Sammy Hagar - Essential Red Collection
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Free Music Review: Another "best of" but it works!
Hit: 5 Stars
Sammy Hagar and "best of" collections. There seems to be no shortage... Live -- Hallelujah, Unboxed, Loud And Clear live, best of (1999), Live 1980, Red Hot live, best of (1998), Classic Masters, very best of (2001), 36 All-Time Greatest Favorites, Greatest Hits Live (2003), and now Essential Red Collection. I could even throw in two "best of" Van Halen and one live Right Here Right Now by Van Halen.
The thing this collection brings to the table is it pulls all those great 80s soundtrack clips together! Great to have "Fast Times At Ridgemont High" and "Girl Gets Around" from Footloose! You also get two old songs that are previously unreleased called "Thinking Of You" and "Call My Name". It also brings in some of his late 90s and 00 work like "Little White Lies", "Marching To Mars" and "Mas Tequila".
I could spend an hour telling you "he did not put this hit or that song on this collection." But something tells me with all those "best of" Sammy out on the market, you will find your song. If your a long time "Red Rocker" fan like myself you most likely have the album in your collection.
Free Music Review: Too Many Songs to choose from IMO
Hit: 5 Stars
Before I review this, I do have a question: If one is not a fan of Sammy Hagar or doesn't care for his work, why bother reviewing a Greatest Hits album? $50 bucks says they only looked at the song listings and didn't even purchase the CD. If you don't like Sammy, why waste your time?
That boggles my mind.
If I had my druthers, this would have been at least a two cd release. As my title states, too many songs to choose from. That said, this is still an excellent compilation.
For Hagar fans anywhere (And yes folks, there are P-L-E-N-T-Y of us), I can't imagine any one of them throwing this CD in their car and saying: This sucks or I was jipped.
Surely I can see a fan reviewing this and being disappointed that their favs didn't make the cut and as a result, their review might lose a star.
But to those who enjoy the Red Rocker, it's what DIDN'T make it on here that is the disappointment. Not what did.
Great stuff Sammy.
Hawk
Free Music Review: David who?
Hit: 5 Stars
This is why David Lee Roth will never stack up to Sammy! Not only a better library of Van Halen songs and all six of his albums with them going to number one on the charts but what a great library of solo songs as well! Sammy can write and play with or without Eddie but Roth is a joke no writing talent at all except lyricly! Without great musicians surrounding him he sucks! But Sammy can get a bar band to back him and go out on tour and not only play his solo stuff but pull of pretty good renditions of Van Halen songs too! if you like any period of Sammy's solo stuff this album will open you up to all of them! The only this could be better just like the Tom Petty greatest hits is make it longer or more CD's so enjoy until the next greatest hits comes out or Sammy opens the vault and pulls out some unreleased stuff!Free Music Review: Best SAMMY Collection Available
Hit: 5 Stars
Finally, forgotten hits ("Your Love Is Driving Me Crazy") and several soundtrack gems (i.e. "The Girl Gets Around" from Footloose) included on a Best of Sammy CD. This 20-track single disc takes you chronilogically thru Sammy's career from Montrose ("Bad Motor Scooter") to the present day ("Mas Tequila.") As others have pointed out, there is no Van Halen here. That's OK, I think the emphasis here is clearly on Sammy's solo work. There is a new 2-disc, remastered, best of VH package in stores now. Go get that: I did. For his solo work, this is your ticket. Remastering is great. Sound quality excellent. My only complaint is I wish it would have featured one HSAS track. (Don't know what HSAS is? Search "Through The Fire" for the best band you've never heard of.)Free Music Review: This Anthology Should Be Bought Along With The Original Albums
Hit: 5 Stars
THE ESSENTIAL RED COLLECTION is a great anthology of Sammy Hagar's career, including various soundtrack songs that were not on previous anthologies, such as "The Girl Gets Around" from FOOTLOOSE and "Winner Takes It All" from the arm-wrestling movie OVER THE TOP. However, it shouldn't be your only purchase of Hagar's music. You should also get his two Montrose albums, as well as all of his solo albums up to and including HALLELUJAH and the Chickenfoot CD. That's because all of those contain numerous great songs that aren't included here. Nevertheless, for a single-disc anthology, this one and CLASSIC MASTERS are the ones you should buy if you don't want the rest. But you'll be missing a lot of great stuff.