The Essential Alison Moyet

The Essential Alison Moyet
Greatest hits album by Alison Moyet
Released	10 September 2001
Recorded	1982–2001
Genre	Pop
Length	73:48
Label	Columbia/Sony Music Entertainment
Alison Moyet chronology
Singles (1995) The Essential Alison Moyet (2001) Hometime (2002)

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The Essential Alison Moyet is a compilation album, relatively similar to Singles, the 1995 greatest hits album of recordings by singer/songwriter Alison Moyet. The album was released in 2001^[2] by Sony Music Entertainment in response to renewed interest in the singer, after she was finally released from her contract with the label and able to sign with Sanctuary Records, regain the artistic control of her musical output and move back into the public eye - resulting in 2002 comeback album Hometime. However, there are some differences in the track listings of the two Sony compilations. The Essential Alison Moyet excludes "Only You", "Situation', "Ordinary Girl", "Ode To Boy II", "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" and "Solid Wood", and replaces them with "Don't Go", "Winter Kills", "Blue" and "Our Colander Eyes" (the latter two recorded in 1995/1996, and listed in the wrong order in accompanying material^[3]) plus cover versions "Ne Me Quitte Pas" and "There Are Worse Things I Could Do".