Delilah: Best of

Freaking awesome cd. Alex Harvey is a legend. Great sound. Great song choices. Definitely a great addition to my collection.

I never understood the need for him to do a cover of "Delilah", but I love the guy none the less. In any event, "Faith Healer" makes up for any other bad choices.

THIS IS A GREAT COMP OF ALEX HARVEY BAND. IF YOU ONLY NEED A "BEST OF" THEN THIS IS THE CD TO GET. HAS ALL THE MAIN SONGS YOU WANT AND SOUND IS LOVELY. ALEX IS NOT FOR EVERYONE BUT IF YOU HAVE ANY MUSIC KNOWLEDGE OF 70s GLAM ROCK THEN YOU MUST KNOW/LOVE ALEX. ALWAYS REMINDED ME OF BON SCOTT OR DID BON REMIND ME OF ALEX? BOTH LIKED TO PARTY AND DRINK, HEH? LISTEN UP THIS IS GOOD STUFF THAT SHOULD NEVER BE OBSCURED BY THE CRAP WE CALL MUSIC THESE DAYS. GET IT AND HAVE DRINK OR THREE.

As with all SAHB CD releases, they are imported from the UK and are obviously targeted for an audience more attuned to the complete catalog of music that is (finally) receiving critical re-evaluation, especially with the band active again over the past several years.Delilah is perhaps the most renowned of the band's numbers (and covers) on home turf, so a collection that prominently features it is not out of line. What is intriguing is four of the songs - Runaway, School's Out, Cheek to Cheek, Gamblin' Bar Room Blues - are pulled from The Penthouse Tapes, an album of covers. The other tracks stride on familiar territory - Framed, Faith Healer, Last of the Teenage Idols, Money Honey/Impossible Dream and There's No Lights on the Christmas Tree Mother, They're Burning Big Louie Tonight - with Shake That Thing and Anthem breaking away from the typical terrain.Until a definitive box set - with alternate/unreleased studio and live tracks, etc. - is compiled, the variety of CD's that pull numbers from the eight albums (seven studio, one live; Fourplay was the band without Alex Harvey) released with Alex Harvey will need to suffice to fill in any gaps, especially for new fans.

Alex Harvey was the godfather of glam rock, mixing Bowie and Mercury's sensibilities with vaudeville and big band sounds, and giving birth to the era that spawned your precious GNR and AC/DC without falling into the pretensions that make such music all but unlistenable. The best part about SAHB is that Harvey is a brilliant man but never (ever) takes himself too seriously. That said, the multiple of incarnations of his hits compilations always seem to fall flat when one considers the wealth of tracks in his early career outside of SAHB and his solo work afterward. This compilation does that, and takes it a step further. There are tracks from the hight of SAHB's career that never make the cut, such as "Snakebite", "Vambo", and "The Tale of the Giant Stoneeater", not to mention the tracks seruptitiously released on The Penthouse Tapes and the underrated SAHB Stories. While the band's penchant for quirky covers is notorious, making "Delilah" - the swinging Tom Jones cover - the centerpiece of a hits album is insulting to the brilliance of the band, and Harvey in particular. Even as an introduction to the uninitiated, the record is stale and incomplete without the aforementioned tracks.

Marcus Goodrich's writing is amazingly exquisite and reads as if hours were spent fine tuning each and every word. Combined with this interesting story makes it a winner.

This album keeps rocking on with hit after hit. Brings back memories of happy times.

I'd forgotten how good SAHB were!, faith healer,delillah, next, framed all classics!, probably another band that didnt get the credit they deserved. AH was a great showman,excellent frontman, and his strong scottish accent gave character to the songs, also SAHB were a great band. Give my compliments to the chef!

Brilliant.....what more can I say.

Great classic albumGood service and quality

My taste in SAHB has changed from my youth