| | History - America's Greatest Hits CD America Discography of CDs
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America: Gerry Beckley (vocals, piano, bass); Dewey Bunnell (vocals, 6-string guitar); Dan Peek (vocals, 12-string guitar).
Additional personnel: Henry Diltz (banjo); Joe Osborne, David Dickey (bass); Kim Haworth, Ray Cooper, Dave Atwood, Hal Blaine, Willie Leacox (drums, percussion); Chester McCracken (congas); Venetta Fields, Clydie King, Jessica Smith (background vocals).
Producers: Ian Samwell, Jeff Dexter, America.
Compilation producer: George Martin.
Engineers include: Robin Black, Ken Scott, Geoff Emerick.
Mirroring the cover art depiction of America's dual life in England and the U.S., History: Greatest Hits perfectly spotlights both the polished and layered production of British studio legend George Martin and the West Coast tones of the band's folk-pop style. Featuring the group's many chart toppers from the first half of the '70s, this definitive roundup includes Neil Young-style acoustic sides like "Lonely People," the hippie MOR of "Muskrat Love," and breezy acid rock like "Sandman." And even though Martin didn't produce the entire lot of songs here, his sophisticated and mostly subtle way with strings, keyboards, and multi-track guitars is in evidence throughout. Adding to the fun are additional highlights like the updated surf cut "Sister Golden Hair" and ingenious McCartney-esque pop like "Only in Your Heart" and "Daisy Jane." An essential collection for fans who like their '70s folk with a pop sheen, loads of hooks, and top-drawer arrangements. ~ Stephen Cook
To their detractors, they were Crosby, Still, Nash and Young Lite, but nonetheless, this premature career retrospective of soft-rock icons America holds up extremely well against most pop records of the early to mid-'70s. In part, that's due to ex-Beatles producer George Martin, whose considerable studio expertise nudged country-ish tunes like "Sister Golden Hair" as close to power pop as they were feasibly going to get. But the fact is that America had a genuine knack for crafting catchy, radio-ready singles, and this album offers just about all of them, including the Neil Young-esque "Horse With No Name," and the genuinely lovely "Ventura Highway." History - America's Greatest Hits Music History - America's Greatest Hits Songs | 1. | Horse With No Name, A |
| 2. | I Need You |
| 3. | Sandman |
| 4. | Ventura Highway |
| 5. | Don't Cross the River |
| 6. | Only in Your Heart |
| 7. | Muskrat Love |
| 8. | Tin Man |
| 9. | Lonely People |
| 10. | Sister Golden Hair |
| 11. | Daisy Jane |
| 12. | Woman Tonight |
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A few records after their career-defining 1996 third album, One Chord Leads to Another, Sloan seemed to fall into a trap that snared many classicist guitar pop bands: their devotion to classic hooks and harmonies, the very thing that set them apart from their peers, began to turn from fresh to familiar. Not that the band's skills diminished, but they were now merely reliable, with each new album offering subtle variations on their signature sound: one might be a little sunnier, one might be a little rougher, but each record could easily be classified as just another good Sloan album. All of this makes their eighth album, Never Hear the End of It, such a welcome shock: it's unmistakably the work of the same band that loves '60s guitar rock -- everything from Merseybeat to the Velvet Underground -- as much as they love new wave and college rock, but they have found a way to make the familiar sound fresh again by constructing the album as a seamless suite spread over 30 songs and fitting on a single CD. The easiest touchstone, of course, is the second side of Abbey Road, where brief snippets separated longer songs that were often multi-segmented, as they are here, but Never Hear the End of It isn't nearly as lush or grandiose as the Beatles' career-capping final recorded album. It's densely saturated with color, yet it's also lean and direct; it may swirl with rushes of psychedelic harmonies and shards of punk guitars, but it's precisely constructed upon the quartet's knack for sharp, memorable pop hooks, so there's a sense of momentum and purpose in how the album winds through the detours and main roads on these 30 songs. This has some of the shaggy eclecticism of The White Album, yet it flows like Rundgren's deliberate head trip A Wizard, a True Star, all the while never abandoning ...
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