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This anthology covers some of the highlights of Santana's long and varied career. Though it's occasionally dipped its collective toe into the AOR waters, Santana is one of the few psychedelic-era San Francisco bands that's maintained its career without embarrassing itself. Though diehards might lament the lack of more obscure material, there's only so much a single disc can cover of this band's esteemed legacy. Consider it a Santana starter kit; you get the basics from the band's first incarnation ("Black Magic Woman," "Evil Ways") the aforementioned AOR efforts ("Winning") and everything in between. THE BEST OF SANTANA does a good job of summing the band's fusion of rock, Latin music and jazz for those who haven't yet begun to explore Santana's venerable catalog.
Includes liner notes by David Fricke.
Santana includes: Carlos Santana (vocals, guitar).
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Nights Are Forever was the breakthrough album for Dan Seals and John Coley after some sincere and excellent work on A&M Records in the early '70s. Two of their biggest hits were the title track and the beautiful "I'd Really Love to See You Tonight." Those songs are a good indication of the fine performances this 1976 album contains. The duo's originals like "Long Way Home" and the Dan Fogelberg-ish "Westward Wind" could have been hits as well displaying superb musicianship and delicate vocals. This album is very much a companion piece to the Parker McGee album recorded around ...
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If Dowdy Ferry Road was their bleak moment in song, Some Things Don't Come Easy is the calm before the storm, a port prior to the schizophrenia that was Dr. Heckyll and Mr. Jive. Wandering songs like "Who's Lonely Now" are indicative of this album, and it is only one of two titles the singers pen together. They look alike on the smiling, happy airbrushed front cover, but you can almost see sadness in their eyes on the photos on the back. It must have been an intense period as they came up with yet another Top Ten hit, their fifth of six. "We'll Never Have to Say Goodbye Again" was written by Jeffrie Comanor and is far and away the best song on the album. This duo knew how to interpret; they were fantastic at it. The hit single is defined, the production is compact, and the loose ends that make up all the other songs on ...
| | Blondie Hunter CD (1982) Bonus Tracks; Remastered
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All tracks have been digitally remastered using 24-bit technology.
Autoamerican was Blondie's last real album (until their 1999 reunion with No Exit), after which the band collapsed in legal problems and solo aspirations. The Hunter was only made because they still owed Chrysalis an album on their contract, and it sounds like the obligatory record it was. "Island of Lost Souls" (the album's only U.S. singles chart entry and, in fact, the only song released as a single in the U.S.) was a try at remaking "The Tide Is High," while "The Beast" tried to re-create at least the rap section of "Rapture." "War Child," which made the U.K. Top 40, was a dance rock effort in the style of "Call Me," and one of two somewhat autobiographical Debbie Harry lyrics, along with "English Boys." (Harry wrote all the album's words except for those to keyboard player Jimmy Destri's "Danceway" and the cover of the Marvelettes' 1967 hit "The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game," which was written by Smokey Robinson.) "For Your Eyes Only" had been intended as the theme song for the 1981 James Bond film, but rejected (rightly) in favor of a competing entry by Bill Conti and Mike Leeson that went on to become a Top Five hit for Sheena Easton. The rest of the material was equally second-rate, consisting of funk-rock tracks with the barest of melodies, and lyrics that ranged from impenetrable ("Orchid Club") to incoherent (the science fiction epic "Dragonfly," which alternated recited and sung sections having something to do with a spaceship race). Blondie was always a band with ideas -- musical, lyrical, and visual -- but The Hunter found them running short conceptually as well practically. It was a disappointing end. ~ William Ruhlmann
Autoamerican was Blondie's last real album, after which the band collapsed in legal problems and solo aspirations. The Hunter was only made because they still owed Chrysalis an album on their contract, and it sounds like the obligatory record it was. "Island of Lost Souls" (the album's only U.S. singles chart entry) was a try at remaking "The Tide Is High," and "The Beast" tried to recreate at least the rap section of "Rapture." Elsewhere, Deborah Harry and Co. scraped the bottom of their songwriting barrel for an incomprehensible science fiction epic ("Dragonfly") and other second-rate material. ~ William Ruhlmann
Autoamerican was Blondie's ...
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