Best Of: That Was Only Yesterday [Original recording remastered]

Spooky Tooth | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 27, 1999)
• Original Release Date: July 27, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: A&M
• ASIN: B00000JNMZ
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #49,160 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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47 of 48 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars That was only yesterday..., August 28, 2001

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David Kinney (San Francisco, Ca. United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Best Of: That Was Only Yesterday (Audio CD)

Boy was I glad to discover this one. I've reviewed the Tooth's "Spooky Two" already and I stand by my original criticism therein. While "Spooky Two" will stand as their finest hour, this collection is more than welcome as an addition to my late 60's-early 70's Brit- Rock lovin' ears. Spooky Tooth were one of a rare breed of English groups who could take a seemingly un-rocking track like Janis Ian's teen-angst weeper "Society's Child", and, completely oblivious to the context of the lyrics, turn it into a tough rocking masterpiece.In the good ol' USA bands like The Vanilla Fudge tried the same trick and,to my ears, came up sounding like sludge. "Society's Child" is off their first album, along with a killer version of "Tobacco Road", it makes me wish I'd first picked up the vinyl LP when I hovered over it in the TG&Y bin back in '70. The heart and soul of this CD is culled from "Spooky Two", and the band never hit such heights again, but, here's your chance to hear their magnificent last puff on "I Am The Walrus", and a version of Elton John's "Son Of Your Father" that gave hope to us fans of this underappreciated group when it became apparent their time was up. Trivia fans alert ;Greg Ridley became a Humble Pieman, Luther Grosvenor became the Ariel Bender of Mott The Hoople fame, and Gary Wright weaved dreams into the hearts of secretaries in cubicles everywhere.The MVP on this satisfying collection,however, is vocalist Mike Harrison. Like fellow Brit soul singer superb Terry Reid, this guy was miles and miles ahead of more celebrated singers such as Robert Plant and Joe Cocker. Mike Harrison, if you still care, get with Terry Reid, form a band and write some great songs and tear the roof off the sucker again for us baby boomer- Brit-rock -'eavy organ - lovin' Yanks. Oh sorry...guess I got carried away there. Buy this one and you'll be carried away too. Gotta call my mom and see if she threw out my lava lamp.

20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good news, bad news..., August 9, 1999

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This review is from: Best Of: That Was Only Yesterday (Audio CD)

The good news is that Spooky Tooth finally gets the full remastering treatment on a domestic greatest hits release (although it would have been preferable to have the individual albums remastered). However, all but one of the tunes from the classic Spooky Two album are thankfully included here, plus four great tunes from The Last Puff. The bad news is that the remastering ain't great. There's a harshness on the high end that makes listening through headphones a painful experience at times. And more than just one measly tune from You Broke My Heart So I Busted Your Jaw would have been nice. Oh well, guess it's the best we can expect from A&M. Five stars for including most of Spooky Two, three stars for sloppy remastering...

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good introduction to a great band, but incomplete, January 8, 2003

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Christopher L. Behr "Chris Behr" (Starkville, Mississippi United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Best Of: That Was Only Yesterday (Audio CD)

I would have made this a two-disc set and included a LOT more material from You Broke My Heart, Witness and The Mirror, the band's last three albums with Gary Wright (who WAS Spooky Tooth} and Mick Jones (who founded Foreigner after Spooky Tooth split). Leaving off the early, pre-Spooky Two stuff like Society's Child would have left more room for the later material, which is far superior. If you can afford it, I would recommend getting Spooky Two along with the import releases of You Broke My Heart and Witness. If that's too much of a financial strain, then by all means, buy this CD, since it includes almost all of Spooky Two and will introduce you to one of the greatest hard rock bands ever. One listen and you will know right away where Foreigner and Journey came from.