the best of steve miller
here it is all steves best in one small package.until now if you wanted his hits you'd have to buy multiple collections,but its has finally been put into one great cd everything from 1968 to 2003.sure their are a couple of fan favorites left off including "true fine love" which is a glaring omission,but nonetheless if you only want one cd from the steve miller band you cant do better.
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Take the Hits and Run
The Steve Miller Band's expanded greatest-hits package is far from complete when it omits the Top 25 single "Heart Like a Wheel." We're also stuck with shortened versions of "Abracadabra" and "Swingtown." On the plus side, we have the gloriously uncut "Jet Airliner" and early classics such as "Livin' in the U.S.A." With a little more effort, this could have been the definitive Miller collection. Nevertheless, the best tracks - "Take the Money and Run," "The Joker," "Rock'n Me," "Fly Like an Eagle" and "Jungle Love" - remain essential.
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Almost 5 Stars
This is quite a good Steve Miller compilation and there are certainly more good points to it, than bad. The good points are: it has great sound, all of the song selections are pretty well chosen, over all it is a good representation of Steve Miller. The one thing that I consider to be a bad point, is that there was a song not included, that I think should have been, as you can't find it on many SM compilations, in fact, at this time, the only compilation that you can find it on is out of print. It is also on the original album. The song is "Keeps Me Wondering Why" and I find it very frustrating that they have omitted that song more times than not, like I say, it's on an out of print compilation, although you can buy it's original album, "Abracadabra", which I think is a wrong, considering that it needs to be on all SM compilations, this one, especially. I loved that song, I would certainly consider it a hit. Other than that, though this is a pretty well-done compilation that most SM fans should enjoy, especially the casual fan.
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