Gimme Shelter [Import]

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 13, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Harmless
• ASIN: B00005NU61
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #567,585 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. I Am the Black Gold of the Sun

2. Can I Dedicate

3. Gimme Shelter

4. Ohio/Machine Gun

5. Get Back

6. I Want to Take You Higher

7. Nobody

8. I Got a Thing for You Daddy

9. I'm Funky

10. Compared to What

11. I'll Say It Again

12. (I Know) I'm Losing You

Editorial Reviews

Subtitled 'Kaleidoscopic Funk Collision'. UK rare groove compilation featuring tracks from Rotary Connection, The Loading Zone, Merry Clayton, The Isley Brothers, The Dierdre Wilson Tabac, Sly & The Family Stone, Larry Williams & Johnny 'Guitar' Watson with The Kaleidoscope, Ruth Copeland, Grootna, Sweetwater, Sweet Linda Divine & Rare Earth. 12 tracks.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Kaleidoscopic Funk Collision, Volume 1, February 14, 2003

By 

Joe Kenney "buttergun" (Dallas, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Gimme Shelter (Audio CD)

Just as Harmless's Make Music showcases the style of music from the early `70s when laid-back hippie folk intermingled with soul and funk, Gimme Shelter (and its follow-up, Paint It Black) showcases songs from the early `70s when acid rock and psychedelia were applied to soul and funk.

There's Merry Clayton's scorching version of "Gimme Shelter" (she sang back-up on the Rolling Stones original); the Rotary Connection's hazily psychedelic "I am the Black Gold of the Sun;" the Isley Brothers provide the best track on the CD with their storming combo of Neil Young's "Ohio" and Jimi Hendrix's "Machine Gun;" and Rare Earth take psychedelic soul to its jamming max on their remake of "I Know I'm Losing You."

Just about every track is a standout example of this exciting music hybrid, though I don't understand why any Temptations songs from this era weren't included. Their "Papa was a Rollin' Stone" and "Unite This Land" are perfect examples of the type of music Gimme Shelter seeks to promote. (Listeners who want to hear these Temptations masterworks should just pick up the excellent UK compilation "Psychedelic Soul.") Regardless, Gimme Shelter should definitely be checked out by any fan of Harmless's other compilations.