Home of the Hits / The Best of Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers

Home of the Hits / The Best of Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers Artist: Jonathan Richman , and Various Artists
Label: Castle Essential
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 2
EAN: 5017615878622
ASIN: B0000259S1


Release Date: 2000-10-31

Home of the Hits / The Best of Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers


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Tracks:

  1. Roadrunner [Once] - The Modern Lovers
  2. She Cracked - The Modern Lovers
  3. Girlfriend - The Modern Lovers
  4. Modern World - The Modern Lovers
  5. Hospital - The Modern Lovers
  6. Rockin' Shoppin' Spree - The Modern Lovers
  7. Back In the U.S.A. - The Modern Lovers
  8. New England - The Modern Lovers
  9. Rockin' Rockin' Leprechauns - The Modern Lovers
  10. Roller Coaster by the Sea - The Modern Lovers
  11. Dodge-Veg-O-Mattic - The Modern Lovers
  12. Egyptian Reggae - The Modern Lovers
  13. I'm a Little Airplane - The Modern Lovers
  14. Ice Cream Man - The Modern Lovers
  15. My Little Kookenhaken - The Modern Lovers
  16. Morning Of Our Lives - The Modern Lovers
  17. Back In You Life - The Modern Lovers
  18. I'm Nature's Mosquito - The Modern Lovers
  19. Party in the Woods Tonight - The Modern Lovers
  20. My Love Is A Flower (Just Begining To Bloom) - The Modern Lovers

Tracks:

  1. Tall Order for a Short Guy - Earth Quake
  2. All the Right Reasons - Greg Kihn
  3. Mr. Security - Earth Quake
  4. Gorilla - The Rubinoos
  5. Friday On My Mind - Earth Quake
  6. I Think We're Alone Now - The Rubinoos
  7. Madison Avenue - Greg Kihn
  8. I Can Only Give You Everything - Spitballs
  9. Rock & Roll Is Dead - The Rubinoos
  10. Young Lords - Tyla Gang
  11. For You - Greg Kihn
  12. I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend - The Rubinoos
  13. Better Watch Out - 11 Bloody Men
  14. Valerie - Greg Kihn
  15. Hard to Get - The Rubinoos
  16. Hurry - Mrs. Green
  17. Don't Expect to Be Right - Greg Kihn
  18. Leave My Heart Alone - The Rubinoos
  19. Oakland Red - Tyla Gang
  20. Way Over There - Spitballs
  21. Jennifer - The Rubinoos
  22. Jeopardy - Greg Kihn

Album Description

Budget-priced two CD set with disc one being a 20 track retrospective of the quirky singer/ songwriter's output for Beserkley, and the second being a 22 track sampler of the esteemed San Francisco label's roster. The second disc includes cuts by Greg Kihn, Rubinoos, Earthquake, Spitballs, Tyla Gang & others. 4 tracks in all. Double slimline jewel case. 1999 release.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars 2 phase release 1 CD is a good 70's J.R. hits, other is his peers compilation.......2006-02-26

For the Jonathan Richman fan, this is one disc worth getting. However, the second disc is not necessarily at all what such a person may be interested in. I bought the Spitballs and Beserkley compilation albums in the 70's and never found them worth listening to again except for the Jonathan trax.

If you can get one of the other 3 Jonathan 70's hits CD's instead of this one, feel free. Yes, this is an excellent collection of his hits from the 70's. But cost wise, I'd only get this if you find it to be cheaper than the other hits CD's packages he has available.

The other bands on disc 2 are really not worth owing if you ask me. Some ernest rock from the S.F. region in the 70's but I can't remember much of it standing out. If you can use the 'listen' option to try some of those songs I highly recommend you do before you buy this 2xCD set. chrisbct@hotmail.som

3 out of 5 stars Jonathan Richman and the Theme to Shrek?!?!.......2004-12-01

Has anyone noticed that the theme to Shrek is almost identical to the riff from 'Egyptian Reggae' by Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers?

Mr. Richman, if you are reading this, my fee for bringing this information to you is just 7.5% of whatever you get out of DreamWorks!

Best regards

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