Best of [Import]

Taste | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 17, 1994)
• Original Release Date: May 17, 1994
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Universal I.S.
• ASIN: B000001E3Z
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #26,498 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

This CD is the original 1994 Polydor version. Catalog #314-512-999-2. There is a drill hole in the case, but it does not go through the art. Still sealed.Track listing:1. Blister On The Moon2. Born On The Wrong Side Of Town3. Leavin' Blues4. Hail5. Same Old Story6. Catfish7. I'm Moving On8. What's Going On9. Railway And Gun10. Eat My Words11. On The Boards12. It's Happened Before, It'll Happen Again13. If The Day Was Any Longer14. I Feel So Good15. Sugar Mama16. Sinner Boy

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars IF YOU LOVE CLASSIC ROCK, YA GOTTA HEAR THIS!, January 2, 2002

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Patrick Earley (Edmond, Oklahoma USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Best of (Audio CD)

If there was a band that defined what 70's rock was all about, it was Taste. They've often been called Ireland's answer to Britain's superstar band Cream. I think they were better than Cream in every way. With Rory Gallagher on guitar, John Wilson, formerly of Them on drums, and ex Spencer Davis bassist Charlie Mccracken, they were considered the hottest live act in Europe at the time. The big reason for this was Gallagher's improvisational abilities with the six string. There was nothing fancy about this band. They didn't wear matching suits or the psychedelic clothes that were the popular attire of the day. They were just a hard workin' blue collar band with Gallagher wearing his trademark red flannel shirt on stage with his lunch pail called a '61 Fender Stratocaster. Gallagher was different than the superstar guitar players of the time like Clapton, Page, and Peter Green, who got a lot of their influences from the Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf school of Chicago blues. Gallagher loved the southern rural/ country blues of Son House and Big Joe Williams. It shows here on the feelgood acoustic song "I'm Movin' On" and the equally wonderful "Hail" where he sings note for note with his guitar. The trademark sound of Taste though was blues rock. Gallagher has to be the most aggressive guitar player that I've ever heard in the blues rock genre. Good examples of this are the opener "Blister On The Moon" and "Born On The Wrong Side Of Town". But he can also get very creative, as on the catchy "Railway and Gun". A killer tune with it's numerous rhythm changes. He also shows his creative side on the jazzy "It Happened Before, It'll Happen Again", which is Taste's most experimental song. It really swings, and it's probably Gallagher's finest moment on the six string. The only knock I have here is the same as one of the other reviewers pointed out. He shouldn't have picked up an Alto Sax he was just learning to play and attempted a solo. But hey, it was the 70's. They did those things. Sometimes they worked, sometimes not. But that's the only knock that I have on this excellent Best Of collection. If you want to hear why Rory Gallagher was considered by many to be one of the alltime best guitar players, just check this album out. It should be on all lovers of classic rock wish lists.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Rory Only Ever Gets Better, November 9, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Best of (Audio CD)

Having heard Rory live in Melbourne, Australia, in the early seventies, and having been an admirer ever since, I am constantly amazed by the quality of the remastering work that Donal Gallagher and associates have undertaken over the last couple of years.

The Best of Taste is another revelation. This collection explains much about Rory's post Taste work, in that it tells a story of: blues, blues rock, jazz influence, subtle phrasings, raw acoustic ability,playful nuances and searing thumping rocking guitar.

This ( Polydor ) mix is Rory at his best.It's a knock out 5 star collection, with the quality of the production up to Donal's recent remastered Capo label releases.

Appropriately, the set concludes with Sinner Boy, the song that, for me, forms the bridge between Taste and Rory's post 1970 careers.

The Best of Taste is simply outstanding.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Taste, March 28, 2000

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Hugh MacDiarmid (Edinburgh, Scotland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Best of (Audio CD)

Fine review of this from Mike but I just can't agree about On The Boards, one of my favourites. But if you need just one good reason to buy this then get it for the live version of Feel So Good (it's the superior Live Taste version not the one on the Isle of Wight album). When the Live Taste album came out (on vinyl) this track was split between the two sides during the drum solo. The subsequent CD merely faded out and faded back in again where the break was (unforgiveable!) - this CD restores the track to one magnificent whole. I think Mike's wrong about the availabilty of Taste on CD, I still see all four albums from time to time in the shops but had to get the Best of from the States. Don't be afraid to pick up On The Boards (Eat My Words, What's Going On, If The Day Was Any Longer, Railway and Gun . . . all great). Get the Best of, but you'll still need that flawed Live Taste CD for Gamblin Blues (which is not on the Isle of Wight CD incidently but is on the video, which has two Taste tracks not just the one credited on the sleeve.