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Road FoodPower In M

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Import, Remastered

Guess Who, The (Artist) Format: Audio CD
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Audio CD, Import, Original recording remastered, April 6, 2004
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Track Listings

1 Star Baby
2 Attila's Blues
3 Straighten Out
4 Don't You Want Me
5 One Way Road To Hell
6 Clap For The Wolfman
7 Pleasin' For Reason
8 Road Food
9 Ballad Of The Last Five Years
10 Down and Out Woman
11 Women
12 When The Band Was Singin' "Shakin' All Over"
13 Dreams
14 Rich World-Poor World
15 Roseanne
16 Coors For Sunday
17 Shopping Bag Lady
18 Power In The Music

Editorial Reviews

Reissue of 1974's 'Road Food' & 1975's 'Power in the Music' on one remastered CD. 19 tracks including the hit 'Clap for the Wolfman'. Slipcase. RCA. 2004.

Product details

  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.57 x 0.43 x 5.03 inches; 3.84 ounces
  • Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Sony Music Canada Inc.
  • Original Release Date ‏ : ‎ 2004
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 19 minutes
  • Date First Available ‏ : ‎ January 29, 2007
  • Label ‏ : ‎ Sony Music Canada Inc.
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0001NBL9U
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer Reviews:
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Customers like the album's sound quality, with one mentioning the instantly recognizable voice of the radio. They appreciate the album's quality, with one customer highlighting its terrific non-hit singles tracks.

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Customers like the sound quality of the album, with one mentioning the instantly recognizable voice of the radio host.

"...voice of Rock and Roll, and the Wolfman is an instantly recogizable voice of radio. Put the two together and the nostalgia just comes in waves...." Read more

"...Guess Who Are Great. Louder The Better ! 'Road Food' is My Favorite G.W. Song among so many others. Great to have them on LP and CD now." Read more

"...in the Music" in its entirety, and was pleasantly surprised at how good it sounds...." Read more

"...But the sound is remixed in a good manner and I think that the real Guess Who fans will like it very much. Highly recommneded." Read more

3 customers mention "Album quality"3 positive0 negative

Customers praise the album's quality, with one customer highlighting its terrific non-hit singles tracks.

"...But I still prefer "Road Food" and some of the terrific non-hit singles tracks on there such as the title track, "One Way Road to Hell" and..." Read more

"This CD is very good, despite mixing two works by Guess from distinct seasons. The formation of the Group is completely different...." Read more

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  • Rick
    5.0 out of 5 stars Guess Who- memorializing Wolfman Jack
    Reviewed in the United States on September 12, 2009
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    Star Baby is an undiscovered gem but the real reason to buy this CD is the voice of the original Wolfman Jack on "Clap for the Wolfman". Burton Cummings is an instantly recognizable voice of Rock and Roll, and the Wolfman is an instantly recogizable voice of radio. Put the two together and the nostalgia just comes in waves. Now if I could just find my old letter jacket and a copy of American Graffiti.
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  • James Soronen
    5.0 out of 5 stars Guess Who Are Great. Louder The Better
    Reviewed in the United States on June 20, 2015
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    I agree to an extent that the CD is too compressed. Guess Who Are Great. Louder The Better ! 'Road Food' is My Favorite G.W. