The Very Best of Mungo Jerry [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED]

Mungo Jerry

Product Details

• DVD Audio (October 1, 2002)
• Please Note: This is a DVD-Audio disc which is playable on most DVD players as well as all DVD-Audio players. Click here for additional information regarding compatibility.
• Original Release Date: September 10, 2002
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Silverline
• ASIN: B00006HCV5
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #505,377 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
24 bit / 96 kHz DVD-Audio and 24 bit / 48 kHz Dolby Digital 5.1 options Stunning 5.1 surround sound Liner Notes Artist Photos Plays on ALL DVD players

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars DVD-Audio with so so surround sound quality, August 23, 2008

By	Home Cinema (Switzerland) - See all my reviews

I'm giving this 4 stars because I like the music. Mungo Jerry was more popular in Europe than in the U.S. and they scored several hits after "In The Summertime". "Lady Rose" is one of them. The music itself is a mixture of Skiffle, Boogie and Glamrock. Party music in the best sense. The choice of tracks is also great - not only the well known songs but some lost gems like Jesse Fuller's "San Francisco Bay Blues".

I bought the DVD-Audio Version of this compilation because I wanted to get the best possbile sound quality there is. But this DVD-a scores only partially. The sound is very clear and "fuller" than any version I heard on CD. It's as if somebody had lifted a blanket off my speakers. However, the sound is also available in a 5.1 surround mix. And this is forgettable. I've heard some great surround DVD-Audios by other artists of the 60s and 70s (The Doors Perception Box comes to mind and I also liked the Grateful Dead's American Beauty). The surround mix here is a joke. The back speakers are only used as echoes of the front speakers. A good AV Surround Receiver with modern Sound processors will be able to emulate surround sound much better even from stereo CD sources.

Especially on songs like "Lady Rose" with its double tracked vocals and harmonies it would have been great to hear the singers from all speakers to get this "I'm in the middle of the band" feeling. But exactly that is lacking. I'm not saying it sounds bad - it's just not really a true surround mix.

If the surround mix is of no interest to you, thant this is a recommended buy. But beware: Even though the DVD-A plays in any regular DVD or Blu-ray Player - you will benefit from the higher quality sound only if your player specifically supports DVD-Audio and not only dts or Dolby Digital.

3.0 out of 5 stars Yes, it has that "Summertime" song, July 17, 2008

By	E. Nolan - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Let's be honest -- Mungo Jerry is no lost British Supergroup. They did one classic song, "In the Summertime", and that one's on here. Of the rest of the songs, "Lady Rose" and "You Don't Have To Be In the Army To Fight The War" are pretty good, and the rest are completely forgettable. And then there's a turgid 10 minute version of "I Just Wanna Make Love to You" that reminds us of the era when British groups felt compelled to record a blues number, and of why that was a bad idea.

I got this as a used discount at a store that was closing. I would definitely not pay the Amazon price for it -- You just want "In the Summertime", and you can find that on lots of CD compilations that are cheaper than this, and have other groups' classic songs as well.

I did not attempt to play this in a DVD player, I just popped it in my computer DVD drive to rip to MP3, and that seems to have worked just fine.