With The Best of the Band, Capitol Records began the inevitable process of repackaging the music of the Band, which the company would do at increasing length without solving the fundamental problem that the Band, despite the quality of their individual songs, was not a singles act and was hard to summarize in a compilation. That said, for the real neophyte, this single-disc, 11-song album may be as good as anything. It contains the Band's two most famous songs, "The Weight" and "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down," as well as the group's only Top 30 hit, "Up on Cripple Creek," and such songs as "Tears of Rage" and "Stage Fright" that they probably played at nearly every show they performed. It's true that if you really want to understand the Band, you have to hear all of Music From Big Pink and The Band. But if you just want a snapshot, here it is.
Robbie Robertson HAD a knack for writin' songs that just seemed to whelm up from the very soul of the American Experience. So many of his songs have that feel of old folk tales handed down from generation t' generation. The Night They Drove Ole Dixie Down is maybe the best known example, but there are so many more.An' Ophelia is one of those. On first hearin' it seemed like an' ole comfortable...
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Rick Danko's vocal is absolutely suberbI feel as if he is looking into my heartThis is a great rendition of this tuneWe need to find comfort some where
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Robbie Robertson HAD a knack for writin' songs that just seemed to whelm up from the very soul of the American Experience. So many of his songs have that feel of old folk tales handed down from generation t' generation. The Night They Drove Ole Dixie Down is maybe the best known example, but there are so many more.An' Ophelia is one of those. On first hearin' it seemed like an' ole comfortable...
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U-Melt ran away with last week's edition when we looked at eight covers of The Boy In The Bubble . U-Melt proves that clever setlist construction goes a long way, as the performance that was selected was in the middle of MMW's Bubblehouse (Boy in the Bubblehouse?). Congrats to U-Melt on their first CW trophy, well it's an imaginary trophy, put it on the mantle.Moving on to this week, we will be...
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| 1 Up on Cripple Creek |
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| 2 The Shape I'm In |
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| 3 The Weight |
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| 4 It Makes No Difference |
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| 5 Life Is a Carnival |
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| 6 Twilight |
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| 7 Don't Do It |
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| 8 Tears of Rage |
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| 9 Stage Fright |
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| 10 Ophelia |
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| 11 The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down |
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