Stevie Ray Vaughan - Stevie Ray Vaughan - Greatest Hits
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Free Music Notes for Stevie Ray Vaughan - Greatest Hits
Free Music Review: The Best Greatest Hits Complination
Hit: 5 Stars
Their have been many Steive Ray Vaughan greatest hits albums. Including The Greatest Hits Volume 2, and The Essential Stevie Ray Vaughan but this Stevie Ray Vaughan Greatest Hits album is the best complination. I bought this at a used CD store and I just loved it I did own almost all of his CD's but except for this one. The real reason I bought this greatest hits was because of the first track TaxMan, I always loved the Beatles version, and I loved Stevie Ray Vaughan's music at the same time so I had to here the song beside the fact I loved all the other songs and thought it included Stevie Ray's best greatest hits on one CD. I loved the entire album for it was truely great. All of the songs included on this CD were his best work. Their are many songs missing but can be heard on The Greatest Hits Volume 2, and on The Essential Stevie Ray Vaughan. This whole album covers his best works from Pride And Joy, to Change It, also some other of my favorites include The House Is A Rocking, Little Wing, Crossfire, and Tightrope. The extra song TaxMan is perhaps the best new unreleased song on the entire album. I highly encourage anybody to pick up a copy of this masterpiece. Highly Recomened!
Free Music Review: So sad to have a crush on a dead man
Hit: 5 Stars
Basically Stevie Ray Vaughan was one of the sexiest guitar players that ever lived. If you've heard Little Wing, you know what I mean. How many more SRV CD's do I have on my wishlist? Probably 2 less than I need!Free Music Review: Great artist, severely lacking compilation
Hit: 3 Stars
Although he tends to go unappreciated these days, Stevie Ray Vaughan was one of the greatest rock guitarists out there in his day. Along with his band, Double Trouble, he served up a number of classic rock masterpieces, many of which must be heard to be appreciated. In 1995, a Stevie Ray Vaughan hits compilation was released. How does it measure up? Read on and find out.PROS:
-Let's say you're a casual fan of SRV, and you just want the big hits. You'll get most of them on here, including Pride And Joy, Cold Shot, Crossfire, The House Is Rockin', and even a cover of the Jimi Hendrix classic Little Wing.
-A plethora of underrated masterpieces can also be found here.
-There is a previously unreleased bonus track on here - a cover of the George Harrison-penned Beatles tune Taxman.
-This is an affordable compilation.
-This is an easy compilation to come by, so you shouldn't have to look too hard for it.
CONS:
-WAY TOO MANY MISSING SONGS. Where are Love Struck Baby, The Sky Is Crying, and Queen Bee? These omissions simply cannot be forgiven. A greatest hits should have all the hits!
-NOT LONG ENOUGH. You can fit eighty minutes onto a single compact disc, and this only has fifty minutes worth of material! What a rip!
-The Essential Stevie Ray Vaughan is, in all ways, a superior compilation.
OVERALL:
Although this compilation was a good idea, the record company didn't do a very good job. As with any artist, I recommend buying all of SRV's albums, but if you absolutely must purchase a hits compilation, get The Essential Stevie Ray Vaughan instead. This compilation can't do him justice.
Free Music Review: over rated
Hit: 2 Stars
go ahead and attack my review, srv fans, but deep down you know it's the truth. srv was a better than average house band guitarist but the words "genius" and "great" do not apply. those can only be applied to the inventor of this style of music, the great genius jimi hendrix. listen for example to srv's version of "little wing" versus the original by jimi. srv copies jimi note for note, but so what? did he write it? does srv's "little wing" have the soul and inspiration of jimi's? no, of course not. many people can learn to copy jimi's style but no one can be taught to be an original like jimi was.put another way, without jimi, there never would have been a srv. but about all srv did was make a few more listeners aware of jimi.
srv, you were a good guy a good guitarist, R.I.P.
jimi, you were the best, R.I.P. too.
Free Music Review: Inadequate
Hit: 3 Stars
A really great compilation makes the artist in question seem better than he really 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 actually are.Stevie Ray Vaughan's "Greatest Hits" does the opposite. It gathers several magnificent songs, but too many of these eleven selections, particularly the instrumental rendition of "Little Wing", "Crossfire", "Couldn't Stand The Weather", and his cover of "Taxman", aren't really among Vaughan's most memorable. They are not bad, far from it, but the track list just doesn't demonstrate how great Stevie Ray actually was. And besides, it's too short. They could have fitted another half dozen songs onto one CD.
Now, the new "Greatest Hits 2" goes a very long way towards rectifying this, 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 the one.