The Very Best of The Raspberries

1. Dont Wanna Say Goodbye

2. Go All The Way

3. Lets Pretend

4. I Wanna Be With You

5. Drivin Around

6. Tonight

7. On The Beach

8. Money Down

9. Im A Rocker

10. Overnight Sensation

11. Cruisin Music

12. I Dont Know What I Want

13. Partys Over

14. Ecstasy

15. Starting Over

16. I Reach For The Light

17. All Through The Night

18. Should I Wait

19. Rose Coloured Glasses

20. Waiting

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
The Raspberries were the quintessential 70s power pop group, their music from the pen of founder/member Eric Carmen blended Beatlesque pop with the fiery power of the Who and Small Faces. 20 tracks. Cherry Red.

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The Very Best of The Raspberries

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disappointed
All four original albums released are 5 star
Thank God this stuff is Still Available
Not a good option
Another RASPBERRIES compilation?

The Very Best of The Raspberries
Raspberries
Manufacturer: Cherry Red UK
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00006YX8N
Release Date: 2002-11-18

Tracks:

Dont Wanna Say Goodbye
Go All The Way
Lets Pretend
I Wanna Be With You
Drivin Around
Tonight
On The Beach
Money Down
Im A Rocker
Overnight Sensation
Cruisin Music
I Dont Know What I Want
Partys Over
Ecstasy
Starting Over
I Reach For The Light
All Through The Night
Should I Wait
Rose Coloured Glasses
Waiting

Album Description

The Raspberries were the quintessential 70s power pop group, their music from the pen of founder/member Eric Carmen blended Beatlesque pop with the fiery power of the Who and Small Faces. 20 tracks. Cherry Red.

Album Details

A Brilliant 20 Track Best of from Us Legends the Raspberries.

Customer Reviews:

disappointed.......2007-06-08

The CD case read 'The Very Best of the Raspberries', but, the CD inside was of some other group. CD returned and replaced, again the same situation.

All four original albums released are 5 star.......2007-04-16

All four original albums released are 5 star.
So therefore this cd must be 5 star.
It is a good place to start, but I would buy all the originals .
Complete Collectors should not discourage new people from starting !

Thank God this stuff is Still Available.......2006-02-25

Few bands in American music history have been as successful -and- as critically battered as these midwestern masters of early '70s power pop.

I was a fly on the wall in West LA when Wally Bryson (in the company of Choir standout Dan Klawon, Naz drummer Thom Mooney, et al) showed up to take another stab at fame with Motown in '76. Otherwise, I'd have missed the boat pretty completely.

Much as it was between Kieth and Mick, it looked to me like the creative tension between Eric Carmen's teen heart throb sensibilities vs. Bryson's hard rock instincts (and gonads) was the heat in the oven here. Pubescent mid-Atlantic, midwestern, southern and plains boys -and- girls seemed to find it irresistable, even if the Left Coast more or less ignored it.

One of the other reviewers here is right about some of the better stuff being missing and available elsewhere. For my money, I want to hear Dave Smalley do "Hard to Get Over a Heartbreak" and Eric do "Hit Record." Nevertheless, this is a good place to start... and especially if you want hear Bryson's astonishing guitar work.

Wally never confirmed this for me, but I hear Badfinger's Pete Ham aplenty, as well as Townshend, Graham Nash and others. (The first thing I ever saw him play -- and sing -- in rehearsal, however, was Kieth Richard's "Crazy Mama" in open G... and it -was- The Stones, vocally and instrumentally.) A carefull review of "Go All the Way," "Tonight," "Ecstacy" and "I'm a Rocker" ought to confirm his chordal and riff-ripping mastery of that '58 Flying Vee.

Bryson went on to play with three of the four Young Rascals in a band called Photomaker, and, fortunately rejoin Eric and the rest of his bandmates in the 'Berries a few years ago on the nostalgia circuit. This CD, however, displays him at his impressive, early best. The first five chords -- and what follows in the next 30 seconds -- of "Tonight" will confirm that for anyone.

Not a good option.......2005-08-04

The music rates 5 stars but the song selection is not so good. Just do yourself a favor and get Power Pop, Volumes 1 and 2. Just buy those two CDs here and you have ALL four Raspberries albums. Pretty simple.

Another RASPBERRIES compilation?.......2005-05-09

First off let me say that I am one of the biggest fans of Raspberries you will ever find.I was fortunate enough to see them twice in the early seventies and I already have my tickets for the reunion show in New York this summer (BB KINGS Club in July, 2005). I have followed all of Eric Carmen's solo efforts including the imports that were not released in the US.(Special thanks to AMAZON for making them available). I bought Wally Bryson's follow up albums when he was with FOTOMAKER and TATOO. Outside of all of my original albums I bought RASPBERRIES BEST OF, the old Capitol album, when it came out on CD. I bought another BEST OF just a few years ago that was being offered with more songs. I bought the BEST OF ERIC CARMEN shortly after which included a number of RASPBERRIES songs. I bought all of the RASPBERRIES CDs when they were offered as two-fer double CDs. I even bought the six song "almost" RASPBERRIES CD from their web site (It was very good). Now along comes this "Remastered" BEST OF. I can't see myself buying these same songs for the forth or fifth time. It includes nothing new. There are a few unreleased tracks from the bands early albums and quite a number of good quality live and rehearsal recordings that have been circulated over the years that could have been included to attract old fans as well as new. I don't see the point of this album. It offers nothing new. Sorry.

Raspberries : The Very Best of The Raspberries IMPORT

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Raspberries : The Very Best of The Raspberries IMPORT
Eric Carmen
Manufacturer: ZAP! RECORDS
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

British Invasion | Classic Rock | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000MRBC76

Product Description

A 15-song British compilation that was essentially rendered moot a few years later by the domestic Capitol anthology. 1. Overnight Sensation, 2. Go All the Way, 3. Let's Pretend, 4. Driving Around, 5. On the Beach, 6. Ecstasy, 7. I Reach for the Light, 8. All Through the Night, 9. I Wanna Be With You, 10. Cruisin' Music, 11. Should I Wait?, 12. Tonight, 13. I don't Know What I Want, 14. Rose Coloured Glasses, 15. Waiting, 16. Starting Over

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Very Best of Raspberries

ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000GALFWG
Release Date: 2006-08-29

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Very Best of Raspberries

Manufacturer: Phantom Sound & Vision
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000A2Q3R2
Release Date: 2004-01-01