今年，是美国流行摇滚乐界最受欢迎的女歌手Sheryl Crow出道的第十个年头了，今年Sheryl Crow也并没有发行新专辑，而是以这张出道十年的第一张精选集来为自己音乐的成就辉煌的前十年作了一个阶段性的总结。这张精选在发行一周之后，以24万7千张的销售成绩成为了排行榜的第四名，排行榜排名虽然并不很高，但是首周销售成绩却已经超过了她去年的专辑《C'mon C'mon》的不足19万张。
虽然十年来Sheryl Crow总共才发行过四张录音室专辑以及一张现场专辑，但是这丝毫没有影响她在女子摇滚音乐界的地位，原因就是在她的每一张专辑，甚至是现场专辑中，都能诞生出多首强有力的打榜单曲，正是这些出色的单曲才保证了Sheryl Crow在这十年中的地位一直稳如泰山，也保证了她在40岁之后依然能够拥有非常强大的歌迷号召力。虽然Sheryl Crow不可能和甲壳虫乐队(The Beatles)以及“猫王”Elvis Presley一样发行冠军单曲精选专辑，但是这张并非全部由高排名单曲组成的精选集依然是非常优秀的。她包含了Sheryl Crow在这十年中自己创作的所有好歌，开篇的格莱美获奖金曲《All I Wanna Do》是Sheryl Crow的成名之作，之后的单曲并没有按照时间顺序排列，但仍然是各个专辑中挑选出的具有代表性的曲目。其中包括了《My Favorite Mistake》《A Change Would Do You Good》等令人印象深刻的Sheryl Crow的代表性单曲。《If It Makes You Happy》《Steve McQueen》《There Goes the Neighborhood》这样的获奖单曲也悉数入选。同时这张专辑还收录了Sheryl Crow与Kid Rock合作的单曲《Picture》，也显示出了这张专辑商业化的一面。不过令人遗憾的是，虽然专辑收录的单曲多达16首，但仍有《Run Baby Run》《Anything but Down》《C'Mon C'Mon》以及成功翻唱枪炮与玫瑰乐队的单曲《Sweet Child o' Mine》等多首非常优秀的单曲未能进入这张精选，如果真的是选择Sheryl Crow最出色的单曲的话，那么她们还是完全有实力取代这张专辑里的一些虽然是某张专辑里比较出色的，但却不是整个十年时间里最出色的单曲。
专辑名：《The Very Best of Sheryl Crow》
演唱者：Sheryl Crow
发行时间：2003年11月4日
发行公司：A&M
音乐风格：Pop/Rock（流行/摇滚），Adult Alternative Pop/Rock（成人另类流行/摇滚），American Trad Rock（美国传统摇滚）
[曲目介绍]
1. All I Wanna Do(重点推荐！)
点评：尽管这是一张非常好的精选集，但是这首单去作为Sheryl Crow的成名作和招牌似的单曲仍然是整张精选中最出色的，或许是由于先入为主的原因，人们总会把这首歌看作是最Sheryl Crow风格的作品，而把她放在了专辑开篇的位置，就好像老鹰（Eagles）乐队把《加州旅馆（Hotel California）》放在精选第一位一样令人惊喜。
2. Soak Up the Sun
3. My Favorite Mistake
4. The First Cut Is the Deepest
5. Everyday Is a Winding Road
6. Leaving Las Vegas
7. Strong Enough
8. Light in Your Eyes
9. If It Makes You Happy
10.The Difficult Kind
11.Picture
12.Steve McQueen
13.A Change Would Do You Good
14.Home
15.There Goes the Neighborhood
16.I Shall Believe
17.The First Cut Is the Deepest
Crow Sheryl 《All I Wanna Do》试听：
歌词：
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"All I wanna do is have a little fun before I die,"
Says the man next to me out of nowhere, apropos
Of nothing. He says his name's William but I'm sure
He's Bill or Billy, Mac or Buddy, he's plain ugly to me.
And I wonder if he`s ever had fun in his life.
We are drinking beer at noon on Tuesday
In a bar that faces a giant car wash
The good people of the world are washing their cars
On their lunch break, hosing and scrubbing
As best they can in skirts and suits
They drive their shiny Datsuns and Buicks
Back to the phone company, the record store,
Well, they're nothing like Billy and me.
Chorus:
All I wanna do is have some fun
I got a feeling I'm not the only one
Until the sun comes up over Santa Monica Boulevard.
I like a good beer buzz early in the morning
And Billy likes to peel the labels
From his bottles of Bud and shred them on the bar
Then he lights every match in an oversized pack
Letting each one burn down to his thick fingers
Before blowing and cursing them out - and he's watching
The Buds as they spin on the floor
A happy couple enters the bar dangerously close to one another
The bartender looks up from his want ads.
Otherwise the bar is ours, and the day and the night
And the car wash too, the matches and the Buds
And the clean and dirty cars, the sun and the moon.
