JERRY LEE LEWIS
ORIGINAL GOLDEN HITS VOLUMES 1 & 2
1999-COLLECTABLES
VARIOUS PRODUCERS
1. Crazy Arms
2. End Of The Road
3. Great Balls Of Fire
4. It’ll Be Me
5. Move On Down The Line
6. You Win Again
7. Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On
8. Little Queenie
9. Breatless
10. Teen-Age Letter
11. Lewis Boogie
12. Fools Like Me
13. Break-Up
14. Money
15. I’ll Make It All Up To You
16. Mean Woman Blues
17. What’d I Say
18. High School Confidential
19. How’s My Ex Treating You
20. I’ll Sail My Ship Alone
21. I Could Never Be Ashamed Of You
22. Save The Last Dance For Me
Between 1957 and mid 1958, Jerry Lee Lewis was one of the greatest rock & roll stars alive. Hew as a wild man, beating the crap out of his piano, and sending crowds into frenzies. His hits during that time included “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On”, “Great Balls Of Fire”, “Breathless”, and “High School Confidential”. Despite this success, he recorded only one album in the 1950’s, and his career was severely derailed in 1958 by the controversy surrounding his marriage to his 13 year old cousin. He continued to release great singles into the 60’s with Sun Records, but with little success.
This two-fer is the perfect kind. It combines the two greatest hits packages released in 1969 onto one disc of amazing early rock & roll. All of the tracks were recorded for Sun between 1956 and 1963. And, although there are no liner notes and no decent photos included, this set is still one of the great documents of early rock. During this time, Lewis never made a recording that wasn’t bursting with his trademark energy, and the songs here are all of excellent quality. A tough combo album to find these days, but worthwhile if you run across it.
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JACKSON 5
THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION
1995-MOTOWN
VARIOUS PRODUCERS
1. I Want You Back
2. ABC
3. The Love You Save
4. I’ll Be There
5. It’s Your Thing
6. Who’s Lovin’ You
7. Mama’s Pearl
8. Never Can Say Goodbye
9. Maybe Tomorrow
10. Got To Be There
11. Sugar Daddy
12. Rockin’ Robin
13. Daddy’s Home
14. Lookin’ Through The Windows
15. I Wanna Be Where You Are
16. Get It Together
17. Dancing Machine
18. The Life Of The Party
19. I Am Love Parts I & II
20. Just A Little Bit Of You
21. It’s Your Thing (The J5 In ’95 Extended Remix)
Never underestimate the power of the Jackson family. Between 1969 and 1975, The Jackson 5, both as a group and as solo artists, ruled popular music…in a very good way. While they were what would classify them today as a boy band, the Jacksons were: 1) Siblings. 2) More talented than any boy band ever. Combined. They had big hits, but they also had solid albums with deep tracks. Oh, yeah…they also had Michael, the most talented artist to ever step foot into Motown. And in that period of time, from their first recordings until Michael’s departure from the family band into solo ridicu-stardom, the Jackson 5 was simply great.
The Ultimate Collection is actually a single disc short version of the 3 disc box set Soulsation! It contains most of the J5 and solo hits (the British Version has Michael’s “Ben” and an interesting cover of Jackson Browne’s “Doctor My Eyes”), and unless you need everything they did, this disc will be perfect for you. It includes four of Michael’s early solo hits, and even one by Jermaine (“Daddy’s Home”). “I Want You Back”, “ABC”, “Rockin’ Robin”, “Never Can Say Goodbye”…it’s all here in one perfect little package.
