Editorial Review

Dylan was virtually gushing great songs when this masterpiece arrived in the summer of 1965. From the epochal opening of "Like a Rolling Stone" through the absurdly apocalyptic closer, "Desolation Row," his command of surrealistic language was daring and amazing. As a vocalist, he was rewriting the rules of the game. Jimi Hendrix made note of Mr. Z's technically suspect pitch and decided that he too was a singer. And the backing, though ragged, is precisely right. Is this the essential Dylan album? It's certainly one of them. Read more

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Each Song a Behemoth on it's own and Each one an Anthem
I'm not going to write a long review , there's no need. This is my favorite album ever , the lyrics are sparse and penetrating , the music is amazing and only complements the lyrics to give them an extra edge. Dylan was one of the best if not best lyricists ever and a Poetic catalyst that changed songs and how they were written forever.Listen to this and really think about what picture he was trying to paint , this album is a mosaic of sound , poetry , and sincerity.

rock's best
as numerous other reviews have noted, this is a landmark album of incredible lyrical and creative depth, arguably dylan's finest accomplishment in a career of many. however, 61 stands out as particulary sharp and defined. i purchased this album years ago when i was 13, mostly off of my love for 'like a rolling stone.' however, i rarely got past track 3, "it takes a lot to laugh..." because that and the two prior tracks were so amazing to me that i had to go back and re-play them again just to catch what i could have missed. this trend continued on track by track. of course i didn't know what awaited me on the final track, "desolation row," the 11-minute blast of lyrical perfection weaved among the back and forth play between acccoustic guitars. to me, this track solidifyed "highway 61 revisited" as dylan's best, and the best album i've heard to date. it was probably still so without it, but 'desolation row' itself makes this rock's finest accomplishment.

Cool Jacket
It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry and From A Buick 6 are weak, so...
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Considered an unprecedented magnum opus when it arrived on two records in May of 1966 (1997's Read more

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Best Bob Album
This is the best Bob Dylan album, hands down. I own every album and I can honestly say that this is his best. Every song on this album is good. That is a rare thing in itself, but when you couple that with the fact that Dylan is amazing, when you find a "best" album by him it really means something. Buy this!

Rock's best double album...and Dylan's finest
'Blonde on Blonde', in my opinion, stands as Dylan's finest work and the best double album in rock 'n roll's history.The lyrics are dense, impenetrable, full of strange imagery and hallucinations, as well as being full of fantastic musicianship throughout.Take a brief glance at some of the musicians that played on this album : Robbie Robertson (as well as the rest of the Band), Kenneth Buttrey, Al Kooper, Charlie McCoy...great session players, many from Nashville.The songs themselves are some of Dylan's most memorable : "Rainy Day Women", "Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again" (my personal favorite on the album), "Visions of Johanna", as well as two of the finest love songs Dylan ever wrote - "I Want You" and the touching and beautiful "Just Like a Woman".Also, there is humor: good for a chuckle is Dylan's parody of the Beatles' "Norwegian Wood" - "4th Time Around" - which supposedly made John Lennon extremely paranoid when he first heard it.
As great today as ever
Blonde on Blonde offers a timeless window into the soul of American music. Dylan deserves great credit for his incredible singing and song writing, and, no doubt, for also inspiring his musicians. The producer deserves everyone's thanks for having kept things together -- the song/performance choices are right-on (something demonstrated clearly by "No Direction Home's disc 2). The accompanying musicians deserve applauds from then & now to the end of time for their professionalism, their soulfulness, and their playfulness. What amazes me beyond all else is that the music on this album always sounds current, of the moment. And its music ends up being more than the sum of its parts. How this is accomplishment, I cannot say. All I can say is that this is an album that gives a great deal of pleasure. Thanks, Bob and all, again and again. ... Read more

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A Trip Through The English Countryside
This is the side of Jethro Tull that I really dig. I loved this CD from the very first listen, which is unusual for me. As much as I enjoy Aqualung, I have to admit it took some time for some of the songs to grow on me. Not so here. Ian Anderson's voice was made to accompany acoustic guitar strumming (which he is very adept at both.) Alot of acoustic guitar, flute and an ample smattering of Martin Barre's brilliant electric guitar colorings. I feel like I'm in "Jolly Olde England" while listening to this. Tull were a unique, pioneering band and I feel this recording is their crowning achievement and testimony to their greatness and individuality. Not a weak or dull moment. Truly captivating and my number one recommendation for a Jethro Tull recording. Also check out Thick As A Brick, Aqualung and Minstrel In The Gallery. Very addictive!

