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  • Artist: Steve Miller Band
  • Rating: StarStarStarStarHalf Star
  • Release Date: 1972
  • Total Time: 63:31
  • Type: Compilation (best of)
  • Genre: Rock

Review

Released in 1972, Anthology provides a 16-track summary of the Steve Miller Band's first five albums, distilling their uneven space blues into a tight, effective collection of highlights. These songs are hardly as tuneful or effortlessly catchy as the songs on 1978's Greatest Hits -- apart from "Living in the USA," "Space Cowboy," and "Going to Mexico," there's nothing particularly immediate here -- but they're first-rate period pieces, capturing Miller's space blues at its most effectively spacey. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi

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Anthology (Steve Miller Band album)

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Anthology
Greatest hits album by Steve Miller Band
Released 1972
Recorded 1968-1972
Genre Rock
Length 63:24
Label Capitol / EMI
Steve Miller Band chronology
Recall the Beginning...A Journey from Eden
(1972)
Anthology
(1972)
The Joker
(1973)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 4.5/5 stars [1]

Anthology is the first greatest hits compilation album for the Steve Miller Band, covering material from their first five albums. It has been certified Gold in the United States.

Track listing

  1. "I Love You" (Miller) – 2:46
  2. "Going To The Country" (Miller, Sidran) – 3:14
  3. "Baby's House" (Hopkins, Miller) – 8:07
  4. "Kow Kow" (Miller) – 4:26
  5. "Your Saving Grace" (Davis, Miller, Sidran) – 4:50
  6. "Going To Mexico" (Miller, Scaggs) – 2:29
  7. "Space Cowboy" (Miller, Sidran) – 4:55
  8. "Living In The U.S.A." (Miller) – 4:06
  9. "Journey From Eden" (Miller) – 6:25
  10. "Seasons" (Miller, Sidran) – 3:51
  11. "Motherless Children" (Traditional) – 4:22
  12. "Never Kill Another Man" (Miller) – 2:44
  13. "Don't You Let Nobody Turn You Around" (Miller) – 2:29
  14. "Little Girl" (Miller) – 3:24
  15. "Celebration Song" (Miller, Sidran) – 2:32
  16. "My Dark Hour" (Miller) – 3:08

The song "Living In The U.S.A." was also featured as the sole Steve Miller Band track in a promotional-only compilation album issued by Capitol records entitled "The Greatest Music Ever Sold" (Capitol SPRO-8511/8512), that was distributed to record stores during the 1976 Holiday season as part of Capitol's "Greatest Music Ever Sold" campaign which promoted 15 "Best Of" albums that were released by the record label.

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References

  1. ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. Anthology (Steve Miller Band album) at Allmusic

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