25 Years : 1968-1993 [IMPORT]

Climax Blues Band

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 15, 1994)
• Original Release Date: 1994
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import
• Label: Repertoire
• ASIN: B00000012X
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #7,174 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Don't Start Me Talking

2. Wee Baby Blues

3. Flight

4. Hey Baby, Everything's Gonna Be Alright Yeh Yeh Yeh

5. Louisiana Blues

6. Brief Case

7. That's All

8. Shoot Her If She Runs

9. Rich Man

10. Mole on the Dole

See all 16 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Together and Free

2. Couldn't Get It Right

3. Watcha Feel?

4. Like a Movie

5. Children of the Night -Tim

6. Gotta Have More Love

7. I Love You

8. Cuttin' up Rough

9. Last Chance Saloon

10. Friends in High Places

See all 16 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

1994 compilation on Repertoire featuring 32 tracks from 1968-1993, plus an extensive 44 page booklet, detailed track notes by Colin Cooper, full discography & rare photos. Packaged as two standard jewel cases within a slipcase, featured tracks include their #3 1977 smash 'Couldn't Get ItRight', the top 20 hit 'I Love You' and a live version of 'Don't Start Me Talking'.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

80 of 84 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars They got it right!, January 21, 2000

By	Tracie Thomson (Des Moines, IA USA) - See all my reviews

Getting married? I Love You by CBB is the best reception song for the bride and grooms to dance to alone that i have ever heard.. this CD is the ONLY place anywhere - that you can get this song. believe me - I HAVE LOOKED.

23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hard to find-- but worth the time, May 12, 2000

By	George J. Maruska (Big Sky Country) - See all my reviews

This is a very thorough sampling of CBB's work. I highly recommend anyone who heard these guys over the last 30 years to purchase this compilation. It will take a while for it to be delivered, but you will not be disappointed. It contains many hard-to-find songs and all your old favorites. The booklet tells you all you need to know about this great, but highly underrated and sometimes forgotten about band. You can't go wrong with this package. So quit reading this review and throw it into your shopping cart! ENJOY!

20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is How you Make a Brilliant Anthology of a Band!, September 16, 2005

By	Frederick Baptist (Singapore) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

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There are many reasons, some of which may sound obvious but for some reason many label execs just don't get it, why this compilation is among the best that has been made to properly showcase the life's work of any band.

Like most if not all of the people who actually bought this set, I never really knew or even cared much about the Climax Blues Band until I had heard "I Love You." With my wedding coming soon at the time, I frantically sought out cds where I could find the song. Knowing that it was by CBB, I obviously started there but was continually frustrated until I found it here. I got the cds in the mail too late to use them for my wedding though.

However, I know now the reason why such a big hit of theirs would not be on any best of compilations of CBB on their own major labels and that the best hope of getting the song is from independent labels that license the rights and make their own compilations just as Repertoire Records has done here or as Rhino Records regularly does for other bands as well.

The song was pretty much a solo effort by one band member, Derek Holt, who not only wrote and arranged the song, he also sang it. Holt and the rest of the band had creative differences and soon left the band taking his prized possession with him. These things happen quite often in the music business and if ever you happen to be looking for a tune by any artist and have similar difficulties, especially if the artist has changed labels, personnel etc, a very similar case is most probably the reason.

Anyways, why is this package so great? First of all the sound quality is very, very good; the original masters must have been perfectly preserved because this sounds better than many allegedly digitally remastered cds that I have had the misfortune of buying of which the list is too long to put down here.

Secondly, the packaging is fantastic with two jewel cases packed and slides out easily from a cardboard holdall that itself is very colourfully and artfully designed. The 42 page booklet is brilliant as it has great photos of the band and most important of all, the great liner notes from no other than the frontman of the band himself, Colin Cooper!

Colin seems to imply the he also had a hand in selecting the tracks which is important if you want to know which tracks the band themselves thought that they did their best work on were and believe me that's rare as many times it's the record company execs who do this without involving anyone from the band. Colin is also brutally honest and very frank when he describes each track even admitting that they succombed to commercialism at times and that he even regretted bowing to the pressure of the execs to do so instead of staying true.

Although I bought this in the beginning just for "I Love You,", after seeing just how good a compilation this is and listening to the other tunes, I now like the whole package for the reasons mentioned above. You can also see as each track progresses, how the band improves as musicians as well as songwriters and the cds end very appropriately with a return to their roots, a live version of the great Sonny Boy Williamson track "Don't Start Me Talking."

Great sound, great packaging, great way to do a retrospective with the artists' massive involvement and that's how you make a brilliant anthology of any band. Personally, as I dislike plastic cases, the only thing that they could have done better was to completely cardboard the packaging but that would be nit picking.

Folks the band is more than just Derek Holt and "I Love You" and you may just be pleasantly surprised at the other tracks and grow to love CBB. I know I have.