Super Lungs: The Complete Studio Recordings

RELEASE
June 15, 2004
LABEL
EMI Music Distribution
GENRES
Pop/Rock, Psychedelic, Blues-Rock, Rock & Roll, Hard Rock, British Invasion

Album Review

Most of the contents of Super Lungs: The Complete Studio Recordings -- most especially the albums Bang, Bang You're Terry Reid and Terry Reid -- will be familiar to the singer's fans, and may dissuade people from picking up this double-CD set. That would be a shame, however, in view of the other material that is here -- starting with his work with Peter Jay & the Jaywalkers, which opens disc one and dates from well before his solo debut, Reid reveals himself as an extraordinarily (jaw-droppingly good, in fact) soul singer, with range, power, charisma, and taste, even on those early sides, and the package is extended into genuinely uncharted territory with a half-dozen newly discovered, newly mixed outtakes from Bang, Bang You're Terry Reid, and two tracks from Reid's first recording session in 1966, "Funny How Time Slips Away" (which is almost worth the price of the double-CD set by itself) and "I'll Take Good Care of You." The sound quality is spot-on perfect, state of the art, the annotation by Peter Doggett is entertaining and informative, and the whole package is some of the best British-spawned soul and R&B that one can find.
Bruce Eder, Rovi

Track Listing

  1. It's Gonna Be Morning [Mono Version][#]
  2. I'll Take Good Care of You [Second Version][#]
  3. Funny How Time Slips Away [Second Version][#]
  4. Just Walk in My Shoes [Mono Version][#]
  5. The Hand Don't Fit the Glove [Mono Version]
  6. This Time [Mono Version]
  7. Better by Far [Mono Version]
  8. Fire's Alive
  9. Bang, Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)
  10. Tinker Taylor
  11. Erica
  12. Without Expression
  13. Sweater
  14. Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart
  15. Season of the Witch
  16. Writing on the Wall - Summertime Blues
  17. When I Get Home
  18. Loving Time
  19. Without Expression (2003 Mix)
  20. Superlungs My Supergirl
  21. Silver White Light
  22. July
  23. Marking Time
  24. Stay with Me Baby
  25. Highway 61 Revisited/Friends/Highway 61 Revisited
  26. May Fly
  27. Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace
  28. Rich Kid Blues
  29. Highway 61 Revisited (2003 Mix)
  30. Funny How Time Slips Away [First 'Demo' Version] [Mono Version][#][Demo
  31. I'll Take Good Care of You [First 'Demo' Version] [Mono Version][#][Dem
  32. Ain't That Peculiar [#][*]
  33. I've Got News for You [#][*]
  34. Summer Sequence [#][*]
  35. Zodiac Blues [#][*]
  36. Penny [#][*]
  37. Rich Old Lady [#][*]