The Best of Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes

The Best of Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes Artist: Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes
Label: Sony
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio Cassette


UPC: 074645273341
EAN: 0074645273341
ASIN: B0000028OT


Release Date: 1992-08-11

The Best of Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes


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Tracks:

  1. I Don't Want to Go Home
  2. Fever
  3. This Time It's for Real
  4. Love on the Wrong Side of Town
  5. Without Love
  6. Having a Party
  7. Got to Get You off My Mind [Live]
  8. Snatching It Back [Live]
  9. Sweeter Than Honey [Live]
  10. You Mean So Much to Me [Live] - Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes, Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes
  11. Little by Little
  12. Got to Be a Better Way Home
  13. This Time Baby's Gone for Good
  14. I Played the Fool
  15. Hearts of Stone
  16. Take It Inside
  17. Talk to Me
  18. Next to You
  19. Trapped Again

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Oh I Know It's Getting Late, But I Don't Wanna Go Home.......2007-04-16

Horn-based rock/soul is one of my musical passions. Tower of Power, Chicago, Earth Wind & Fire, the Caledonia Soul Orchestra... if there's a trumpet and a sax or two wailing away somewhere, I'm happy. So THE VERY BEST OF SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY & THE ASBURY JUKES has turned out to be one of the best purchases I've made in quite a while - and not just because they have a killer horn section.

As their name might indicate, Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes emerged from the same New Jersey scene as Bruce Springsteen. Johnny Lyons sounds a lot like Springsteen, and the Asbury Jukes, culled from the same pool of musicians as the E Street Band, sound like a less grand version of the same with a bigger horn section. And boy oh boy do they use it, tearing through covers of R&B classics such as "Without Love" and "Havin' a Party" with the verve and dedication of a straight Blues Brothers Band. But it's when they collaborate with their fellow Asbury Parkers that the Jukes shine brightest. I had no idea Miami Steve Van Zandt was such an awesome songwriter, but he wrote or cowrote ten of the nineteen tracks on this disc, and it's all great: "I Don't Want to Go Home", "Take It Inside", "Next to You", "This Time It's for Real"... magnificent stuff. He also co-founded the Asbury Jukes and produces everything here. And then there's the Boss himsef, offering up his early-career showstopper "The Fever" and devastating "Hearts of Stone" among other highlights. But the final cut on the disc, "Trapped Again", is the best thing here - a collaboration between Springsteen, Van Zandt, and Lyons alike, this yearning street epic wouldn't have sounded at all out of place on DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN.

Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes weren't nearly as ambitious as their more celebrated counterparts. They were an R&B band, pure and simple - and a damn fine one at that. But their music pulses with much the same Jersey soul that informs the best work of the Boss & his E Streeters, and I for one love it.

5 out of 5 stars Why wasn't Johnny bigger?.......2007-01-05

This is a great collection of songs that help capture the essence of Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes. We recently saw them perform at Walt Disney World, in Epcot, and since the shows were relatively short (about 40 minutes) we stayed for all three and had a great time. My wife asked me why Southside wasn't a bigger act in the 70's and 80's and truthfully, I don't know why not. Maybe living in the shadow of Bruce? Not sure, but damn, the band is tight, and they can still rock the house. So, I recommend this collection of songs.

4 out of 5 stars three-fourths complete.......2006-01-07

Surprised no one has yet mentioned that this is the best _of the first three albums_, not including new material from after Stevie left the band. The first 3 albums were the best, so this gives us a lot. Still, it would be unforgivable except that Rhino has released The Best Of Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes (1979-1981).

The two CDs _combined_ give you everything.

4 out of 5 stars If you don't get it, you have missed something.......2004-08-04

I was a doubter for many years, but lets face it, Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes have continued to be one of the premier R&B shows for 25 years. This album showcases what they do best, cover great oldies and bring life to songs of Bruce Springsteen that never would have seen the light of day otherwise. All I can say is SEE THEM! Then you can enjoy this album for what it is, a collection of some of the best R&B since the end of the 60s. Enjoy!

5 out of 5 stars You Had to just be there!!!.......2003-09-30

Would I be showing my "age" or would I be a prophet... if I got you to experience SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY AND THE JUKES???
I had to great pleasure to catch them in the mid 1980's in San Francisco at the Warfield Theater. This is possibly the best live band... bar band... complete band I've ever heard!!!
I'm not putting anyone down, but these guys have a sound that is refined, complex... and professionally KICKS GENUINE ASS!!! They worked the crowd, they worked the hall, and they sounded dammed good!!!
Much has been lost since then. Musical styles have changed... and not for the better. Music has gotten...
"lost" at least in my opinion. What is coming out now is far from the dynamic songs that were so evident in the Jersey sound.
This CD is a collection of just "some" of the best stuff... many of the real wall busters have been omitted. Having said that, this CD and the other ones you might find are well worth buying and listening to... often. There is a genuine freshness to this music that needs to be always around the top of your CD player.
Southside is still putting out music, but, sadly, all of us on the West Coast don't get to see him much. I miss the man... I miss La Bamba... I miss that horn section... and I miss that great voice that Lyon had.
Well, at least we have the CD's.

Jim SMith

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