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Manfred Mann's Earth Band | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 3, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rhino
• ASIN: B000NOK0WQ
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #105,391 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Blinded by the Light

2. Spirit in the Night

3. Quit Your Low Down Ways

4. Questions

5. Circles

6. Davy's on the Road Again

7. Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)

8. You Angel You

9. Hollywood Town

10. Don't Kill It Carol

11. On the Run

12. For You

Editorial Reviews

19 of the smash prog rock group's greatest, all digitally remastered. Includes 'Spirits In The Night', 'Blinded By The Light' (Single Version), 'Mighty Quinn' (Single Version), 'You Angel You' (Single Version), 'For You' (Single Version), 'Lies' and 'Runner' (Single Version). The tracks span 1972-1998. Also features a 32 page booklet packed with photos (color and black & white) and liner notes. Comes packaged in a digipak within a full color, embossed slipcase. 1999 release. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great album for what seems to be a forgotten group., July 9, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: The Best of Manfred Mann's Earth Band (Audio CD)

This album is a very pleasing and fun album. Manfred Mann, the leader of the group and keyboardist, did a superb job finding the musicians for his band and arranging ALL covers on this CD. Being Manfred's band him being a keyboardist, there is a lot of keyboard action of pretty much every song. Only two songs on this album are of original material...being Questions & On the Run. The song Blinded by the Light, which was written by Bruce Springsteen, is probably the best cover of all time. The song topped the U.S. charts in February of 1977, so it's something that you are hopefully familiar with. Songs like Questions, Circles, and Hollywood are great slower songs. You Angel You is a happier song with a good beat to it. Davey's On the Road Again and Quinn the Eskimo (once a top 10 hit) have a live approach to them with a nice sound and great solos by both the guitar and keyboards. Quit Your Lowdown Ways, Don't Kill It Carol, For You, Blinded by the Light, and Spirit in the Night (once a top 40 hit) are the rock-styled awesome songs. Chris Thompson, the lead vocalist who appears on all songs but Spirit in the Night & Quit Your Low Down Ways (Mick Rogers being the lead singer on those songs), is a superb vocalist that fits the songs he is in perfectly. My only flaw with it is that a couple of songs like On the Run, although an alright song, sound too retro, meaning too 1980's sounding. Even living through the 80's, I never liked that style of music. Please, don't take my word for buying this album unless you know of Manfred Mann's Earth Band. As with EVERY album, please listen to sound samples of every song before you buy.

52 of 64 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Only one good song, November 20, 2000

By 

D. V. Gulliver "Fair and Balanced' reviewer" (Salem, OR USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Best of Manfred Mann's Earth Band (Audio CD)

Before you crucify me for the title of this review, know that I love both "Blinded by the Light" and "The Mighty Quinn." However, the version of "The Mighty Quinn" on this CD is a really crummy live recording. I was really maddened by this, since nowhere on the cover does the word "live" appear. So for the presence of "Blinded by the Light" I'll spot this CD 2 stars, but with nothing else on it, that's all it gets.

12 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars JUST A NOTE TO THOSE READING THE REVIEW UP THERE, April 19, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: The Best of Manfred Mann's Earth Band (Audio CD)

AMAZON'S ALBUM DESCRIPTION UP THERE IS WRONG, THIS ISN'T THE ALBUM WITH 'THE RUNNER' OR ANY OF THE 19 TRACKS THE REVIEW SAYS... THAT SONG YOU CAN'T GET HERE.