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JACKSON 5
THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION
1995-MOTOWN
VARIOUS PRODUCERS
1. I Want You Back
2. ABC
3. The Love You Save
4. I’ll Be There
5. It’s Your Thing
6. Who’s Lovin’ You
7. Mama’s Pearl
8. Never Can Say Goodbye
9. Maybe Tomorrow
10. Got To Be There
11. Sugar Daddy
12. Rockin’ Robin
13. Daddy’s Home
14. Lookin’ Through The Windows
15. I Wanna Be Where You Are
16. Get It Together
17. Dancing Machine
18. The Life Of The Party
19. I Am Love Parts I & II
20. Just A Little Bit Of You
21. It’s Your Thing (The J5 In ’95 Extended Remix)
Never underestimate the power of the Jackson family. Between 1969 and 1975, The Jackson 5, both as a group and as solo artists, ruled popular music…in a very good way. While they were what would classify them today as a boy band, the Jacksons were: 1) Siblings. 2) More talented than any boy band ever. Combined. They had big hits, but they also had solid albums with deep tracks. Oh, yeah…they also had Michael, the most talented artist to ever step foot into Motown. And in that period of time, from their first recordings until Michael’s departure from the family band into solo ridicu-stardom, the Jackson 5 was simply great.
The Ultimate Collection is actually a single disc short version of the 3 disc box set Soulsation! It contains most of the J5 and solo hits (the British Version has Michael’s “Ben” and an interesting cover of Jackson Browne’s “Doctor My Eyes”), and unless you need everything they did, this disc will be perfect for you. It includes four of Michael’s early solo hits, and even one by Jermaine (“Daddy’s Home”). “I Want You Back”, “ABC”, “Rockin’ Robin”, “Never Can Say Goodbye”…it’s all here in one perfect little package.
That's a pretty good Best-of of. I happen to like Ben a lot, so would have been good to have that too. And if only it had Shake Your Body and Blame It on the Boogie, it would be the perfect 70s Jackson album. But those 2 came out right after they switched labels, so that's why they're not here. But I like how they got Daddy's Home.
PEARL JAM
TEN
1991-EPIC
Produced By RICK PARASHAR & PEARL JAM
1. Once
2. Even Flow
3. Alive
4. Why Go
5. Black
6. Jeremy
7. Oceans
8. Porch
9. Garden
10. Deep
11. Release
Grunge, and in particular, Pearl Jam, didn’t happen overnight. Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament began recording together with Green River in 1985, and added members along the way until Pearl Jam was formed in 1990 with the addition of Mike McCready and Eddie Vedder. Originally known as Mookie Blaylock (the album Ten was named in honor of his uniform number), Pearl Jam had its debut album finished by April of 1991. It was released…and promptly went nowhere. It took almost a year for everyone to catch on to the fact that Ten was a pretty good album, and its sales surpassed even those of Nirvana’s Nevermind.
And while Pearl Jam continues to this day, they never improved on Ten. The album contains many memorable songs: “Alive”, “Jeremy”, “Even Flow”, “Oceans”, and “Black” are all great songs. Much of the rest is basically forgettable, and even though the album sounds great throughout, the quality of songs declines beyond those five tracks. Less here than on future albums , Pearl Jam begins what has been a constant throughout their career: consistently inconsistent albums. Their live shows keep them going, but they never bested their debut album, and Ten, while very good, had plenty of room to grow from. Classic,great in spots, but far from perfect.
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CONCRETE BLONDE
WALKING IN LONDON
1992-IRS
Produced by CHRIS TSANGARIDES & CONCRETE BLONDE
1. Ghost of A Texas Ladies’ Man
2. Walking In London
3. Les Coeurs Jumeaux
4. Woman To Woman
5. Why Don’t You See Me
6. City Screaming
7. Someday?
8. I Wanna Be Your Friend Again
9. …Long Time Ago
10. It’s A Man’s World
Walking in London is the follow up to Concrete Blonde’s most successful album, Bloodletting, and the hit “Joey”. It was not a success, probably because instead of releasing one of the albums better songs as a single, they opted for the much weaker “Someday?”. This put a stop to the momentum started with “Joey”, and continued with a great version of Leonard Cohen’s “Everybody Knows” for the movie “Pump Up The Volume”. And Concrete Blonde would never be the same again. But, this is still a very good, and very overlooked, album.
