In 1999,
Arista
released an 18-track
Air Supply
anthology called
Definitive Collection
. Four years later,
/
BMG Heritage
Ultimate Air Supply
. What is the difference between the two collections? Five tracks (plus new liner notes, including track-by-track recollections by
Graham Russell
and
Russell Hitchcock
). The original Australian version of
"Lost in Love"
is lost from
, but this gains their last American charting single,
"The Power of Love (You Are My Lady),"
later popularized by
Celine Dion
. This is a marginal difference, and certainly not enough for anybody who already owned
to jettison it for this, but it does mean that it gets the slight edge for anybody looking for a thorough
collection (although, truth be told, most listeners will likely be happy with a shorter collection since the songs that surround the big hits -- which are
"Lost in Love,"
"All Out of Love,"
"Every Woman in the World,"
"The One That You Love,"
"Here I Am,"
"Even the Nights Are Better,"
and the
Jim Steinman
-penned
"Making Love Out of Nothing at All"
-- tend to be a little too samey in their
adult contemporary
smoothness, and dilute the impact of those big hits). ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine