The Band Greatest Hits Music Cd

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The Band - Greatest Hits      Artist : The Band      List Price : $11.98 USD        Your Price : $7.97 USD      ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 2003-11-10      Studio : Capitol      Label : Capitol      Avg. Customer Rating : (34 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for The Band Greatest Hits      Great CD!      Rating:      After wearing out the cassette I bought of this album many years ago, I just had to get the CD. A great selection of The Band's best songs. If you like classic rock, this is a necessity.     Customer Reviews for The Band Greatest Hits Cd      Pleasant Transaction.      Rating:      The seller provided fast shipment and the cd was in new condition. A very pleasant transaction. Editorial Reviews for The Band Greatest Hits Audio Cd      Amazon.com      It seems odd that the Band emerged in 1968, defying the counterculture's extravagant rejections of U.S. culture with literary, often Southern-tinged musical and lyrical vehicles. Hearing this 18-song anthology, with its heavy weighting toward the Canadian quintet's first three albums--Music from Big Pink (four tunes), The Band (five tunes), and Stage Fright (three tunes)--what still stands out is the Band's command of yearning vocal harmonies, their sense of plainly laid melodies that reveal acoustic depth, and a nostalgia for an imagined American culture. With all their quirkiness and the advance of Robbie Robertson as their centerpiece, the Band lost their celebrated place in the rock pantheon within a decade. This set, which opens so magnificently with "The Weight," "Tears of Rage" (cowritten with Dylan), and the big organ-vamping "Chest Fever," declines rather steeply on the final tracks, "Acadian Driftwood" and "The Saga of Pepote Rouge." Up till then, however, this set is fantastic. --Andrew Bartlett