Customer Reviews

Career of Evil

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1 star:		(5)

 

 

This is definitely an album for someone who is familiar with the BOC. The songs are good but they are live and alternative cuts. A lot of people get kinda pissed about this but i liked it. you shouldn't buy this as a 'greatest hits album'. but i think it is definitely worth buying if youre a boc fan.

Who do we blame for THIS abortion? I've never liked repackages that haphazardly mix live & studio tracks, and that's what they did here. Only 5 studio versions turn up, but really-- "E.T.I.", "Beat 'Em Up" and "Black Blade"? Maybe on a more "comprehensive" colletion, but... And let's not ignore the ineptitude of having "Harvester Of Eyes" and "Flaming Telepaths", the middle of what had been a side-long suite on SECRET TREATIES, that just ends abruptly since there is no "Astronomy" here. Or any of their big hits, for that matter. In fact, not even "Career Of Evil"-- which makes you wonder at the album title. If you want a single-disc hits package, go with ON FLAME WITH ROCK AND ROLL instead!

I picked this CD up thinking that some BOC would be nice to have. Not their greatest hits but it looked OK. Don't buy this CD, not even used, it is not worth the effort of putting it in your CD player! Non-original versions of songs, bad recordings of the originals. I traded this one in as soon as I could. Go with Workshop of the Telescopes if you want a true BOC hits collection.

To be fair, I only listened to tracks 12 and 13 ("Godzilla" and "Don't Fear the Reaper"). So...my 0 star rating applies to just those two tracks. It sounds like when yer playing guitar hero and you aren't playing well and the crowd starts booing. Godzilla is played way too slow: the guitarist is clearly playing some other song and we're pretty sure the drummer was trying to scare off a roving cat or possum. The singer has 2 minutes of pointless banter at the beginning of the track and throughout this crunchy jam session is totally tripping out on his own voice effects. "Don't fear the reaper" doesn't even sound like they're playing it...I think the other review was right...I think that IS Steve Winwood playing an organ while the drummer chases the cat off his kit and the guitar player plays way too fast. Awful. We're keeping it only so we have something to play to clear out unwanted guests.

Lump me in with the rest of em..... I guess i should have taken a look at some reviews first before i made it a blind buy.

Knowing a few of the songs on this album i figured i'd be getting the heavier side of BOC....
Nowhere is it mentioned this compilation is mostly live material....
I bought this used for $3.99 and i'll be taking it back tomorrow.

Not even worthy of 1 star but i have to give it something to complete the review

BUYER BEWARE!!!!!!!!!!

It's all been said in the other reviews but I have to add my two cents having been duped not once but twice. I wanted an album with a good collection of songs that included Hot Rails to Hell so I bought this. What I was looking for was studio recordings but this is mostly a live album. Bad live recordings at that. Classic guitar riffs replaced by an organ as if Steve Winwood joined the band. I was pissed to say the least. Once I heard then examined it I remembered buying this same exact album on cassette when I was 12 and feeling duped then. Completely forgot about that incident until it happened again. Nowhere on the album jacket does it indicate it is a live album. Fool me once shame on you fool me twice shame on me I guess.