- Audio CD (5 Jun 2006)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: CD
- Label: Commercial Marketing
- ASIN: B000ERU8G0
- Other Editions: Audio CD | MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 60,228 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I've been looking for a Booker T & The MG's compilation but couldn't decide which as they seemed to focus on either early or later recordings. This one compiled by Elvis Costello is a blinder. Even the best Hammond organ players can sometimes sound a little "end of the pier" but these selections are great and the live "Green Onions" is well worth choosing over the studio version. The other live track "Bootleg" also steams along but there is a good mix of tempo across all tracks. Great sound and highly recommended.
Format:Audio CD
Excellent compliation at this price. The MGs were as tight as a drum,classic line-up, one of the few instrumental bands where you don't feel vocals should have been added to vary the listening pleasure.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Don't take my word for it, Elvis Costello picked these tracks
30 Mar 2008
Format:Audio CD
I had never owned a BT&MG album before and didn't know their songs beyond Green Onions and Time is Tight. There are several greatest hits and compilations to choose from, and I read the reviews for all of them before choosing this one. It's a great collection, and the extensive liner notes by Elvis Costello who picked the tracks made me listen even closer to appreciate the musicality of some of the songs I had never heard.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
How can anyone say anything BAD about this band? Great disc too.
6 Dec 2007
Format:Audio CD
Fantastic disc, compiled by...Elvis Costello? What gives? It's okay, thankfully he picks a real cream of the crop disc here. This is the perfect companion for me to the Best Of on Atlantic.
Booker T. and the MG's -- can they really do any wrong? Okay, I just saw they put out a Christmas album, but let's put that aside for them; they deserve some RESPECT!!
(for anybody who has seen Otis Redding at Monterey, try and tell me that Donald "Duck" Dunn isn't the GREATEST bass player of ALL TIME!)
The house band on Stax, they were more than a backing band--in John Fogerty's estimate, they were the greatest band of all time. I don't think I'd go THAT far, but they were SUPOIB!
Stuuf on here that isn't on my comp of earlier material includes the fantastic Time Is Tight, Burnt Biscuits,Hang 'Em High, and a couple other true essentials (which I notice ain't on their double CD set "The Definitive Soul Collection") are Sunday Sermon and Fuquawi. Man DIG that slow, Coooool groove on Sunday Sermon. How mellow-beautiful can you GET? Ooch, that feels GOOOOD. So good. MM-MMMM!! Talk about relaxing mellow groove! This beats Hip Hug-Her hands down (which is on here for all you fellow Barfly fans), and even may be more relaxing than their version of Summertime, hoo-boy!
Fuquawi is one great track that -- I remember once reading some celebrity chick saying that Booker T.'s Hip Hug-Her made her horny; well, what would she do to this, if this came on?! Man!
A Booker T. 'best of' can never be bad (unless the sound quality is an issue; it sure as hell ain't here!)
Elvis Costclello did an excellent job picking tracks on this one.
Highly recommended. Fantastic.
Booker T. and the MG's -- can they really do any wrong? Okay, I just saw they put out a Christmas album, but let's put that aside for them; they deserve some RESPECT!!
(for anybody who has seen Otis Redding at Monterey, try and tell me that Donald "Duck" Dunn isn't the GREATEST bass player of ALL TIME!)
The house band on Stax, they were more than a backing band--in John Fogerty's estimate, they were the greatest band of all time. I don't think I'd go THAT far, but they were SUPOIB!
Stuuf on here that isn't on my comp of earlier material includes the fantastic Time Is Tight, Burnt Biscuits,Hang 'Em High, and a couple other true essentials (which I notice ain't on their double CD set "The Definitive Soul Collection") are Sunday Sermon and Fuquawi. Man DIG that slow, Coooool groove on Sunday Sermon. How mellow-beautiful can you GET? Ooch, that feels GOOOOD. So good. MM-MMMM!! Talk about relaxing mellow groove! This beats Hip Hug-Her hands down (which is on here for all you fellow Barfly fans), and even may be more relaxing than their version of Summertime, hoo-boy!
Fuquawi is one great track that -- I remember once reading some celebrity chick saying that Booker T.'s Hip Hug-Her made her horny; well, what would she do to this, if this came on?! Man!
A Booker T. 'best of' can never be bad (unless the sound quality is an issue; it sure as hell ain't here!)
Elvis Costclello did an excellent job picking tracks on this one.
Highly recommended. Fantastic.
Not a dud track - but no Soul Limbo
23 May 2012
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
A great value compilation with some interesting commentary by Elvis Costello. All I ever had previously was green onions on various soul compilations. This is a great Booker T compilation. I got Time is Tight and Soul Limbo mixed up. Had Soul Limbo as a single when I was a kid - loved it. Will now have to get another compilation and probably the album where they do all the Beatles covers
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