One of Tull's Best
Looking back on this album thirty years later, I can say that it is one of the great British prog rock albums. Ian Anderson continued the journey taken up with 1975s Minstel in the Gallery. He integrates Olde English folk music; the drinking song quality of the title track, Celtic folk music: the guitar imitating the bag pipe in Pibroch (Cap in Hand), with the classic Tull blues rock sound. This is the first of the last three albums of the 1970s period Tull, which marked the demise of the classic Tull era with Barriemore Barlowe, John Glascock, John Evans and David Palmer, now a full time member of the band. Besides "The Whistler", these albums got little or no air play in the States, which should define them as worthy of a listen just from that persepctive alone. Songs like "Hunting Girl" and "Songs from the Wood" are extraordinary examples of fine ensemble playing; the players are in rare form belting out time changes and playing against each other with clarity and precision. The lyrics writing is is wonderful. The songs portray a series of stories about nature and pagan themes that innocently evoke a bygone day with romantic sentimentality. In this sense, it is an answer to the overt anti-religious sentiment of Aqualung. It contains none of the cynicism of the earlier Tull albums. Re-thinking this album with thrity years of hindsight I can say that it has and will withstand the test of time.

Madrigal- Celtic Genious
This is Tull complex as in Thick as a Brick and as folky as "Living in The Past". Here Tull gave the public a very complex arrangement.
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Everybody Should be Free
The opening track, "The Times they are a-Changin'" is a call to arms. It was heeded in the Sixties when the streets were filled with protesters, kids who wanted an end to the war in Vietnam. Dylan has sung this song countless times over the years, talking about the battle that is outside raging, but somehow we've forgotten this message, though we sing the words with Dylan at almost every concert he's given on his never ending tour. Sadly there are almost no protesters today. And it seems if one does raise a voice, bad things could happen to him.
This Album Still Has Meaning Today
"The Times They Are a-Changin'" is one young man's rage against how things are going in America back in the '60s and the song still rings true today. We still have war and corrupt politicians and parents who will never understand their sons and daughters. I guess some things never change. "With God on Our Side," is a long song about war that also is relevant today, it just needs a verse about Iraq at the end of it. This is an album that is impossible to listen to without wanting to get up and do something about the state of affairs in the world today.

Fantastic!
Bob Dylan is by far one of the greatest song writers around.His music has spanned the decades and continues to thrive into the new millenium.Even though the events have changed, the references made can still pertain to things happening today and tomorrow and probably forever.Dylan's creativity continues to thrive and change on his third album and every album he continued to make.There seems to be something that everyone can enjoy.From traditional folk to rock influenced, his sound will be forever etched in stone.The Time They Are A-Changin' is a must have for all Bob Dylan fans and just another way for the younger generations to feel the emotions that were flowing throughout the 60's.Highly recommended! ... Read more

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exiting, raw and great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
es impresionante lo que suena este disco... la guitarra cruda y rabiosa de jeff, la voz todavia joven de rod, y la guitarra anonima stone..es un acierto reeditarlo ya que es una muestra temprana del talento de estos musicos, de la electricidad que injertaban en el legado de chicago....... un trabajo inolvidable

