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The Best Of Jig Saw: Sky High

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This album takes two great songs "Sky High" and "Who do you think you are?" by one of the greatest bands ever in music (Jigsaw) and then pads out the rest of the album with "newly recorded material."

Seeing as Jigsaw were active from 1966 to 1982, to take 2 songs from this 17 year period and then add 10 new songs and claim it's "the very best" Jigsaw has to offer is insulting to the record buyers. It is a studio album with 2 old hit's on if anything. It's like Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney getting together in 2004, making 10 new songs and adding "Hey Jude" and "The Long and Winding Road" on and claim it "The Very Best Of The Beatles".

Did I mention these 10 new songs are the worst songs I have head put out by Jigsaw? I noticed their bass player, Barrie Barnard isn't on the cover of this album. Did he refuse to be part of this? Let's assume he did.

That means Clive Scott, Des Dyer and Tony Campbell got together one day (it can't have taken them more than a day to put 10 crap tracks together surely)? and decided to reform after 13 years and make their worst album.

One listen to a song like "Strategy" makes me believe Scott, Dyer and Campbell began to think they were a mid-1990s Stock, Aitken and Waterman, who themselves thought they were a 1980s Holland, Dozier and Holland (which they were not).

Jigsaw never had a huge budget to record with (their best stuff was recorded at Splash Records in the 70s and 80s, one of the smallest British labels of it's time) but the poor production of these 10 new songs make it sound like they had a budget of 30 million dollars an album in their heyday when you compare the old with the new.

The only thing this record had to offer in 1995 was the fact it was the 1st Jigsaw CD, so fans who wanted the two original hit's could get them on CD.

In recent years, thankfully, Tarragon records have issued a CD, also called "The Very Best of Jigsaw" which actually contains 24 tracks from the groups original albums on the Splash, W.E.A and B.A.S.F labels. That CD is far superior and Clive Scott, Des Dyer and Tony Campbell should hang their heads in shame over the new songs on this collection, they are capable of so much more as proven by the original Jigsaw material!

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