The Best of Steeleye Span

Product Details

Artist : Steeleye Span
Binding : Audio CD
EAN : 0724354135521
Label : EMI Gold
Number of Discs : 1
Product Group : Music
Release Date : 2002-08-26
UPC : 724354135521

ASIN : B00006DICT

Track Listings for

Disc-1
1. Gaudette
2. Saucy Sailor
3. Jigs
4. Royal Forester
5. Dark Eyed Sailor
6. Alison Gross
7. One Misty Moisty Morning
8. Bold Poachers
9. Thomas The Rhymer
10. To Know Him Is To Love Him
11. Drink Down The Moon
12. Now We Are Six
13. New York Girls
14. Little Sir Hugh
15. Black Jack Davy
16. Hard Times Of Old England
17. Cadwith Anthem
18. Dance With Me
19. All Around My Hat

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Editorial Reviews

Product Description

This 2002 release is the definitive collection of the highly popular folk rock act's most prolific period, chronologically showcasing the five albums they recorded for Chrysalis from 1972-75 (Below The Salt, Parcel Of Rogues, Now We Are Six, All Around My Hat & Commoner's Crown). Guest appearances include David Bowie playing sax on "To Know Him Is To Love Him" and Peter Sellers, who's featured on "New York Girls". Tracks from the best selling, "All Around My Hat" are extensively featured.

Customer Reviews

Good, earthy folk, with a bit of distortion pedal (2008-07-29)

Worth the price of admission for Gaudete alone, this is a good solid folk album, you can picture the lead singer resting his chin on his hand as he nasally crafts each track. For someone new to Span, it is a grower, which is always a sign of quality in an album.If I have one gripe, it's that several songs, and 'All Around My Hat' in particular, tend to go a bit 'Quo' when they get over-excited. This is of the time, and to a degree the Span signature, but I find it an unnecessary blot on an otherwise great CD.

Truly some of the best! (2008-02-06)

I'm a massive Steeleye Fan and enjoy nothing more than listening to their finest tracks. Generally, with a compilation like this, you can never be sure if you'll end up loving everything and this is by no means an exception. However; the less good tracks on the CD are very few! "To Know Him is To Love Him" for instance is probably the least enjoyable (let's face it; it's just not Steeleye Span like they should be) and "Now we Are Six" is very much an acquired taste. Nevertheless, there are a great number of less famous gems, such as "Royal Forester" and "Dark Eyed Sailor". "Saucy Sailor", "Thomas the Rhymer" and "Drink Down the Moon" are again well worth a real listen, and help make this one of the best Span compilations ever!

Steeleye Span are rather dandy! (2007-07-16)

i love everything they do but what i would like to knoew in this album containing their best work where is the black Freighter. The best song ever.

Blistering folk rock + a few forgettable moments (2007-05-09)

This is a right roistering collection of folk rock, from the blisteringly great (Alison Gross, Black Jack Davey, Hard Times of Old England, Gaudete, All Around My Hat) to the forgettable (To Know Him is to Love Him, Now We Are Six etc.) At their best, Tim Hart, Maddy Prior and company stood alongside the Fairports as popularisers of the folk tradition and made a brilliant job of it too. I can definitely forgive them the odd lapse in judgement in the face of haunting ditties like Alison Gross ("the ugliest witch in the north country.") Listen and enjoy!

...And I was well content (2006-02-07)

I've been listening to Steeleye Span since I was a kid, too. But that was in the seventies! This record is a rather neat selection of their best titles. One restriction, though: I'd dropkick the cloying and dumb "To know him is to love him" from a high cliff, and put in the superlative, how-can-they-have-left-it-out? "Fighting for Strangers", the chilling tale of a mercenary's career, appropriately carried by a cold and almost abstract tune. As to Steeleye Span as a group - I've just told you I've been listening to them for about thirty years. What do you expect me to say about them??? Of course, they are brilliant. Nobody compares.

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