Millennium Classic Rock Party

Performer: Various Artists
Producer: David McLees (Compilation)
Distributor: WEA (Distributor)

Notes: Also available as part of a box set on Rhino (75939). This is part of Rhino's Millenium Party series. Audio Remasterers: Andrew Garver; Bill Inglot. Liner Note Author: David McLees. The "millennium" in Rhino's Millennium Classic Rock Party collection really is just a way to tart up a basic collection of familiar album rock songs. Nothing about this disc says anything about the millennium -- it just summarizes the '70s. On that level, it's really quite good, since it contains 20 tracks that have come to define classic rock radio: "We Will Rock You," "More Than a Feeling," "Hot Blooded," "Aqualung," "No More Mr. Nice Guy," "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet," "Smoke on the Water," "Radar Love," "American Woman," "Don't Stop," "Sister Golden Hair," and "Free Bird." Apart from Focus' monumentally silly "Hocus Pocus," there are no surprises here, but that's the way it should be with a classic rock collection: it should deliver the basics, and that's exactly what Millennium Classic Rock Party does. Just don't think that it says anything about Y2K or pre-millennium tension or anything like that. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine Nostalgic for the golden age of '70s AOR? Maybe you just missed it the first time around, and you're wondering what it was all about. Whichever the case, MILLENNIUM CLASSIC ROCK PARTY is the quintessential "Classic Rock" compilation. Every song FM listeners were bludgeoned over the head with in the '70s is here. Those who were have an emotional/psychological connection to these tunes whether they like it or not, so they may as well revel in it, hipness be damned. From the multi-tracked, helium-voiced glory of Boston's "More Than a Feeling" to the seminal prog-rock of Jethro Tull's "Aqualung" and the friendly folk-pop of America's "Sister Golden Hair," its all present and gloriously accounted for. Warning: this compilation has been known to send '70s rock aficionados into unplanned fits of ecstasy.

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