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The Yardbirds - As, Bs and EPs Audio CD

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The Yardbirds Band: The Yardbirds
Title: As, Bs and EPs
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Release Date: 2007-10-31
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Boom Boom 2: Honey in Your Hips 3: I Wish You Would 4: Certain Girl 5: Good Morning Little Schoolgirl 6: I Ain't Got You 7: For Your Love 8: Got to Hurry 9: Heart Full of Soul 10: Steeled Blues 11: Evil Hearted You 12: Still I'm Sad 13: Shapes of Things 14: You're a Better Man Than I 15: Paff Bumm 16: I'm a Man 17: Train Kept a Rollin' 18: Over Under Sideways Down 19: Jeff's Boogie 20: Happenings Ten Years Time Ago 21: Psycho Daisies 22: Little Games 23: Puzzles 24: Ha Ha Said the Clown 25: Tinker Tailor Soldier Sailor 26: Ten Little Indians 27: Drinking Muddy Water 28: Goodnight Sweet Josephine 29: Think About It 30: Questa Volta 31: Paff Bumm [Second Version] 32: I'm Not Talking 33: New York City Blues 34: Nazz Are Blue 35: My Girl Sloopy 36: I Ain't Done Wrong 37: I Can't Make Your Way 38: He's Always There 39: What Do You Want 40: Smokestack Lightning 41: Got to Hurry (II) 42: Lost Woman 43: Rack My Mind 44: Hot House of Omagarishid 45: Turn into Earth 46: Ever Since the World Began 47: Mister Zero 48: Knowing 49: Shapes in My Mind 50: Blue Sands

Vimyls,vinyls,vinyls
I have more vinyl than at least a hundred houses with vinyl flooring. You know, I mentioned in another review about all the vinyls I still have. I am not bragging, I merely mention this fact because there are a lot vinyl collectors out there. That brings me to the Yardbirds. I have all domestic singles on Epic, I almost had one import,but, they withdrew "Goodnight Sweet Josephine" b/w "Think About It" in Britain for some reason. It was released over here on Epic,what happened? I love everyone of these singles. From the days of Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck to the days of Jimmy Page. What a Group! What a sound! I loved "For Your Love", but,what really turned me on about this group was "Shapes of Things". It was those lyrics,that guitar solo and that Keith Relf voice. Truly amazing! However, I do not care too much for the reunions of the Yardbirds. Sorry guys,Keith is gone - Clapton,Beck and Page pretty much have nothing to do with any of it and the sound is just not the same. But,the original recordings,they are by far,the masterpiece classics.


Yeah, yet again --
So when will the repackaging and recycling of it cease? How about simply sticking to the original catalog and leave out all the extra-track junk?

It isn't complicated: release each album as originally issued, with the singles included when not already on the album, either before or after the album tracks depending on when released. The recordings are as good as they ever were.

We really don't need all the extra junk that the band itself had the sense to discard. One doesn't burnish a "legend" by tarnishing it, any more than all the raves about Clapton's guitar playing will make it as great as the Clapton-zombies want it to have been.

Clapton's guitar playing was notable _in Britain_ as being superior to _some_ other British guitarists _in Britain_. His "innovations" were _maybe_ innovations (standard blues riffs are "innovations"?) _in Britain_; they were not new in the US, from which he got it all.

Is there something inherently "innovative" about the blues form itself, which has been around by now for at least 100 years? No. About slavishly copying it, as did Clapton with The Yardbirds? No.

The only "innovation" -- and this especially in the US -- is that white kids would listen to guitar licks, which were new to _them_, when played by a white, while avoiding hearing the same licks when played, before Clapton got his first guitar, by blacks. It wasn't that Clapton was "God" -- the licks weren't his; it was that he was white, thus making it acceptable for white kids to listen to his retreads.
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Excellent
Boom Boom
2. Disc 1:
1. Honey In Your Lips
3. I Wish You Would
4. A Certain Girl
5. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
6. I Ain't Got You
7. For Your Love
8. Got To Hurry
9. Heart Full Of Soul
10. Steeled Blues
11. Evil Hearted You
12. Still I'm Sad
13. Shapes Of Things
14. You're A Better Man Than I
15. Paff Bumm
16. I'm A Man
17. The Train Kept A-rollin'
18. Over Under Sideways Down
19. Jeff's Boogie
20. Happenings Ten Years Time Ago
21. Psycho Daisies
22. Little Games
23. Puzzles
24. Ha Ha Said The Clown
25. Tinker Taylor Soldier Sailor
Disc 2:
26. Ten Little Indians
27. Drinking Muddy Water
28. Goodnight Sweet Josephine
29. Think About It
30. Questa Volta
31. Paff Bumm (Second Version)
32. I'm Not Talking
33. New York City Blues
34. The Nazz Are Blue
35. My Girl Sloopy
36. I Ain't Done Wrong
37. I Can't Make Your Way
38. He's Always There
39. What Do You Want
40. Smokestack Lightning
41. Got To Hurry (2)
42. Lost Woman
43. Rack My Mind
44. Hot House of Omagarashid
45. Turn Into Earth
46. Ever Since The World Began
47. Mister Zero
48. Knowing
49. Shapes In My Mind
50. Blue Sands
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