Hidden Years: The Very Best Of John Martyn

John Martyn | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 9, 1998)
• Original Release Date: June 9, 1998
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Artful Records/Darla
• ASIN: B000007S5E
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #409,711 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Lonely Love

2. Couldn't Love You More

3. Sweet Little Mystery

4. Head and Heart

5. Could've Been Me

6. Over the Hill

7. Fine Lines

8. May You Never

9. One World

10. Ways to Cry

11. Angeline

12. Man in the Station

13. Solid Air

14. Never Let Me Go

15. I Don't Wanna Know

16. Bless the Weather

Customer Reviews

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars John Martyn doing Tom Jones doing John Martyn, November 4, 1999

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Michael C. Fox (Colorado) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hidden Years: The Very Best Of John Martyn (Audio CD)

Sad. There is really no other way to describe this album. Martyn has exhumed some of his best work and added a Vegas sheen to it. Avoid this at all costs. Get SOLID AIR or BLESS THE WEATHER instead. And John, come back to us, please.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars What did we do to deserve this........., November 2, 2003

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This review is from: Hidden Years: The Very Best Of John Martyn (Audio CD)

This is possibly my first and last review. The Glaswegian bard is one of the true originals with a guitar technique all his own and a voice that would make another great scot say "its singing Jim but not as we know it.." Buy all you can get, a very good start is "Sweet little mysteries. The Island Anthology", BUT please do not buy this tortured abomination of a CD.This is not a best of, it is John Martyn meets Liberace.These are lounge lizard retakes of some of the maestro's best work.All I can imagine is that late one night he and a mate or two took a bet that he wouldn't have the guts to do it and this is the result.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Audio Sweetening v. John Martyn - Martyn Loses, June 12, 1999

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David E. Hartman (Highland Park, ILLINOIS USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hidden Years: The Very Best Of John Martyn (Audio CD)

I've been a fan of John Martyn for twenty years. . .his beautiful evocative lyrics and haunting voice were like nothing else out there. Well, now he's re-recorded his best work and ruined it with awful violins, Motown backup vocals and treacly "sweetening." Picture what would happen if John Renbourne and Pentangle had collaborated with Liberace -- it's almost that bad. Order the Island Records double set if you want to remember John Martyn before he became a Las Vegas Lounge act. . .