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Title: Stop tampering with a great singles band!
Review: When all the original LPs are reissued, along with the first Greatest Hits package, we'll no longer have to concern ourselves with all the botched attempts at a definitive Paul Revere and the Raiders compilation. Can't they stop tampering with a great singles band? Don't give us these absurd remixes. & don't hand us a mono radio mix without a stereo version, too. & forget the "alternate" takes; the guys had ace L.A. session musicians helping out anyway, & Terry Melcher called most of the shots, & they weren't the Beatles. My advice at this point is to skip the "essential" & "legendary" releases & grab "Just Like Us," Midnight Ride" & "Spirit of '67." Yeah, Mark's slow songs are awful, but you'll get a good dose of "Fang" & some excellent Brit/Byrds style retreads. & give the Boys a hand; they did better than swell for a honkin' party band from the Pacific Northwest.Bob Rixon, WFMU
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