Bob Welch - The Best of Bob Welch
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Music CD Cover Artist: Bob Welch Edition: Music CD CD Release Date: 1991-11-19 Music Label: Rhino / Wea Soundtracks:
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Free Music Notes for The Best of Bob Welch Album
Free Music Review: Good for the casual fan, but it could have been better.
Hit: 3 Stars
For those who are looking for just the big hits, this CD does the job. Bob Welch was an artist of many styles, from hard driving rock music one moment, to mellow ballads the next. This disc represents mostly his Capitol / EMI Records output, which may leave die-hard Welch fans longing for more. As hard as Rhino tried, it's tough to represent an artist of many music styles to one CD.The disc starts us off with 4 selections from Welch's failed hard rock band "Paris", however, this is the only CD I know of where you can get anything of Paris' material, since both their albums are out of print. Overall not bad, but not the pinnacle of Bob's career either.
Next the big hits came with "French Kiss" & "Three Hearts" which make up the bulk of hit material here. Leading off with the Lindsay Buckingham re-arrangement of "Sentimental Lady", which is the longest running of the 3 or so versions of this song on CD. Also featured is the big hit from 'Three Hearts', "Precious Love"....which has that underlying disco beat to it. Other noteable cuts from this CD include "Ebony Eyes", "Ghost of Flight 401", and "Church".
Finally we come to the last half of the disc, which is really spotty. These tracks come from the 2 most interesting albums in Welch's Capitol output.."The Other One" and "Man Overboard". Because there were no 'hits' off these 2 albums, I'm sure Rhino had a tough time picking and choosing tracks to put on this CD. This is why I docked off a perfect 5 stars for 4....These albums could and should have been represented better. Had this been a 2-disc compilation, that would have been possible. The other Welch compilation (Bob Welch - Greatest Hits, from Curb Records)
has "Spanish Dances" (from "The Other One") and 2 from "Man overboard" ("Jealous" & "The Girl Can't Stop"). Had those tracks, along with what's on this disc, plus the best from his Mac years, and 2 RCA albums (also out of print), this would have been a excellent compilation.
Despite their failed attempt at covering everything Welch has done, this is still good for the person who just wants 'the hits' and nothing more.