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| 1. Paper Sun - Jimmy Miller, Traffic, Dave Mason, Jim Capaldi, Steve Winwood, Chris Wood |
| 2. Heaven Is In Your Mind - Jimmy Miller, Traffic, Dave Mason, Jim Capaldi, Steve Winwood, Chris Wood |
| 3. No Face, No Name, No Number - Eddie Kramer, Traffic, Jimmy Miller, Steve Winwood, Dave Mason, Chris Wood, Jim Capaldi |
| 4. Coloured Rain - Jimmy Miller, Traffic, Eddie Kramer, Steve Winwood |
| 5. Smiling Phases - Jimmy Miller, Traffic, Eddie Kramer, Steve Winwood |
| 6. Hole In My Shoe - Jimmy Miller, Traffic, Dave Mason, Chris Wood, Jim Capaldi, Steve Winwood |
| 7. Medicated Goo - Jimmy Miller, Traffic |
| 8. (Roamin' Thro' The Gloamin' With) 40.000 Headman - Jimmy Miller, Traffic |
| 9. Feelin' Alright? - Jimmy Miller, Traffic |
| 10. Shanghai Noodle Factory - Jimmy Miller, Traffic |
| 11. Dear Mr. Fantasy - Chris Wood, Dave Mason, Jim Capaldi, Jimmy Miller, Steve Winwood, Traffic |
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Unique Sound, Superb Performances of Sensitive Arrangements,
By Gontroppo "Music and Theology Lover" (Bathurst, NSW Australia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Best Of Traffic (Audio CD)
There are only a few outstanding rock singers. Steve Winwood is one of the very best of the best. His voice sounds so distinctive that nobody has ever been able to create that soulful, sensuous, strident sound.This album was my introduction to Traffic many years ago and it still sounds interesting after 35 years. The band uses interesting tone colours which, while they are individual, cannot help but make you remember those weird psychedelic bands of the late 60s. I love Chris Wood's creative sax and flute. The sitar in Paper Sun is so effective. Hole in My Shoe is so over-the-top and pretentious that I love it! There is plenty of variety in the album: no two songs sound the same. A few have been splendidly recorded by other artists, including Feeling All Right [Joe Cocker] and Smiling Phases [Blood, Sweat and Tears], but, wonderful as these are, you can't beat the original versions. Highly recommended.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Rendered rather obsolete.,
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This review is from: The Best Of Traffic (Audio CD)
A decent compilation, at the time of its release in 1970. However, purchasers might be better-advised to consider the double cd retrospective "Smiling Phases". The entire content of "The Best Of Traffic" is featured therein, and a whole lot more besides. It does, therefore, represent much, much better value-for-money than this +/- forty-minute compilation. (Which covers only the early singles and the first three albums.)
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
My first real album,
By King Croesus (Peebles, Scotland) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Best Of Traffic (Audio CD)
From 1967 when I really got interested in music through to 1973 I never bought a single record as I owned a tape recorder and faithfully recorded Fluff Freeman's Pick of the Pops every Sunday. When I bought my first Hi Fi in 1973 I concentrated on buying Greatest Hit type albums so that I could listen at last to all my favourite singles in glorious stereo.
I have to confess therefore that my reason for buying this album all those years ago was simply to obtain a couple of hit songs which I liked and to hear for the first time a third single which had flopped. In fact I can remember feeling quite unhappy that "Here we go round the Mulberry Bush" wasn't on the album. This then is the album that made me realise that not all great music is found in the singles charts and that not all chart singles are great music. Tracks such as "Heaven is in your mind" "Coloured rain" and "Smiling Phases" simply blew my mind and led to me purchasing several more Traffic albums and I can safely say that Traffic were the first band that I was really into. I simply love Winwood's vocals, guitar and organ playing, Chris Wood was an extremely talented exponent of the flute and sax and Jim Capaldi was a superb drummer. Although Dave Mason featured on all the band's early material he didn't quite fit in with where they wanted to go. Although I still continued to buy "Best of" LPs afterwards, my mind had been well and truly opened and I never quite thought about music the same way again.
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