Eddie Money Hold Back

For Eddie, every move was calculated for maximum commercial impact, which more often than not meant wrapping his raspy voice around the best songs possible. "Can't Hold Back" was Eddie Money's sixth album and the first to be produced by Richie Zito, a man with an impressive resume, including crafting records by Cheap Trick, Heart, Bad English and the Cult. Issued in 1986, the album moved Eddie's career firmly back in the spotlight, giving rise to no less than three hit singles, including "I Wanna Go Back" and "Endless Nights". It contains Money's biggest hit, "Take Me Home Tonight" which helped bring Ronnie Spector back to the spotlight. The album has been certified platinum.

"Shakin' with the Money Man" is a latter-day, live recording from Eddie Money that finds him running through his biggest hits - "Two Tickets to Paradise," "Shakin'," "Baby Hold On," "Wanna Go Back," "Take Me Home Tonight" - for an appreciative audience. In addition to the hits, he throws in a couple of lesser-known tunes, recent numbers, and a holiday song to keep the diehards happy.

"Wanna Go Back" is Eddie Money's eleventh album, released in 2007. On it, Money sings cover versions of popular songs from the 1960s. His daughter, Jesse Money, performed on three tracks from the album. It will surely become a collector's item!

Eddie Money was always reliable for turning out a hit single or radio anthem on each of his records. Often, it felt like all of his energy went into a couple of songs per album, since the remainder of each record, while frequently enjoyable, was cluttered with filler. Which is a roundabout way of saying what a welcome addition Greatest Hits: The Sound of Money is to Money's catalog: not only is it a fine collection of his hits, it's the most consistent record he's assembled. Not that it's perfect. Some of his smaller hits are missing and there's a bit of filler even on this hits disc, but the truly essential items – "Baby Hold On," "Two Tickets to Paradise," "I Wanna Go Back," "Walk on Water," "Shakin'," "Take Me Home Tonight," "Think I'm in Love," even "Peace in Our Time" – are here, and the best of them really do define what album rock was all about at the turn of the '70s and early '80s.

Eddie Money was always reliable for turning out a hit single or radio anthem on each of his records. Often, it felt like all of his energy went into a couple of songs per album, since the remainder of each record, while frequently enjoyable, was cluttered with filler. Which is a roundabout way of saying what a welcome addition Greatest Hits: The Sound of Money is to Money's catalog…

Columbia/Legacy's 2001 release The Best of Eddie Money supplants the earlier 1989 collection Greatest Hits: The Sound of Money as the best overview of Money's career. Again, it's not sequenced chronologically, nor is it as tight as it should have been (Money is somebody who would really sound terrific on an eight- or ten-song collection), but it's very good all the same, containing all of his big hits, plus live versions of "Rock and Roll the Place" and "No Control" previously only available on a promo EP. So, even if it's not perfect, it will still satisfy the needs of most Money fans.

"Unplug It In" is an acoustic EP by Eddie Money, released in 1992. Recorded at Back Alley, Houston, TX on may 14, 1992; The Backroom, Austin, TX on may 15, 1992. Eddie Money was one of the first rockers to make an attempt to capitalize on MTV's successful Unplugged series. Like any "unplugged" recording, the album features a collection of the rocker's biggest hits performed acoustically.