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A seemingly well-assembled package that fails to go quite as far as it should, sticking closely to the charted material and rarely delving into the vaults for interesting oddities -- three rehearsal takes are tacked onto the end of the third disc in the set, providing little of interest to collectors or to the curious. The booklet does a workmanlike job of tracking the progress of the band, but there are few insights to be found in the difficult-to-read text.
The set is built around the A and B sides of singles, with album cuts salted in between. This is effective in charting the band's progression from melodic popsters to hard rockers and back to the pop-inflected music that closed out their career. The highlights are scattered throughout -- "American Woman," of course; "Rain Dance," with its unnerving echoes of American massacres, the funky, improvised live "Truckin' Off Across the Sky," even the goofy "Clap for the Wolfman," which came when the Guess Who were all but finished.
The Ultimate Collection works well as an introduction to the Guess Who, but will not gratify anyone with more than a basic need to know. On a sonic level, the set sounds good, however.
© Steven McDonald /TiVo
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Ben McPeek, Director - Burton Cummings, Composer - Burton Cummings, Lyricist - Randy Bachman, Composer - Randy Bachman, Lyricist - Jack Richardson, Producer - The Guess Who, Performer - Nimbus 9, Producer
Originally released 1968. All rights reserved by RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Randy Bachman, Lyricist - Burton Cummings, Lyricist - Cummings, Composer - The Guess Who, Performer - Matheson, Composer - Ben McPeek, Director - Jack Richardson, Producer - Nimbus 9, Producer - R. Matheson, Lyricist - Bachman, Composer
(P) Recorded Prior to 1972. All Rights Reserved by BMG Music
Cummings, Composer - Ben McPeek, Director - Burton Cummings, Lyricist - Randy Bachman, Lyricist - Jack Richardson, Producer - The Guess Who, Performer - Bachman, Composer - Nimbus 9, Producer
(P) Recorded Prior to 1972. All Rights Reserved by BMG Music
Cummings, Composer - Burton Cummings, Lyricist - Randy Bachman, Lyricist - Jack Richardson, Producer - The Guess Who, Performer - Bachman, Composer - Nimbus 9, Producer
(P) Recorded Prior to 1972. All Rights Reserved by BMG Music
Burton Cummings, Composer - Burton Cummings, Lyricist - Randy Bachman, Composer - Randy Bachman, Lyricist - Jack Richardson, Producer - The Guess Who, Performer - Nimbus 9, Producer
(P) Recorded prior to 1972. All rights reserved by BMG Music
Randy Bachman, Composer - Randy Bachman, Lyricist - Jack Richardson, Producer - The Guess Who, Performer
Originally Recorded 1969. All rights reserved by BMG Music.
Cummings, Composer - Burton Cummings, Lyricist - Randy Bachman, Lyricist - Jack Richardson, Producer - The Guess Who, Performer - Bachman, Composer - Nimbus 9, Producer
(P) Recorded Prior to 1972. All Rights Reserved by BMG Music
Cummings, Composer - Burton Cummings, Lyricist - Randy Bachman, Lyricist - Jack Richardson, Producer - The Guess Who, Performer - Bachman, Composer - Nimbus 9, Producer
(P) Recorded Prior to 1972. All Rights Reserved by BMG Music
Randy Bachman, Lyricist - Burton Cummings, Lyricist - Peterson, Composer - Cummings, Composer - G. Peterson, Lyricist - The Guess Who, Performer - Kale, Composer - Jim Kale, Lyricist - Jack Richardson, Producer - Nimbus 9, Producer - Bachman, Composer
(P) Recorded Prior to 1972. All Rights Reserved by BMG Music
Cummings, Composer - Burton Cummings, Lyricist - Randy Bachman, Lyricist - Jack Richardson, Producer - The Guess Who, Performer - Bachman, Composer - Nimbus 9, Producer
(P) Recorded Prior to 1972. All Rights Reserved by BMG Music
Cummings, Composer - Burton Cummings, Lyricist - Randy Bachman, Lyricist - Jack Richardson, Producer - The Guess Who, Performer - Bachman, Composer - Nimbus 9, Producer
(P) Recorded Prior to 1972. All Rights Reserved by BMG Music
Cummings, Composer - Cummings, Lyricist - Peterson, Composer - Peterson, Lyricist - Jack Richardson, Producer - The Guess Who, Performer - Kale, Lyricist - Kale, Composer - Bachman, Composer - Bachman, Lyricist
(P) Originally Recorded Prior To 1972 All Rights Reserved By Sony Music Entertainment
Burton Cummings, Composer - Burton Cummings, Lyricist - Randy Bachman, Composer - Randy Bachman, Lyricist - Jack Richardson, Producer - The Guess Who, Performer - Nimbus 9, Producer
