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The Band - Greatest Hits
It seems odd that the Band emerged in 1968, defying the counterculture's extravagant rejections of U.S. culture with literary, often Southern-tinged musical and lyrical vehicles. Hearing this 18-song anthology, with its heavy weighting toward the Canadian quintet's first three albums--Music from Big Pink (four tunes), The Band (five tunes), and Stage Fright (three tunes)--what still stands out is the Band's command of yearning vocal harmonies, their sense of plainly laid melodies that reveal acoustic depth, and a nostalgia for an imagined American culture. With all their quirkiness and the advance of Robbie Robertson as their centerpiece, the Band lost their celebrated place in the rock pantheon within a decade. This set, which opens so magnificently with "The Weight," "Tears of Rage" (cowritten with Dylan), and the big organ-vamping "Chest Fever," declines rather steeply on the final tracks, "Acadian Driftwood" and "The Saga of Pepote Rouge." Up till then, however, this set is fantastic. --Andrew Bartlett
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Tracks| 1 | The Weight | | 2 | Tears Of Rage | | 3 | Chest Fever | | 4 | I Shall Be Released | | 5 | Up On Cripple Creek | | 6 | The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down | | 7 | Rag Mama Rag | | 8 | King Harvest (Has Surely Come) | | 9 | The Shape I'm In | | 10 | Stage Fright | | 11 | Time To Kill | | 12 | Life Is A Carnival | | 13 | When I Paint My Masterpiece | | 14 | Ain't Got No Home | | 15 | It Makes No Difference | | 16 | Ophelia | | 17 | Acadian Driftwood | | 18 | The Saga Of Pepote Rouge |
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