Listen, Listen: The Best of Emitt Rhodes

Artist: Emitt Rhodes
Label: Varese Sarabande
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 030206559125
EAN: 0030206559125
ASIN: B0000014WA

Release Date: 1995-08-29

Listen, Listen: The Best of Emitt Rhodes

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Tracks:

Live
Time Will Show the wiser
You're A Very Lovely Woman
She Laughed Loud
Listen, Listen
'Til The Day After
Fresh As A Daisy
You Take the Dark Out Of The Night
She's Such A Beauty
Live Till You Die
Long Time No See
You Should Be Ashamed
With My Face On The Floor
Love Will Stone You
Really Wanted You
Birthday Lady
Golden Child Of God
Warm Self Sacrifice
Shoot The Moon
Tame The Lion
Isn't It So

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Customer Reviews:

A superlative collection of a lost pop genius.......2003-01-15

Way cool. I can totally see the same folks who revere Alex Chilton latching onto this disc as a new pop motherlode... and why not? Rhodes was a suburban California kid who got signed onto A&M in 1967, just as that label was starting to bust out of its easy listening niche, and the LA Pop sound was in full flower... His band, the Merry-Go-Round, had moderate chart success, but a label switch and attendant weird marketing decisions sort of sank the ship, and Emitt retreated into the studio... all by his little lonesome. This CD collects the best of his band's singles along with choice material from several of his self-produced, self-performed solo albums, released from 1970-'73. It's eccentric, sometimes strained, oddly compelling psychedelic pop/roots music which oft-times sounds like a copy of the Beatles "Maxwell's Silver Hammer", and at other times follows its own, very distinctive muse. If Belle & Sebastian or some other Scottish band don't cover something off this within the next five years, I'll buy myself a hat and eat it.

underappreciated genius.......2002-12-23

Emitt Rhodes is truly one of the underrated talents of a generation. His songwriting skills are matched by his vocal talent and his musicianship (recording and playing EVERY instrument on his first two LPs). As the owner of five Emitt Rhodes albums (and the Merry-Go-Round LP) I highly recommend all Emitt Rhodes titles to anyone and everyone!

Personally, I have been unable to obtain this particular title "Listen, Listen: the Best of Emitt Rhodes" so if anyone can direct me to a copy of it, please let me know: ...

The Best Singer/Songwriter You've Never Heard Of.......2002-05-04

If you love well-crafted melodic pop songs with simple, down-to-earth lyrics, warm vocals and beautiful harmonies, buy this CD! Most of the songs featured on this compilation were done while Emitt was in his teens or early twenties. The original one-man-band of pop, he wrote all the songs, played all the instruments, sang all the vocal parts - with amazing results! For those familiar with the talents of Emitt Rhodes and/or his pre-solo career group, The Merry-Go-Round, this is the best compilation of his work out there, although I would have preferred a complete anthology of all his songs (Rhino? Sundazed? Are you listening?) His songs have held up well over the years, and it's a shame that someone with this caliber of talent never achieved commercial or financial success. Although Emitt has experienced some hard times in recent years, I've heard that he is ready to record again. We can only hope!!!
Postscript 7/03: Even though Japanese remasters of all three of Emitt's Dunhill album releases plus his A&M solo album are readily available, this CD is still worth purchasing, if only for the inclusion of the rare 1972 antiwar single "Tame The Lion" (only available otherwise on a 45 single) and the unreleased 1980 track "Isn't It So". I just read today on the official Emitt Rhodes website...that a "well-known indie label is very interested in putting out a new album of his music"(!!!)

Good listening........2001-07-13

I would DEFINITLEY recommend this CD. Emitt certainly deserves more recognition than he has received, however the comparisons to McCartney are overstated. There is nothing that Emitt has ever written that comes anywhere close to "Maybe I'm Amazed" and he has never matched Paul's ability to produce incredible rockers and heart moving ballads. Emitt's work is certainly better than McCartney's bad stuff, but falls drastically short of McCartney's successes. The attempt to copy Paul is blatantly obvious, as was his work with Merry-Go-Round was his fall-short attempt to be the Beatles. I would have loved to hear his music minus the fake British accent. (You're from So. Cal., Emmit). Anyway, Emitt is a GREAT, HIGHLY-TALENTED artist that deserves MUCH more recognition. But buy this cd because it's really good music, but not because you're expecting it to supercede McCartney, because it doesn't.

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