The Best of Max Webster [Import]

Max Webster | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 7, 2000)
• Original Release Date: 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Antham Records, Inc.
• ASIN: B00004U892
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #158,106 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Check

2. High Class In Borrowed Shoes

3. A Million Vacations

4. Diamonds, Diamonds

5. Let Go The Line

6. Night Flights

7. The Party

8. Hangover (Live)

9. Kids In Action

10. Gravity

11. Paradise Skies

12. Words To Words

13. Oh War!

14. Here Among The Cats

15. Waterline (Live)

16. Battle Scar

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A sampler of unserious yet literate rock., May 24, 2003

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Anthony D Ravenscroft (Santa Fe, NM United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Best of Max Webster (Audio CD)

Kim Mitchell is one of the most unique rock guitarists ever. His style is in a league with Buck Dharma, Bill Nelson, & Frank Zappa.

Let's face it: Max Webster was mostly Kim Michell & his friends. The lyrics (the better ones are from Pye Dubois) border on poetry, sometimes evocative, sometimes just weird -- yet always inspiring sing-along. The guitar work floats between classically inspired & jazzy.

Yet, when it all comes down, these people like to rock out, & it shows. A friend who saw MW live said, "There's this guy in tights flying back & forth across the stage all night." Yeah, that would be Mitchell. Think of it as Art Rawk that refuses to take itself that seriously.

This is basically an update of Diamonds, Diamonds. Its greatest flaw is that it doesn't have that crowd-pleaser "Toronto Tontos" from the first album (s/t in Canada, released stateside as Hangover, & sadly hard-to-find).

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars iwasafanbeforeyouwasafan, September 13, 2003

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Gregg LaMarsh "zebec" (Toronto Canada, eh?) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Best of Max Webster (Audio CD)

Max Webster was without a doubt, the most under-rated rock band in history (honorable mention Gentle Giant). This album does a good overview of most of their best stuff. It would've been nice to have included 'On the Road' and 'Coming Off the Moon'.Those 2 songs plus the Kim Mitchell solo song 'Lager and Ale" would've made this an even better collection.
As a 17 yr. old, I saw Max perform at the 1974 Greenwood Pk. Free Rock Fest in Toronto and went home to make the following diary entry," Just saw another great band who I predict will make it all the way". That other band was RUSH, who had played my high school with their old drummer a few months before.
I suggest that anyone interested also seek out the entire Max catalogue, esp. those first 2 zany albums.At a time whrn many local acts such as Triumph, were content with putting out mediocre cookie-cutter, corporate rock, these Max recordings represented a more genuine respect for the creative process. They understood the value of being original and it was no coincidence that RUSH's management signed them early on.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars 5 Stars for the songs, 1 Star for the sound quality., September 12, 2005

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Alex Muir (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Best of Max Webster (Audio CD)

This is an amazing album, the songs are great. The HUGE problem with it is the mastering. The sound quality is awful. Lisener fatigue sets in with me after a few songs. It is way too bright and phases all over the place. I am sure that all of the Max Webster Anthem CD's suffer from the same problem (although) I have only heard this one. It is too bad because this is a great collection of songs and includes one from his 1st EP (which I would love to have on CD). Anyways, if you have orginal albums, hook up your CD player and record it yourselves. If you work at Anthem or whoever owns these songs, please redo this collection in a listeanable version.

In Toronto with the Tonto's and Here among the Cats..