Greatest Hits (Eco)

Glen Campbell is a country pop icon of sorts. His hit records of the sixties and seventies were AM radio top 40 staples that received tremendous airplay, during an era that if you were heard on a transistor radio at the beach, you were a star for sure. His collaborations with Jimmy Webb are songs that have given the youth of that generation memories that will last a lifetime. To this day, when I hear "Galveston", "Witchita Lineman", "By The Time i Get To Phoenix", "Gentle On My Mind", and "Southern nights", I can immediately recall the good-times of my youth as well as Glen Campbell's short lived variety show. Having said all this, it was a joy to listen to this remastered collection of Glen's hits, that includes a nice booklet of photo's, and song by song information regarding chart status and a short essay as well. I would not pay attention to the few audiophiles, who claim the sound is distorted or too loud? I have no idea what they are talking about, except they need...Read more

you cannot buy a glen campbell hits package that sounds as fantastic as this one.it started last year when glen recorded MEET GLEN CAMPBELL in a deal with walmart the cd was put out with bonus tracks RHINESTONE COWBOY,GALVESTON,BY THE TIME I GET TO PHOENIX,GENTLE ON MY MIND,and WICHITA LINEMAN.the songs were remixed to sound like more contemporary and were done marvelous.now capitol has released a new hits package that has these plus 11 more hits with the same dynamic sound . a must for all glen campbell fans.

The great selling point of digital music was a wider dynamic range in which the loudest and softest portions of a song no longer had to be compressed to fit the narrower range of an LP or Cassette. Unfortunately, within the last 10 years, audio engineers seem to have forgotten all of this and now turn everything up to 11. While this may work for the latest metal release (no, it actually doesn't), what this does to most material is make it sound horrible. This is no exception.

I have a copy of Rhinestone Cowboy from a cheap foreign CD set, probably mastered off 2nd or 3rd generation source material. It sounds markedly better than what is on this MP3. Everything in the mix is turned up as loud as it will go to the point where the sound is distorted in the mix. This is absolutely the LAST thing you should be doing to music from this genre and era. If you've ever turned up music louder than your speakers can handle, or tried recording music at levels that are too loud,...Read more