(P) Recorded prior to 1972. All rights reserved by BMG Music
Winter, Lyricist - Winter, Composer - Jack Richardson, Producer - The Guess Who, Performer - Nimbus 9, Producer
(P) Recorded prior to 1972. All rights reserved by BMG Music
G. Peterson, Lyricist - Peterson, Composer - Jack Richardson, Producer - The Guess Who, Performer - Kale, Composer - Jim Kale, Lyricist - Nimbus 9, Producer
(P) 1976 RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Burton Cummings, Composer - Burton Cummings, Lyricist - Jack Richardson, Producer - The Guess Who, Performer - Nimbus 9, Producer
Originally recorded 1970. All rights reserved by RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Jack Richardson, Producer - The Guess Who, Performer - Kurt Winter, Composer - Kurt Winter, Lyricist - Nimbus 9, Producer
Originally recorded 1970. All rights reserved by RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Cummings, Composer - Cummings, Lyricist - Winter, Lyricist - Winter, Composer - Jack Richardson, Producer - The Guess Who, Performer - Nimbus 9, Producer
(P) Recorded prior to 1972. All rights reserved by BMG Music
Cummings, Composer - Winter, Composer - Burton Cummings, Lyricist - Jack Richardson, Producer - The Guess Who, Performer - Kurt Winter, Lyricist - Nimbus 9, Producer
(P) Recorded Prior to 1972. All Rights Reserved by BMG Music
Burton Cummings, Composer - Burton Cummings, Lyricist - Jack Richardson, Producer - The Guess Who, Performer - Greg Leskiw, Composer - Greg Leskiw, Lyricist - Nimbus 9, Producer
(P) Recorded Prior to 1972. All Rights Reserved by BMG Music
DISC 2
Cummings, Composer - Cummings, Lyricist - Winter, Lyricist - Winter, Composer - Jack Richardson, Producer - The Guess Who, Performer
Originally Recorded 1971. All rights reserved by BMG Music
Jack Richardson, Producer - The Guess Who, Performer - Greg Leskiw, Composer - Greg Leskiw, Lyricist
(P) Recorded Prior to 1972. All Rights Reserved by BMG Music
Burton Cummings, Composer - Burton Cummings, Lyricist - Jack Richardson, Producer - The Guess Who, Performer
(P) Recorded Prior to 1972. All Rights Reserved by BMG Music
Burton Cummings, Composer - Burton Cummings, Lyricist - Jack Richardson, Producer - The Guess Who, Performer
(P) Recorded Prior to 1972. All Rights Reserved by BMG Music
Burton Cummings, Composer - Burton Cummings, Lyricist - Jack Richardson, Producer - The Guess Who, Performer
Originally Recorded 1972. All rights reserved by BMG Music
Cummings, Composer - Winter, Composer - Burton Cummings, Lyricist - Jack Richardson, Producer - The Guess Who, Performer - Kurt Winter, Lyricist
(P) Recorded Prior to 1972. All Rights Reserved by BMG Music
Cummings, Composer - Winter, Composer - Burton Cummings, Lyricist - Jack Richardson, Producer - The Guess Who, Performer - Kurt Winter, Lyricist
(P) Recorded Prior to 1972. All Rights Reserved by BMG Music
Winter, Lyricist - Winter, Composer - Burton Cummings, Composer - Burton Cummings, Lyricist - Jack Richardson, Producer - The Guess Who, Performer
(P) 1972 BMG Music
Cummings, Composer - Burton Cummings, Lyricist - Jack Richardson, Producer - The Guess Who, Performer
(P) Recorded Prior to 1972. All Rights Reserved by BMG Music
Burton Cummings, Lyricist - Burton Cummings, Composer - Jack Richardson, Producer - The Guess Who, Performer - Kurt Winter, Lyricist - Kurt Winter, Composer
(P) 1972 BMG Music
B. MacLean, Composer - B. MacLean, Lyricist - D. McDougall, Lyricist - D. MacLean, Composer - D. MacLean, Lyricist - Jack Richardson, Producer - The Guess Who, Performer - McDougall, Composer
(P) 1972 BMG Music
Winter, Composer - Burton Cummings, Lyricist - Peterson, Composer - Cummings, Composer - G. Peterson, Lyricist - The Guess Who, Performer - Kurt Winter, Lyricist - McDougall, Composer - D. McDougall, Lyricist - Kale, Composer - Jim Kale, Lyricist - Jack Richardson, Producer
(P) 1972 BMG Music
Cummings, Composer - Cummings, Lyricist - Peterson, Composer - Peterson, Lyricist - Winter, Lyricist - Winter, Composer - Jack Richardson, Producer - The Guess Who, Performer - Wallace, Composer - Wallace, Lyricist - McDougall, Composer - McDougall, Lyricist
(P) 1972 BMG Music
William Wallace, Lyricist - Winter, Composer - Jack Richardson, Producer - The Guess Who, Performer - Wallace, Composer - Kurt Winter, Lyricist
(P) 1972 BMG Music
Burton Cummings, Composer - Burton Cummings, Lyricist - Jack Richardson, Producer - The Guess Who, Performer
(P) 1972 BMG Music
Cummings, Composer - William Wallace, Lyricist - Burton Cummings, Lyricist - Jack Richardson, Producer - The Guess Who, Performer - Wallace, Composer
