Just Go Ahead Now: A Retrospective

Spin Doctors | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 3, 2011)
• Original Release Date: October 24, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Epic/Legacy
• ASIN: B00004ZDPT
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #173,938 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Good Starter CD, January 9, 2001

By 

"-fade-" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Just Go Ahead Now: A Retrospective (Audio CD)

First of all, I want to say that reason I am giving this album 4 stars instead of 5 is because there is so little previously unreleased material (just Miss America, in fact), and because it has no songs at all from their fourth release. I would still recommend that veteran Spin Doctors fans purchase it --- it will complete your collection, and it's nice to have all the songs from different albums on one CD to listen to in your car. The people I really recommend it too are those who are new to the Spin Doctors, or who, like a great many people, are only familiar with their work on Pocketful of Kryptonite. This an excellent introduction to the Spin Doctors. Tracts 1 - 5 are from the first album (Pocketful of Kryptonite), 6 - 10 are from the second (Turn It Upside Down, which, unfortunately, is no longer listed on Amazon), and 11-17, with the exception of Miss America, are from the third (You've Got To Believe in Something --- a commercial failure, but nonetheless their best album). The general sound of these guys is a what I call a funk-rock-blues feel, mostly electric guitar driven. The lead singer and primary song-writer, Chris Barron, is something of a hippie, and this comes through in his lyrics. Over all, they are a very fun group to listen too --- upbeat without being nauseatingly perky or pop. It is too bad that there are no songs here from the more experimental fourth album, Here Comes the Bride, but I still feel this CD is a good way to get a feel for the band.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Spin Doctors are in the "House"., July 26, 2004

By 

H3@+h "Over 1500 reviews!" (thanks for the helpful review votes) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Just Go Ahead Now: A Retrospective (Audio CD)

What, just because these guys only released one huge album before their popularity passed doesn't mean they can't put together a great "Best Of"? It's true the debut "Pocket Full Of Kryptonite" was their best album, but many good songs came afterwards. This collection takes pretty evenly from their first 3 albums. Included are the monster hits "Two Princes", "Little Miss Can't Be Wrong", and "Jimmy Olsen's Blues", plus this has "Cleopatra's Cat", "I Can't Believe You're Still With Her", and a live "Refrigerator Car". This band is a good cross between the "Red Hot Chili Peppers" and "Blues Traveler", and I think it's time to give them another "spin".

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Just your nothing special greatest hits album, October 26, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Just Go Ahead Now: A Retrospective (Audio CD)

Yes I bought this cd. And all your getting is a collection if some old spins tunes. That's just about it. If the spins had made it a "best of" (as in they picked the songs that they thought were their best, not there most popular) album it would have a better track listing.