Truth Rocks
This is the album that started the term "Supergroup".I have owned the original vinyl of this recording since it came out in about 1968. Used to tell people about this amazing band which was Rod Stewart's debut, singing in a group which included amongst others,Jeff Beck on guitar,Mickey Waller on drums and Nicky Hopkins on Piano.Even John Paul Jones of Led Zep fame plays Hammond organ on one of the tracks.
Can You Handle The Truth?U.K. Import Worth It
If you want some insight into what fueled the "British Invasion" this is for you.Young Brits took American blues, plugged it in, amped it up, and quite honestly, gave us back a new and improved version of our own idiom.What an all-star lineup!Beck is a monster, and never better.Rod Stewart has that scotch-and-cigarettes rasp that fits the music exactly.(Long before he fell victim to years of dreadful material).For good measure, there's even Nicky Hopkins on the piano.Lounge lizard nightclub electric blues supreme.The U.K. version bonus tracks are fantastic, with only a couple of exceptions.(The genius who included Love Is Blue needs to take a nap.)Forget the wretched, self-indulgent excess of Led Zeppelin and their ilk.This is the real deal.And that's the truth. ... Read more

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Surrealistic Pillow
One of the greatest albums of all-time! Favorite songs are D.C.B.A.-25, White Rabbit, J.P.P. MeStep B. Blues, My Best Friend, Somebody to Love, She Has Funny Cars, and 3/5 Of A Mile In 10 Seconds.

Essential 60's Westcoast
This has to be one of the best examples of the music being produced on the west coast in the latter half of the 60's. Unlike so many other "psych" albums this one holds together superbly - every track has merit. The songs have a wide range of diversity - the rocking "Somebody to Love", country "My Best Friend", the raucous "3/5 of a mile", the acid laden "White Rabbit" and the haunting tracks "Today" & "Comin' Back to Me". The musicianship is excellent and the singers both solo and in harmony work to great effect - what a voice Grace Slick has on this album.
"We Built This City On Rock-n-Snore"
It's 2006, and I can't sleep.To whom do I turn?How about our old friends the Jefferson Aeroplane!Who would have thought that five wimps and one tambourine-shaking dingbat could still cure insomnia after all these years?And you don't even need a prescription!Without wasting too much energy or space, all I can say is that these lovable losers sound more hilarious now than ever.A revolution?How about a little depth, common sense, and musicianship?These cornballs never displayed any of that.The Jefferson Aeroplane were a practical joke that was never very funny.One star for the psychedelic dullards who thought they were a real band. -DW ... Read more

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The Original Iron Maidens
What do you get when you combine talent, two leading ladies and a collection of hits that are as powerful now as they were when they were first released? The Essential Heart is a collection of over 25 years of solid gold hits, for me at least of the most prolific pulse pounding songs ever to grace the airwaves. "Crazy on You", "Barracuda", and "Straight On" really capture time in a bottle, (or at least a three minute song). They were competeting with the likes of Fleetwood Mac, KISS, the Stones and yet Heart has managed to stay true to their roots while placating the masses. "Straight On" a catchy love tune that uses love as a card game, just brilliantly has impact on the foolish games people play when it comes to romance. Their rendition of Unchained Melody and Rock and Roll, though I cannot stand covers, stands out as more than just a hit sung Heart style. They made it their own. If it had them who had relased it, they would have made it a hit. Maybe a bigger one! But perhaps the most powerful song is number 17 on CD one: "How can I refuse". With one foot in the retro past and the other in the future, Heart in a way made their own way into the New Wave/Glam Metal movment that would define the era of excess.
Keep on rockin
I have loved this group since I was a teenager. This is one of Heart's Best performances!! Keep On Rockin'! You cant get any better than this. A+ to Heart and to Amazon's awesome customer service!!

