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Summary: Great selections, poor CD transfer
Comment: Love all these songs, but this specific CD has significant poor sound quality (distortion). Whoever did the transfer to digital for this specific CD should pay back my purchase money. Very dissapointing listening experience with this CD. Sad!
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Summary: Three Dog Night: The Complete Hit Singles - Was Not What I Expected
Comment: I had a really crazy thing happen, when I plugged this CD into my car player. A live Peter Frampton concert started playing and not Three Dog Night. The case and the CD both said Three Dog Night: The Complete Hit Singles, but that is not what played. I am going to have to return the CD, because I do not like Peter Frampton, and that is not what I paid for.
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Summary: A great pop sound.
Comment: I'm sitting here remembering how much I enjoyed this group's songs while I was in college. From walking up and down the dorm hall at Oral Roberts University singing "Joy to the World," to singing "Celebrate" around a campfire at Philmont Scout Ranch, this group was a part of my growing up. They sung in harmony, they used volume as part of their musicianship instead of singing everything as loud as possible, and their lyrics, although not deep, were still meaningful. On occasion, they would sing of social issues in songs such as "The Family of Man" and "Black & White."
Of the 21 tracks on the CD, I disliked only "Try a little tenderness," but that was because I never liked it. Somewhere down the line, I'd never heard "Til the World Ends" before. Didn't miss much. Everything else was great.
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Summary: Can't Miss w/ This One
Comment: I picked this up the other day and I must say every song is just great. This CD will really take you back... if you are old enough to have lived it. The music is tip top and I have it in my CD player right now.
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Summary: This is the Craziest Party There Could Ever Be! ;)
Comment: For my newer readers, I am sure they are unaware about my personal spirit guides. Not that they've been here alot to help me. My innate sense is that there is some government job and a pension involved. However, I do have new buzz to tell. But first, to recap; there is Marshy, a beautiful female guide who has ruby red lips and used to be a Maybelline model. She, at leasts, visits semi-regularly. Guido, who frequents the New York City bar scene and who the ladies flock around (or so he thinks). And then Chance, who is a stand-in for DeNiro because he scowls so well. These 3, I sense, have aspirations to become a vocal group like the one I am reviewing here today. I am not impressed. No. They have ignored your beloved Seer long enough and so, to get even, since they gave me the honor of naming the group, I have come up with "3 Guide Slight". Good or what people? ;) Revenge is a Metamorpho best served cold......and so....
Anyway, I always intend to write a review and just when a selection is considered, all of a sudden, out of the blue, the universe tweaks a synapse or two and everything changes. Decisions - can't live 'em and can't live without 'em. However, this album is most worthy of reflection and one that I am pleased with.
First off, I think it's nearly impossible for anyone not to like something 3 Dog Night has done. You ask me why people? How bold. Well, because they were a top group/band of their time and a majority of their hits were written by reknown and talented songwriters. Very clever. Very smooth. And they molded the songs so well and to the point that the vocals were of equal counterpoint to the music. Oh, I am sure that alot of you may think they are an inconsequential band. But, abandon that thought. They had the talent, the arrangements, and a, dare I say it, incredibly pleasing and successful sound.
This is amazingly fun stuff. Mind you, it will do nothing for you if you want to discuss, with apertif in hand, the philosophy of Descartes or Jean Paul Satre. I shutter to think what they would have thought of "Jerimiah was a Bullfrog". Could you just picture 3 Dog Night changing the course of historic intellectual equations? I can't. But who's to say that it's not more valid? Not I. All Seers know the invisible world has far more possibilities. O.K. I digress...back to the review.
All the hits are here in one place and it's a pleasure to revisit. You get that insistent break and stop and build of "One" which is, of course, one of my favorites for obvious reasons. ;) Other highlights; that paranoid hippie vocal on "Mama Told Me (Not to Come", the urgent yet soft intro to Laura Nyro's excellent "Eli's Coming" breaking into accelerated warnings, the aforementioned Jerimiah giving you a well earned boost with "Joy to the World", and the yearning voice for human compassion with "Easy to Be Hard". So many things to admire here - seriously.
The other quality they had was to relate a softer melodic sound. Examples of this alluring method would be "An Old Fashioned Love Song" (the hook gets you), the creeping along in Never Been to Spain", and the oh so pleasing vibes of "Out In the Country" (one of my very favorites by them).
3 Dog Night did not last, however for the short span of time they were together they amassed a treasure trove of pop/rock gems. All here for all you gold rush miners out there! Now, don't you worry my weary people, as I said, there is nothing here to stress your mind or make your reflection meter explode. No. Alot of fun, well-crafted songs, a great vocal threesome. You will like it, I can almost guarantee (but will not state unequivocably in the off chance someone won't and spoil my success rate!).
An essential addition to any serious pop-rock collection.
Gotta go folks. Guido left to do Karaoke and the others need a fill in. Wait til they hear my squeektone voice!
My show must go on ---- the quintessential - Metamorpho!
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