Rating: 5/5
Review:
A wonderfully haphazard collection
Frankly, you can't go wrong with this compilation. I mean – just look at the track list (below). Perhaps not everything here deserves the
epithet "classic" but it's an astonishingly eclectic selection of
great songs, many of which are true classics by anyone's definition.
In a way this is an outrageously random selection – the sort
of mish-mash I might get if I put my mp3 player on "shuffle" – but I
love the idea of a sequence like Joe Walsh's Life's Been Good, followed by the
amazing Werewolves Of London by Warren Zevon and then Wake Up Little Suzy (by
the Everlys, which you already knew, of course, or you probably wouldn’t even
be looking at this collection.) There
are plenty more strange but very pleasing juxtapositions; for example, the
whole thing closes with Lobo's facile and disposable (but strangely lovable) Me
And You And A Dog Named Boo followed by Ry Cooder's sublime version of Little
Sister from the superb Bop Till You Drop album.
I love it's unjudgemental joy in the music.
The transfers by Rhino seem very good and the songs are the
originals and not some slightly-less good re-recordings you get in some
compilations. I've already got a lot of
what's on here but it's still worth it at this price for the things I didn't
have (how good to hear Harry Chapin again, for example) and for the sheer
pleasure of just playing an amazing sequence of great stuff. Warmly recommended.
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