20 GOLDEN GREATS 2475 601 (-76) MONO + STEREO GERMANY

 

 Continuing to pick and recommend collections I find worth having. One of many bearing this "Golden Greats" title, but in this case the compiling really lives up to it. All time classics by Who, Jimi Hendrix, Cream, James Brown, Bee Gees, Troggs, Slade, Eric Burdon & The Animals, Crazy World Of Arthur Brown, Derek & The Dominos, Barry Ryan, and more. And even if they crammed in ten cuts on each side the audio is smashing. As I can hear all here are the 45 versions. For exemple "Wolly Bully", "Happy Jack", "I Feel Free", "Fire", "Wild Thing" and a couple more comes in mono, while "Layla" is a 2:43 version. Even if I have most of the songs before on albums it's nice to get the single cuts and there are also tracks new to my collection, like Marbles "Only One Woman", Jimmy Jones "Good Timin", Julie Driscoll "This Wheel's On Fire", Bobby Brown "Montego Bay" and Medicine Head "One And One Is One". Many music lovers today are starting to lose interest in vinyl compilations and instead go for CD ones, so items like this are getting harder to sell and therefore now often shows up in the cheapest bins. But if you're in it for the music, analog audio and sixties feeling and don't want to spend a fortune this comes highly recommended. Also issued on vinyl in UK and Austria (same numbers), plus as German cassette. German vinyl had label as shown here in a thin glossy cover. (SÄM*)  (GÖXÄ*)