Steve Miller Band
Greatest Hits (1998)
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Length:  1:13:07
    Track Listing:
      1.  
      		 The Joker    4:23
      2.  
      		 Space Intro    1:13
      3.  
      		 Fly Like An Eagle    4:45
      4.  
      		 Jet Airliner    4:26
      5.  
      		 Dance Dance Dance    2:18
      6.  
      		 Give It Up    3:39
      7.  
      		 Keep Me Wondering Why    3:45
      8.  
      		 Abracadabra    5:09
      9.  
      		 Swingtown    3:57
      10.  
      		 Jungle Love    3:10
      11.  
      		 Take The Money And Run    2:50
      12.  
      		 Rock'n Me    3:07
      13.  
      		 The Stake    4:00
      14.  
      		 Heart Like A Wheel    4:02
      15.  
      		 Wide River    3:59
      16.  
      		 True Fine Love    2:40
      17.  
      		 Cry Cry Cry    4:19
      18.  
      		 Serenade    3:11
      19.  
      		 Winter Time    3:14
      20.  
      		 Wild Mountain Honey    4:51
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      Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
      Steve Miller Band - 'Greatest Hits'

      Label: PolyGram TV
      Catalog#: 559 240-2
      Format: CD, Compilation, Remastered
      Country: UK
      Released: 02 Feb 1999
      Genre: Rock
      Style: Folk Rock, Stoner Rock, Blues Rock, Pop Rock, Classic Rock
      Credits: Producer, Other [Liner Notes] - Steve Miller
      Written-By - Miller* (tracks: 1 to 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14 to 19)
      Notes: This compilation (P) 1998 Sailor Music (C) 1998 Sailor Music. Issued under license to Eagle Records, A Division of Eagle Rock Entertainment Plc, sublicensed exclusively in the UK and Eire to PolyGram TV, a division of PolyGram Record Operations Ltd. Made in the EC.

      Tracks 3, 8, and 9 are the full-length versions, not the versions cut short by fade-outs.

      The liner notes consist of an introductory paragraph for each track, given by Steve Miller himself, "in conversation with John Tobler, 1998."

      Greatest Hits 1974-1978 collects the majority of Steve Miller's biggest hits -- "The Joker," "Take the Money and Run," "Rock 'n Me," "Fly Like an Eagle," "Jet Airliner," "Jungle Love," "Swingtown" -- and seven album tracks that received a fair amount of airplay on album rock radio. The collection only covers a total of three albums -- The Joker, Fly Like an Eagle, Book of Dreams -- with the latter two providing the bulk of the material. Because of this, "Living in the USA," one of Miller's biggest hits of the late '60s/early '70s, isn't included, but it isn't missed, since all of his other hits of the '70s are included. The thoroughness of Greatest Hits 1974-1978 makes it an excellent introduction to Miller, and for many casual fans, it also means that they can contain their Steve Miller collection to one disc.

      Greatest-hits collections often deprive the listener of the chance to experience an artist's true scope of talent. Not so with Steve Miller. His strength has always been more in crafting an occasional blast of FM-radio heaven rather than a dozen solid album tracks. Greatest Hits 1974-78 chronicles the best singles from Miller's most successful years, after he veered from Haight-Ashbury bluesy trippiness to more accessible blues-based pop-rock. There are the slippery grooves of "The Joker" and "Fly Like an Eagle," and there's the air-guitar-beckoning riff-rock of "Take the Money and Run," "Jungle Love," "Rock 'n Me," and "Jet Airliner." Don't expect groundbreaking art, expect references to the "pompatus of love" and instant gratification. Requisite listening at the classic-rock keg party. This gold version of the title offers superior sound quality for a higher price than the standard-issue CD. --Neal Weiss
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