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Warning: Not Really a Greatest Hits but still worth every $

D. H. Richards | Silver Spring, MD USA | 01/12/2004

(4 out of 5 stars)

"OK, this is the oldest trick in the book, label it "Greatest Hits" and then in really tiny type on the back put "live recordings." People pick it up thinking they are getting what they heard on the radio in the mid 80s. If that is what you want, please move along.However this is a really interesting collection for fans. It does have two new "remixes" (really wholesale rerecordings) that are fine. But it is in the live tracks that Jones really shines. Instead of merely trying to reproduce his hits he offers extended versions, with plenty of riffs and wanderings, often even altogether different approaches. As a long time fan I found these new recordings refreshing and fun, and for very little money you can't go wrong!"