Just Go Ahead Now: A Retrospective

Spin Doctors | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 1, 2008)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sbme Special Mkts.
• ASIN: B0012GMY96
• 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: #370,238 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Jimmy Olsen's Blues

2. Little Miss Can't Be Wrong

3. What Time Is It?

4. How Could You Want Him (When You Know You Can Have Me)

5. Two Princes

6. Cleopatra's Cat

7. You Let Your Heart Go Too Fast

8. Indifference

9. Big Fat Funky Booty

10. Hungry Hamed's

11. House

12. I Can't Believe You're Still with Her

13. If Wishes Were Horses

14. She Used to Be Mine

15. Miss America [#]

16. You've Got to Believe in Something

17. Refrigerator Car [Live]

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

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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

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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

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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.