Sunny Days Again: The Best of Lighthouse

Product Description
Full Title - The Best Of Lighthouse - Sunny Days Again. Now available in the US! Lighthouse, one of North America's most beloved bands of the 70s re-releases this popular Best Of recording digitally remastered from the original tapes. 16 tracks & sleeve notes with discography. True North Records. 2003.

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Sunny Days Again: The Best of Lighthouse

Average customer rating: One great song and... Worst sound quality I've ever heard on a CD Poorly Mixed/Engineered - They Ruined It One Really Bad Morning one of my favorite bands ever.

Sunny Days Again: The Best of Lighthouse Lighthouse Manufacturer: Rounder Select ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Canada | North America | International | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Rounder Records | Specialty Stores | Music Similar Items: Lighthouse Live! Chase Vehicle Vehicle Absolutely Right: The Best of Five Man Electrical Band ASIN: B00000G5WO Release Date: 1999-12-28

Tracks:

1. One Fine Morning
2. Hats Off To The Stranger
3. Little Kind Words
4. 1849
5. Sunny Days
6. Sweet Lullabye
7. Take It Slow
8. Broken Guitar Blues
9. I Just Wanna Be Your Frie
10. You Girl
11. Silver Bird
12. Lonely Places
13. Pretty Lady
14. Can You Feel It
15. Magic's In The Dancing
16. Good Day

Album Description

Full Title - The Best Of Lighthouse - Sunny Days Again. Now available in the US! Lighthouse, one of North America's most beloved bands of the 70s re-releases this popular Best Of recording digitally remastered from the original tapes. 16 tracks & sleeve notes with discography. True North Records. 2003.

Album Details

Collection of songs from the Canadian group Lighthouse, a beacon of Canadian, 70's rock-n-roll. The title is a play on one of the band's biggest hits 'Sunny Days', which is included. Also features the US hit 'One Fine Morning', 'Hats off to the Stranger' and thirteen others.

Customer Reviews:

One great song and..........2007-04-08

I remember (with warm feelings) the Orange County Teen Club dances of my youth.

One of my favorite songs from those dances was "One Fine Morning" by the group Lighthouse.

You remember those days, Rare Earth, Blood Sweat & Tears, Chicago... etc, when actual bands played dances and actually had horn sections... I was so nostalgic, that I bought this album thinking that I only remember one song, but it should all be good.

Oops!

One good song, mediocre reproduction and a bunch of stuff I didn't bother to copy into my 70's folder of music on my computer.
Nostalgia can be sweet, but if you want this song, you are better off to pay for a single song download.

Worst sound quality I've ever heard on a CD.......2007-01-10

OMG...
What a crappy audio remix! Sounds like my decades old worn out 8-Track tape with the treble turned off and a bass that must have come from another band. I am sick. The only thing available from a great group and I get this. The selection of the songs is not too bad, but the sound quality is so poor that I am about ready to toss it in the trash and get out my worn - but still much better than this - LPs. Please, can someone reissue this with quality sound?
I give it a 3 (5 for the great band and songs and 1 for sound quality)
A good quality LP recorded directly onto CD would have been 10 times better. Too bad we can't get the early RCA LPs too.

Poorly Mixed/Engineered - They Ruined It.......2006-08-15

I give the CD 3 stars simply because I love "One Fine Morning," but I have to agree with Bill Larkin, the guy who submitted his review on July 23, 2006. The remix is in large part a disaster. The intro to the song sounds nothing like it did on the original vinyl release; it sounds like it was recorded using a cheap cassette recorder in someone's garage. The ride cymbal is muted as though a blanket was thrown over it. The driving rhythm guitar is also muted, lacking the sharp, punctuating sound on the original recording. The solo piano in the middle of the song sounds like it was recorded in another room. To the people who engineered this song: IT'S A SOLO - IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE FEATURED, NOT PUT INTO ANOTHER ROOM!!! Overall, the remix of One Fine Morning sounds like it was done by a bunch of kindergarten kids exposed to a mixing board for the first time. It is just all out of balance and that is very disappointing for those of us who bought this cd in large part because we wanted to hear One Fine Morning again. I had read Mr. Larkin's review prior to purchasing this album but I was hoping that he was wrong. Unfortunately he was right on the money. For some reason they didn't ruin the other songs, though. "Pretty Lady," the other song I wanted, sounds like it did on the original vinyl. Why they had to mess with One Fine Moring and ruin it like they did is a tragedy.

Ok, I am writing this two months later. I thought perhaps my memory wasn't serving me right, but today I listened to the original mix of One Fine Morning from the original LP and my memory is fine. Unfortunately the remastered version IS NOT. It stinks! They totally ruined it, throwing it all out of balance and taking away the electric feel of the original mix. The remastered one on this album sounds like they found bits and pieces of the separate instrument tracks and just threw them together without any regard for what the song as a whole should sound like. For those of you who remember what the original mix sounded like, you will know exactly what I am talking about when you listen to this disgusting poor excuse for a remaster. Poor Lighthouse. Note: my acerbic comments apply only to One Fine Morning. To the deaf souls who did the remaster - couldn't you have had mercy on us and chosen another track to ruin instead????

