Chicago: The Best Of (40th Anniversary Edition 2 CD's) Giveaway
This is my first giveaway on this blog, and luckily I feel like I have a really great CD to offer. It is "The Best of Chicago" a 2 Disc CD covering all of their greatest hits. I suppose the best way to make this a fair giveaway is to ask a Chicago trivia question and here it is: What was the first Chicago single to reach number one on the US Charts? You can e-mail me the answers at this address: skonieje@imagineechoes.com The first person to e-mail me the correct answer will win this CD, good luck to everyone, and below is the CD's track listing.Disc 1
1. "Questions 67 And 68"
2. "25 Or 6 To 4"
3. "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?"
4. "Make Me Smile"
5. "Beginnings"
6. "Colour My World"
7. "Saturday In The Park"
8. "Feelin' Stronger Every Day"
9. "Just You 'N' Me"
10. "Whishing You Were Here"
11. "Old Days"
12. "Another Rainy Day In
13. "If You Leave Me Now"
1. "Baby, What A Big Surprise"
2. "No Tell Lover"
3. "Hard To Say I'm Sorry"
4. "Love Me Tomorrow"
5. "Hard Habit To Break"
6. "You're The Inspiration"
7. "Will You Still Love Me?"
8. "If She Would Have Been Faithful..."
9. "I Don't Wanna Live Without Your Love"
10. "Look Away"
11. "What Kind Of Man Would I Be?"
12. "You're Not Alone"
13. "Here In My Heart"
14. "Feel" (with Horns)
15. "Love Will Come Back"
posted by Jeff at 9:16 PM
7 Comments:
Chicago gets knocked a lot, because they degenerated into a pretty awful pop band, but that disregards the fact that they put out a number of good, if perhaps a bit light, jazz rock albums early on. A friend turned me on to Chicago III which is erratic, but when it's on, it's great.
Bob is right, Chicago III is great but Chicago Transit Authority and II are better as they're both more consistently "ON" than Chicago III.
Bob - I honestly haven't listened to Chicago that much but I would like to get into their earlier material.
Perplexio - Maybe I'll try to check out one of those.
Looking at that track selection, this is a piss poor compilation. The 2nd disc is ballad-heavy (coma-inducingly so). I don't mind the occasional ballad-- and with their horns and vocal harmonies Chicago did release some decent ones. But putting them all together on the 2nd disc?! That's the kind of disc that dental offices dream of!
Is it normal for a "fan" to be so hyper-critical of a favorite band?
If you want to get into Chicago, this compilation is the worst possible introduction to the band's music.
Chicago IX Greatest Hits (their first ever Greatest Hits album) is easily still their best and most representative of the better music Chicago was once capable of. But honestly you can't go wrong on the aforementioned CTA-Chicago III, and Chicago V is also an excellent release. It contains one of their bigger hits ("Saturday In the Park" but honestly the rest of the album is much stronger than that hit).
Oh and knowing you like political statements in music, early Chicago should be up your alley. Before they went all pop, Robert Lamm used to write some rather socially/politically conscious lyrics ("Someday" off their debut is about the riots at the 1968 Democratic Convention, "It Better End Soon" off Chicago II is a plea for the end of the Vietnam War, on Chicago III Lamm recites the anti-War poem "When All the Laughter Dies In Sorrow" by Kendrew Laschelles).
Also, Chicago performed a sold out week at Carnegie Hall in 1971. They introduced a new song "A Song For Richard & His Friends" which was basically a plea for Richard Nixon to quit-- 3 years before Nixon resigned and about a year before Woodward and Bernstein broke the Watergate story.
I may not have agreed with some of the politics but I respected the band for having the stones to exercise their first amendment rights on their early albums.
I'm with Perplexio--I find myself very critical at times of my favorite bands. I guess once your expectations are high ...
I love the first two albums, too. Better than the ballads, that's for sure.
-- david
Perplexio - I'm a major Floyd fan and I find myself being very critical of a lot of their work, where people find "The Wall" and "Animals" to be classics, I find them to be on the lower end of Floyd material.
David - Agreed.
Saturday In The Park?
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