The best of Heart's lifework captured on disc(s)
THE BAND: Ann Wilson (lead vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards, violin, harp, percussion), Nancy Wilson (guitars, vocals, mandolin, bass, keyboards) and assorted band members throughout the decades - including Roger Fisher (guitar), Steve Fossen (bass), Michael DeRosier (drums), Howard Leese (guitars, keyboards), Mark Andes (guitar, bass), Denny Carmassi (drums). Read more

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Who cares?
The Who really annoys me. I can't stand all the rock opera's and concept albums' that cover for poor songwriting. This album is saved by "I Can See For Miles" which is a great song. The rest of the album is dreadful. Just terrible drivel. Its a waste of time to listen to. Of the rarities added on, "Melancolia" is actually pretty cool. Thats a song that should have found a home on a Who album long before this decade considering all the painfully inadaquate garbage that actually did make it onto their albums.

It's Not a Bad Album...
I hate to say this, but "The Who Sell Out" is my least favorite album from The Who (only counting the albums I've heard).As much fun to listen to as Psychadelic Rock is, I don't feel The Who do Psychadelic Rock quite like The Doors or Jefferson Airplane.And I realize that the radio inserts are part of the feel for the album, but I find them to be a bit annoying.I would definitely say a fan of The Who should get this album, but anyone that is new to experiencing The Who should look at "Tommy" or "Who's Next" or "Who Are You".But I'm sure there are many big fans of The Who that really like this album and are most likely pleased by what they hear.

Perhaps the greatest rock album ever!
The Who Sell Out is a milestone recording, and has for years been a long standing favorite of mine. I own two different vinyl copies which I have cherished. My decision to buy this on cd was based on a friend's recommendation and the fact that there are "extra songs". I was unprepared for just how many additional songs are included on this release, and most of them are simply jaw-droppingly astounding.
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Songs of Love and Pain
You can really feel the emotion in these songs, especially "Tangled Up in Blue" and "If You See Her, Say Hello." But for me the song that really sums up the way Bob Dylan was feeling when he put out this album is "Buckets of Rain," because this album is certainly full of buckets of tears. Bob Dylan's voice is in pure form on this album and the two bands that back him on the songs really seemed tuned into what Dylan is singing about. These songs of love and pain are certainly some of Bob Dylan's best work.

Songs full of Pain and the Best Cowboy Ballad Ever Sung
"Blood on the Tracks" is one of Bob Dylan's better known records and one I really love. I've been listening to it as long as I can remember, thanks to my dad, who is a huge Dylan fan. I am as well. How can you not be. Just give a listen to "Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts" with your eyes closed. If that eleven minute long cowboy ballad doesn't paint pictures on the inside of your eyeballs. A couple other picture painters are "Tangled Up in Blue" and "Idiot Winds," though I must say, I prefer the version of "Idiot Winds" on the official "Bootleg Series."
Sad, Haunting, Exciting, all at the Same Time
Where as I thought "Another Side" showed an angry poet, this record shows us the same man, grown older and full of pain. Some of the songs just want to make you cry, they are so good, so personal. It's really hard to praise "Blood on the Tracks" enough. It's one of the best records ever made. The imagery in "Tangled Up In Blue," will stay with you long after the record ends. "If You See Her, Say Hello" will move you as will "You're a Big Girl Now." "Idiot Winds" will haunt you and "Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts," will excite you. I love this record. ... Read more

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Nineteen ninety-eight: The same year he dances with Soy Bomb at the Grammys, his record label finally issues Bob Dylan's ultimate live document. A classic case of not giving the audience what they want but what they Read more

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Bob at his best
There's no need for me to go into detail, given the number of other reviews on this. But this is just Bob Dylan at his absolute best. I'm listening to the album for the zillionth time right now. The acoustic side is great--the best from Bob's early years. Then the electric side just knocks your socks off. There is so much energy in Dylan's singing, and The Band is in rare form. The electic guitar solos are amazing. Each song is better than the last, and every track carries extra energy that you don't hear in the studio versions.

esto no es un album ..es un libro de historia!
no podemos ver esta edicion como una simple sucesion de temas pertenecientes a un determinado artista...esto excede los oidos, los parlantes, los pentagramas, las criticas, en fin...esto es historia..demas esta hablar del particular momento en que fueron grabados estos temas, del dramatico momento compositivo que atravesada dylan,del ignorante que grito "... judas!!" esta obra no puede faltar en ninguna discoteca de musica contemporanea..es una capsula que encierra la atmosfera de un instante donde las palabras, la actitud, el compromiso de un artista intentan concretar un cambio...NO PODES DEJAR DE ESCUCHARLO, NO PODES DEJAR DE SENTIRLO, NO PODES DEJAR DE CREERLE....a dylan.

