Stevie Ray Vaughan - Stevie Ray Vaughan - Greatest Hits
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Free Music Review: Excellent Bluesman
Hit: 5 Stars
Stevie is what made me want to sing and play the blues. His Texas drawl and flavor lend his playing an extra bit of lonesomeness that make him a true blues man. This collection showcases some of Stevie's best album tracks, but if you really want to hear the blues then try some of his live stuff. Free Music Review: Out Standing
Hit: 5 Stars
SRV Is The Best guitarest in the world. I play guitar and my one dream is to be able to play one song he dose he ROCKS!!! on a scale of 1-10 he is 100. and the way he turned that beatles song the tax man into a master peice. wow breath taking.Free Music Review: Last of the blues virtuosos.
Hit: 5 Stars
None of SRV's imitators have both the chops and the soul, and those who've taken another turn have gone the wrong way. If you want to hear the last valid step in the evolution of high-energy electric blues guitar, get everything SRV ever did.Free Music Review: Great music, mediocre compilation
Hit: 3 Stars
A really great compilation makes the artist in question seem better than he actually is.
Really, it does. It compiles all of the artist's best material, leaving out the fat and the gristle, thus making the albums it summarizes - and by extension, the artist - seem better than they are.
Stevie Ray Vaughan's "Greatest Hits" does the opposite.
It has some magnificent songs, sure, but it is much too brief, and too many of these eleven selections, particularly "Crossfire", "Couldn't Stand The Weather", the instrumental "Little Wing", and Vaughan's cover of "Taxman", aren't really among his most memorable songs. They are not bad, certainly not, but the track list just doesn't demonstrate how great Stevie Ray actually was. And besides, the compilers could have fitted another half dozen songs onto the disc had they wanted to.
Now, the new "Greatest Hits 2" goes a very long way towards rectifying these problems, but this album by itself just doesn't do it. Sure, "Pride And Joy", "Texas Flood" and "Cold Shot" are here, but way too many great songs are not: "Ain't Gone 'N' Give Up On Love", "Scuttle Buttin'", "Love Struck Baby", "I'm Cryin'", "Dirty Pool" and "Willie The Wimp" to name but a few.
If you are looking for a really good Stevie Ray Vaughan compilation, go for the double-disc "The Essential Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble".
That one costs less than "Greatest Hits" and "Greatest Hits vol. II" put together (and features 33 songs, as opposed to 27), and if you really want to limit your SRV-collection to just one or two discs, "The Essential Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble" should be your compilation of choice.
Free Music Review: The Lamest Guitarist Ever!
Hit: 1 Stars
This compilation could've been trimmed (mercifully)down to about 30 seconds if there was a rule against repeating the same tired licks. SRV may have been a nice guy, but he was one sorry excuse for a guitar player-more proof that all you have to do to satisfy the vast legion of dullards is turn it up. "Passion" doesn't replace his lack of technique, taste, originality, etc,ad nauseum.