(Blues) Ten Years After - The Anthology 1967-1971 (2002) [2CD]

Tracklist: DISC 1: 01. I Want To Know 02. I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes 03. Spoonful 04. Help Me 05. Portable People 06. Sounds, The 07. Rock Your Mama 08. Spider In My Web 09. I May Be Wrong, But I Won't Be Wrong Always (live) 10. Going To Try 11. Woman Trouble 12. Hear Me Calling 13. Boogie On DISC 2: 01. I Woke Up This Morning 02. If You Should Love Me 03. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl 04. I'm Going Home - (live) 05. Me And My Baby 06. Love Like A Man 07. 50,000 Miles Beneath My Brain 08. I'm Coming On 09. My Baby Left Me 10. One Of These Days 11. Here They Come 12. I'd Love To Change The World 13. Let The Sky Fall Since Ten Years After's albums weren't stand-alone classics, this double CD of their prime years is the best bet for those who like the band but don't want to sit through some pretty mediocre and monotonous stuff to get to the best bits. The 26 cuts are pretty well chosen, including naturally their most famed songs: "I'm Going Home" (the live Woodstock version), "I'd Love to Change the World," and the British hit "Love Like a Man." Even as it draws from the cream of their work, it can't quite make the argument for them as a major band, but it does show that they were a more versatile act than many would remember. There are some reasonable pop- and folk-rock-flavored songs from the pen of Alvin Lee; a fair amount of jazz influence from time to time, as on "Me and My Baby" and "Woman Trouble"; a song ("50,000 Miles Beneath My Brain") that borrows rather too liberally from the Rolling Stones, "Sympathy for My Devil"; and even a bit of Grateful Dead-like vocal harmony on "Hear Me Calling." There's still, of course, quite a bit of blues-rock, flash guitar, and boogie, which sound better when broken up by more subdued and varied cuts and also benefit from the wise decision not to include too many covers. It's also nice that the collection includes both sides of two 1968 singles, although those were released on LP in the early '70s as part of Alvin Lee & Company.

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 neon (2010-08-02)

Nice....thanks night :)

 nightissuchproximity (2010-08-02)

Hi, neonrainbow. Cheers, cat. Couple more pieces of blues stuff I'll be uploading shortly. Got a pile of uploads here that I've not yet sorted out. I'll make a start on them later :-(