EIGHT EXTRAORDINARY INSTRUMENTAL TRACKS INCLUDED IN THIS CD
dnaito | 10/19/1999
(4 out of 5 stars)
"BESIDES BEST SONGS WE KNOW, FUNNY INSTRUMENTAL SONGS ARE HERE LIKE LAST TRAIN TO CLARKSVILLE BY MONKEES, SUNSHINE SUPERMAN BY DONOVAN AND SWEET PEA BY TOMMY ROE. TOTALLY PSYCHIDELIC FEELING PLAYED BY MANFRED MANN. THEY REALLY MAKE ME HAPPY BUT I CAN'T UNDERSTAND WHY BOX SET OF MANFRED MANN IS NOT COMING OUT. LET'S HOPE AND WAIT THE BOX SET."
The Missing Years
dnaito | Santa Clarita, CA United States | 07/04/2002
(4 out of 5 stars)
"If you're wondering what happened between Do Wah Diddy Diddy
and Blinded By The Light, then this is the CD to buy.
This CD has the best sounding version of The Mighty Quinn
that I've ever heard (besides bringing back fond memories).
There's many odd cover versions of songs here, but it's a
great value for a double CD set. I'd also recommend EMI's
The Best Of Manfred Mann, The Definitive Collection, for
their earlier hits....and Warner Archives' The Best of Manfred
Mann's Earth Band for hits like Blinded By The Light."
Excellent sound...great less-known 2nd Manfred Group...but
B. Margolis | Minneapolis, MN United States | 12/27/2003
(4 out of 5 stars)
"This wonderful 2-CD set contains almost all the recordings made by Manfred Mann after Paul Jones was replaced by Mike D'Abo 1966-1969. Features all of the UK Fontana/US Mercury singles (from "Just Like A Woman" through "Ragamuffin Man") and much of their UK EP and UK & US album cuts ("As Is", "Mighty Garvey", and others). It's missing all the wonderful "Up The Junction" soundtrack (get the UK RPM import CD) and some of the sillier parts of the "Mighty Garvey" UK LP...so silly that US Mercury left off those tunes for their "Mighty Quinn" LP). There's a bunch of previously unissued tracks (all in stereo), but, amazingly, "Mighty Quinn" is STILL rechanneled, and most of the remaining singles are mono.Excellent notes by Mike D'Abo, but, amazingly, the most frustrating things about this set is there's no detailed rundown of the tracks and where they came from.Guess UK/German Fontana/Mercury, the makers of this reissue, assumed that each and every buyer already knew everything about this Manfred Mann period.....boy, did they get THAT wrong!"
Track Listings (28) - Disc #1