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Moby Grape - Vintage: The Very Best Of Moby Grape

Track listing:
Volume 1
  1. Hey Grandma 2:45
  2. Mr. Blues 2:00
  3. Fall On You 2:50
  4. 805 2:33
  5. Come In The Morning 2:17
  6. Omaha 2:45
  7. Naked, If I Want To 0:57
  8. Rounder (Instrumental) 2:03
  9. Someday 3:31
  10. Ain't No Use 1:40
  11. Sitting By The Window 2:47
  12. Changes 3:24
  13. Lazy Me 1:47
  14. Indifference 4:15
  15. Looper (Audition Version) 2:39
  16. Sweet Ride 3:12
  17. Bitter Wind 2:39
  18. The Place And The Time 2:24
  19. Rounder (Live) 2:02
  20. Miller's Blues (Live) 6:07
  21. Changes (Live) 4:20
  22. Hey Grandma (Mono/Single version) 2:32
  23. Omaha (Mono/Single version) 2:23
  24. Big 4:44
Volume 2
  1. Skip's Song (Demo) 3:24
  2. You Can Do Anything (Demo) 2:50
  3. Murder In My Heart For The Judge 2:59
  4. Bitter Wind 3:07
  5. Can't Be So Bad 3:26
  6. Just Like Gene Autry; A Foxtrot 2:56
  7. He 3:37
  8. Motocycle Irene 2:25
  9. Funky-Tunk 2:13
  10. Rose Colored Eyes 4:20
  11. If You Can't Learn From Your Mistakes 1:26
  12. Ooh Mama Ooh (Peter Solo Version) 2:28
  13. Ain't That A Shame 2:30
  14. Trucking Man 2:02
  15. Captain Nemo 1:46
  16. What's To Choose 1:57
  17. Going Nowhere 2:04
  18. I Am Not Willing 3:00
  19. It's A Beautiful Day Today 3:07
  20. Right Before My Eyes 2:05
  21. Truly Fine Citizen 1:49
  22. Hoochie 4:25
  23. Soul Stew 2:20
  24. Seeing 8:06

Notes


Mar 12, 1967 - Nov 24, 1968

It's hard to imagine a better-produced package of Moby Grape's work than this two-disc, 48-track condensation of their best late-'60s recordings. The first disc of this set centers around their entire 1967 self-titled debut LP (included in its entirety), which mixed blues, country, and folk influences with hard-charging psychedelic rock & roll. The result was one of the Summer of Love's more enduring works. The second disc boils their wildly inconsistent 1968-69 material down to a fairly strong and coherent selection. While it doesn't match the peak of the group's initial burst, it features some strong folk and country-rock originals that wear much better in the absence of the bloated jams and half-baked hard rock that could make their albums a chore to sit through. Each disc includes interesting demos, outtakes, and live performances that round out the legacy of this prodigiously talented but ill-fated band, which was overcome by internal strife and label/management difficulties after their promising debut.