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Don McLean
Favorites & Rarities
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AMG Review of Favorites & Rarities
Stephen Thomas Erlewine
All Music GuideSpanning two discs and 42 tracks, Favorites & Rarities really is directed toward diehards, not casual fans looking for a thorough overview. Although all his biggest hits are here, they're surrounded by material that will delight only the dedicated, including alternate versions and no less than 18 previously unreleased tracks. This material, while interesting to the converted (there is a question to just how interesting it actually is, though), makes this a rather tedious listen for anybody that's just looking for "American Pie" and "Vincent," plus a couple other tunes in the same vein. Not an unnecessary compilation, since it's filled with rarities, but not definitive, either.
Van Gogh's Bed
Love. This. Shite.
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I have a deep, ineffable love for Don McLean. It simply cannot be expressed in words. Perhaps my father went through a weird, desperate period during my childhood, because I swear he played this and other classics during multiple road trips in the old red Suburban (way before those things were tricked out and morphed into the Yukon). Consequently, every time I hear it I think of long, lonely...
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