Steve Miller Band - Young Hearts: Complete Greatest Hits
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Free Music Notes for Young Hearts: Complete Greatest Hits
Free Music Review: Take the Hits and Run
Hit: 4 Stars
The Steve Miller Band's expanded greatest-hits package is far from complete when it omits the Top 25 single "Heart Like a Wheel." We're also stuck with shortened versions of "Abracadabra" and "Swingtown." On the plus side, we have the gloriously uncut "Jet Airliner" and early classics such as "Livin' in the U.S.A." With a little more effort, this could have been the definitive Miller collection. Nevertheless, the best tracks -- "Take the Money and Run," "The Joker," "Rock'n Me," "Fly Like an Eagle" and "Jungle Love" -- remain essential.Free Music Review: Flop like a beagle
Hit: 3 Stars
Steve Miller deserves better than this slip-shod release. Ignoring actual hits for album tracks, then putting edited versions of the hits in place of the full lengths and topping at all with one of the most god-awful covers in history, somebody was seriously asleep at the wheel here. It's even telling that I-Tunes "cover art" is a more colorful and familair Pegasis art inspired by Book of Dreams and the CDs are now stocked in stores with plastic wrap whose artowrk sheathes the embarrassment beneath.
Also, other than "Living In the USA," Miller's pre-The Joker material is brushed to the side. While many of the songs here are land-mark 70's singles, ("The Joker," "Rocking Me," "Jet Airliner") that no-one saw fit to curate this affair with any respect makes it merely an average CD of hits, cobbled together with a hack mentality and barely recognizing that Steve Miller was once one of Capitol Records' flagship artists, alongside such pioneers as The Beatles and The Beach Boys. His original Steve Miller Band - Greatest Hits 1974-1978 was one of the label's all-time best sellers...and this is how they see him now? A grainy black and white picture to slap on a butchered batch of tunes? Songs to slice and dice with no discernable rhyme nor reason?
For shame.
Free Music Review: Steve has always been a little too close to my heart.
Hit: 5 Stars
This is a fine album; a hodgepodge of everything Miller. Just don't play it at your friend's grandmother's funeral; no good reviews there.Free Music Review: Awesome Album
Hit: 5 Stars
Some more Great Music from the Steve Miller Band that I had not heard before.Free Music Review: Almost 5 Stars
Hit: 4 Stars
This is quite a good Steve Miller compilation and there are certainly more good points to it, than bad. The good points are: it has great sound, all of the song selections are pretty well chosen, over all it is a good representation of Steve Miller. The one thing that I consider to be a bad point, is that there was a song not included, that I think should have been, as you can't find it on many SM compilations, in fact, at this time, the only compilation that you can find it on is out of print. It is also on the original album. The song is "Keeps Me Wondering Why" and I find it very frustrating that they have omitted that song more times than not, like I say, it's on an out of print compilation, although you can buy it's original album, "Abracadabra", which I think is a wrong, considering that it needs to be on all SM compilations, this one, especially. I loved that song, I would certainly consider it a hit. Other than that, though this is a pretty well-done compilation that most SM fans should enjoy, especially the casual fan.