Best [Import]

Free | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 10, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Universal/Polygram
• ASIN: B00000892Y
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,703,962 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Wishing Well

2. All Right Now

3. Little Bit of Love

4. Come Together in the Morning

5. The Stealer

6. Sail On

7. Mr. Big

8. My Brother Jake

9. The Hunter

10. Be My Friend

11. Travellin' in Style

12. Fire and Water

13. Travelling Man

14. Don't Say You Love Me

Editorial Reviews

Features 14 total tracks including 'Come Together In The Morning', 'Wishing Well', 'My Brother Jake', 'Be My Friend' and more. Sony. 2005. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars One Paul Up, The Other Paul Down...A Kinder Gentler Free..., February 17, 2002

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"The Woj" (Downers Grove, IL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: All Right Now (Audio CD)

Yes this has been remixed; and yes it has been remastered.
But, in the process Paul Kossoff's guitar has been toned down and buried slightly in the mix in favor of Paul Rodger's vocals.
Andy Fraser's bass is also softened up in the mix.
When I first listened to the cd I thought it was some sort of 90's remake of the classic Free songs with some of the original members (ala Blue Oyster Cult "Cult Classics"). I read the liner notes and realized Bob Clearmountain had remixed the original songs. There is a real "elevator" music quality to the finished product. Personally I am very disappointed. If you want the original songs in all their glory look for the "Free Story" box or "Molten Gold". If you want a kindler, gentler Free than this cd is for you.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars An Opportunity Gone Begging, March 15, 2005

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Peter Herring "Pete H." (Woonona, Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: All Right Now (Audio CD)

I saw Free's last gig at Randwick Racecourse, Sydney, 9 May, 1971. I travelled 45 miles to share the day with a group of my school friends: Carla Bormann, Anne Powell, Steve Morgan, Barry Clark, Steve Jackson, Ian McKinlay, Neil McKinlay, Ted Bugarski, Ken Griffiths, Malcolm Johnson and I am really sorry if I have missed anyone - it was a while ago. This band cast a spell over all of us for a couple of years there - we loved them. Many of us bought all the albums and continued loving the band after its demise. Some of us still revel in the splendour of the time.

This release was obviously intended to perpetuate the memory of Free and their sensational albums. However, it does not. I was given a copy of this for a birthday and I had returned it for exchange after playing it once. Bob Clearmountain has destroyed the essence of what Free recorded by swathing it in a cloud of reverb. The beauty of all those Free albums is their innate "dryness". The unaffected glory of the instruments and voice - you can hear it all on the originals but not here.

Avoid this album.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars THE ULTIMATE FREE PRIMER!, August 18, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Best (Audio CD)

Whether you are a FREE fan or not,this CD is a "must have".The beauty of this collection lies not only in its selection of FREE classics,but in its remastering!

The CD was painstakingly re-mixed and re-mastered by none other than Bob Clearmountain,who has meticulously kept the integrity of the original tracks intact,but at the same time given us a glimpse of what FREE would have sounded like in the '90s.

The opening track,"Wishing Well",takes your head off and hands it to you,while reminding all the current "wannabe's"(Black Crowes,Brother Cane et al.),that nobody did it better than these guys!

Some other gems on this CD include alternate,and harder-edged takes of "Little Bit of Love","All Right Now",and "The Stealer".Kossoff's guitar has never sounded more passionate,Fraser & Kirke's rhythm section hits like a sledgehammer,and Rogers vocals are timeless.

You won't regret spending the extra for this import,it will undoubtedly become one of your favourites.