Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Romain
2. Daughter of the Fireplace [Single Version]
3. Manillo
4. Angel Easy
5. Storm [Live][#]
6. Spunk Rock
7. Bananas
8. Keep on Crinting
9. Back into the Future
10. Single (I'm Dreaming) [#]

Disc 2:

1. Many Are Called But Few Get Up [Live]
2. C'mon [Live]
3. California Silks and Satins
4. Intro
5. Kerosene
6. Scotch Corner
7. Exit
8. Hard Way to Live [Live]
9. Grasshopper
10. Hard Way to Die
11. 7171 511 [Live]

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #205602 in Music
• Released on: 2008-04-29
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Dimensions: .26 pounds

Album Description
Two CD anthology spanning the years 1971-75 while the band were signed to Liberty/United Artists. 25 tracks including 'Romain', 'Many Are Called But Few Get Up', 'Spunk Rock' (Live), 'The Single (I'm Dreaming)', 'Daughter Of The Fireplace' and more. EMI. 2006

Customer Reviews

The Man band is more than the sum of it's parts.
Great bands often revolve around the creative juices of one or two core members. Not Man. From the early days of Mickey Jones, Clive John and Deke Leonard, through Deke's many fine heirs such as Tweke Lewis who came and went from band to band, to the loose association with label mates Help Yourself, to the return of Deke Leonard and the tour with John Cippolina, The Man band never put out a bad record and they made many great ones.
They have been called the greatest hippie band that didn't come from California but I think they smoke most of them.
I saw the Man band in Wales in nineteen sixty-eight. While every other psychedelic hippie band was noodling for the noodle dancers, Man rocked like f***.
I saw them again in 1975, after so many mind boggling personnel changes that most bands would have completely lost their identity, Man still sounded like Man, only more so, and better, and harder, and stronger.
Now they're kids are doing it. Second generation Man band.

I am an audio engineer. I've worked with second generation bands from The Marshall Tucker Band to The Guess Who. Rarely does a band keep it going into the fifth decade, and it's unheard of that the kids should actually outdo their parents, but that's exactly what's happening in the Man band right now.

This is a comprehensive collection of their work in the seventies. Almost every great track is here. For those who say there's not enough from the Back Into The Future album, I agree. The best solution is simply to buy Back Into The Future. Keep On Crinting is a nearly complete collection in itself though and it includes the truly definitive versions of these songs: Spunk Rock from the Greasy Trucker's Party. A previously unreleased and stunning live version of Prelude The Storm. The live version of C'mon from the aforementioned Back Into The Future and the entire second side of Rhino's Wino's & Lunatics. There's even an unreleased single A side.

You could ask for more, but you probably wouldn't get it.

Many are called
This is an excellent compilation of the Welsh band Man. Covering what was probably the bands most prolific period (1971 to 1975) we have here some real high points of a wonderful band. Most reviews of Man will make reference to them being the only west coast band to emerge from the UK and in many ways this is almost true. But Man where more than that.
Over the two discs of this collection we are treated to some of the finest moments that music of this era had to offer. In Deke Leonard and Micky Jones the band had two great guitarists and songwriters (if perhaps not the greatest singers) who where always working with gifted and like minded musicians. A collection that covers only four years (although four years was a long time in those days) yet made by ten different line ups ( even Deke left for a while) points to why the band never achieved the success they could have, but the Man band was always about the music.
If you are a fan of rock music you will find plenty to enjoy here, long spacey jams and punchy rock tunes, some great guitar solos, from the fiery to the introspective and even a male choir, this is the Man band in full flight.

Many are Called--But Few get UP!!!!
Man is the kind of jam band that you will never forget. I saw them in Berkeley (Keystone and Community Theatre) during the eighties and seventies-- so inspiring!!! This two disc best of is great!!! If you do not have any of their early stuff, this is the one. All remastered tracks--they sound so good. Man fans get this one and others who are curious-this is the one!!! Enjoy!!!