Friendly Strangers: The Warner Bros. Recordings

Artist: The Ides of March
Label: Rhino Handmade
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 2

UPC: 603497783427
EAN: 0603497783427
ASIN: B0001LYFY0

Release Date: 2004-01-01

Friendly Strangers: The Warner Bros. Recordings

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Tracks:

One Woman Man
High On A Hillside
Vehicle [Single Version]
Lead Me Home, Gently
Vehicle
Factory Band
Sky Is Falling
Home
Wooden Ships/Dharma for One
Bald Medusa
Aire of Good Feeling
Time for Thinking
Symphony for Eleanor (Eleanor Rigby)
Superman
Melody
Friends of Feeling
Ogre
L.A. Goodbye
Hymn for Her
Mrs. Grayson's Farm
Giddy-Up Ride Me

Tracks:

We Are Pillows
Prelude to Freedom
Freedom Sweet
Tie-Dye Princess

Customer Reviews:

If you liked the IDES OF MARCH...you'll love this!!.......2005-11-29

I will tell you this....Rhino did a superb job on the mastering and production of this 2cd set....

The sound quality is very clean and clear...considering the era of its origin....the booklet is informative...and basically has both album covers and backs....to include any and all inside liner notes from the original albums..they also added alot more pics and info for your reading pleasure...a nice treat was that they also included the single version of "Vehicle"....the 2cd set comprises of both albums plus the rare unreleased tracks from those recording sessions...so you have here the COMPLETE Warner Bros recording sessions...you dont get that if you buy the 2 other cd's separately...this set was pricey...but the best usually is.

I am not going to get into a breakdown review of each and every track..as so many other reviewers like to do...cuz it really has no bearing...if you never heard the songs or are even familiar with the band...if you ARE familiar with the band and the songs...you really dont need to have somebody trying to relate what they thought the band was trying to say in their music.....all you really need to know..or care about knowing...is...how is the sound quality..production...packaging..contents....and are you getting your monies worth...isn't that about accurate?

I was always an IDES fan...as I remember seeing them back in their heyday of 1970 at the WILD GOOSE in Joliet as a young music addict....the Chicago area was a music mecca back in those days. Well those days are long gone...but the music is still very much alive....You have to love people like Rhino for bringing it all back....I have never purchased any IDES cd's up to this point....just have the original vinyl lp's stashed away....so this was a real find and worth waiting for.

BUY THIS CD!!!!!!!!

Finally! Better late than never...and better than ever.......2004-07-27

Hopefully people will re-discover The Ides of March...favorite sons of Berwyn, Illinois ("Berwyn?!") It's so great to hear a clean copy of "L.A. Goodbye", and there are some of my personal favorites here, too, like "One Woman Man" and the 1968 CTA-like "Time For Thinking". If you can own only one Ides' CD, this would be the pick.

thank you rhino.......2004-04-12

Thanks rhino records for releasing the warner brothers recordings of the ides of march on compcact disc. LA GOODBYE and VEHICLE still sound as great as when i first heard them played on WLS radio the big 89 in chicago in the early 70 s.

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