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Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 | 
 enlarge | Artist: Blue Rodeo
Label: Rounder / Umgd
Category: Music
List Price: $17.98
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 21544
Format: Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.6 x 0.5
MPN: 613233
UPC: 011661323322
EAN: 0011661323322
ASIN: B0001LYFTA
Release Date: April 13, 2004
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| Tracks:
| • | To Love Somebody | | • | Rose-Coloured Glasses | | • | Try | | • | Diamond Mine | | • | Til I Am Myself Again | | • | Trust Yourself | | • | Lost Together | | • | 5 Days in May | | • | Hasn t Hit Me Yet | | • | Bad Timing | | • | Dark Angel | | • | Side of the Road | | • | Bulletproof | | • | After the Rain |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
The early vanguards of a Toronto music scene that would eventually produce Tragically Hip, Jane Siberry, Cowboy Junkies, and other standouts, Blue Rodeo's stateside profile never quite matched its Canadian acclaim--and we're definitely the poorer country for it. Frontmen Jim Cuddy and Greg Keelor may anchor their songs deep in tasteful range of American roots rock , but there's nary a trace of slavish devotion to any of it. Indeed they inject a countrified, Gram Parsons sensibility into a simmering cover of the Bee Gees' "To Love Somebody," and shimmering Big Star/Twilley power pop hooks to "Rose Colored Glasses." Be it the folk-evocations of "Hasn't Hit Me Yet" and neo-country "Bad Timing" or the spare, sensuous ballad "Dark Angel" (featuring Sarah McLachlan on piano and backing vocals) and dreamy drone of "Side of the Road," Blue Rodeo takes some familiar bottles and fills them with heady new musical wine. --Jerry McCulley
Album Description
"America's best band is...Canadian." - Rolling Stone * 14 essential tracks * 2 previously unreleased tracks Blue Rodeo are one of Canada's greatest bands, having sold almost four million albums worldwide. Greatest Hits collects 14 essential tracks on one exceptional CD, pulled from their catalog of nine albums. Featured are the poignant ballad "Try," the guitar-powered "Side of the Road" (from the group's psychedelic masterpiece Nowhere to Here), and their recent hit "Bulletproof." Two previously unreleased recordings - their unique take on the Bee Gee's classic "To Love Somebody" (complete with fiddles and pedal steel) and a live version of "After The Rain" - make this, their first ever compilation, even more special.
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| Customer Reviews:
 From a Canadian living in Europe August 3, 2006
Tessa M. (Croatia, Europe)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Listening to this album brought me back to my highschool days in Ontario and days with my friends who listened to Blue Rodeo. The choice of songs is great, although a few more ballads would have made the whole album all the better and more complete. This is a great album from a very unique band!
Only a couple missing... July 22, 2005
Robert D. Morris (Raleigh, NC)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Love all the songs a couple of my faves were missing though...
 Great Songs - but not all of them! April 18, 2005
badfish2 (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Canada)
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
I gave this album 3 out of 5 stars because of the glaring omissions. While alot of their best tracks are here, where's Rebel, How Long, House Of Dreams(One of their best songs, period), Rain Down On Me, Flying..? I could keep going, and that's only from their first three albums. One would hope Volume 2 will correct this. Actually, they could probably fill 3 greatest hits albums. Any real fan of these guys would just pick up any one of their albums,(better yet, get them all) you won't be disappointed with any of them. By the way the guy from Missouri is an idiot. "The Days In Between" was one of their poorer albums and "Tremolo" was a middling album and I know what I'm talking about, I've been a fan since BR's first album "Outskirts" way back in '87. Get yourself "Five Days In July", it's Blue Rodeo's masterpiece.
America's loss... December 11, 2004
Stephen Cabral (New England)
This is a nice collection of their greatest hits up in Canada because I don't think they have ever had one here. America's loss! Nice sound with great harmonies that is very reminiscent of many great `60's bands like The Byrds, CSN and The Hollies. They even do an amazing cover of The Bee Gees "To Love Somebody" with strings and horns which has never been previously released. Their songs go from pop to country to rock to folk and even to some great psychedelia (check out "Diamond Mine"). They sound like five different bands that are each very talented. Sarah McLachlan's voice and piano appear on one song..."Dark Angel".
 Greatest Hits America April 29, 2004
Brian Kious (Saint Charles, Missouri United States)
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
Well, what can I say... I can't say that I've ever heard Blue Rodeo on American radio, but then again I just got into indie radio a short time ago. In any case, I've been a Blue Rodeo fan since "Tremolo" and built my collection around that one and I was taken aback that there were no songs from "Tremolo". Two of Blue Rodeo's best works are not represented here: "Tremolo" and "The Days In Between".Personal critiques aside, I suppose this is a good springboard for newcomers to the band as they will pretty well get a solid helping of some of the best songs that Keelor and Cuddy had to offer from 1987-2002. I will say though, that the album does drag as the last five songs are slower in pace, but still enjoyable (I exclude "Bulletproof". I never liked this one. I think "Comet" should have been the first single from "Palace of Gold"). You be the judge! Enjoy!
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