The Best of the Flamin' Groovies: Oldies But Groovies [Import]

Product Description
Australian Release featuring 12 Tracks Including Married Woman, Slow Death, I Can't Hide, Shake Some Action, and Others.

Tracks:

Shake Some Action
Married Woman
Slow Death
Tallahassee Lassie
Teenage Head
Way Over My Head
Searching
She's Got A Hold On Me
You Tore Me Down
Money
I'm Only What You Want Me To Be
I Can't Hide

Album Description

Features all the band's greatest hits from 1968-1991. An uncompromising version of British-influenced power pop!

Album Details

Australian Release featuring 12 Tracks Including Married Woman, Slow Death, I Can't Hide, Shake Some Action, and Others.

Customer Reviews:

Bootleg.......2004-04-06

Released by the ripoff artists at AIM Records in Australia without the permission of Cyril Jordan or Roy Loney. Don't support the scumbag bootleggers. Buy a copy of "Groovies Greatest Grooves" or Norton's "Slow Death" instead.

Well, Some Of The Best.......1999-12-03

There has never been a really good Flamin Groovies best-of. "Groovies Greatest Grooves" contains a lot of great stuff (some of which is represented here), but it also documents their fairly lousy covers of rock classics. I mean, why would you want to hear the Groovies do "River Deep Mountain High" when you can listen to the Phil Spector original? This compilation hits some of the high points--"Teenage Head" in particular, but there's nothing from their good second album, "Flamingo." "Comin' After Me" and "Second Cousin" certainly belong on any best-of. And their first album, "Supersnazz," contains three or four classics. There's always been far too much reverence for the Flamin Groovies' Dave Edmunds phase. I like "You Tore Me Down" and "Shake Some Action" as well as the next guy, but the more overtly "power-pop" the Groovies got the more they got away from what made them charming to begin with. This compilation is adequate but if I had to choose I would go with "Groovies Greatest Grooves" and "Supersnazz" as the foundation of any collection. Then get "Flamingo" (if you can find a copy). "Teenage Head" is more punk-rock and it's somewhat spotty (Jim Dickinson, who produced another classic '70s band, plays piano on a couple of tracks). C'mon, you creative young marketers, do a deal with all the various folk who own rights to the Flamin Groovies albums and put together a definitive best-of. In this age of global instantaneous free love and E-commerce, surely you can do it, virtually pain-free. One CD, some liner notes, no bogus "alternate takes" or needless arcana, just the hits. Think about it.

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