Track Listing 1. Cruel Sea, The 2. Telstar 3. Out of Limits 4. Slaughter on Tenth Avenue 5. Bulldog 6. Walk Don't Run '64 7. Diamond Head 8. Walk Don't Run 9. Raw-Hide 10. Mr. Moto 11. Blue Moon 12. Lolita Ya Ya 13. Aquarius-Let the Sunshine In 14. Hawaii Five-O 15. Kyiti Doll 16. Paint It Black 17. Manchurian Beat 18. Reflections in Palace Lake 19. Classical Gas 20. Kimi to Itsumademo 21. Black Sand Beach 22. Hollywood Punk 23. Moonlight Serenade 24. Superstar Revue 25. Let's Go 26. Driving Guitars 27. Apache 28. Pipeline 29. House of the Rising Sun, The 30. Wipe Out 31. Caravan
| Details | | Distributor: | Phantom Import Distributi | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes The Ventures includes: Bob Bogle, Mel Taylor, Nokie Edwards, Don Wilson, Gerry McGee. Compilation producers include: The Ventures, J. Saraceno. Engineers include: J. Moss, B. Agudelo, T. Keep. Includes liner notes by Gery Woodage. This well-selected 40th-anniversary collection presents many of the Ventures' finest instrumental-rock tunes, including "Telstar," "Blue Moon," "Classical Gas," and "Apache." Japanese-exclusive 1999 edition. The back cover of this double-disc set on See for Miles tells a lot of the story. This "ultimate collection" is more along the lines of the Ventures finest tunes, not necessarily performances. This is the band at a very late stage who could still play like all get out, but their ideas of arrangement and presentation had changed considerably from the early days. Is there anything wrong with this? Nope. The Ventures are the Ventures. Simply put, the novice just needs to know that the price of this collection and the recordings on it are not the original ones, pure and simple. For any seasoned fan, this music will be further fascination and intrigue as to how they can still do it. Arrangers like Jerry Moss and Bob Bogle are here, and the material, while slick in many places, is still utterly captivating in this legendary band's capable hands. ~ Thom Jurek
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