Very Best of

Rare Earth | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 25, 1998)
• Original Release Date: August 25, 1998
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Motown
• ASIN: B000009QLV
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #169,226 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Get Ready

2. (I Know) I'm Losing You

3. Born To Wander

4. I Just Want To Celebrate

5. Hey Big Brother

6. What'd I Say

7. Good Times Sally

8. Every Now & Then We Get To Go Down To Miami

9. Ma

10. Hum Along And Dance

11. Big John Is My Name

12. Chained

13. Warm Ride

14. Tobacco Road

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Editted songs are a disappointment, December 30, 2000

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Kurt "Colorado hiker" (Grand Junction, CO) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Very Best of (Audio CD)

If there's any chance Motown reads these reviews, perhaps they can be persuaded to release "Rare Earth In Concert" on CD. When I was a teenager in the 70s, I mail-ordered the concert album from a record club, knowing virtually nothing about Rare Earth. It turned out to be a favorite of mine and, indeed, a classic. Today they're making TV commercials using (or abusing) Rare Earth, and lots of people don't even know who's singing.

Listening to this album is very frustrating if you've heard the original long versions of the songs. It's like one of those "Classical Music Samplers" where you only get to hear the first three minutes of Beethoven's Fifth. Okay, so Rare Earth is NOT Beethoven, but you get the idea! Until Motown ever releases the concert album, this collection will do. At least it gives you Rare Earth's hits on one (and only) CD. But personally, I could have done without cuts 7 - 14, leaving room for longer versions of the classics.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Motown needs to re-release Rare Earth on CD!!!, July 22, 2000

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Thomas A. Seeman "Thomas A Seeman" (Lakewood, Ca United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Very Best of (Audio CD)

Its great to see a Rare Earth Greatest Hits CD, but I would really love to see Motown Release Get Ready, Ecology, and Especially One World on CD, I was 10 when that album came out and its all scratchy now from playing it so much! The Studio Version of What I say kicks! and Under God's Light is Awesome! Motown, If your reading this, make us Rare Earth Fans Happy and Release all the Rare Earth Albums on CD, Especially One World!

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Edited Single Versions? .....skip it!, February 11, 2003

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MarcS (Jersey City, nj United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Very Best of (Audio CD)

If your a listener who has not exerienced the long versions of these great songs, your in for a extreme treat! Unfortunately, your not going to experience them here...so skip this and track down the extended versions....they are WELL worth the lookup!