The Hollies - Hollies [Japanese Remastered Limited Edition SHM-CD] (1965/2013)
BAND/ARTIST: The Hollies
- Title: Hollies
- Year Of Release: 1965/2013
- Label: Warner Music Japan [WPCR-15417]
- Genre: Beat, Classic Rock, Pop Rock
- Quality: 320 kbps / FLAC (tracks+cue, log, scans) / WAV (tracks, scans)
- Total Time: 1:15:51
- Total Size: 207 mb / 472 mb / 797 mb
- WebSite: Album Preview
Notwithstanding the entirely acceptable omission of 1981's rather desperate Stars-on-45-style retro-medley "Holliedaze," this rather definitive Greatest Hits collection contains every single Hollies song that ever tickled the mass fancy of record buyers anywhere in the world, ever. Even the sleeve notes dispense with the scantest of biographical detail to present a veritable almanac of impressive global chart statistics, including mentions of #1 singles in Sweden, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Holland, South Africa, Singapore, Ireland, and Switzerland, as well as the UK. Of course, the Hollies were nothing if not adaptable. The grinning beat pop and "pap pap she waddy wops" of "Stay" through to the folky overtures of "I've Got a Way of My Own" (like an estrogen-free version of the Mamas and the Papas) were obviously marvelous and yet entirely generic responses to the overriding cultural dominance of the Beatles and Bob Dylan. But much the same thing can be said for the majority of their peers.
Still, the 1960s were a golden age for the Hollies and to hear the Graham Gouldman-penned "Bus Stop", "Carrie Anne" (part Kinks, part Beach Boys, part calypso), or the sweet-shop bubblegum of "Jennifer Eccles" is to be reacquainted with a sunny lost world of short skirts, Mini Coopers, and policemen on bicycles. Even the knee-jerk cod-psychedelia of "King Midas in Reverse"--a full-on trumpets-blaring, cello-charging microcosm of Revolver and Sgt. Pepper-isms--deserves revisionist plaudits. There is one newly recorded track on the album (featuring Allan Clarke's replacement, the former Move vocalist Carl Wayne) called "How Do I Survive". Regrettably, it's a disco-cum-AOR rock thing that sounds like the result of an unfortunate liaison between James Ingram and Foreigner. Still, when faced with the spine-tingling, classic gold timelessness of "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" and "The Air That I Breathe," it would matter not one jot if the bonus track was a three-part harmony rendition of a page out of the telephone directory. --Kevin Maidment
Still, the 1960s were a golden age for the Hollies and to hear the Graham Gouldman-penned "Bus Stop", "Carrie Anne" (part Kinks, part Beach Boys, part calypso), or the sweet-shop bubblegum of "Jennifer Eccles" is to be reacquainted with a sunny lost world of short skirts, Mini Coopers, and policemen on bicycles. Even the knee-jerk cod-psychedelia of "King Midas in Reverse"--a full-on trumpets-blaring, cello-charging microcosm of Revolver and Sgt. Pepper-isms--deserves revisionist plaudits. There is one newly recorded track on the album (featuring Allan Clarke's replacement, the former Move vocalist Carl Wayne) called "How Do I Survive". Regrettably, it's a disco-cum-AOR rock thing that sounds like the result of an unfortunate liaison between James Ingram and Foreigner. Still, when faced with the spine-tingling, classic gold timelessness of "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" and "The Air That I Breathe," it would matter not one jot if the bonus track was a three-part harmony rendition of a page out of the telephone directory. --Kevin Maidment
:: TRACKLIST ::
Original Album [Mono]
1 Very Last Day
2 You Must Believe Me
3 Put Yourself In My Place
4 Down The Line
5 That's My Desire
6 Too Many People
7 Lawdy Miss Clawdy
8 When I Come Home To You
9 Fortune Teller
10 So Lonely
11 I've Been Wrong
12 Mickey's Monkey
Original Album [Stereo]
13 Very Last Day
14 You Must Believe Me
15 Put Yourself In My Place
16 Down The Line
17 That's My Desire
18 Too Many People
19 Lawdy Miss Clawdy
20 When I Come Home To You
21 Fortune Teller
22 So Lonely
23 I've Been Wrong
24 Mickey's Monkey
Bonus Track
25 I Can't Get Nowhere With You [Stereo Version]
26 She Gives Me Everything I Want [Stereo Version]
27 You In My Arms [Stereo Version]
28 Look Through Any Window [Alternate Stereo Version]
29 Little Bitty Pretty One [Mono Version]
30 Listen To Me [Mono Version]
31 So Lonely [Early Take] [Mono Version]
32 Bring Back Your Love To Me [Mono Version]
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