The Best of Wishbone Ash [Import]

Wishbone Ash | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 1, 1997)
• Original Release Date: July 1, 1997
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: MCA
• ASIN: B000002P6C
• Also Available in: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #58,608 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A VERY GOOD INTRODUCTION TO TWIN GUITAR, May 14, 2001

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This review is from: The Best of Wishbone Ash (Audio CD)

I like Wishbone Ash of the 70's and I own most of their original albums on CD. Such great and innovative band deserves a double CD compilation but this single (75 min. long) CD comp also works quite good. The problem with their releases is that as far as I know none of their classic 70's albums ever exist in digitally remastered version. This CD represents an excellent digitally remastered sound unavailable elsewhere for most of the tracks. Compiled by Andy Powell himself one can get here two important tracks from their first eponymous album including a 12 minutes epic Phoenix, second album Pilgrimage might seem underrepresented, although an instrumental 8+ minutes self-titled composition is here. Their best Argus is treated how it should be - 4 out of 7 original tracks, one of which (Blowin' Free) was re-recorded in 1997 specifically for this release in an acoustic version and unavailable elsewhere. Wishbone 4 and "sunk as a stone" Locked In (1976) are skipped but beautiful Lorelei from 1976's New England is here recorded LIVE in England in 1976. There's The Rub is represented with Persephone and instrumental F.U.B.B. After reading well written and informative liner notes you will also get to know what F.U.B.B. actually means. The last track Living Proof is highly valuable - not only it was a monster hit in Britain, but this is one of the best songs from Just Testing album which is ...a very hard-to-find item. Anyway it is worth buying not only by neophytes but also by more devoted Wishbone fans.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Best from 1970 - 1975., July 7, 2002

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Jiminy Cricket (downstate NY USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Best of Wishbone Ash (Audio CD)

This is their "best" '70 thru '75 (There's The Rub), although they inexplicably throw in 1 good song ("Living Proof") from a good 1980 album (Just Testing). This album is also good because of the excellent liner notes which chronicle the band's history, up thru 1991. An important slice of 70's Rock history. A good way for new fans to test the waters before buying their early albums (Argus, There's the Rub, Pilgrimage). Nothing from W.Ash IV here, probably due to lack of room. [I wish this were a double album.]

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars This glass half full, July 21, 2007

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J. P. McCarty (Highland Park, IL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Best of Wishbone Ash (Audio CD)

In recreating my high school-college music collection, I frequently have to decide whether to get one or two of my favorite albums or economize with a "best of" collection. In hindsite, I wish I had gone with the full albums I loved, "Wishbone Ash," "Argus," and/or "Pilgrimage." The stuff I'm familiar with on "Best of" is awsome and left me hungering for more. But the songs I assume are from later in their career ("Persephone," "F.U.B.B.", Living Proof" left me cold. And as always, beware the acoustic version of a great hard-rocking song, "Blowin' Free." As my carpenter friend always warns me, save money now, pay more later. The songs I love here, "Phoenix," "Throw Down the Sword," and what I believe is their best song, "The Pilgrim," have created an itch that must be scratched, perhaps with "Live Dates." This collection did remind me how much I loved this band, with its pioneering guitar arrangements and gorgeous vocal harmonies. It just didn't scratch the itch to my satisfaction.