Solid Gold
This album blew me away. I got it about two months ago, and I still can't stop listening to it over and over again. Both parts are absolutely brilliant. If you are a Dylan fan, you will enjoy the acoustic half almost as much as the electic, and if you are not a fan, then at least listen to the electric. Chances are it heavily influenced your favorite music.
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Though the band likely didn't know it at the time, this would prove to be the last studio record by one of the most famous rock & roll bands in the world. Drummer John Bonham died shortly after its release.Although nothing compares to early Led Zeppelin--and they lost many longtime fans in the late 1970s--this LP is nothing to be embarrassed by. They were quick to embrace and experiment with synthesizers, and while it wears a little thin by record's end (the synth-bloated "Carouselambra" and the slick AOR hit "All My Love"), it adds a certain majestic tone to the heavy-hitting opener, "In the Evening," and gives a rollicking good-time feel to "South Bound Suarez." Plant's howl and Page's bluesy guitars are in fine form on "I'm Gonna Crawl" and the lilting "Fool in the Rain" recalls the pretty numbers from their early career. Read more

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That's What Friends Are For
Due to Jimmy Page and John Bonham chasing the tail of the drug dragon and Robert Plant's vocal chords being frayed - a portion of In Through The Out Door was recorded in a studio used by vocal group ABBA - it was up to bassist/keyboard player John Paul Jones to hold the pieces of the band together for the "comeback" album that was released in the summer of 1979.
In Through the Out Door....
...with the automatic fire alarm exit!First off, lets be real honest, punk wasn't that big of a problem in the late 1970's, sure in England it was everywhere, but here in the US Arena rock still had at least 70% of the mainstream music scene.How many punk albums have sold over 10 million?Very very few, at the same time the so-called "punk explosion" happened in 1975-1982, at least 11 hard rock bands released albums that sold in excess of 15 million each, so much for the "music of rebellion"!In fact the only Punk album ever to reach the infamous 10 million sold mark was "Dookie" by Green Day, so punk's impact is very overated.The only reason why people hype up punk music like it was the huge music scene during the late 70's is because they won't admit that it was in fact the heavy metal scene that came into dominance, because anybody who reads Rolling Stones is an extremely anti-metal music fan and they will use any excuse to dismiss the impact of Van Halen, Judas Priest, Ac/Dc, Aerosmith, and Kiss during the latter part of the 70's.
Led Zep's Swan Song
No matter how negative the reviews from others on this disc, I have always loved it.A bit synth heavy in places (Carouselambra anyone?) which makes this more of a John Paul Jones record than anything.Three other tunes (which showed up on "Coda") were recorded during these sessions, and if the CD had been around then, I believe those songs would have been released as part of In Throught the Out Door.You'd have a Jimmy Page-John Paul Jones balance and would make a much stronger record.Anyway, if I were to sequence those songs into the mix, my ITTOD would look like this:
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Great Songs, Classic Band, AWFUL Remastering job!
The reviewer that's most prominent on the first page (McCranie from Brunswick, GA) got me to buy this by praising the remastering. What a joke! I feel ripped off since I already have all the original CD releases of the original Steppenwolf albums and only bought for the so-called sound improvement of remastering. I am here to tell you, the guy is either tone deaf or doesn't know what he's talking about. The remaster sounds barely better than the original CD releases! When played even moderately loud everything becomes really bass heavy & muddy with all the instruments drowning out the vocals and no separation of instruments whatsoever no matter how much you try to EQ it. I have a good stereo system (Bryston 4bSt running through Polk rti12s) and I love heavy bass and a heavy drum sound when it's clean like on early 1970s remastered HDCD King Crimson CDs, remastered Yes CDs or Zeppelin. The bass blasts, the drums blast like crazy but there's SEPARATION so that it's not just a big mud of noise! Some of those old records when remastered good sound so good, it literally sends chills down my spine. You mean to tell me Steppenwolf screwed up so bad in the studio that no matter what they can't get some decent remastered sound out of these tapes? If that's the case then it's very sad because this is one of the really great American rock bands. My advice is DON'T buy this expecting to get good sound because you won't. What you'll get is a bunch of great songs that sound OK at low volume but when you try to crank it loud like hard rock & to tell you the truth, all good music, is supposed to be played, you get so much loud undistinguished sea of mud coming out of your speakers with John Kay's vocals drowned in it.

