The evening was a sort of "greatest hits" package of Smith's legendary one-woman performances, from her twenty-six-character study of the Crown Heights riots to her Clinton-era fantasia on the White House.
"De Luz Con Amor" (LCR), her latest release, is a hits package spanning her pop and norteño catalogs, rounded out with five new songs, including "Tu Amor," a surprisingly convincing bachata duet with the singer JD.
The change in aesthetic, from used-future to something more utopian, is Lucas avoiding a common prequel/sequel trap: Rather than just safely echo the originals, something which greatest-hits package The Force Awakens is guilty of, with The Phantom Menace he for better and worse forges a different path.
Others have been little more than rote greatest hits packages, sometimes baited with a rarity or two for the collectors.
The album is their second greatest hits package and contains songs including 5,6,7,8 and Tragedy.
Best of the rest Beastie Boys Solid Gold Hits (Capitol) £12.99 First proper hits package from ace hip hop triad.
Cole Porter, on his deathbed, is treated to a greatest hits package of his life presented by the Archangel Gabriel.
The latest Rolling Stones greatest hits package, Grrr!, is set to chart at number three, according to midweek sales figures from the Official Charts Company.
There were the two negligible new songs from "GRRR!," the Stones' 50th anniversary greatest-hits package — "Doom and Gloom" and "One More Shot".
The Conchords will only re-inforce their status with this show even if it could have been cut into a much tighter "greatest hits" package.
True to their iconoclastic form, Mr. Partridge and Mr. Moulding have deviated from the familiar greatest-hits package on "Coat of Many Cupboards".
