Blood, Sweat & Tears - Greatest Hits (remastered) - Music & Performance - CD

The best selling title in the Blood, Sweat & Tears catalog (SoundScans 1,000 units per week) is now available digitally remastered - the way it was meant to sound! This release restores the album to it's original form - all the hits (4 cuts have been restored to the single versions that appeared on the original Greatest Hits LP), plus 2 bonus tracks: "So Long Dixie" and "More And More." Highlights include "You've Made Me So Very Happy," "Spinning Wheel," "And When I Die" and more.

This disc is no substitute for the Mastersounds version of the Child Is Father to the Man album, or the Mobile Fidelity version of Blood, Sweat and Tears, but it is a really smart idea. Columbia-Legacy went back and recompiled this multi-million selling album (previously available as a fairly lackluster 40-minute, 11-song CD), adding two songs ("So Long Dixie" and "More and More,") that were previously available only on singles from 1972 and 1968, respectively, and upgrading the sound. What distinguishes Blood, Sweat & Tears' Greatest Hits from the double-CD Sony-Legacy compilation What Goes Up: The Best of Blood, Sweat & Tears, however, is that this disc uses the single edits of the hits. To serious fans, it's sort of Blood, Sweat & Tears-lite, but to millions of listeners, it's these shorter versions, shorn of their extended album-version breaks, by which they know the band best. And those numbers now sport state-of-the-art sound -- hard, up-front bass and drums, horns that pour out of the speakers, and close and intimate singing from David Clayton-Thomas (or, on the two BS&T Mark 1 tracks here, Al Kooper and Steve Katz). The new release also re-creates the packaging of the original LP, with reviewers' quotes across the band's prime years (1968-72) and a time line history, as well as release and production information on each song. The two additional numbers bring the running time up to 48 minutes, and it's mid-priced, too, which makes it even easier to junk the old version and get hold of this one. ~ Bruce Eder, All Music Guide

Performer	Blood, Sweat & Tears
Music genre	Rock
Music subgenre	Pop, Rock
Media format	CD
Edition	remastered
Is collectible	Y
Has parental advisory label	N
Number of discs	1
Series title	Blood, Sweat & Tears - Greatest Hits (remastered)
Record label	Sony
Songwriter	Blood Sweat & Tears
Music media format	CD
Is edited	N
Is enhanced	N