Great cd
Best Steppenwolf collection,very very cool band!Great songs and John Kay is true ARTIST.Sounds as good as 30 years ago!!!!!

Steppenwolf and this Monster set....
Probally one of the best greatest hits album out right now. I don't think there is a song on here I don't like. I bought this right after my dad did, two years ago and it still gets continuous play here and in my dad's truck. Good music, timeless Born To Be Wild, Magic Carpet Ride, Hey Lawdy Mama, Snowblind Friend, and Monster. Get this album, it's worth it ... Read more

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One of the Grateful Dead's best studio albums
This is a good introduction for newer fans who might find it difficult at first getting used to their more jammed out cds

Best Album Ever from an American Band
I'm not a Dead-head and I've never seen a Dead concert - Okay I saw Bob Weir once - but I consider this to be the best album ever made by an American Band, and one of the top ten albums of all time. In 1970 the Dead stopped experimenting and started recording real songs, with great lyrics, catchy melodies and harmonies, and even hooks, by Gosh!Workingman's Dead was the prototype, but they struck the vein later in the year with American Beauty.All 10 songs work well. Even the harmonizing is breathtaking, meaning that Jerry Garcia's tendency to wander around the key doesn't mess up matters too much.But what raises this album above many of its influences (the Band, the Byrds, Dylan, CSN) is its striving for spiritual union in the midst of a mundane, drug- and war-ravaged society.So it makes perfect sense to me that one of the most sublimely mystical songs, "Attics of My Life," is placed right before one of the great earthy rockers of the era, "Truckin'".They flow right together, as do all the songs on the album, and the glue that holds them together is the tight playing and singing.

One of the Best Albums of All Time!
No matter if you are a fan of the Grateful Dead or jambands at all, if you like folk-rock, 70's rock or just music in general, buy this album! American Beauty truly captures what is beautiful about America. Containing a wide array of wonderful songs such as "Friend of the Devil," "Box of Rain" and "Ripple," the album reveals country,folk and psychedelic rock at its best! ... Read more

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Propelled by Mark Knopfler's literate songs, gruff vocals, and spidery guitar work, Dire Straits had overcome initial skepticism for their resistance to '70s new wave accents in favor of a rootsy traditionalism. This 1985 album captures the band consolidating a far more epic style than the concise shuffles and ballads that the original scrappy quartet had reeled off, their ambitions fueled by the larger canvas afforded by the CD. One of the first albums to exploit the format's longer playing time, Read more

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One of the greatest songs in history!!!!!!!
Wow!!! This is another song I can play over and over and over without getting tired of besides the all-time great "Heavy Fuel", "Money For Nothing". It's just best, and absolutely one of the greatest songs of all time. That song is just pure a million stars.
"A Full Digital Recording" indeed
Back in the early days of CDs, labeling an album "A Full Digital Recording" was a big deal, and so was "Brothers in Arms", which was first released in 1985. A production that pays so much attention to detail, that even over twenty years after its original release, you can sill find yourself digging in for more detail and enjoying it more and more. From the opening bars of "So Far Away" and the classic "Money for Nothing" (the song that made MTV and the band even MORE famous), you are faced with an album that stands the test of time like few and delivers the crisp sound of Mark Knopfler's guitar the way you want it.
Dire Straits' best!!!!
Dire Straits are legends, and are as great as all the legends of Metallica, Green Day, Foreigner, Nirvana, and Guns N Roses. Brothers in Arms is a fine album which has the best song ever in Money for Nothing. Sincerely if you don't have it, buy em all.....not kill em all. ... Read more

