Joe Walsh - Joe Walsh - Greatest Hits: Little Did He Know

Media:	Audio CD
Record label:	Mca
Release date:	18 November, 1997
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Joe Walsh - Greatest Hits: Little Did He Know

Average rating: Stars

Career-Spanning Single-Disc Joe Walsh Retrospective

GREATEST HITS: LITTLE DID HE KNOW is a terrific career-spanning single-disc retrospective of Joe Walsh's career from the James Gang's second album up through 1991's "Ordinary Average Guy." Although several songs drag a bit, there are enough prime cuts here to make this a five-star release.

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First of all this compilation is great. Secondly it has great songs highliting all of the situations going on in the 70's, the height of the communist movements that everyone seemed to be protesting against. Except for Joe Walsh. He often uses subtleties in his lyrics that suggest capitalism is a lower form of government than communism. Like Marx, Joe was a preacher of happiness and he used his influence in songs like Turn to Stone, which he says "Everywhere you look were fighting, here the call...dont think we can last much longer, turn to stone". He is making a statement that everyone needs to chill out and just live their lives instead of fighting and striving to be better than the next person. He means that the more we fight with ourselves the slower we progress as a planet and we 'turn to stone'.

Just some thought for the great artist Mr. Joe Walsh.

Joe Walsh - Joe Walsh - Greatest Hits: Little Did He Know

Classic Joe, but short a few....

"Ashes, The Rain and I" was missing, but "The Bomber" is here. Healthy selection of James Gang and classic 70s solo material (pick up "Barnstorm", "The Smoker You Drink", "But Seriously Folks", and "There Goes The Neighborhood" by any means neccessary), and the 80s-90s era (if you were listening to Howard Stern before he went national, you know why) is relegated to 3 songs at the tail end. Joe did a lot of these songs with the Eagles on the "Farewell I" tour.

But it's a shame that Warners doesn't license out 2 essential Joe songs to this collection, "In The City" and "Pretty Maids All in a Row" to balance out the retrospective as if the only reasons to buy "Hotel California" and "The Long Run" are just for THOSE songs alone. They do have the greatest selling album ever, I think that they could afford to just give MCA/Universal these songs. So BUY this one and (assuming you already have the 2 Eagle songs I mentioned) BUY "Best of James Gang", put these and "Ashes" on your "personal backup copy" for the perfect Joe mix until they can make things right.

But even without doing that, the collection is great, and all the songs are essential Joe in their own right.