DYNAMITE/20 ORIGINAL HITS 20 ORIGINAL STARS TE 298 (-74) US/UK

 Another of those K-tel issues that may seem too cheap for the more posh collector, but still brings a lot to enjoy for people who just love good music. Apart from Jeff Beck's 1967 "Hi Ho Silver Lining" all hits from 1972-73. As I've said before - even if I have many of the cuts on here already, compilations like this are a way for me to reacquaint with top numbers, or getting to know ones that escaped me back then. Here I get old favourites - like Wizzard "Angel Fingers", Faces "Pool Hall Richard", Nazareth "This Flight Tonight", Suzy Quattro "48 Crash" and Alice Cooper "School's Out" - coupled with stuff I knew but forgot about long time ago - as Mud "Dynamite", Steeleye Span "Gaudete" Mungo Jerry "Wild Love" or Geordie "Electric Lady". It's good to put it on the turntable, just relax in the listening chair and take in. With ten tracks on each side don't expect all over tophole power and separation, though it all comes out very good considering and all right to both ears and mind. Also issued on vinyl in Netherlands and Germany, as cassette in UK and Germany and 8-track in UK. Not sure if this was a UK release for some reason pressed in US, or a US release in an imported UK sleeve. In any case it came with label as shown here in a thin glossy cover. (SÄM*)  (YZÄ*) (KÄJT*)