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Fill Your Head: The Studio Albums 1969-1974 | 
 enlarge | Artist: Rare Earth
Label: Hip-O Select
Category: Music
List Price: $74.98
Buy New: $58.34
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 47861
Format: Box Set, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.7 x 5.3 x 0.7
UPC: 602498643426
EAN: 0602498643426
ASIN: B001DZDTWC
Release Date: September 9, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Magic Key - Rare Earth, Bridges, Gil | | • | Tobacco Road - Rare Earth, Loudermilk, John | | • | Feelin' Alright - Rare Earth, Mason, Dave | | • | In Bed - Rare Earth, Baird, Tom | | • | Train to Nowhere - Rare Earth, Simmonds, Kim | | • | Get Ready - Rare Earth, Robinson, William | | • | Generation (Light Up the Sky) - Rare Earth, Zesses, Nick | | • | Get Ready - Rare Earth, Robinson, William | | • | (I Know) I'm Losing You - Rare Earth, Grant, Cornelius | | • | When Joanie Smiles - Rare Earth, Baird, Tom | | • | Here Comes the Night - Rare Earth, Baird, Tom | | • | Hey Big Brother - Rare Earth, Fkaris, Dino | | • | Love Shines Down - Rare Earth, Rivera, Pete | | • | Chained - Rare Earth, Wilson, Frank [5] | | • | Fresh from the Can - Rare Earth, Bridges, Gil |
Disc 2
| • | Born to Wander - Rare Earth, Baird, Tom | | • | Long Time Leavin' - Rare Earth, Baird, Tom | | • | (I Know) I'm Losing You - Rare Earth, Grant, Cornelius | | • | Satisfaction Guaranteed - Rare Earth, Baird, Tom | | • | Nice Place to Visit - Rare Earth, Persh, John | | • | No. 1 Man - Rare Earth, Baird, Tom | | • | Eleanor Rigby - Rare Earth, Lennon, John | | • | What'd I Say - Rare Earth, Charles, Ray | | • | If I Die - Rare Earth, Rivera, Pete | | • | The Seed - Rare Earth, Rivera, Pete | | • | I Just Want to Celebrate - Rare Earth, Zesses, Nick | | • | Someone to Love - Rare Earth, Bridges, Gil | | • | Any Man Can Be a Fool - Rare Earth, Persh, John | | • | The Road - Rare Earth, Baird, Tom | | • | Under God's Light - Rare Earth, Monette, Ray |
Disc 3
| • | Good Time Sally - Rare Earth, Baird, Tom | | • | Every Now and Then We Get to Go on Down to Miami - Rare Earth, Zesses, Nick | | • | Think of the Children - Rare Earth, Monette, Ray | | • | Gotta Get Myself Back Home - Rare Earth, Monette, Ray | | • | Come with Your Lady - Rare Earth, Monette, Ray | | • | Would You Like to Come Along - Rare Earth, Monette, Ray | | • | We're Gonna Have a Good Time - Rare Earth, Monette, Ray | | • | I Couldn't Believe What Happened Last Night - Rare Earth, Monette, Ray | | • | Ma - Rare Earth, Whitfield, Norman | | • | Big John Is My Name - Rare Earth, Whitfield, Norman | | • | Smiling Faces Sometimes - Rare Earth, Strong, Barrett | | • | Hum Along and Dance - Rare Earth, Strong, Barrett | | • | Come with Me - Rare Earth, Whitfield, Norman |
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Faulty Disc 1 November 6, 2008
To cut a long story short...Buyers (who are probably willing to pay $ 50 or more for this set) should be aware that Track 13 "Love Shines Down" on CD 1 is not "Love Shines Down" but "Magic Key" again (already Track 1), this time with an incorrect starting code (beginning too abruptly). Looking at the Hip-O homepage you'll find words like "painstakingly remastered". I don't see any painstaking here and I'm annoyed. So 5 stars for the idea of presenting Rare Earth's complete early studio ouput, but one star only only for Hip-O's carelessness.
 Blows away 99% of today's releases!!! October 18, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This set is a godsend. The music is gutsy and soulful. The original cover art is reproduced in all its glory. The sound - despite what others have said - is very good. The price is... well a little high, but worth it if you this type of stuff. A killer set!
nice to have this collection October 14, 2008
it's nice to have this collection of cds in one package. i think rare earth is one of the more underrated, unappreciated bands around. it's been harder than heck to get a complete collection of their material, and the compilations, i just don't trust. i've read the previous reviews and consider them over-critical. the music is great, both in terms of hits and written songs. the box set is over-priced and the packaging awkward. nevertheless, i do enjoy this package as a lot of the material i did not have while growing up.
 5 Albums + Many Singles - All Remastered - But There Are Some Problems On This Hip-O Select Reissue... September 30, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
There's a lot on offer here, so let's get straight to the details (all release dates are USA)...
