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| | Steve Miller Band: The Best of 1968 - 1973 | | | Music Artist : | | Steve Miller Band | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Capitol | | Release Date : | | 1991-07-30 | | Store Price : | | $8.94 | | Artistopia's Price: $8.94 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Joker
2. Living in the U.S.A.
3. My Dark Hour
4. Going to the Country
5. Shu Ba Da Du Ma Ma Ma Ma
6. Going to Mexico
7. Come on in My Kitchen
8. Evil
9. Song for Our Ancestors
10. Your Saving Grace
11. Quicksilver Girl
12. Seasons
13. Space Cowboy
14. Gangster of Love
15. Kow Kow Calqulator
16. Little Girl [*]
17. Don't Let Nobody Turn You Around [*]
18. Jackson-Kent Blues [*]
19. Sugar Babe [*]
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Just right
Submitted on: 2009-08-18 |
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| Product was shipped quickly and safely, arrived quite functional and just as advertised. Nice transaction. |
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 Close, But No Cigar
Submitted on: 2009-04-29 |
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| Three and a half stars, really. Growing up, I dug the Anthology album. As a child, I knew that this music was quite unlike Fly Like An Eagle and Book Of Dreams, but I eventually learned to enjoy it as much as those, more in some ways. Later I bought the individual albums, which were great, each in their own ways. The present album has most of the songs from Anthology, and all of the crucial ones, I think. It pulls a fast one, by including The Joker (which was also on the Greatest Hits 1974-1978 album, and is also on Young Hearts). Today I was driving around in my truck listening to this cd, and I wondered about the sequence. A question came to mind, and that questions was: I wonder if this cd might benefit from a different song order. In particular, the live tracks seemed to be placed a bit early for my optimum enjoyment. Fine cuts, but kinda screwy in their placements, tracks 7 and 8. So I get home, and the first thing i do is stick it in the player. I program it as follows:2,3,13,16,4,5,6,9,10,11,12,14,15,17,18,19,7,8,1. (Try it, you might like it!) What this does is to put the 4 most popular songs from the early period up front, except for The Joker, which goes to the end. "Joker" goes to the end not because it's a bad song (it's great), but because it is really a transition from the early period of the SMB to the later period in which they became mainstays of classic rock. Also, sequentially, for my purposes, it worked out, and sounded cool after all these other tunes. If you look at the numbers I programmed, you will find that i only diverge from the album's programming in a few ways: the opening sequence of "Living In The USA", "My Dark Hour", "Space Cowboy", "Little Girl". Gathering these tunes at the front was my whole purpose in doing this, by the way. Then I go through in the order prescribed here, excepting the aforementioned "Joker" and live cuts. After the sequence alluded to above, I put tracks 7, 8, and 1. Tracks 7 and 8 were live tracks from "The Joker" album, track 1 is The Joker, the song. Thus the last 3 songs (of my sequence) are representatives of "The Joker" the album. This album was without doubt the last of his "early" albums, and the song The Joker is a clear precursor to the stage of his career which was to proceed with the excellent albums "Fly Like An Eagle" and "Book Of Dreams". There are those of us who find those 2 albums to be rather unique in the Miller canon. However, I would like to say that even though he may never have followed those albums up with similar material, I appreciate the existence of those albums, and consider them to be minor miracles up there with the pyramids of Egypt and Dark Side Of The Moon. If I were to meet Steve Miller, I would not harass him. I would congratulate him! But I digress. You may very well like the album the way it is. Perhaps a re-master would help, but that is absolutely beside the point. Get the cd, program it as prescribed, and see what happens. I know what happened to me! I played it all afternoon and most of the evening. It sounded great! |
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still sound good
Submitted on: 2009-04-27 |
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| had this in a LP and finally had to go technical....sound is clear and all inclusive |
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 great cd
Submitted on: 2008-11-16 |
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great for anyone who is a steve miller fan who wants there greatest
songs |
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TELL THE LADIES: " SHU BA BA DU MA MA MA !!!!"
Submitted on: 2008-06-11 |
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WOW, I meant to review this thing ages ago! Can't believe I never did. Steve Miller is a cool dude. His music isn't revolutionary, but it is some stuff that you can party to. Nowadays there is a single disc hits retrospective, that covers his career from '68 up until-sometime in the eighties... but if you wanna rock the party out... I recommend that you get (first) the 74-78 hits disc, and then this one.
You get pretty much all that is great from Stevie Guitar Miller. 74-78 has all the ones that you hear at the beachside bar on summer days, but 68-73 has some more hippie, trippy, bluesy tracks, that are just as easy to party to, as they are to chill out and listen to while your cookin' in the kitchen or doing something else in the basement. LIVING IN THE USA, SPACE COWBOY, MY DARK HOUR...COME ON IN MY KITCHEN these songs are timeless in the sense that they are feel good songs, ladies like to shake it when they are played, and almost everybody can dig when they are lettin' loose. Along the mix the Miller band touches on some folk like ballads here and there, probably recorded on some hippie stuff, but no problem from me. Good Stuff all around! |
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