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Music Review
I am a big fan of The Band and this was one of their first cds.I liked it pretty good

One of the greatest albums, no doubt about it
I first heard this recording in the late 60s -- it spoke to me strongly then, and speaks just as strongly almost 40 years later.I can't say that about many records made in those times.I'm not nostalgic, I'm not a guy that sits around and listens to old Beatles and Rolling Stones albums... but I still love to listen to music from Big Pink on occasion, it just plain holds up over time. As a musician myself, I would disagree with some of the reviewers that this music is "simple".It most certainly is not... the songs and performances are quirky and complicated, and so is the production.The sound is a bit muddy compared to their later albums which were no doubt higher-budget affairs. (This record was made in a house, not a studio!) To me, Music From Big Pink was never really topped by the group, although it was equaled by the second album "The Band".
One of the BEST ALBUMS OF ALL TIME!
For those who are unfamiliar with the Band, this album is a great start and what is in my opinion their best. Recorded in Woodstock, NY at their house "Big Pink", which they moved to to be closer to Dylan, it contains some of the best rock and roll I've ever heard. Rootsy, but not behind the times, it is a perfect segway into some of the more folk-oriented rock of the early 70's. And for Dylan fans, this album contains many songs written and co-written by the man himself, no to mention the cover which he painted. Bottom line, Buy this album! It is an amazing piece of rock and roll with some of the best songs ever! ... Read more

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Even before their second fling with the pop mainstream, Aerosmith were one of Top 40's favorite hard-rock bands, so ubiquitous--and so funky--that Run-D.M.C. were vociferous fans. Their '70s output included at least three classic albums (Read more

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Despite what others say, I really like this...
This certainly isn't the only greatest hits album by Aerosmith, but it's the only one i have.I had most of their LP records years ago, but no longer have a turntable.This cd has some of my favorites by the band, as I like their older stuff better than the more recent.Everything from the late 80's on just is not as good in my opinion.
at least its better than O yeah
Greatest Hits is Aerosmith's first compilation. It's also probably their best one, considering it had all the truly essential songs up to that point. Tracks like Mama Kin, Seasons of Wither, Train Kept a Rollin, Toys in the Attic, and Uncle Salty probably didn't appear on here cuz Aerosmith wanted to make a small compilation. It would be nearly perfect if it wasn't for the destruction of two great Aerosmith songs.
If there's nothing better....
This is definitely not a bad collection, but there are so many better ones out there, that this should not be your first choice. The song Sweet Emotion has been completely destroyed on this album. the entire bass intro has been cut out, and the song starts about an entire minute into it. There really is no reason to do this, as even on the radio, they play the entire thing, as it runs about 4 and a half minutes long. The song starts at a terrible place too. It sounds like it would if you turned on your radio to the middle of the song, then just stuck it on the cd that way. Again, not a terrible compilation, but definitely not a good first choice. ... Read more

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Even Better Than Volume One
Anyone knows that one disc can't possibly hold all of Rod Stewart's best songs, so naturally a second volume will have to be made. "Encore: The Very Best Of - Vol. 2" adds 18 Stewart classics not found on 2001's "The Very Best Of Rod Stewart". This disc has some great stuff on it, and is actually slightly better than the first volume.
Better than Volume 1 or that Greatest Hits!
I liked that he put out a second album of his greatest hits on Warner Bros. And clever since he's finishing out his contract with them because he's on J now.But this album has songs he left out on the first one.I like that Crazy About Her is on here, for I played that the most from Out of Order!Very big sound on it! Infatuation I still love.And Passion is another solid song on here.There are some bluesy numbers,some soul-driven numbers and rockers here too. I loved his version o