Say what you will, but England's Ten Years After certainly knew when to peak: their manic, 12-minute workout of "I'm Going Home" (included here) upstaged a veritable army of '60s superstars and remains one of the highlights of the film Woodstock. As blues-smitten U.K. rockers go, TYA may not have been as inventive as the Yardbirds, guitarist/frontman Alvin Lee neither as tastefully polished as Clapton nor as bombastic and exotic as Page, but their sheer dedication and steamroller determination (exemplified by nearly 30 American tours during the Woodstock era) were second to none. This double-disc, 26-track anthology spans the band's eight-albums-in-five-years prime, from its workmanlike 1967 covers of blues staples "I Want to Know" and "Spoonful" through a pair of rare 1968 singles (highlighted by Lee's quirky, country-folk "Portable People") to its 1971 pop hit, "I'd Love to Change the World." Lee's primitivist urges and legendary, lightning-fingered guitar heroics fuel everything from moody, simmering dirges like "Help Me" and upbeat Chi-town shuffles in the "Me and My Baby" mold to the Cro-Magnon riff-rock of "Love Like a Man" and the proto-psych-blues of "50,000 Miles Beneath My Brain." If TYA's music is often as nimble and slick as a stegosaur and arguably as timely it's equally as leathery, unrelenting, and hard to ignore. - amazon.com
DISC 1:
01. I Want To Know
02. I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes
03. Spoonful
04. Help Me
05. Portable People
06. The Sounds
07. Rock Your Mama
08. Spider In My Web
09. I May Be Wrong, But I Won't Be Wrong Always
10. Going To Try
11. Woman Trouble
12. Hear Me Calling
13. Boogie On
DISC 2:
01. I Woke Up This Morning
02. If You Should Love Me
03. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
04. I'm Going Home
05. Me And My Baby
06. Love Like A Man
07. 50,000 Miles Beneath My Brain
08. I'm Coming On
09. My Baby Left Me
10. One Of These Days
11. Here They Come
12. I'd Love To Change The World
13. Let The Sky Fall http://fp.io/9586ede3/
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