(P) Recorded Prior to 1972. All Rights Reserved by BMG Music
Burton Cummings, Composer - Burton Cummings, Lyricist - Jack Richardson, Producer - The Guess Who, Performer
(P) Recorded Prior to 1972. All Rights Reserved by BMG Music
Burton Cummings, Composer - Burton Cummings, Lyricist - Jack Richardson, Producer - The Guess Who, Performer
(P) 1972 BMG Music
Burton Cummings, Composer - Burton Cummings, Lyricist - Jack Richardson, Producer - The Guess Who, Performer - Kurt Winter, Composer - Kurt Winter, Lyricist
(P) 1972 BMG Music
DISC 3
Cummings, Composer - Cummings, Lyricist - Ben McPeek, Director - Winter, Lyricist - Winter, Composer - Jack Richardson, Producer - The Guess Who, Performer - Wallace, Composer - Wallace, Lyricist
(P) 1974 BMG Music
Cummings, Composer - Ben McPeek, Director - William Wallace, Lyricist - Burton Cummings, Lyricist - Jack Richardson, Producer - The Guess Who, Performer - Wallace, Composer
(P) 1973 BMG Music
Winter, Composer - Burton Cummings, Lyricist - Peterson, Composer - Cummings, Composer - G. Peterson, Lyricist - The Guess Who, Performer - Kurt Winter, Lyricist - McDougall, Composer - D. McDougall, Lyricist - William Wallace, Lyricist - Ben McPeek, Director - Wallace, Composer - Jack Richardson, Producer
(P) 1974 BMG Music
Cummings, Composer - Cummings, Lyricist - Ben McPeek, Director - Jack Richardson, Producer - The Guess Who, Performer
(P) 1974 BMG Music
Winter, Composer - Burton Cummings, Lyricist - Peterson, Composer - Cummings, Composer - G. Peterson, Lyricist - The Guess Who, Performer - Kurt Winter, Lyricist - McDougall, Composer - D. McDougall, Lyricist - William Wallace, Lyricist - Ben McPeek, Director - Wallace, Composer - Jack Richardson, Producer
(P) Recorded Prior to 1972. All Rights Reserved by BMG Music
Ben McPeek, Director - Burton Cummings, Composer - Burton Cummings, Lyricist - Jack Richardson, Producer - The Guess Who, Performer
(P) 1974 BMG Music
Ben McPeek, Director - Burton Cummings, Composer - Burton Cummings, Lyricist - Jack Richardson, Producer - The Guess Who, Performer
(P) 1973 BMG Music
Ben McPeek, Director - Domenic Troiano, Composer - Domenic Troiano, Lyricist - Burton Cummings, Composer - Burton Cummings, Lyricist - Jack Richardson, Producer - The Guess Who, Performer - Wallace, Composer - Wallace, Lyricist - Kurt Winter, Composer - Kurt Winter, Lyricist
(P) 1974 BMG Music
Cummings, Composer - Ben McPeek, Director - Domenic Troiano, Composer - Domenic Troiano, Lyricist - Burton Cummings, Lyricist - Jack Richardson, Producer - The Guess Who, Performer
(P) 1974 BMG Music
Cummings, Composer - Ben McPeek, Director - Domenic Troiano, Composer - Domenic Troiano, Lyricist - Burton Cummings, Lyricist - Jack Richardson, Producer - The Guess Who, Performer
(P) 1974 BMG Music
Cummings, Composer - Ben McPeek, Director - Domenic Troiano, Composer - Domenic Troiano, Lyricist - Burton Cummings, Lyricist - Jack Richardson, Producer - The Guess Who, Performer
(P) 1974 BMG Music
Album review
A seemingly well-assembled package that fails to go quite as far as it should, sticking closely to the charted material and rarely delving into the vaults for interesting oddities -- three rehearsal takes are tacked onto the end of the third disc in the set, providing little of interest to collectors or to the curious. The booklet does a workmanlike job of tracking the progress of the band, but there are few insights to be found in the difficult-to-read text.
The set is built around the A and B sides of singles, with album cuts salted in between. This is effective in charting the band's progression from melodic popsters to hard rockers and back to the pop-inflected music that closed out their career. The highlights are scattered throughout -- "American Woman," of course; "Rain Dance," with its unnerving echoes of American massacres, the funky, improvised live "Truckin' Off Across the Sky," even the goofy "Clap for the Wolfman," which came when the Guess Who were all but finished.
The Ultimate Collection works well as an introduction to the Guess Who, but will not gratify anyone with more than a basic need to know. On a sonic level, the set sounds good, however.
© Steven McDonald /TiVo
About the album
- 3 disc(s) - 57 track(s)
- Total length: 03:39:41
- Main artists: The Guess Who
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: RCA Records Label
- Genre: Pop/Rock
(P) 1997 BMG Entertainment
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