One Really Bad Morning.......2006-07-24

The backcover touts "Digtally Remixed". Above it says "from the original tapes". The CD credits "re-mixing engineered by Frank Marrone and Robert Hanson". The CD goes on to credit "re-mixing produced by Paul Hoffert, Ralph Cole, Skip Prokop, and Bob McBride". They should all quit the recording business immediately and find other work.

If you are like me, you look for quality re-releases of older material. Since there are 16 tracks on this one, it caught my eye. Particularly for the 70's hit "One Fine Morning". I figured the existing releases currently available of that track were not that bad, but it could always be improved upon with today's technology.

Not by these guys. They have to be deaf. Or they let the wrong take get on the final CD. Or they were hung-over when they re-mixed "One Fine Morning". If they want to continue working in the recording industry, they should get the label to quickly re-call this disaster and get it right and then re-release it. It's that bad.

As someone else here already noted, the bass track sounds different than the original. But that, is the least of the problems. The string section sounds like it was in the parking lot. The electric piano solo sounds like it was in the next room. The cymbals have no high-end at all. The lead guitar solo sounds like it was recorded in a 55-gallon drum. The horns and the vocal come out on top (as they should) but when the rest is in the mud, it's horrible.

This is a real shame. Especially when you spend your hard-earned money only to find out that the one track you really wanted should be used as a prime example of how NOT to re-mix music. If "One Fine Morning" was want you wanted from this CD, save your money.

If the other 15 tracks is what you wanted, amazingly, they are ok.

one of my favorite bands ever........2006-06-04

i just really love lighthouse. a horn + strings +etc. band that sounds brighter than chicago and more fun than blood sweat & tears. i wish more of their stuff was on cd, i only have this, my aunt's "can you feel it" on record, and the newish one from the 90's, song of the ages.

i especially like one fine morning, the songs from can you feel it (can you feel it, magic's in the dancing, pretty lady), hats off to the stranger, and little kind words. around the middle isn't too special to me, but it's still good.

you should also look at "song of the ages". the whole album is terrible, but if you're not too cheap then the last song, time tides, is worth the price of the whole thing. more really, but don't tell anyone or they'll raise the price :P

Average customer rating: A plethora of hits by one of Canada's best known acts "Hats Off..." To Lighthouse

Sunny Days Again: The Best Lighthouse ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B00000DM6L

Tracks:

1. One Fine Morning
2. Hats Off To The Stranger
3. Little Kind Words
4. Sunny Days
5. Sweet Lullabye
6. Take It Slow
7. Broken Guitar Blues
8. I Just Wanna Be Your Friend
9. You Girl
10. Silver Bird
11. Lonely Places
12. Pretty Lady
13. Can You Feel It
14. Magic's In The Dancing
15. Good Day

Album Description

16 of the Canadian rock group's greatest recordings from1969-1974, all digitally remastered. Includes all of theirU.S. chart hits, including 'I Just Wanna Be Your Friend','Pretty Lady', 'Take It Slow', the top 40 'Sunny Days' andtheir best known song in the States, the top 30 'One FineMorning'. The Toronto-based act consistently had afluctuating line-up of at least 10 members! 1998 True NorthRecords release.

Customer Reviews:

A plethora of hits by one of Canada's best known acts.......2001-10-29

"The Best Of Lighthouse: Sunny Days Again" features 16 greatest hits from one of Canada's best known imports. "One Fine Morning", Lighthouse's best known song here in the States, reached an impressive Top 30 on the Billboard pop chart in 1971. Some mighty fine Canadian Content selections make appearances here as well. In an ode to good times and backyard barbeque fun, there's "Sunny Days". "Pretty Lady" is wonderful and has a unique warmth and charm all its own. Lighthouse also displays a funky and soulful side in the tracks "Hats Off To The Stranger" and "You Girl', although the latter track can be overly repetetive. Man, talk about horns! Skip Prokop & Co. go at you full steam and at full throttle with every note played. Prokop's drumming skills are in top form in this excellent collection of songs. When you listen to this disc, you'll think you're listening to Lighthouse live and in the flesh! All the other selections on this disc not mentioned here are worth repeated listens as well. So, please, by all means, listen to this disc with the volume cranked up for best listening pleasure! If you like early Chicago (Transit Authority), Blood, Sweat & Tears, The Buckinghams, etc., you'll love Lighthouse! Don't miss out on this musical extravaganza. Buy your copy of "The Best Of Lighthouse: Sunny Days Again" today!

"Hats Off..." To Lighthouse.......2000-06-04

Lighthouse was a Canadian success story at a time in the country's pop history when it needed international pop heroes it could call its own (remember, this was at a time long before the advent of Celine Dion, Bryan Adams and Shania Twain). Having emerged out of the ashes of The Paupers (another infamous sixties pop act to have emerged out of Toronto's Yorkville scene far too early in its career), Lighthouse, like Chase, Chicago and BS&T found no problem in mixing loads of brass into their breeazy post-Woodstock rock/pop. This album (a reissue of the same anthology originally available on Denon) contains all the band's key songs. Still sounding great are "One Fine Morning", "Hats Off To The Stranger" and, of course, "Sunny Days". Still cool after all these years. A great collection and the only title you'd ever really need.

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