Sammy Hagar - Essential Red Collection
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Free Music Review: Good Idea That Just Missed...
Hit: 3 Stars
If your going to call this "The Essential Red Collection", then why not make it a double or triple CD worth of Sammy's whole career? I'm sure somewhere down the road, there will be an anthology collection released with many of the same songs recorded here. I gave this CD a passing grade, on the strength of the 2 "unreleased & the 3 motion picture soundtracks". Until that time when a larger version of Sammy's career is released, pick this up, crank it up, and enjoy.Free Music Review: They've almost got it right
Hit: 3 Stars
The basically took the best of Unboxed and threw in a Montrose track, two unreleased, and all of his movie contributions. They've almost got it right, but a two CD set is what Hagar really deserves.Free Music Review: Barely passable overview
Hit: 2 Stars
I've always had a bit of a problem with Mr. Hagar, especially in recent years. He has always had a tendency towards overkill. In the early days it was "red", Sammy's the red rocker, every song mentions red, then it was speed, Sammy has fast cars, can't drive 55 etc....and now, yes, Sammy we know you have a frickin' bar in Cabo San Lucas called the Cabo Wabo, must you remind us at every stinkin' oppurtunity? Hagar has become the Jimmy Buffett of hard rock!! And that Van Hasbeen tour with David Lee Roth a couple years ago? C'mon Sammy, is that the best you could do? Well, I did see him on a cooking show on the Food Network a while back. As a solo artist, Hagar was always 2nd tier at best, his strongest work coming from Montrose and Van Halen. Unfortunetly his ego allows him to believe he is better than a whole group, and he makes solo albums with 2 okay songs and 10 pieces of fluff). So from the albums he has released they have culled together 20 "hits" (and I use that term loosely, as most of these songs got nowhere near a chart), slipped a Montrose track in, and gave us his modest 80's charting hits (along with album tracks that are hardly essential). It's a nice overview of a minor artist, but only a few tracks rate essential status such as "I'll Fall In Love Again", "Heavy Metal", "There's Only One Way To Rock" and "I Can't Drive 55" (GOD I HATE THAT SONG, THOUGH). Where are some of his stronger late 70's tracks, such as "Trans Am (Highway Wonderland)" and "Bad Reputation"? This compilation would have been much better with those in place of the horrid "Give To Live" which is a bad "Piece of My Heart" ripoff or "Marching To Mars". The last 5 years or so Hagar hasn't even gotten an album into the top 100, proof that Hagar can't buy a hit and therefore at least the last 1/4 of this album is worthless. Caveat emptor.Free Music Review: WEAK!!!
Hit: 1 Stars
This collection is so lame I don't know where to start. Where's Rock Candy, Trans Am, Plain Jane, This planet's on fire, I don't need love, Three lock box and so on.
Oh yea. The fidelity sucks too. PASS!!!
Free Music Review: this album is....
Hit: 1 Stars
about as fun as getting your eyes pulled out
Death metal forever!