The Band - The Band - Greatest Hits
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Artist: The BandEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2003-11-10
Music Label: Capitol
Soundtracks:
- The Weight
- Tears Of Rage
- Chest Fever
- I Shall Be Released
- Up On Cripple Creek
- The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
- Rag Mama Rag
- King Harvest (Has Surely Come)
- The Shape I'm In
- Stage Fright
- Time To Kill
- Life Is A Carnival
- When I Paint My Masterpiece
- Ain't Got No Home
- It Makes No Difference
- Ophelia
- Acadian Driftwood
- The Saga Of Pepote Rouge
Free Music Notes for The Band - Greatest Hits
Free Music Review: All the most essential tracks are here
Hit: 5 Stars
There are a lot of "best of" and "greatest hits" compilations out there that exclude at least one or two essential tracks. I've always thought that this is done in an attempt to get you to buy other of the groups' CDs. But if you want to own only one compact disc by the Band, then this is an excellent choice, although I'd recommend the Band's two-disc compilation, TO KINGDOM COME - THE DEFINITIVE COLLECTION, even more.
Of the eighteen tracks, I would have not included only two: "Time to Kill" and "Ain't Got No Home". Instead, in their place, I would have included "Mystery Train" and "Daniel and the Sacred Harp". But the other sixteen are just about the Band's best sixteen.
The Amazon reviewer, Andrew Bartlett, claims that the music on this CD "declines rather steeply on the final tracks" including "Acadian Driftwood"; however, "Acadian Driftwood" is one of the Band's most beautiful, heartfelt and moving songs. It's a personal favorite, and I'm sure it's a favorite of many of you out there. The Band didn't "decline". Music changed but, thankfully, the Band stayed the same.
The Band - Greatest Hits Poster
It seems odd that the Band emerged in 1968, defying the counterculture's extravagant rejections of U.S. culture with literary, often Southern-tinged musical and lyrical vehicles. Hearing this 18-song anthology, with its heavy weighting toward the Canadian quintet's first three albums--Music from Big Pink (four tunes), The Band (five tunes), and Stage Fright (three tunes)--what still stands out is the Band's command of yearning vocal harmonies, their sense of plainly laid melodies that reveal acoustic depth, and a nostalgia for an imagined American culture. With all their quirkiness and the advance of Robbie Robertson as their centerpiece, the Band lost their celebrated place in the rock pantheon within a decade. This set, which opens so magnificently with "The Weight," "Tears of Rage" (cowritten with Dylan), and the big organ-vamping "Chest Fever," declines rather steeply on the final tracks, "Acadian Driftwood" and "The Saga of Pepote Rouge." Up till then, however, this set is fantastic. --Andrew BartlettClassic Rock Music CDs
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