“Ghost Of A Texas Ladies’ Man” and the title track are a powerful 1-2 punch, with the latter being the band’s best song. These tracks alone make this worth having, but “I Wanna Be Your Friend Again”, “Why Don’t You See Me”, and a strange cover of James Brown’s “It’s A Man’s World” make it even better. And “…Long Time Ago” was the closing track on the series finale of The Shield for good reason. There are a couple of lesser songs here: “Woman To Woman” is irritating, and while “Someday?” isn’t terrible, it’s hardly the best here. This is a forgotten album from the early 90’s worth checking out.
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BOOKER T & THE MG’S
THE BEST OF BOOKER T & THE MG’S
1984-ATLANTIC
Produced By BOB PORTER
1. Green Onions
2. Mo’ Onions
3. Jellybread
4. Tic-Tac-Toe
5. Soul Dressing
6. Terrible Thing
7. Can’t Be Still
8. Boot-Leg
9. Summertime
10. Be My Lady
11. Red Beans And Rice
12. My Sweet Potato
13. Booker-Loo
14. Hip-Hug-Her
15. Slim Jenkins’ Place
16. Groovin’
In 1962, a group of studio musicians began jamming on a keyboard riff from Booker T. Jones, which was recorded by the sound engineer, distributed to local DJ’s, and which became a hit before the song even had a title. Thus began the story of “Green Onions”, and the long legacy of Booker T & The MG’s. Since 1962, they have released only 13 studio albums, but they have also been the band for many great musical projects, including work with Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Wilson Pickett, and later Neil Young and Drive-By Truckers. Many of the great soul songs from the 60’s feature the MG’s as the backing band.
They were also part of The Blues Brothers band during their career, including the John Belushi days.
On their own, the MG’s (a bi-racial group from the 60’s) played flawless instrumental music. “Green Onions” is their biggest hit, but there are also many other great tracks included on this Best Of. Because their music is instrumental, it’s hard to keep interested for too long a period: thus, about halfway through this, it becomes background noise. But the musicianship is flawless, and the original songs are usually better than their covers of the hits of the day. These guys are some of the best musicians in rock history, and it shows. There have been a lot of Best Of’s from the MG’s: they are all pretty interchangeable, and they are all very good.
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BOOKER T & THE MG’S
THE BEST OF BOOKER T & THE MG’S
1984-ATLANTIC
Produced By BOB PORTER
1. Green Onions
2. Mo’ Onions
3. Jellybread
4. Tic-Tac-Toe
5. Soul Dressing
6. Terrible Thing
7. Can’t Be Still
8. Boot-Leg
9. Summertime
10. Be My Lady
11. Red Beans And Rice
12. My Sweet Potato
13. Booker-Loo
14. Hip-Hug-Her
15. Slim Jenkins’ Place
16. Groovin’
In 1962, a group of studio musicians began jamming on a keyboard riff from Booker T. Jones, which was recorded by the sound engineer, distributed to local DJ’s, and which became a hit before the song even had a title. Thus began the story of “Green Onions”, and the long legacy of Booker T & The MG’s. Since 1962, they have released only 13 studio albums, but they have also been the band for many great musical projects, including work with Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Wilson Pickett, and later Neil Young and Drive-By Truckers. Many of the great soul songs from the 60’s feature the MG’s as the backing band.
They were also part of The Blues Brothers band during their career, including the John Belushi days.
On their own, the MG’s (a bi-racial group from the 60’s) played flawless instrumental music. “Green Onions” is their biggest hit, but there are also many other great tracks included on this Best Of. Because their music is instrumental, it’s hard to keep interested for too long a period: thus, about halfway through this, it becomes background noise. But the musicianship is flawless, and the original songs are usually better than their covers of the hits of the day. These guys are some of the best musicians in rock history, and it shows. There have been a lot of Best Of’s from the MG’s: they are all pretty interchangeable, and they are all very good.
