Volume 1: Smokestack Lightning

Yardbirds | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 1, 1991)
• Original Release Date: October 1, 1991
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B000002844
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #37,920 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. For Your Love

2. I'm Not Talking

3. Putty (In Your Hands)

4. I Ain't Got You

5. Got To Hurry

6. I Ain't Done Wrong

7. I Wish You Would

8. A Certain Girl

9. Sweet Music

10. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl

See all 14 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. You're A Better Man Than I

2. Evil Hearted You

3. I'm A Man

4. Still I'm Sad

5. Heart Full Of Soul

6. The Train Kept A Rollin'

7. Smokestack Lightning (Live)

8. Respectable (Live)

9. I'm A Man (Live)

10. Here 'Tis (Live)

See all 14 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

This 2 CD set is an out of print collectible! It is the 1991 release in the fat double jewel case.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars the most underrated great album of the sixties, November 27, 2000

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"albrsj" (northwest Indiana) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Volume 1: Smokestack Lightning (Audio CD)

This is a compilation of the first two Yardbirds albums (For Your Love, Having a Rave Up) plus live tracks, some of which were included in the Five Live Yardbirds album, which was never released in the U.S. Listening to this album will show you where the heavy metal bands got their licks. There is plenty of Clapton (two live versions of Smokestack Lightning for example) but even more of Jeff Beck, the great lost guitarist of the British invasion. Listening to this album shows you how far Beck was ahead of his times. Listen to "I ain't done wrong" and see how far the Yardbirds were ahead of the pop groups and remember the competition of the times such as Herman's Hermits and the Dave Clark Five. Anyone who appreciates good guitar licks should own this one.