The Hollies - Greatest Hits (2CD) (2003)

The Hollies - Greatest Hits (2CD) (2003)

The Hollies - Greatest Hits (2CD) (2003)
Audio CD (May 20, 2003) | Number of Discs: 2 | Mp3 320 kbps | 356 MB
Genre: Rock | Label: Capitol
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Notwithstanding the entirely acceptable omission of 1981's rather desperate Stars-on-45-style retro-medley "Holliedaze," this rather definitive Greatest Hits collection contains every single Hollies song that ever tickled the mass fancy of record buyers anywhere in the world, ever. Even the sleeve notes dispense with the scantest of biographical detail to present a veritable almanac of impressive global chart statistics, including mentions of #1 singles in Sweden, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Holland, South Africa, Singapore, Ireland, and Switzerland, as well as the UK. Of course, the Hollies were nothing if not adaptable. The grinning beat pop and "pap pap she waddy wops" of "Stay" through to the folky overtures of "I've Got a Way of My Own" (like an estrogen-free version of the Mamas and the Papas) were obviously marvelous and yet entirely generic responses to the overriding cultural dominance of the Beatles and Bob Dylan. But much the same thing can be said for the majority of their peers.
Still, the 1960s were a golden age for the Hollies and to hear the Graham Gouldman-penned "Bus Stop", "Carrie Anne" (part Kinks, part Beach Boys, part calypso), or the sweet-shop bubblegum of "Jennifer Eccles" is to be reacquainted with a sunny lost world of short skirts, Mini Coopers, and policemen on bicycles. Even the knee-jerk cod-psychedelia of "King Midas in Reverse"--a full-on trumpets-blaring, cello-charging microcosm of Revolver and Sgt. Pepper-isms--deserves revisionist plaudits. There is one newly recorded track on the album (featuring Allan Clarke's replacement, the former Move vocalist Carl Wayne) called "How Do I Survive". Regrettably, it's a disco-cum-AOR rock thing that sounds like the result of an unfortunate liaison between James Ingram and Foreigner. Still, when faced with the spine-tingling, classic gold timelessness of "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" and "The Air That I Breathe," it would matter not one jot if the bonus track was a three-part harmony rendition of a page out of the telephone directory. --Kevin Maidment
Product Description
40th anniversary compilation for one of the best & most commercially successful pop/rock acts of the British Invasion. Features 46 Hollies hits from the UK & the rest of the world, plus one more (final) track which is a brand new recording made at Abbey Road Studios in Feb. 2003. EMI. 2003.
Tracklist
Disc 1
I'm Alive
Sorry Suzanne
Here I Go Again
On A Carousel
King Midas In Reverse
Look Through Any Window
Blowin' In The Wind (Nash Version)
The Air That I Breathe
Pay You Back With Interest
I've Got A Way Of My Own
Stay
The Very Last Day
We're Through
Carrie Anne
Magic Woman Touch
I'm Down
Gasoline Alley Bred
I Can't Let Go
Sandy (4th July, Asbury Park)
Long Cool Woman In A Black Dress
Stop Stop Stop 21 The Woman I Love
If I Needed Someone
Dear Eloise
Long Dark Road
I Can't Tell The Bottom From The Top
Disc 2
He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother
Bus Stop
Jennifer Eccles
The Day That Curly Billy Shot Down Crazy Sam Mcgee
Too Young To Be Married
Listen To Me
Just One Look
Searchin'
(Ain't That) Just Like Me
Yes I Will
What's Wrong With The Way Live
Lonely Hobo Lullaby
Daddy Don't Mind
The Baby
Hey Willy
Son Of A Rotten Gambler
Write On
Star
Boulder To Birmingham
Soldier's Song
How Do I Survive (New Song with Carl Wayne)

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