Sonic Grade: D
The tonal balance is right on the money on the better pressings, but because this is a compilation, it is made from copies of the master tapes, not real master tapes themselves, so it will always have that blurry, smeary, opaque, airless, sub-generation-tape sound.
Love the music, but you really need to have the real albums to hear these songs at their best.
Hey, that’s what we hear on most of the Heavy Vinyl we audition. Imagine that.
One high point though: the complete nine minute long version of Bluebird. If you see the album for cheap, buy it for that song
A1 For What It’s Worth 3:00
A2 Sit Down, I Think I Love You 2:30
A3 Nowadays Clancy Can’t Even Sing 3:26
A4 Go And Say Goodbye 2:19
A5 Pay The Price 2:35
A6 Burned 2:14
A7 Out Of My Mind 3:05
B1 Mr. Soul 2:35
B2 Bluebird 9:00
B3 Broken Arrow 6:13
B4 Rock ‘N’ Roll Woman 2:44
C1 Expecting To Fly 3:29
C2 Hung Upside Down 3:24
C3 A Child’s Claim To Fame 2:09
C4 Kind Woman 4:10
C5 On The Way Home 2:25
C6 I Am A Child 2:15
D1 Pretty Girl Why 2:24
D2 Special Care 3:30
D3 Uno Mundo 2:00
D4 In The Hour Of Not Quite Rain 3:45
D5 Four Days Gone 2:53
D6 Questions 2:52