Not everyone will agree with the title of this posthumous compilation. The album includes nothing from Green on Red's early, neo-psychedelic Paisley Underground days, and most of the songs from such classic albums as 1984's GRAVITY TALKS and 1985's GAS FOOD LODGING, like the mournful country death ballad "16 Ways", are represented by late-period live renditions.
THE BEST OF GREEN ON RED focuses on the four records singer/guitarists Dan Stuart and Chuck Prophet recorded as a duo: 1988's HERE COME THE SNAKES, 1989's THIS TIME AROUND, 1991's SCAPEGOATS, and 1993's ironically titled TOO MUCH FUN. Featuring loose, sometimes sloppy playing in the tradition of Crazy Horse, EXILE-era Stones, and the mid-'80s roots rock of friends like the Long Ryders and the Dream Syndicate, these albums are fine slide-guitar-and-organ rock & roll. Lyrics are alternately weepy and defiant, and "Rock and Roll Disease" is a particular gem.|
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