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The Emitt Rhodes Recordings (1969 - 1973) (CD)

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DISC 1 for The Emitt Rhodes Recordings (1969 - 1973) (CD) Album By Emitt Rhodes (Artist)
1   Mother Earth
2   Pardon Me
3   Textile Factory
4   Someone Died
5   Come Ride, Come Ride
6   Let's All Sing
7   Holly Park
8   Saturday Night
9   You're A Very Lovely Woman
10   Mary Will You Take My Hand
11   Man He Was, The
12   In The Days Of The Old
13   `Til The Day After
14   With My Face On the Floor
15   Somebody Made For Me
16   She's Such a Beauty
17   Long Time No See
18   Lullabye
19   Fresh As a Daisy
20   Live till You Die
21   Promises I've Made
22   You Take the Dark Out of the Night
23   You Should Be Ashamed
24   Ever Find Yourself Running
25   You Must Have
 
DISC 2 for The Emitt Rhodes Recordings (1969 - 1973) (CD) Album By Emitt Rhodes (Artist)
1   With My Face On The Floor
2   Somebody Made For Me
3   She's Such A Beauty
4   Long Time No See
5   Lullabye
6   Fresh As A Daisy
7   Live Till You Die
8   Promises I've Made
9   You Take The Dark Out Of The Night
10   You Should Be Ashamed
11   Ever Find Yourself Running
12   You Must Have
13   Drawn To You
14   Blue Horizon
15   Shoot the Moon
16   Only Lovers Decide
17   Trust One More
18   Nights Are Lonely
19   Bad Man
20   In Desperate Need
21   Those That Die (From "Tame the Lion")
22   Farewell To Paradise
23   Tame the Lion
 
DISC 3 for The Emitt Rhodes Recordings (1969 - 1973) (CD) Album By Emitt Rhodes (Artist)
1   Birthday Lady  
2   Better Side Of Life  
3   My Love Is Strong  
4   Side We Seldom Show  
5   Mirror  
6   Really Wanted You  
7   Medley: Bubble Gum/ The Blues / I'm A Cruiser  
8   Love Will Stone You  
9   Golden Child Of God  
10   Take You Far Away  
 
DISC 4 for The Emitt Rhodes Recordings (1969 - 1973) (CD) Album By Emitt Rhodes (Artist)
1   Warm Self Sacrifice  
2   See No Evil  
3   Drawn To You  
4   Blue Horizon  
5   Shoot the Moon  
6   Only Lovers Decide  
7   Trust One More  
8   Nights Are Lonely  
9   Bad Man  
10   In Desperate Need  
11   Those That Die (From "Tame The Lion")  
12   Farewell to Paradise  
13   Tame The Lion  
 

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Record Collector (magazine) (p.90) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[His self-titled album] stands up as a veritable tour de force of melodic, consummately-crafted Paul McCarney-esque pop..."

Title Note

Personnel: Emitt Rhodes (vocals, various instruments); Emil Radocchia, James Leitch, Gary Kato, Dom Peak, Chuck Berghoffer, Bill Rheinhart, David Cohen , Don Randi, Drake Levin, Hal Blaine, Jim Gordon, Joe Porcaro, Joel Larson, John Guerin, Larry Knechtel, Lyle Ritz, Pete Jolly, Tom Reynolds, Michael Rice.

Arrangers: Emitt Rhodes; Ian Freebairn-Smith; Larry Marks; Perry Botkin Jr.; Bob Thompson.

THE EMITT RHODES RECORDINGS 1969-1973 collects all four albums the singer/songwriter/musical wiz recorded over that period of time and adds one extra track (the 1973 single "Tame the Lion"). The set starts off with the album Rhodes recorded after his band, the Merry-Go-Round, broke up in 1969. The songs are a mix of newly written ones and Merry-Go-Round leftovers recorded with studio pros filling in for the band. But it is his actual debut, 1970's EMMITT RHODES, that is the best of the bunch; in fact, it is one of the best pop records of the '70s, and sounds like what would have happened had Paul McCartney saved up his most emotionally powerful and melodically rich post-Beatles' songs and recorded them with Badfinger as his backing band. Each song sounds like it should have been a hit single, from the heart-breakingly direct "Long Time No See" or the deceptively jubilant breakup song "With My Face on the Floor," to the anthemic George Harrison-esque "Live Till You Die" or the rollicking "Fresh as a Daisy." The pacing, sound, and feel of the record are as near perfect as you could hope, and the most impressive feat is that Rhodes did everything on the record himself.

His next album, 1971's MIRROR, repeats the same basic formula as EMITT RHODES but has fewer knockout songs, and there are some hard rock (on the title track) and blues (on "I'm a Cruiser") influences creeping in around the edges and scuffing up the perfect pop. By the time of FAREWELL TO PARADISE, though, the twin factors of pressure from the record company and Rhodes' increasing perfectionism led to his recording a melancholy, downhearted album that has far less pop and far more introspection in its soul. Hearing it in context of his previous work shows just how much Rhodes had begun to change, and it makes it even more of a loss that Rhodes basically walked away from his career at the age of 24. THE EMITT RHODES RECORDINGS 1969-1973 is essential to any fan of late-'60s/early-'70s pop music and hats off to Hip-O Select for giving Rhodes the attention he deserves.

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