- Audio CD
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Import
- Label: Japan
- ASIN: B00005FGWC
- Other Editions: Audio CD | MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format: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
Format:Audio CD
Any album that starts with 'paper sun' and ends with 'dear mr. fantasy' and has 'hole in my shoe' in the middle deserves respect, and this is it.Traffic's fusion of psych/pop/jazz was unique and successful, later being continued by King Crimson and Caravan.This album covers tracks from their first two albums (the best of their career) and throws in their two most successful singles.If their were any critisisms it would be a)where is 'here we go round the mulberry bush', their third top ten single and b)it just isn't long enough (but it was originally issued on vinyl so we'll have to live with that).
Although this isn't the best compilation available it is good for those who just want a cheap, but not nasty, 'best of'.Well worth getting.
Although this isn't the best compilation available it is good for those who just want a cheap, but not nasty, 'best of'.Well worth getting.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format: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.
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Comprehensive
A very comprehensive collection from one of the most innovative bands of the sixties, Paper Sun, Hole in my Shoe, Shanghai Noodle Factory. A key part of any 60s collection.
Published 2 months ago by VinyltoCD
My first real album
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... Read more
Published 14 months ago by Iain
A good intro to the music of Traffic
I bought this CD to replace the LP that I bought in 1971 when I was a student living in Chelsea. I almost wore out the LP when I first got it, and listening to the CD I remembered... Read more
Published on 13 Nov 2009 by DAVID HUDSON
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