Yeah, you can't beat this. And even after the hits when they all kind of start to sound the same, it's okay because they're all pretty good. I've been meaning to listen to their Abbey Road album McLemore Avenue, where they do the entire Abbey Road album. I don't know how I keep forgetting because it's something I really look forward to hearing. I bet it's going to be awesome. In fact I'm going to listen to it tonight.
WU-TANG CLAN
ENTER THE WU-TANG (36 CHAMBERS)
1993-LOUD
Produced by RZA, METHOD MAN, OL’ DIRTY BASTARD, & GHOSTFACE KILLAH
1. Bring Da Ruckus
2. Shame On A Nigga
3. Clan In Da Front
4. Wu-Tang 7th Chamber
5. Can It Be All So Simple
6. Da Mystery Of Chessboxin’
7. Wu-Tang Clan Ain’t Nuthing To Fuck Wit
8. C.R.E.A.M.
9. Method Man
10. Protect Ya Neck
11. Tearz
12. Wu-Tang: 7th Chamber-Part II
And so, in my continuing attempt to understand and actually embrace hip-hop, I have discovered the following through listening to Enter The Wu-Tang: 1) By the end of track 3, the word “fuck” has lost all meaning. 2) There are a really high number of members of the Wu-Tang Clan (at least 9 vocalists on this album alone). 3) This album contains what has to be the longest thank you list in the history of recorded music. 4) According to their Wikipedia page, the group is based on Eastern philosophy derived from kung-fu movies, watered down Islam street preaching, and comic books. And 5) Once you get down to the music, this is something very special.
This album is 9 very talented guys coming together and collaborating in a rare way: usually, with so many egos in one room, it’s hard for anything to work. Here, everything seems to work. Individual personalities like Method Man, Raekwon, Ol’ Dirty Bastard, and so on, emerge in a group setting, bringing out the best of everyone. They rhymes are flawless, and the musical flow of this album is surprisingly powerful. This album is grimy, yet smooth and flows like albums should, regardless of genre. “C.R.E.A.M” and “Can It Be All So Simple” are highlights, but really, everything works. A strange group, a strange album, and a great result. Every time I hear an album like this one, I feel better about the music that has eluded me for so many years. This is a true classic.
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WU-TANG CLAN
ENTER THE WU-TANG (36 CHAMBERS)
1993-LOUD
Produced by RZA, METHOD MAN, OL’ DIRTY BASTARD, & GHOSTFACE KILLAH
1. Bring Da Ruckus
2. Shame On A Nigga
3. Clan In Da Front
4. Wu-Tang 7th Chamber
5. Can It Be All So Simple
6. Da Mystery Of Chessboxin’
7. Wu-Tang Clan Ain’t Nuthing To Fuck Wit
8. C.R.E.A.M.
9. Method Man
10. Protect Ya Neck
11. Tearz
12. Wu-Tang: 7th Chamber-Part II
And so, in my continuing attempt to understand and actually embrace hip-hop, I have discovered the following through listening to Enter The Wu-Tang: 1) By the end of track 3, the word “fuck” has lost all meaning. 2) There are a really high number of members of the Wu-Tang Clan (at least 9 vocalists on this album alone). 3) This album contains what has to be the longest thank you list in the history of recorded music. 4) According to their Wikipedia page, the group is based on Eastern philosophy derived from kung-fu movies, watered down Islam street preaching, and comic books. And 5) Once you get down to the music, this is something very special.
This album is 9 very talented guys coming together and collaborating in a rare way: usually, with so many egos in one room, it’s hard for anything to work. Here, everything seems to work. Individual personalities like Method Man, Raekwon, Ol’ Dirty Bastard, and so on, emerge in a group setting, bringing out the best of everyone. They rhymes are flawless, and the musical flow of this album is surprisingly powerful. This album is grimy, yet smooth and flows like albums should, regardless of genre. “C.R.E.A.M” and “Can It Be All So Simple” are highlights, but really, everything works. A strange group, a strange album, and a great result. Every time I hear an album like this one, I feel better about the music that has eluded me for so many years. This is a true classic.
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