Track Listing

1. These Eyes
2. Pink Wine Sparkles in the Glass
3. I Found Her in a Star
4. Friends of Mine
5. When You Touch Me
6. Wednesday in Your Garden
7. Light Foot
8. Love and a Yellow Rose
9. Maple Fudge
10. We're Coming to Dinner
11. Bye Bye Babe
12. Samantha's Living Room
13. Rock and Roller Steam
14. Follow Your Daughter Home
15. Those Show Biz Shoes
16. All Hashed Out
17. Orly
18. Lost and Found Town
19. Hamba Gahle-Usalang Gahle
20. Watcher

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7847 in Music
• Released on: 2004-04-06
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Best of, Original recording remastered
• Dimensions: .24 pounds

Customer Reviews

Top notch reissues! And a bargain too...on 1 cd!
Packaging - cool, authentic reproduction of original albums
Sound Quality - remastered, faithful to original releases (no apparent re-edits, newly introduced fades, etc.)
Bonus - complete Artificial Paradise album never available on cd until now
Two very cool Guess Who albums from different lineups (Bachman/Cummings/Kale/Peterson) & (Cummings/McDougall/Peterson/Wallace/Winter) - both feature outstanding original material and several overlooked gems. If you haven't picked this one up, do it now!

unacceptable compromise
I agree with a reviewer in Stereo Review (now Sound and Vision) who stated, several years ago, that the Guess Who "got a raw deal
because they were Canadian". I'm sure many of you agree. Had they been American who knows where they may have gone.
Anway, consolidating their music into "two-fers" is a disgracful
sales ploy. Albums tend to lose their character in this type of marketing program and this arrangement is no exception. I was fortunate to find a CD of Rockin and it is excellent- far superior quality to Wheatfield/Artificial.
May I suggest Burt and the boys insist on individual re-issues.
Any word on a reunion?
Should Burt, Randy or the others read this, thanks for the music!

hang on to your vinyl
Last up is Artificial Paradise (1973) paired with Wheatfield Soul (1969)--which is just as bad as pairing Rockin' with Flavours. Wheatfield Soul was the band's first RCA album, and contained the million selling "These Eyes." Unfortunately, it's also one of the worst sounding albums here. The vocals have been pushed back in the mix, and the equalization (low and high) is horrible. You'll notice it as soon as you hit the play button. "These Eyes" sounded better on AM radio than it does here. The rest of the songs are no better. This album and Flavours are the worst in the series.

Artificial Paradise (along with Flavours and Power in the Music) was one of the three albums never released on CD. Packaged in a paper 'sleeve,' this album was loaded with goodies--most of which are duplicated in much smaller form in the liners of the new CD. While the album was never one of the band's better sounding efforts, it still sounded better than it does here. The equalization and vocal mix isn't nearly as bad as it is on Wheatfield Soul, but it's still not right. And as is the case with most of the material reviewed here, there is too much compression as well.