Sleeve: Young Edwyn with quiff on the front, even younger Edwyn playing by the sea on the back.
Sleeve notes: Too many photo montages; brief personnel and writer credits; all his album sleeve pictures but no think-piece from caustic Collins.
Content: "20 years of work", 18 songs in analogue-enhanced digital recordings from nine studio albums, featuring scandalously low chart-hit count of two: Rip It Up and A Girl Like You. Packs the top order with the best material from the Collins dictionary of love.
High point: "Never met a...
Low point: Cover of The Witch Queen Of New Orleans - long version!
Glaring omissions?: Consolation Prize, In A Nutshell, Bridge, from Orange Juice; If Ever You're Ready off solo debut.
Anything new?: No.
Excuse for release: First Orange Juice-solo Collins compendium to celebrate 20 years of Scotland's most acerbic pop poet.
Ideal Christmas gift for: Hopelessly romantic boys who have "never met a girl like you before".
Updated: 10:14 Thursday, December 19, 2002
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