Consumer Guide Album

Paul Carrack: The Carrack Collection [Chrysalis, 1988]
Compiling hits by Ace, Squeeze, Carlene Carter, and Mike and the Mechanics, all sung by the featured attraction, who recently earned the right to sell out under his own name. Nice songs, but in this context they reveal themselves as more fungible than anyone but Carrack's solicitor would prefer. Always wondered why his catchy Nick Lowe-style album, here mined for filler, never made an impression. B