UPC: 5060143490866
Format: CD (3 disc)
Release Date: Aug 23, 2012
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Not Now's budget-priced 2012 box set Best of the Chess Years is a triple-disc, 73-track collection of Chuck Berry's Chess recordings. As this is a collection that skirts around the edges of Europe's public domain laws, it relies on the tracks that are available -- i.e., the big hits from the '50s and some from the early '60s, but nothing from Chuck's 1964 comeback (no "No Particular Place to Go," for instance) and certainly nothing from his return to the label in the late '60s/early '70s. This means the big set gets filled out with some oddities -- instrumentals and blues, some good rockers that don't always get the attention they deserve -- but it is anchored on what's likely the greatest songbook in rock & roll. There are better places to hear these songs, places where the sequencing makes more sense, but there is never a bad time or place to hear this timeless music. That this set is cheap is just icing on the cake. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Tracks:
Disc 1:
1 - Johnny B. Goode
2 - Maybellene
3 - Little Queenie
4 - School Days (Ring, Ring Goes the Bell)
5 - Carol
6 - Too Much Monkey Business
7 - No Money Down
8 - Come On
9 - Guitar Boogie
10 - Stop and Listen
11 - Together (We'll Always Be)
12 - Run Around
13 - Confessin' the Blues
14 - You Can't Catch Me
15 - Way It Was Before
16 - It Don't Take But a Few Minutes
17 - Worried Life Blues
18 - I Got to Find My Baby
19 - Away from You
20 - I'm Talking About You
21 - Thirty Days
22 - Vacation Time
23 - Our Little Rendezvous
24 - Jaguar and Thunderbird
25 - Too Pooped to Pop
Disc 2:
1 - Memphis, Tennessee
2 - Sweet Little Sixteen
3 - Brown Eyed Handsome Man
4 - Let It Rock
5 - Beautiful Delilah
6 - Thirteen Question Method
7 - Almost Grown
8 - Driftin' Blues
9 - Mad Lad
10 - Blues for Hawaiians
11 - Down the Road a Piece
12 - Blue Feeling
13 - Don't Lie to Me
14 - Low Feeling
15 - Broken Arrow
16 - Diploma for Two
17 - Roly Poly
18 - How You've Changed
19 - Deep Feeling
20 - Childhood Sweetheart
21 - Little Star
22 - That's My Desire
23 - Rip It Up
24 - Reelin' and Rockin'
Disc 3:
1 - Back in the U.S.A.
2 - Roll Over Beethoven
3 - Sweet Little Rock and Roller
4 - Rock and Roll Music
5 - Bye Bye Johnny
6 - Downbound Train
7 - Route 66
8 - Around and Around
9 - Sweet Sixteen
10 - Rockin' at the Philharmonic
11 - Havana Moon
12 - Go Go Go
13 - Berry Pickin'
14 - Oh Baby Doll
15 - Drifting Heart
16 - In-Go
17 - Betty Jean
18 - Hey Pedro
19 - Anthony Boy
20 - Jaunda
21 - Jo Jo Gunne
22 - Wee Wee Hours
23 - Merry Christmas Baby
24 - Run Rudolph Run
1 - Johnny B. Goode
2 - Maybellene
3 - Little Queenie
4 - School Days (Ring, Ring Goes the Bell)
5 - Carol
6 - Too Much Monkey Business
7 - No Money Down
8 - Come On
9 - Guitar Boogie
10 - Stop and Listen
11 - Together (We'll Always Be)
12 - Run Around
13 - Confessin' the Blues
14 - You Can't Catch Me
15 - Way It Was Before
16 - It Don't Take But a Few Minutes
17 - Worried Life Blues
18 - I Got to Find My Baby
19 - Away from You
20 - I'm Talking About You
21 - Thirty Days
22 - Vacation Time
23 - Our Little Rendezvous
24 - Jaguar and Thunderbird
25 - Too Pooped to Pop
Disc 2:
1 - Memphis, Tennessee
2 - Sweet Little Sixteen
3 - Brown Eyed Handsome Man
4 - Let It Rock
5 - Beautiful Delilah
6 - Thirteen Question Method
7 - Almost Grown
8 - Driftin' Blues
9 - Mad Lad
10 - Blues for Hawaiians
11 - Down the Road a Piece
12 - Blue Feeling
13 - Don't Lie to Me
14 - Low Feeling
15 - Broken Arrow
16 - Diploma for Two
17 - Roly Poly
18 - How You've Changed
19 - Deep Feeling
20 - Childhood Sweetheart
21 - Little Star
22 - That's My Desire
23 - Rip It Up
24 - Reelin' and Rockin'
Disc 3:
1 - Back in the U.S.A.
2 - Roll Over Beethoven
3 - Sweet Little Rock and Roller
4 - Rock and Roll Music
5 - Bye Bye Johnny
6 - Downbound Train
7 - Route 66
8 - Around and Around
9 - Sweet Sixteen
10 - Rockin' at the Philharmonic
11 - Havana Moon
12 - Go Go Go
13 - Berry Pickin'
14 - Oh Baby Doll
15 - Drifting Heart
16 - In-Go
17 - Betty Jean
18 - Hey Pedro
19 - Anthony Boy
20 - Jaunda
21 - Jo Jo Gunne
22 - Wee Wee Hours
23 - Merry Christmas Baby
24 - Run Rudolph Run