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All Right Now - The Best Of Free

by: Free

Release Date September 07, 1998
As an absolute Free fanatic, even though ive got all the tracks on this, I bought this and cant believe how Bob Clearmountain has messed up some of the most beautiful songs ever written with his ham fisted remixing.The beauty of Free was the simplicity, the soul and fire shone through, by all means clean up original tapes of hisses and pops but this is vandalism and all concerned Clearmountain,record company etc should be ashamed stick to the Free Story or the superb(if your budget allows)Songs Of Yesterday.

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The Free Story

by: Free

Release Date September 16, 1996
There is little to say about this album which hasn't already been said by my fellows here, other than to say that having to select tracks for a 'Best Of Free' album must have been the most difficult job in the world; it'd have been easier just to release a box set of their whole back catalogue!
Herewith, a taster, you will need more...

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Free

by: Free

Release Date October 05, 2001
This album had immense impact on me having grown up with this band as a soundtrack to my early teens and later as a pro musician. The songs speak volumes and seem written by individuals far beyond their years - Apart from that, the album is a rock milestone and it's influence entirely underrated. Free were coming into their absolute peak with this record, along with Fire and Water, Highway, and Free Live. Everything about it is flawless, the cover, the production, the songs, and the delivery. Just buy it and hear for yourself, it's impossible to be disappointed.

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Fire and Water (Deluxe Edition) (2CD)

by: Free

Release Date March 17, 2008
As a long standing Free fan (probably one of the oldest!) I was really surprised to find an album I had not got. Well, I have now and it is superb. Yes, there are several versions of Alright Now etc., but they are so contrasting in style. It is a pure gem and I for one, will be playing it all day every day.

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Tons Of Sobs

by: Free

Release Date October 08, 2001
I'm stunned that I'd never come across this album before, but a review in a recent music magazine gave it 5 stars so I decided to check it out. This is one of the great debut albums. Heavily influenced by Cream, but in turn you can also hear the influences that this album probably made with the likes of the early Led Zeppelin albums that followed. What is even more amazing is the fact that they are all teenagers at the time of recording. The youngest being Andy Fraser on bass guitar who was only about 15 (he'd previously played with John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers, so came highly recommended by Alexis Korner, who also suggested the band name). Paul Kossoff's guitar playing is as brilliant as ever, add what is probably the greatest white blues vocal ever of Paul Rodgers, ... Read More:

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Heartbreaker

by: Free

Release Date February 04, 2002
Wow. I first heard this when I was 17 in the spring of 1977 when punk rock was exploding all around me & it has remained my favourite album bar none for the last 31 years.

Until hearing this masterpiece, I had encountered Free via airplay of All Right Now, My Brother Jake, Wishing Well etc but this takes you to an altogether different plane. There are so many gaps in the music that you are just dragged through them; Rodgers is at his glorious best & although Kossoff is credited as being a session player, his replacement so gifted that, even now, I still have to check the album sleeve to see which tracks he's on. Kirke's drumming is as sparse & effective as ever. What also makes this album different is the involvment of session men like Tetsu, Rabbit etc ... Read More:

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Chronicles

by: Free

Release Date September 18, 2006
I figure it's time for an old Yank to pipe in. Free is an excellent band! I must admit that I've heard 'All Right Now' a couple of dozen times, along with "Mr. Big", "Wishing Well", and "Fire And Water" to a much lesser extent, before I REALLY discovered Free. I bought the two disc 'Chronicles' collection (not this one it seems as mine has different cover art but I'm sure the song mix is similar) about five or six years ago and was just blown away by such songs as "Moonshine", "Song's Of Yesterday", "Oh I Wept", "Be My Friend". If you have only a single disc "Best Of Free' or no Free at all, I cannot recommend that you buy a double disc collection enough! There are so many kickass non-hit LP cuts on the double disc sets that you will have a brand new appreciation for this band.

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Highway

by: Free

Release Date February 04, 2002
The songs, the feel and the playing on Highway are truely outstanding.

Slagged off that it wasn't a suitable follow up to Fire & Water -what utter crap / media blindness!!!! Like Revolver outstrips Pepper so this outstrips Fire & W -single and all.

Before you die, you MUST listen to Be my Friend, Love you so, Highway Song and Bodie

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Live

by: Free

Release Date February 04, 2002
I was there for the Sunderland gig, remember they had problems with the audience mike although you wouldn't think so listening to this. Nice to see more tracks from Sunderland on Remastered.
Sad thing is I don't think Free realised how good they were - just buy it!

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Free At Last

by: Free

Release Date February 04, 2002
This album was the penultimate of Free's very short career and irrespective of the other reviews detailed here, it's worth buying alone for the last song on the original album, "Goodbye". The line 'don't waste your time on hate, can be used in better ways' is one to savour and the sparse arrangements (as always, Kossoff worked on the 'less is more' principle) as usual worked.

Along with the single "Little Bit Of Love", whilst not as good as my second favourite single of all time "My Brother Jake" (Bobby Darin's "Mack The Knife" being my absolute favourite), this was a great 3 minute pop/rock single.

Along with "Travellin' Man", "Child", "Guardian Of The Universe" and a couple of other minor tracks - perhaps even album fillers - there is enough here to wax lyrical about and ... Read More: