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Anthology

Anthology
The Guess Who

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Track Listing

Disc 1:

  1. Shakin' All Over
  2. It's My Pride
  3. When Friends Fall Out [Single Version]
  4. These Eyes
  5. Wednesday in Your Garden
  6. Laughing
  7. 6 A.M. or Nearer
  8. Undun
  9. No Time
  10. No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature
  11. American Woman
  12. Answer
  13. Hand Me Down World
  14. Bus Rider
  15. Share the Land
  16. Hang On to Your Life [Single Version]
  17. Do You Miss Me Darlin'
  18. Albert Flasher
  19. Broken
  20. Pain Train
  21. Sour Suite

Disc 2:

  1. Rain Dance
  2. Heartbroken Bopper [Single Version]
  3. Smoke Big Factory
  4. Guns, Guns, Guns
  5. Runnin' Back to Saskatoon [Single Version]
  6. Follow Your Daughter Home
  7. Samantha's Living Room
  8. Orly
  9. Those Show Biz Shoes
  10. Glamour Boy [Single Version]
  11. Cardboard Empire
  12. Star Baby
  13. Sona Sona
  14. Clap for the Wolfman
  15. Hoe Down Time
  16. Dancin' Fool
  17. Dreams
  18. When the Band Was Singin' "Shakin' All Over"

Product Details

  • Amazon Sales Rank: #7814 in Music
  • Brand: RCA
  • Released on: 2003-10-07
  • Number of discs: 2
  • Format: Original recording remastered
  • Dimensions: .27 pounds

Editorial Reviews

Album Description
38 of their best-known classics on 2 CDs including 13 Top 40 hits. Digitally remastered. RCA. 2003.


Customer Reviews

Finally A Worthy Collection Of The Guess Who's Best Hits!5
RCA finally got it right this time by releasing "The Guess Who Anthology", which is an excellent 2-cd set that covers the band's career from the early sixties to the mid- seventy's. What's nice about this collection is that it includes their first hit "Shakin' All Over" (also covered by The Who) as well as a few other rarities from that time period (60's). You have most of the choice songs from each Guess Who studio album ever released with the exception of "Friends Of Mine" (from Wheatfield Soul) but that song was 10 minutes long so it's understandable that because of it's time length it was omitted from this collection. The hits such as "These Eyes", "Laughing", "Undun", "No Time", "American Woman", "No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature", "Hand Me Down World", "Share The Land", "Hang On To Your Life", "Albert Flasher", "Rain Dance", "Glamour Boy" and "Star Baby" are all here plus twenty seven other songs as well (including more hits). This collection is also remastered and sounds great, much better than other collections I've owned. If you enjoy listening to groups such as Three Dog Night, Bread, Grand Funk, etc, then you'll love this latest Guess Who collection.

GET THIS ONE FIRST! The best Guess Who collection!5
At first I thought do we really need another Guess Who collection? But really this is by far the best place to start. Strongest track selection on any Guess Who album, period! It contains just about all the essential album stuff and a few excellent hard to find single tracks but no filler. Contrary to what some said here the sound first rate! I just compared tracks on this to the excellent Buddha remasters and there was no distinguishable difference. The sound is a big improvement over many previous releases, especially the strange remastering of "Ultimate Collection." That one had too much volume compression which made the stereo image shift back and forth in a very distracting way. But for me the best part of this collection is probably the 3 radio advertisment recordings hidden at the ends of the discs. The "Canadian Invasion" ad which promoted "These Eyes" is hilarious!

The Motherlode5
Now this is more like it. This is what I consider the complete "Guess Who". While all of the hits are there and since they have all been reviewed to death over the years especially (dare I say it) "American Woman" I'll focus on some of the songs that should have been hits or overlooked album cuts that are also happily included . From the "B' side of the hit "Laughing" is "Broken", one of the best "B" side ballads never released on its own. The practice that took place back in the 70's in Canada anyways was to sometimes release a single as a two sided hit hence it was known as "Laughing/Broken". Also is the pre Guess Who tune by the then named "Chad Allen and the Expressions" "Shakin' all Over" as well as an alternate version of "Shakin'" Other songs that deserved to be included " Smoke Big Factory" and "Shoe Biz Shoes" are also represented. Randy Bachman the lead guitarist and Burton Cummings the main vocalist and keyboard player were a terific duo as songwriting partners. They had differences and Bachman had other successes with the groups "Brave Belt, Union, Ironhorse and of course Bachman-Turner Overdrive" as well as both he and Cummings having solo successes. They reunited over the last year and seeing them together again was pure magic. If you can't see them live you can relive it through these cuts. Or buy their live CD and DVD as well to complete the set.