Al Green
Anthology
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Date:  6/24/1978
Format:  FLAC
Genre:  Soul
    Track Listing:
      Volume 1:
      1.  
      		 Back Up Train    2:21
      2.  
      		 Hot Wire    2:56
      3.  
      		 Stop And Check Myself    1:43
      4.  
      		 I Want To Hold Your Hand    2:23
      5.  
      		 Tomorrow's Dream    2:21
      6.  
      		 I'm A Ram    4:10
      7.  
      		 I Can't Get Next To You (Live)    4:45
      8.  
      		 Light My Fire    3:58
      9.  
      		 Intro To Tired Of Being Alone    1:05
      10.  
      		 Tired Of Being Alone    2:42
      11.  
      		 Drving Wheel    3:02
      12.  
      		 Listen (Take 2)    2:29
      13.  
      		 True Love    2:47
      14.  
      		 Guilty    2:59
      15.  
      		 We've Only Just Begun_Let's Stay Together (Live)    9:25
      Volume 2:
      1.  
      		 Intro To Let's Stay Together    0:37
      2.  
      		 Let's Stay Together    3:20
      3.  
      		 So You're Leaving    2:57
      4.  
      		 Judy (Live)    4:59
      5.  
      		 La-La For You    3:34
      6.  
      		 How Can You Mend A Broken Heart (Live)    6:35
      7.  
      		 I'm Still In Love With You    3:14
      8.  
      		 I'm Glad You're Mine    2:59
      9.  
      		 Look What You Done For Me    3:06
      10.  
      		 Love & Happiness (Live)    10:41
      11.  
      		 Simply Beautiful    4:16
      12.  
      		 The Technique Of Writing My Songs    1:37
      Volume 3:
      1.  
      		 Call Me (Come Back Home)    3:04
      2.  
      		 You Ought To Be With Me (Live)    4:55
      3.  
      		 Have You Been Making Out O.K.    3:47
      4.  
      		 Here I Am (Come & Take Me)    4:14
      5.  
      		 ''I Took What I Learned From Rock & Roll...''    0:44
      6.  
      		 Jesus Is Waiting    5:40
      7.  
      		 Free At Last (Live)    5:29
      8.  
      		 Livin' For You    3:11
      9.  
      		 Mimi    3:24
      10.  
      		 I Think It's For The Feeling    4:32
      11.  
      		 Sha-La-La (Make Me Happy) (Live)    5:09
      12.  
      		 Take Me To The River    3:47
      13.  
      		 L-O-V-E (Love) (Live)    3:54
      14.  
      		 Rhymes    3:37
      15.  
      		 The Love Sermon    6:41
      16.  
      		 God Blessed Our Love (Live)    5:52
      17.  
      		 ''That's My Dog Roma...''_''How I Sing The Way I Sing...''    2:33
      Volume 4:
      1.  
      		 'I Don't Have To Go To Your Church...'    1:35
      2.  
      		 I'd Fly Away    4:14
      3.  
      		 Full Of Fire    5:16
      4.  
      		 Together Again    5:21
      5.  
      		 Love Ritual (1988 RMX)    4:17
      6.  
      		 Always    3:22
      7.  
      		 Have A Good Time    3:38
      8.  
      		 Love & Happiness    5:03
      9.  
      		 Too Close (Live)    4:25
      10.  
      		 'We Try To Furnish...'    0:34
      11.  
      		 'But One Thing I Like About Jesus...'    4:33
      12.  
      		 Belle    4:49
      13.  
      		 Wait Here    2:43
      14.  
      		 Chariots Of Fire    3:51
      15.  
      		 I Feel Good (Live)    4:26
      16.  
      		 Dreams_All 'N' All (Live)    3:50
      17.  
      		 'I Know One Thing I Had To Do...'    1:20
      Theoretically, an Al Green box set should be easy to assemble, given the overall excellence of his material, but the four-disc Anthology is a botched job. Instead of simply condensing the best of Green's prolific output, including all of the hits, the compilers were concerned with telling a story -- literally. Three of the discs are spiked with lengthy interview segments; furthermore, most of the rarities are concert tracks, which means classics like "I Can't Get Next to You," "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart," "Love and Happiness," and "Sha-La-La (Make Me Happy)" are presented in inferior live versions. The live cuts, interviews, and rarities cut severely into the set's pacing, and they don't make Anthology useful for the fan that wants one, definitive collection -- their appeal is solely for collectors, who already have the material elsewhere. Consequently, Anthology isn't useful for either the casual or dedicated fan, both of whom would be better off with the original albums and the Greatest Hits collection, which does contain the essence of Al Green, and most of his hits, on one disc.