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The Very Best of the Yardbirds (Import) The Yardbirds CD
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  • Artist: The Yardbirds
  • Format: CD
  • Year: 2005
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • UPC: 698458116826
  • Item Number: SLT811682
  • Release date: 09/27/2005
  • 1. Baby What's Wrong
  • 2. Talkin' 'Bout You
  • 3. Let It Rock [Live]
  • 4. Pontiac Blues [Live]
  • 5. I Wish You Would
  • 6. Too Much Monkey Business [Live]
  • 7. Smokestack Lightning [Live]
  • 8. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
  • 9. Got to Hurry
  • 10. For Your Love
  • 11. Heart Full of Soul [Sitar Version]
  • 12. I Ain't Done Wrong
  • 13. My Girl Sloopy
  • 14. Still I'm Sad
  • 15. I'm a Man
  • 16. Train Kept a Rollin'
  • 17. Shapes of Things
  • 18. Jeff's Blues
  • 19. Like Jimmy Reed Again
  • 20. Stroll On [From Blow Up]
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The Very Best of the Yardbirds [Metro] (Import) by The Yardbirds on CD


This is another of the ubiquitous Yardbirds compilations to utilize the band's 1963-1966 output, what are referred to informally as the Giorgio Gomelsky tapes (referring to their ex-manager, though he sold his rights to this material off decades ago). As a compilation, it's mainly distinguished by its relatively good sound -- they've gone to good tape sources -- and their willingness to program the group's early rock & roll and blues sides, including "Pontiac Blues" featuring Sonny Boy Williamson II on vocals and harp, alongside their subsequent pop-oriented hits, including "For Your Love," and the early stirrings of experimentation in "Heart Full of Soul" in its sitar version; it ends with the Jeff Beck/Jimmy Page-dominated number "Stroll On" from Blow Up, as most of the Gomelsky tape compilations do. The track-by-track annotation at least indicates that some serious effort was made to put this collection together. There's nothing new here, however, from the standpoint of anyone who knows the band -- it's an okay place to start out listening to the Yardbirds in 2005, if that's what one is doing (though this reviewer would've found room for "You're a Better Man Than I"), but otherwise unexceptional in a historical context. ~ Bruce Eder, Rovi
  • Artist: The Yardbirds
  • Format: CD
  • Year: 2005
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • UPC: 698458116826
  • Item Number: SLT811682
  • Release date: 09/27/2005
  • Label: Metro
  • Genre: Pop/Rock, Blues, Pop/Rock, Pop/Rock, Pop/Rock, Blues, Pop/Rock
  • Style: British Psychedelia, British Blues, British Invasion, Blues-Rock, Rock & Roll, Regional Blues, Psychedelic
  • Album Time: 62:26

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  • The Very Best of the Yardbirds (Import) The Yardbirds CD
The Very Best of the Yardbirds (Import) The Yardbirds CD