The Best of Mountain

The Best of Mountain Artist: Mountain
Label: Sony
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 074643207928
EAN: 0074643207928
ASIN: B000002509


Release Date: 1990-10-25

The Best of Mountain


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Tracks:

  1. Never In My Life
  2. Taunta (Sammy's Tune)
  3. Nantucket Sleighride (To Owen Coffin)
  4. Roll Over Beethoven
  5. For Yasgur's Farm
  6. The Animal Trainer And The Toad
  7. Mississippi Queen
  8. King's Chorale
  9. Boys In The Band
  10. Don't Look Around
  11. Theme For An Imaginary Western
  12. Crossroader

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Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars Heavy Collection.......2003-03-02

Mountain was an early 70s hard rock band that enjoyed a brief pop heyday with "Mississippi Queen," easily their best song. Think of them as that era's Great White if you will. Let's face it, any band that includes a cover of a Chuck Berry standard on its "Best Of" album wasn't exactly shooting for complexity. That said, all the band's best stuff is here. Other than the hit and the Berry cover, the rest of it is relatively interchangeable. The CD booklet is quite spartan, containing little more than tiny snapshots of the band and a track listing.

Overall, a reasonably complete and relatively concise anthology from a band that could only have achieved popularity in the pre punk era.

5 out of 5 stars Truly Mountain's Best Songs.......2003-01-16

BEST OF MOUNTAIN is a concise compilation of the best songs that Mountain ever recorded. Everything here is first-rate, and you don't have to worry about all of the second-rate later songs that you have on the double-disc set OVER THE TOP. Instead, you get the steak and fries of the catalog of this heaviest of American bands.

4 out of 5 stars Buy the CDs!.......2002-01-21

OK - First off, you're better buying all the mountain CDs than going for this; after all, there's more to a band then just their hits!

Failing that (if you just want the stuff from the radio), there's some really good music on here. Of course there's the guitar rock classic, Mississipi Queen (if you know what I mean ;)). Then there's what's arguably their best two cuts, Nantucket Sleighride and Theme for an Imaginary Western, PLUS the live Roll Over Beethoven - great stuff! You won't be dissappointed.

One of the other reviewers asked why the two short pieces - because they're thematically related to other music on the CD so thats why they're included, even tho they're separate tracks.

At any rate, there's some great Rock'n'Roll in power trio and power quartet mode (altho you really can't hear the keyboard player, poor guy ;)), and you shouldn't miss picking this up, it's worth it! That is, if you're just looking for the "hits"...

4 out of 5 stars Music = Great. CD = Just OK........2001-07-21

The music on this CD is great. Mountain was a great hard rock band in the vein of Cream, Led Zeppelin, ZZ Top and Aerosmith. Leslie West's riffs and killer tone are the highlight of this CD. The Best moments are the opening hard-rocker "Never In My Life", Chuck Berry's "Roll Over Beethoven" (Leslie's guitar work on this one is particularly impressive), the FM classic "Mississippi Queen", and the slower "Theme For An Imaginary Western".

However, the CD itself could be better. There are only 12 songs, so the whole disc is only 41 minutes. Only about about half the disc is actually used, so Columbia could have fleshed it out a bit and put at least 20 songs on the disc. Also two of the songs, "Taunta (Sammy's Tune) and "King's Chorale", are very, very short instrumentals (about 1 minute) with no guitar playing even. Why did they even put these songs on the CD?? They sound like album filler. So really there's only 10 good songs on the CD. Last, the sound isn't too great. The sound quality is kind of weak, so you'll have to turn it up louder. But that's okay, because Mountain should always be played loud anyway.

3 out of 5 stars

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