Rare Earth - Greatest Hits & Rare Classics

Rare Earth | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 26, 1991)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Motown
• ASIN: B000001AID
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #137,489 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Get Ready

2. Generation (Light Up the Sky)

3. (I Know) I'm Losing You

4. When Joanie Smiles

5. Born to Wander

6. Here Comes the Night

7. I Just Want to Celebrate

8. Love Shines Down

9. Good Time Sally

10. Hey Big Brother

11. We're Gonna Have a Good Time

12. Big John Is My Name

13. Chained

14. Warm Ride

15. I Can Feel My Love Risin'

16. Keeping Me Out of the Storm

17. It Makes You Happy (But It Ain't Gonna Last)

18. Midnight Lady

19. Hum Along and Dance

20. Fresh from the Can

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars For the casual fan, it's not bad!, June 29, 2003

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Reginald D. Garrard "the G-man" (Camilla, GA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rare Earth - Greatest Hits & Rare Classics (Audio CD)

However, with only the single versions of the group's hits, the album falls short.

A better purchase is "The Millennium Collection: The Best of Rare Earth". That one has the full-length renditions, including the 20-minute plus "Get Ready", a funk fan's treasure.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars OLD TIME ROCK & SOUL, December 20, 2005

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Jukebox Dave (RECORD TOWN, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rare Earth - Greatest Hits & Rare Classics (Audio CD)

RARE EARTH-GREATEST HITS AND RARE CLASSICS: Rare Earth was something of an oddity at Motown...an all white, self contained rock act that played with unadulterated soul. Starting with a grit-fueled revamping of the Temptations' Smokey Robinson-sired classic GET READY and following up with a similarly reworked Tempts gem (I KNOW) I'M LOSING YOU, they were powered by the volcanic vocal eruptions of sticksman Peter Rivera and the band's tight, jam band work ethic. Other trademark biggies included earthy shout-along anthems I JUST WANT TO CELEBRATE and HEY BIG BROTHER, as well as the left field, Bee Gees assisted, disco charter WARM RIDE. The non-hits deserve a spin too; BIG JOHN IS MY NAME is a funky, chunky slab of fuzz tone/wah wah-injected psychedelia, while HUM ALONG AND DANCE compels the listener to heed the call. Ex-Edgar Winter/White Trash belter Jerry LaCroix turns up on three tracks, having briefly filled in for Rivera at one point in the band's career, hence the term "Rare Classics". At twenty cuts, GREATEST HITS is perhaps too much of a groovy thing for the uninitiated, but better too much Rare Earth than too little, I always say.

RATING: FOUR DRUM ROLLS

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Rare Earth All But One (4 1/2 Stars), March 16, 2003

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Clyde Bouley "CWB" (Berwick, PA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rare Earth - Greatest Hits & Rare Classics (Audio CD)

This covers Rare Earth very good all the Top Pop 90 Charters are on this. To make the Top Pop 100 this would need 'What'd I Say'. Well worth it if you can get your hands on it. Sound is Excellent. One Other drawback these are the single issues. If you had this and The Best of Rare Earth The Millennium Collection this would be all you would need for Rare Earth.