Vintage: The Very Best of Moby Grape

RELEASE
May 11, 1993
LABEL
Columbia/Legacy
GENRES
Pop/Rock, Country-Rock, Psychedelic, Rock & Roll, Folk-Rock

Album Review

It's hard to imagine a better-produced package of Moby Grape's work than this two-disc, 48-track condensation of their best late-'60s recordings. The first disc of this set centers around their entire 1967 self-titled debut LP (included in its entirety), which mixed blues, country, and folk influences with hard-charging psychedelic rock & roll. The result was one of the Summer of Love's more enduring works. The second disc boils their wildly inconsistent 1968-69 material down to a fairly strong and coherent selection. While it doesn't match the peak of the group's initial burst, it features some strong folk and country-rock originals that wear much better in the absence of the bloated jams and half-baked hard rock that could make their albums a chore to sit through. Each disc includes interesting demos, outtakes, and live performances that round out the legacy of this prodigiously talented but ill-fated band, which was overcome by internal strife and label/management difficulties after their promising debut.
Richie Unterberger, Rovi

Track Listing

  1. Hey Grandma
  2. Mr. Blues
  3. Fall on You
  4. 8:05
  5. Come in the Morning
  6. Omaha
  7. Naked, If I Want To
  8. Rounder [Instrumental]
  9. Someday
  10. Ain't No Use
  11. Sitting by the Window
  12. Changes
  13. Lazy Me
  14. Indifference
  15. Looper [Audition Version]
  16. Sweet Ride
  17. Bitter Wind [Alternate Version]
  18. The Place and the Time [Alternate Version]
  19. Rounder [Live]
  20. Miller's Blues [Live]
  21. Changes [Live]
  22. Hey Grandma [Single Version]
  23. Omaha [Single Version]
  24. Big
  25. Skip's Song ["Seeing" Demo][Version]
  26. You Can Do Anything [Demo Version]
  27. Murder in My Heart for the Judge
  28. Bitter Wind
  29. Can't Be So Bad
  30. Just Like Gene Autry: A Foxtrot
  31. He
  32. Motorcycle Irene
  33. Funky-Tunk
  34. Rose Colored Eyes
  35. If You Can't Learn From Your Mistakes [Peter Solo Version]
  36. Ooh Mama Ooh
  37. Ain't That a Shame
  38. Trucking Man
  39. Captain Nemo
  40. What's to Choose
  41. Going Nowhere
  42. I Am Not Willing
  43. It's a Beautiful Day Today
  44. Right Before My Eyes
  45. Truly Fine Citizen
  46. Hoochie
  47. Soul Stew
  48. Seeing