Blue Rodeo - Blue Rodeo - Greatest Hits 1
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Artist: Blue RodeoEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2004-04-13
Music Label: Rounder / Umgd
Soundtracks:
- To Love Somebody
- Rose-Coloured Glasses
- Try
- Diamond Mine
- Til I Am Myself Again
- Trust Yourself
- Lost Together
- 5 Days in May
- HasnĀ?t Hit Me Yet
- Bad Timing
- Dark Angel
- Side of the Road
- Bulletproof
- After the Rain
Music reviews of Blue Rodeo - Greatest Hits 1
Music Review: Is This Really Canada' Best Band?
Rating: 3 Stars
Having returned an early album by this band years ago because I simply couldn't hear the lyrics I decided a few days ago to give them another chance since it was the day after Canada Day.
I didn't like the first 4 tracks. Tracks 5 and 6 are alright and track 7 is OK until the singer starts screaming as he did on earlier tracks. His voice is too thin to be screaming. Robert Plant, Alice Cooper and Ozzie are my idea of good screamers for comparisons. Track 8 begins well and maintains until the guitar solo which has some annoying picking notes near the end. Track 9 is good but points out the over-miked lead singer which doesn't permit harmonies. Nice slide guitar. Track 10 is nice and mellow with good harmonica. Track 11 is quite beautiful with Sarah's duet. Track 12 is OK. Track 13 OK. Track 14 is a soulful number. It seems to represent a change in direction until the guitar solo which is pretty cliche. The sax and horns don't work well with it at the end.
The problem is that these guys are vastly inferior to their idols- the Dead,The Band, The Flying Burritto Brothers and the Bryds among others. They don't have the vocal harmonies and their arrangements are too derivative. I especially dislike the singer who does the bad Dylan imitation. Anybody can do a bad Dylan. Joan Baez,etc.. It's fun! I just don't want to listen to it. Otherwise the other guy does a kind of southern California accent that is not indigenous to Toronto but which is nevertheless more listenable.
Maybe by next Canada Day I will have grown to appreciate this band more.
Description of Blue Rodeo - Greatest Hits 1
"America's best band is...Canadian." - Rolling Stone * 14 essential tracks * 2 previously unreleased tracks Blue Rodeo are one of Canada's greatest bands, having sold almost four million albums worldwide. Greatest Hits collects 14 essential tracks on one exceptional CD, pulled from their catalog of nine albums. Featured are the poignant ballad "Try," the guitar-powered "Side of the Road" (from the group's psychedelic masterpiece Nowhere to Here), and their recent hit "Bulletproof." Two previously unreleased recordings - their unique take on the Bee Gee's classic "To Love Somebody" (complete with fiddles and pedal steel) and a live version of "After The Rain" - make this, their first ever compilation, even more special.The early vanguards of a Toronto music scene that would eventually produce Tragically Hip, Jane Siberry, Cowboy Junkies, and other standouts, Blue Rodeo's stateside profile never quite matched its Canadian acclaim--and we're definitely the poorer country for it. Frontmen Jim Cuddy and Greg Keelor may anchor their songs deep in tasteful range of American roots rock , but there's nary a trace of slavish devotion to any of it. Indeed they inject a countrified, Gram Parsons sensibility into a simmering cover of the Bee Gees' "To Love Somebody," and shimmering Big Star/Twilley power pop hooks to "Rose Colored Glasses." Be it the folk-evocations of "Hasn't Hit Me Yet" and neo-country "Bad Timing" or the spare, sensuous ballad "Dark Angel" (featuring Sarah McLachlan on piano and backing vocals) and dreamy drone of "Side of the Road," Blue Rodeo takes some familiar bottles and fills them with heady new musical wine. --Jerry McCulley
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