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| | The Best of the Box Tops: Soul Deep | | | Music Artist : | | The Box Tops | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Arista | | Release Date : | | 1996-10-01 | | Store Price : | | $7.99 | | Artistopia's Price: $7.98 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Letter
2. Neon Rainbow
3. Happy Times
4. Cry Like a Baby
5. Fields of Clover
6. Choo Choo Train
7. She Shot a Hole in My Soul
8. People Gonna Talk
9. I Met Her in Church
10. Sweet Cream Ladies, Forward March
11. Together
12. I Must Be the Devil
13. Soul Deep
14. I Shall Be Released
15. (The) Happy Song
16. Turn on a Dream
17. I See Only Sunshine
18. You Keep Tightening up on Me
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 The Best Of The Box Tops
Submitted on: 2008-02-19 |
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| One of the best CD's from that period in Rock I've heard in quite a long time. It was though I had been transported back to that era. The aduio quality was better than what I remember. |
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I'm glad my soul got deep enough to appreciate this CD.
Submitted on: 2007-08-20 |
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I originally bought this CD to get "The Letter" and "Soul Deep" which are tunes I've loved since I heard them on the radio as a child. My father even had the original 45 version of "The Letter" and I played it many times growing up.
Originally I really didn't appreciate the other songs on this CD, even though dad also had the original 45 of "Neon Rainbow" too. But I'm happy to say that something happened to my ability to appreciate music and now I can really enjoy just sitting through this music from start to finish. I even like "Met Her in Church" which itself sounds a lot like an old tent revival church song. Great stuff! I guess growing up and old isn't so bad, if it means there's more music out there to enjoy. |
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"People Gonna Talk" if you don't consider this goody from Alex Chilton
Submitted on: 2007-08-08 |
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As the author of the Jefferson Airplane book "Take Me To A Circus Tent" and a former radio disc-jockey, I am often asked to write and or discuss various music supplies and recordings from the 60's and 70's.
The Best of the Box Tops: Soul Deep released in October 1996 by Arista is the perfect introduction to the early music of Alex Chilton.
If you are hesitant about procuring the CD because on first glance there are only a few recognizable tunes, your apprehension will quickly be diminished.
The opening track "The Letter" would make representation perfectly logical if it were the only tune on the compilation. It is a timeless track that has never left the play lists of oldies radio and classic rock. Chilton's vocal inflection makes the lyrics rather profound. It is one that has made entry to the time capsule. "Cry Like A Baby" another oldies favorite gives further evidence of Chilton's voice being proficient in both the rock and soul categories. "Soul Deep" never fails to make an impact even after hundreds of listenings. It didn't reach two minutes and thirty seconds but is timeless nevertheless. Chilton's voice delivers the goods on the Dylan cover "I Shall Be Released." It is a terrific choice and inclusion here is mandatory. The final track "You Keep Tightening Up On Me" is the most underrated song found on the collection. It has a quality that makes even the initial listen as if you have heard the song numerous times. The vocals and the instrumentation end the CD as it began, with a bit of soul and a lot of joy.
Enjoy the music and be well,
Craig Fenton
Author of the Jefferson Airplane book "Take Me To A Circus Tent"
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Imperative
Submitted on: 2007-06-06 |
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This is the "whisky & cigs" period for Alex Chilton's vocals, a sound he abandoned as he aged (like Merlin he's going backward in time vocally...he'll die singing high register hillbilly bluegrass). Compare the vocals here to his post-Big Star "Bach's Bottom" work and his version of "Nobody's Fool" and few people would be able to identify him as the same singer.
The Stax "pop & soul" factory was in an odd passage of inspiration with The Box Tops, which it sadly had neither the management wherewithal, distribution, or vision to develop and refine. A pity, for the roots of something excellent are here, particularly in the established instantly recognizable hits this album collects.
Yet, following the slow arc of this pale firework, the fall to earth and implosion of Stax and The Box Tops gave birth the creativity and freedom that Chilton would latter profoundly offer in Big Star, his production of the Cramps, and his leadership as a low-fi and independent artist who has inspired and shaped basically anyone worth listening to since he started his musical career. |
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 From Memphis With . . .
Submitted on: 2006-09-12 |
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| You've heard "The Letter", of course, and "Cry Like A Baby". And you've probably heard "Soul Deep", perhaps without realizing it was the same guys (which it really wasn't, more about which in a second). There's even an outside chance you've heard "Sweet Cream Ladies, Forward March" (whom Sweet Cream Men adore, and who should "fabricate success for those who fail", if you catch the song's subtle drift). The Box Tops released four LPs and a slew of singles in their brief career and SOUL DEEP culls the highs and some lesser material for a very good overview. In other words, this is really all you need if you're interested. But it clocks in at only 50 minutes, which means one of two things: either the sponsoring label is being really chintzy, or The Box Tops just didn't have all that much really great material. Based on what I hear here, I suspect the latter. Even the four Chilton originals are somewhat less than impressive; keeping to form they sound pretty much de rigueur with the rest of the material and don't even begin to hint at what he'd do with Big Star (I imagine they Powers That Were made sure of that). Speaking of which - - The Box Tops were pretty much a fiction, at least in the studio. The "band" was actually just Chilton with house musicians. So who chose to cover Dylan's "I Shall Be Released" so lugubriously? It's the nadir of the collection and its inclusion bogs down the latter half - - particularly after highlights as high as "She Shot A Hole In My Soul" and "Sweet Cream Ladies", who should think what they're providing and whom Puritans ignore. Chilton didn't write that one, by the way. |
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