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CD Cat No. Spindizzy Records
495249-2 1999
CD Cat No: Spindizzy Records ZK 65697
1999 (US)
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Track |
Time |
From Grin album... |
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1 |
EVERYBODY'S
MISSIN' THE SUN |
02:44 |
GRIN |
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2 |
SEE
WHAT A LOVE CAN DO |
05:01 |
GRIN |
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3 |
LIKE
RAIN |
03:39 |
GRIN |
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4 |
WE
ALL SUNG TOGETHER |
03:43 |
GRIN |
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5 |
NOBODY |
02:57 |
NEW
RECORDING |
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6 |
SING
FOR HAPPINESS |
03:16 |
NEW
RECORDING |
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7 |
WHITE
LIES |
03:28 |
1
+ 1 |
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8 |
HI,
HELLO HOME |
02:30 |
1
+ 1 |
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9 |
SLIPPERY
FINGERS |
04:10 |
1
+ 1 |
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10 |
LOST
A NUMBER |
03:10 |
1
+ 1 |
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11 |
MOONTEARS |
02:19 |
1
+ 1 |
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12 |
SOFT
FUN |
05:41 |
1
+ 1 |
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13 |
JUST
TO HAVE YOU |
02:18 |
B-SIDE
(WHITE LIES) |
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14 |
LOVE
OR ELSE |
03:40 |
ALL
OUT |
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15 |
SAD
LETTER |
03:12 |
ALL
OUT |
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16 |
AIN'T
LOVE NICE |
02:10 |
ALL
OUT |
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17 |
ALL
OUT |
03:01 |
ALL
OUT |
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18 |
RUSTY
GUN |
02:21 |
ALL
OUT |
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19 |
YOU'RE
THE WEIGHT |
05:09 |
GONE
CRAZY |
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64:29 |
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Review A compilation brought out by the record
company that no- doubt inherited the entire Grin portfolio from Epic and A&M. It is a grand
collection of songs from late 1969 to 1973 and does contain all the classic Grin
tracks (such as You're The Weight, Moon Tears, Soft Fun, Like Rain and so
on). A must for any Lofgren collection. TL
 back cover
See details on Grin albums with
this link
From The Onion AV Club (www.theonionavclub.com)
Grin
Very Best Of Grin Featuring Nils Lofgren, The
(Spindizzy/Epic/Legacy)
Backing Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen, Nils Lofgren established his place as
the consummate professional musician, the sort of sideman whose presence nearly
guaranteed something compelling. On the other hand, Grin, the band Lofgren began
as a D.C. teenager, never got much attention for the four albums it released
between 1971 and '73. What most listeners missed, and what's captured on The
Very Best Of Grin, is the sound of an excellent country-rock band flexing
its well-developed pop muscle. "White Lies," for example, sounds like the work
of an Americanized George Harrison, but it's the influence of Young, Lofgren's
earliest champion, that stretches furthest over Grin's work, particularly such
dreamy mid-tempo numbers as "Hi, Hello Home." Oddly, Grin's most innovative
moments may also be the ones that sound shakiest now: You can hear the band
anticipating Lynyrd Skynyrd and the like on such growling rockers as "Slippery
Fingers," but Lofgren doesn't really have the voice to make them work. He does,
however, have the flooring musicianship to make his vocal limitations
irrelevant, as well as an expertise on the softer end of the vocal scale to make
a ballad like "Soft Fun" sound like the lost classic it is. The selective,
self-creating world of classic-rock radio, which tends to pare off interesting
twigs that never developed into full-grown branches, has forgotten Grin. Anyone
interested in a unique pocket of rock history would do well not to make the same
mistake. —Keith Phipps
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