The Shadows - The Shadows' Greatest Hits (1963) {1989, Reissue}
Artist: The Shadows
Title: The Shadows' Greatest Hits
Year Of Release: 1963 / 1989
Label: Columbia / EMI #CDP 792423 2 / CZ 189
Genre: Instrumental Rock, Pop Rock, Classic Rock, British Invasion
Quality: EAC Rip -> WavPack (Img+Cue,Log) / MP3 CBR320
Total Time: 00:35:30
Total Size: 279 / 147 Mb (Full Scans)
WebSite: Album Preview
The Shadows are a British instrumental rock group, and were Cliff Richard's backing band from 1958 to 1968, (though they have collaborated again on numerous reunion tours). The Shadows have placed 69 UK charted singles from the 1950s to the 2000s, 35 credited to the Shadows and 34 to Cliff Richard and the Shadows. The group, who were in the forefront of the UK beat-group boom, were the first backing band to emerge as stars. As pioneers of the four-member instrumental format, the band consisted of lead guitar, rhythm guitar, bass guitar and drums. Their range covers pop, rock, surf rock and ballads with a jazz influence. The core members are Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch and Brian Bennett. Along with the Fender guitar, another cornerstone of the Shadows sound was the Vox amplifier. The Shadows, with Cliff Richard, dominated British popular music in the late 1950s and early 1960s in the years before the Beatles. The Shadows' number one hits included "Apache", "Wonderful Land", "Dance On!" and "Foot Tapper". Although they lost ground in the late '60s, the band had a second success from the late '70s.Title: The Shadows' Greatest Hits
Year Of Release: 1963 / 1989
Label: Columbia / EMI #CDP 792423 2 / CZ 189
Genre: Instrumental Rock, Pop Rock, Classic Rock, British Invasion
Quality: EAC Rip -> WavPack (Img+Cue,Log) / MP3 CBR320
Total Time: 00:35:30
Total Size: 279 / 147 Mb (Full Scans)
WebSite: Album Preview
A straightforward summary of the Shadows' first three years of habitual hit-making, opening with the pounding flurry of "Apache," then tracing through the next eight smash singles, with a handful of attendant B-sides (and one EP cut, the title track from The Boys) to round the package out. There is no denying the sheer brilliance of this early sequence. Hits like "Wonderful Land," "FBI," and "Man of Mystery" utterly rewrote the guitar's role in rock, not only musically, but culturally as well. Unquestionably, the Shadows' importance and impact diminished as the years passed, but at the outset of their career -- the period documented here -- they were untouchable. It is for that reason that The Shadows' Greatest Hits is still regarded in some quarters as the finest Shadows album of them all, an accolade which no other compilation (and goodness knows, there's been enough of them) has ever been able to dismiss. Even the sleeve screams "masterpiece."
~ Dave Thompson, All Music
Track List:
01. Apache [0:02:56.02]
02. Man of Mystery [0:02:02.73]
03. The Stranger [0:02:41.47]
04. F.B.I. [0:02:20.73]
05. Midnight [0:02:31.15]
06. The Frightened City [0:02:23.00]
07. Kon-Tiki [0:01:55.45]
08. 36-24-36 [0:01:42.27]
09. The Savage [0:02:24.05]
10. Peace Pipe [0:02:13.58]
11. Wonderful Land [0:02:03.57]
12. Stars Fell on Stockton [0:02:18.08]
13. Guitar Tango [0:03:00.67]
14. The Boys [0:02:33.10]
15. Dance On [0:02:22.33]
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