- Audio CD (12 Jan 2004)
- Number of Discs: 2
- Label: Sony
- ASIN: B0000SZ5DY
- Other Editions: Audio CD | MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 96,856 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| Disc: 1 |
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| 1. You Got It |
| 2. Got The Love |
| 3. Pick Up The Pieces |
| 4. Person To Person |
| 5. Work To Do |
| 6. Nothing You Can Do |
| 7. Just Want To Love You Tonight |
| 8. Keepin' It To Myself |
| 9. I Just Can't Give You Up |
| 10. There's Always Someone Waiting |
| Disc: 2 |
| 1. Person To Person |
| 2. There's Always Someone Waiting |
| 3. McEwan's Export |
| 4. Got The Love |
| 5. Work To Do |
| 6. Just Want To Love You Tonight |
| 7. Pick Up The Pieces |
| 8. I Just Can't Give You Up |
| 9. How Sweet Can You Get Mark1 |
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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
CALEDONIAN SOUL BROTHERS,
By Fitzp22 (London) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Average White Band: Remastered (Audio CD)
I've forgotten how many copies I have of the AWB White Album ... First bought on vinyl in 75 [lent it to a girl that I met at the Apollo in Glasgow and never saw it or her again]... replaced it, bought it on tape for the car, then on CD as soon as it was released, and then on CD again when it was re-mastered. Like a select band of classic albums [Marvin's - I Want You, Stevie's - Innervisions, Bowie's - Ziggy, Rod's - Every Picture, Marleys - Exodus & Hall & Oates Abandoned Luncheonette] I guess I'll keep on buying this one in every damm format they ever release ! The great thing about this particular release is that there is a bonus disc that is worth paying the money for alone ... The disc is made up from the much talked about, but until now un-heard 'Clover' sessions ... The Clover sessions should have been the bands 2nd album for MCA, but they were cut from the label, and when they signed for Atlantic they took the songs with them and re-recorded most of them under the stewardship of the great Atlantic & Aretha producer Arif Mardin. Unlike most demo's this set is excellently recorded and the playing as you'd expect from the boys is awesome. There is a freshness and vitality to the recordings that in some instances is even better than the slick Atlantic release. There are also a couple of new songs on the Clover sessions, that didn't make the White Album. The White Album itself is just pure class.. from the opening chords of 'You Got It' to a magic version of the Isley's 'Work To Do' to the legendary 'Pick up the pieces' every single song is worthty of inclusion. The playing is immense, and the vocals shared by the great Hamish Stuart and Alan Gorrie are superb. I once read that AWB were the ultimate band ... on their own all very competent musicians, but as a unit .... Awesome. If you don't own the White Album ... you gotta get it. If you do then you've still gotta buy this version for the 'Clover Sessions' This is Soul Music at it's finest ... the fact that these guys were Caledonian Soul Brothers, who could play like the JB's with names like Hamish and Onnie was just a bonus to all us white boys with no rhythm.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Don't want to be "Keeping it to myself",
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This review is from: Average White Band (MP3 Download)
Wonderful review by Fitzp22. All that i will add is this album contains some of the sweetest soul music ever made, Regretfully the Average White Band are vastly underrated in the UK and this album in particular seems to have slipped under the radar of so many soul music lovers here.They still remain one of the most successful British groups in the U.S. Even soul music stations here can only offer up "pick up the pieces" as their only track on the play list."Work to do", "Nothing you can do",!person to person!,Keeping it to myself". If you hear anything better than these gems sung with REAL soul then please let me know!
I guarantee if you buy this, it will instantly be amongst the TOP 5 albums you ever bought!! ENJOY!!!
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3.0 out of 5 stars (1 customer review)
3.0 out of 5 stars
Great Packaging, Horrible Remastering!,
By Frederick Baptist - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Average White Band (Audio CD)
This is a really great shame. The idea was a good one: to remaster and repackage this classic album adding the bonus "Clover Sessions" disc to boot. The irony is that the mastering and hence the sound quality on the bonus disc far outshines that of the main course, disc 1! The bass is overpowering on the first disc and the sound so muddy that even the original version didn't sound as bad as this! Track 5, "Work To Do" is the worst of the lot and is just unbelievably bad. Sony have a lot of work to do just to fix the damage done on the first disc. Too bad they didn't release the Clover Sessions separately otherwise you could get that alone and some other version of disc one. Overall verdict: 0 stars for Disc 1, 3 stars for Disc 2.
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