-17, 2.2-3]
• Mabon Hodges
  guitar [2.2-3, 1.2, 1.11-12, 1.15-16], guitar family [3, 17]
• Sandra Rhodes
  background vocals [2.2-3, 1.2-3, 1.11-12, 1.15-17]
• Wayne Jackson
  trumpet [2.2-3, 1.2-3, 1.11-12, 1.15-17]
• Willie Mitchell
  engineer [2.2-3, 1.2, 1.11-12, 1.15-16], producer [2.2-3, 1.2-3, 1.11-12, 1.15-17]
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Issues

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  The Absolute Best

  2x CD
  27 January 2004
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  The Absolute Best

  2x CD
  27 January 2004
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  T
  The Absolute Best

  2x CD
  2004