Disc 1 (77:45 minutes):
Tracks 1 to 6 are the debut album "Get Ready" issued August 1969 on Rare Earth RS-507
(Tracks 7 to 15 are BONUS single versions from the various 5 studio albums)
Track 7 is "Generation (Light Up The Sky)" which is the A side of Rare Earth 5010 issued November 1969 - also on the O.S.T. to the film "Generation"
Track 8 is "Get Ready" the 7" single edit issued April 1970 on Rare Earth 5012
(the single edit is 2:50 minutes long, while the full album version takes up all of Side 2 at 21:35 minutes)
Track 9 is "(I Know) I'm Losing You" - the 7" single edit issued July 1970 on Rare Earth 5017 (the single edit is 3:42 minutes long, while the full "Ecology" album version is 10:52 minutes)
Track 10 is "When Joanie Smiles" the non-album B-side to "(I Know) I'm Losing You"
Track 11 is "Here Comes The Night" which is the non-album B-side of "Born To Wander" (from "Ecology") issued January 1971 on Rare Earth 5021
Track 12 is "Hey Big Brother" is a non-album A-side issued November 1971 on Rare Earth 5038
Track 13 is supposed to be "Love Shines Down" the non-album B-side to "Good Time Sally" (on "Willie Remembers") issued October 1972 on Rare Earth 5048 - BUT A MASTERING ERROR repeats Track 1 "Magic Sky" albeit a little shorter
Track 14 is "Chained" which is a non-album A-side issued May 1974 on Rare Earth 5057
Track 15 is "Fresh From The Can" is the non-album B-side of "Chained"
Disc 2 (73:40 minutes)
Tracks 1 to 7 are their 2nd album "Ecology" issued June 1970 on Rare Earth RS-514
Tracks 8 to 15 are their 3rd studio album "One World" issued June 1971 on Rare Earth RS-520
Disc 3 (77:30 minutes):
Tracks 1 to 8 are their 4th studio album "Willie Remembers" issued October 1972 on Rare Earth R-5431
Tracks 9 to 13 are their 5th studio album "Ma" issued May 1973 on Rare Earth R-5461
(both "Willie Remembers" and "One World" make their CD debut on this 3CD set, while the live double "Rare Earth In Concert" issued on R 534 in 1971 isn't featured at all)
Their first album "Get Ready" came in a rounded top sleeve in the USA (rather like a gravestone head or a Zippo lighter) and it is this that is imitated in the shaped packaging. The lid has the words "LIMITED EDITION" embossed in gold on the rear (3000 or so copies worldwide) and inside is a concertina effect card sleeve, which depicts all 5 albums covers front and rear when fully folded out. The 3 discs themselves sport the distinctive red Rare Earth logo on each, while the 32-page booklet even pictures the Tamla Motown special offers inner bags that came with some early 1970s albums! There's an essay by noted writer SCOTT SCHNIDER on the group - all album artwork featured again in full colour - session details, discography info - all of it very tasteful done - pretty much as you would expect from this top notch reissue label. Against it - I'd say that the packaging is a card sleeve and therefore too prone to crushing - it would have been better in a book form - like the wonderful and far more robust Jimmy Cliff and Muddy Waters sets.
But as ever with HIP-O SELECT the goodies come with the SOUND. Remastered from the Motown Archive tapes by SETH FOSTER at Universal Mastering Studio East - the sound is full, detailed and wonderfully clean. I would say though that the first Disc is slightly hissy in places - especially on the debut "Get Ready", and the mastering error is unforgivable. But once you get into Disc 2 and 3, "Long Time Leavin'" and "If I Die", the sound is so much better. One reviewer has expressed extreme disappointment with the sound, but I don't hear that. I would say though that the 'song' quality does taper off as you get to the end, but with 43-tracks in all - I can't help but think that fans of the band, Tamla lovers and soul-rock junkies everywhere - will absolutely eat up this set.
A cross between Rock and Soul, RARE EARTH were difficult to categorize - a sort of rockier version of The Temptations meets the funkiness of Blood Sweat & Tears meets The Undisputed Truth's social documenting of urban America - a lethal combination if ever there was one!
Unfairly dismissed at the time (especially in Europe), hopefully this 3CD box set will make people reassess.
In their ongoing trawl through the Motown archives - and despite reservations about packaging, content and sound - in my mind, this is yet another good HIP-O SELECT reissue. Dedicated fans will have to have it - casual buyers, however, should stick to the "Best Of". And Hip-O should offer an immediate refund and replacement copy for the offending mastering mistake on Disc 1.
 For pigeons only September 27, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
You've got to be kidding here - $75 for three discs and a paper book? GET REAL. This is perhaps the most overpriced and unoriginal box set of all time. Save yourself the agony of defeat and buy the albums individually.
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