Dave Edmunds officially retired from a career in music in July 2017 after 50 years in the business.
Starting with his trail-blazing days in the sixties with Love Sculpture, through to his one man effort to drag rock music back to its primal roots with his Christmas 1970 number one UK singles chart smash, ‘I Hear You Knocking’, he then became a one man Phil Spector ‘wall of sound’ via mid-seventies hits such as ‘Baby I Love You’ and ‘Born To Be With You’, moving on to his Pub Rock ‘Supergroup’, Rockpile, and his subsequent solo career (the bulk of which appear on this collection).
The five featured albums are Subtle As A Flying Mallet, D.E. 7th, Information, Riff Raff, I Hear You Rocking (Live).
TRACKS
CD1:
1. Baby I Love You
2. Leave My Woman Alone
3. Maybe
4. Da Doo Ron Ron
5. Let It Be Me
6. No Money Down
7. Short Of Rhythm And Blues
8. Billy The Kid
9. Born To Be With You
10. She’s My Baby
11. I Ain’t Never
12. Let It Rock
13. Pick Axe Rag
14. Some Other Guy
15. From Small Things Big Things Come
16. Me And The Boys
17. Bail You Out
18. Generation Rumble
19. Other Guys Girls
20. Warmed Over Kisses Leftover Love
21. Deep In The Heart Of Texas
22. Louisiana Man
23. Paula Meet Jeanne
24. One More Night
25. Dear Dad
CD2:
1. Slipping Away
2. Don’t You Double
3. I Want You Bad
4. Wait
5. The Watch On My Wrist
6. The Shape I’m In
7. Information
8. Feel So Right
9. What Have I Got To Do (To Win)
10. Don’t Call Me Tonight
11. Have A Heart
12. Something About You
13. Breaking Out
14. Busted Loose
15. Far Away
16. Rules Of The Game
17. Steel Claw
18. S.O.S.
19. Hang On
20. How Could I Be So Wrong
21. Can't Get Enough
CD3:
1. Girls Talk
2. Here Comes The Weekend
3. Queen Of Hearts
4. Paralysed
5. The Wanderer
6. Crawling From The Wreckage
7. Slipping Away
8. Information
9. I Hear You Knocking
10. I Knew The Bride (When She Used To… )
11. Ju Ju Man
Album Review - Get Ready to Rock, October 2020
