The Best of Rare Earth: 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection (Eco-Friendly Packaging)

Rare Earth - The Best of Rare Earth: 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection (Eco-Friendly Packaging)

The Best of Rare Earth: 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection (Eco-Friendly Packaging)
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Artist: Rare Earth
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2007-03-13
Music Label: Motown
Soundtracks:
  1. Get Ready
  2. I Just Want to Celebrate
  3. (I Know) I'm Losing You
  4. Born to Wander
  5. Hey Big Brother
  6. What'd I Say
  7. Ma

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Back when I was a 1980s teenage whipper snapper and did not know my David Ruffin from my Eddie Kendricks, I thought I was listening to late-1960s Temptations whenever I heard Rare Earth on the radio. Those rocked up, psychedelic versions of "I'm Losing You" and "Get Ready" were quite the jams.

To be frank, I didn't know the whole history Norman Whitfield giving Motown a few tabs in the late 1960s, and didn't even realize the Temps and Rare Earth versions were different takes of the same songs. To show you how ignorant I was, I thought Soul was conservative, and Yes and ELP were the place to be.

Well, I have learned a thing or 5000 about music since: the most important that you can love nearly all of it because a big thread runs through the music universe

And so we dock on the wonderful Rare Earth. These guys were one of few white bands landing on Motown around the time Armstrong was landing on the moon, 1969.

Earth's specialty was taking soul songs, retaining to said vibe, but making them work as hard rock Well, Barry Gordy or whoever signed these guys to Motown must have had their finger in the Woodstock air, because it was an absolute stroke of genius

Soul, psych, hard rock, dance: Rare Earth had the synergy of all a young band could need to make it big on both AM and FM circa 1970, and with the Beatles breaking up and Gary Pucket Vs. King Crimson in an AM/FM straight/hip death match, that is no small feet.

But these long, acid-y, essay like takes on Motown tracks pull it off, and if you think you have heard it all before, think again.

Back in the day, AM radio would extract the jams out songs from bands like Rare Earth to fit a three minute format, where FM gave you the whole planet--and you know what, those Rare Earth tracks you hear on 2010 oldies format radio are still victimizing you with the exact same slices and dices that were constructed forty years ago.

So you really SHOULD be buying all the albums, but if that is a little drastic, for now, get this, which has the main goods of Rare Earth in all their long ago, progressive regalia.




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The 20th Century Masters series is the best-selling single-artist line in music history and is being re-released by Universal Music Enterprises (UMe) in its ground-breaking, environmentally-friendly packaging format. A first for the music industry, the standard package (both sleeve and tray) will be completely paper-recyclable, continuing the company's long-standing commitment to being "green."

To further reduce the amount of paper in the Eco-Pack, the CD booklet will no longer be offered. Official liner notes are easily accessible on the Internet at http://www.ilovethatsong.com/green.

UMe is the first North American music company to replace the traditional jewel case with recycled paperboard sleeves and the plastic tray with trays made from PaperFoam®, a new packaging technology from Shorewood Packaging, a business of International Paper, that is paper-recyclable and biodegradable. Shorewood Packaging is the first North American packaging supplier to produce disc trays from PaperFoam®.

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