Track Listing

1. We Will Rock You - Queen
2. More Than a Feeling - Boston
3. Hot Blooded - Foreigner
4. China Grove - The Doobie Brothers
5. Rock 'N Me - Steve Miller, Steve Miller Band, Steven Miller
6. 25 or 6 to 4 - Chicago
7. Aqualung - Jethro Tull
8. No More Mr. Nice Guy - Alice Cooper, Alice Cooper
9. You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet - Bachman-Turner Overdrive
10. Smoke on the Water - Deep Purple
11. Radar Love - Golden Earring
12. American Woman - The Guess Who
13. Joy to the World - Three Dog Night
14. Don't Stop - Fleetwood Mac
15. Sister Golden Hair - America, Sister Golden Hair
16. Ramblin' Man - The Allman Brothers Band, The Allman Brothers Band
17. Fame - David Bowie
18. Hocus Pocus - Focus
19. Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd
20. Do You Feel Like We Do [Live] - Peter Frampton

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #24531 in Music
• Released on: 1999-02-16
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

Customer Reviews

THIS SUCKS!!
You're led to believe that these are the full-length hits when you play them, but DONT BE FOOLED!! They are chopped up shortened versions of the original hits!! FAME by David Bowie has about 2 min taken out, and the great guitar riff at the end of the Lynard Skynard "Freebird" tune is chopped off at the end . .A RIP OFF!!!

Too Scattershot To Be Truly Representative
By calling this a "Classic Rock Party" one must interpret "rock" rather loosely. This collection includes pop ("Joy to the World"), folk-rock ("Sister Golden Hair"), and even a novelty song (the yodelling "Hocus Pocus") in addition to classic 70's rock--all of these songs were released between 1970 and 1978.

Rhino's other releases in their Millenium series usually focused on a specific genre. When you're doing a hip-hop, funk or doo wop collection, you can do an adequate job even though you may be covering a decade of music. When your category is as broad as classic rock (whatever that means), your song selection doesn't hold together very well.

These were all popular songs and all of them reached the Top 40, except "Aqualung," which was never released as a single. And why wasn't "Eighteen" or "School's Out" used in place of Alice Cooper's "No More Mr. Nice Guy"? As for some of the other song selections, Rhino appears to have simply decided to save some money on licensing fees by recycling songs from its Top Rock Hits series.

Overall, this is a very listenable collection with terrific sound and informative liner notes. But unless you specifically looking for some of these songs, why not simply tune in to your local classic rock radio station?

The Definitive Classic Rock Compilation
Millennium Classic Rock Party is without a doubt one of the best music compilations money can buy. It showcases a great variety of rock music - from the lighter work of Boston and America, to the heavy, like "Hocus Pocus" by Focus - and each one of the songs is excellent. This is great music for a party, for driving in your car, or just for sitting down and listening to. And with 20 tracks, it'll outlast most CDs. This one won't get old anytime soon.