The Hollies - The Hollies' Greatest Hits
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Artist: The HolliesEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Bus Stop
- Carrie-Anne
- Stop, Stop, Stop
- Look Through Any Window
- Dear Eloise
- Long Cool Woman In A Black Dress
- He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother
- Just One Look
- King Midas In Reverse
- Pay You Back With Interest
- Long Dark Road
- On A Carousel
Free Music Notes for The Hollies' Greatest Hits
Free Music Review: Get the Re-Mastered Version
Hit: 3 Stars
I love the Hollies and their music. However, this CD has been re-mastered and the re-master includes "The Air That I Breathe." A Hollies anthology that has 47 tracks also exists. Before you buy a greatest hits collection from the Hollies be sure you know what is available and what each collection offers.
I admit, this is bubblegum music for the most part, but who cares? I enjoy variety in my music, and occasionally the Hollies are an excellent change. Furthermore, while many of the Hollies songs were throwaway tunes with relatively simple lyrics, occasionally the Hollies threw themselves into their music and transcended themselves.
Perhaps the song that was furthest from The Hollies traditional music on this CD is "Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress)". This song is styled exactly like Credence Clearwater Revival. The song begins with a heavy beat and moves into a fast-paced beat with reverb and solid guitar work that all sounds like the bayou music of CCR; one of the Hollies best works.
A song that aches for a big hall with heavy echo is "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother." This song is slow and mellow. Somewhat maudlin, with a wailing harmonica interjected from time to time, and soaring vocals on the refrain, in some ways this song is like a reprise of the song "The Air That I Breathe," which is not included in this collection. Perhaps I just have a thing for sickly-sweet songs from the 60s and 70s. In any case, I love to play this song really loud.
The Hollies were around for a long time, releasing albums from 1963 to 1983. However, most of their hits came in the 60s and early 70s. Most of their top 40 hits are on this CD; however, a word of caution. While this CD contains the core Hollies songs, as I noted at the beginning of this review there are collections with many more songs. If you are only interested in the Hollies top 40 music, then this CD is likely perfect for you. If you think you might like more than just the top 40 music, you may want to go find one of the collections that is more of a "best of" than just their single hits.
One other word of caution; this CD has a paucity of liner notes. I think most people look for some history of a group or the songs, and liner notes have started to become mini-biographies and histories. Forget about that for this CD. There may be another CD out there that has better liner notes, but I am unable to direct you to it.
Yes, The Hollies had bubblegum music. Yes, some of it may be considered sickly-sweet. But I still enjoy listening to it. Perhaps it reminds me of my 60s youth. Occasionally the Hollies were able to rise above their own throwaway music to create classics that are played and enjoyed again and again. This CD gets 3 stars for the good songs, short of 4 or 5 stars because of the poor liner notes and the lack of "Air That I Breathe."
The Hollies' Greatest Hits Poster
It may have been a crass marketing assemblage of this U.K. group's successes up until their second-chance 1972 hit, "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother"; but this also contains some of the greatest pop songs to be found under one chronologically fudged roof. Singer Allan Clarke was one of the most versatile vocalists of the British Invasion, able to pull off cute pop vignettes ("Bus Stop"), whoop it up like the original rockabilly ("Long Cool Woman"), lament majestically ("King Midas in Reverse"), and add distinctive blues colorings to the band's R&B covers ("Just One Look"). All in all, the Hollies were pretty good album artists, but Greatest Hits is what you really need. Clarke's boyhood chum Graham Nash adds faultless harmonies, guitarist Tony Hicks contributes sparkling fills, and the unheralded Bobby Elliott is on the skins. Pure pop manna, bad sequencing be damned. --Don HarrisonInternational Music CDs
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