Big Dog 92-7 Music Guide

The Greatest Hits, Vol. 2

RELEASE
1987
LABEL
MCA
GENRES
Pop/Rock, Sunshine Pop, AM Pop, Folk-Rock, Psychedelic

Album Review

The companion to Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 is another ten-song compilation, this one made essential at the time by the presence of "Midnight Confessions" and also "Wait a Million Years," both of which give this volume a little more focus on the group's post-1968 horn-driven, soul-oriented period; and the presence of some of their superior, lesser-known hits such as "Come On and Say It" -- a group original with a great guitar break and a powerful lead vocal -- gives this volume a tougher edge than one usually associates with this band's AM hits. This disc and its companion volume were both supplanted by Rhino's 1991 double-CD Anthology: 1965-1975 set, all three of which are out of print as of 2008 -- but as with Vol. 1, the combination of songs here is hard to beat for light pop/rock listening in any context, and it's always welcome. The sound was also surprisingly good for its time -- this was a new compilation in 1987, assembled from good, solid source tapes -- though it has long since been supplanted in that department by any of Universal's and Rhino's later collections. And the annotation (identical to that found in Vol. 1) gives a decent, brief overview of the group's history.
Bruce Eder, Rovi

Track Listing

  1. Midnight Confessions
  2. Wait a Million Years
  3. I Can Turn off the Rain
  4. Come on and Say It
  5. Heaven Knows
  6. Baby Hold On
  7. Tip of My Tongue
  8. Lovin' Things
  9. Wake Up, Wake Up
  10. Things I Should Have Said