: Released by Musicbank, this 20-track collection focuses on iconic performances and covers such as "Unchained Melody" and "Bridge Over Troubled Water". Essential Tracklist Highlights
Fielding’s great moral insight is that virtue must be active , not passive. It cannot be merely abstaining from sin (Richardson’s Pamela) but must be the energetic pursuit of justice, kindness, and love. When Tom, at the novel’s climax, refuses to betray his friend Nightingale even to secure his own happiness, he demonstrates that goodness is not a state but a choice—often a costly one. The novel’s famous conclusion, in which Tom is forgiven and married to Sophia, is not a sentimental reward but a philosophical statement: a society that punishes genuine goodness while rewarding hypocrisy is corrupt. By restoring Tom, Fielding argues for a world where intention and action are weighed together. tom jones the best of 2000 eacflac vtwi top
: "It's Not Unusual," "What's New Pussycat?," "Delilah," and "She's a Lady". : Released by Musicbank, this 20-track collection focuses
Before Tom Jones , the novel was still finding its feet. Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and Richardson’s Pamela offered realism and epistolary intimacy, but Fielding sought something grander: a “comic epic in prose.” He drew from Homer, Virgil, and Cervantes, but he grounded their epic scope in the alehouses, country estates, and London bordellos of mid-century England. The novel opens with the discovery of an infant in the bed of the benevolent, childless Squire Allworthy—a founding event that sets in motion a vast moral experiment. Allworthy represents abstract, often misguided, benevolence; his sister, the hypocritical Bridget, embodies secret sin; and the villainous Blifil, Allworthy’s nephew, is a walking catalog of pretended virtue. When Tom, at the novel’s climax, refuses to
A correct rip includes a cuesheet listing exact pre-gaps, post-gaps, and ISRC codes. For Tom Jones’ 2000 comp, the cuesheet should match the original PolyGram pressing, including the hidden 2-second gap before “Green Green Grass of Home.”