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Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Boom Boom
2. Honey in Your Hips
3. Certain Girl, A
4. I Wish You Would
5. Too Much Monkey Business
6. I Got Love If You Want It
7. Smokestack Lightning
8. Here 'Tis
9. Good Morning Little School Girl
10. Got to Hurry
11. I Ain't Got You
12. For Your Love
13. I'm Not Talking
14. Steeled Blues
15. Heart Full of Soul
16. I Ain't Done Wrong
17. You're a Better Man Than I
18. Shapes of Things
19. Train Kept a Rollin'
20. New York City Blues
21. Evil Hearted You
22. I'm a Man
23. Still I'm Sad
24. Questa Volta
25. Pafff...Bum
DISC 2:
1. Lost Woman
2. Over Under Sideways Down
3. Nazz Are Blue, The
4. I Can't Make Your Way
5. Rack My Mind
6. Hot House of Omagarashid
7. Jeff's Boogie
8. He's Always There
9. Turn Into Earth
10. What Do You Want
11. Happenings Ten Years Time Ago
12. Psycho Daisies
13. Stroll On
14. Little Games - (single version)
15. Puzzles
16. White Summer
17. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor
18. No Excess Baggage
19. Drinking Muddy Water
20. Only the Black Rose
21. Ten Little Indians
22. Ha Ha Said the Clown
23. Goodnight Sweet Josephine - (U.S. version)
24. Think About It
25. Knowing - (with Keith Relf)
26. Mr. Zero - (with Keith Relf)
27. Shapes in My Mind - (with Keith Relf)
Album Notes
The Yardbirds: Keith Relf (vocals, acoustic guitar, harmonica, tambourine); Jeff Beck (vocals, guitar, bass); Chris Dreja (guitar, piano, bass, maracas); Jimmy Page (guitar, bass); Anthony "Top" Topham, Eric Clapton (guitar); Paul Samwell-Smith (bass, background vocals); Jim McCarty (drums, percussion, background vocals).
Additional personnel: Hamish Grimes (spoken vocals); Al Gorgoni (guitar); Ian Stewart, Nicky Hopkins (piano); Brian Auger (harpsichord); Rick Nielsen (organ); Ron Prentice, John Paul Jones, Joe Macho, Joe Osborne (bass); Dougie Wright, Clem Cattini, Bobby Gregg, Hal Baline (drums); Denny Piercey (bongos); Chris Karan (tabla).
Producers: Giorgio Gomelsky, Paul Samwell-Smith, Simom Napier-Bell, Mickie Most.
Compilation producer: Gary Stewart.
Recorded between 1963 and 1968. Includes liner notes and song annotations by Cub Koda.
Digitally remastered by Dan Hersch & Bill Inglot (DigiPrep).
With two discs, 52 songs and a 52-page book, this is a wonderful roller coaster ride through the vitally important Yardbirds catalog. Not only did guitarists Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and Jimmy Page emerge from their ranks, but the group spearheaded a unique meld of blues and ferocious rock & roll. Formed in the era of British blues bands, the Yardbirds released a series of singles that gave them Top 40 clout. Though this hastened the exit of Clapton, who decried their abandonment of a purer strain of blues, it created some incendiary, forward-looking material anchored in one of the era's underrated rhythm sections.
Flush with the experimentation that was fueling the era, there are countless treasures to be heard here. "I Can't Make Your Way" is a mix of skiffle, cowboy swagger, and infectious riffing. "He's Always There" is pre-psych fuzziness combined with cool background vocals and handclaps. And then of course, there are all the hits, richly mastered and delivering a hefty wallop.
Industry Reviews
...They are the font from which flowed the white-hot proto-metal that inspired hundreds of garage bands....why would you even 'dream' of skipping this primo 2-disc compilation. - Rating: A
Entertainment Weekly (07/27/2001)
3.5 stars out of 5 - ...A thorough overview...
Down Beat (12/01/2001)
5 out of 5 stars - ...This is a perfect compilation...
Q (11/01/2001)
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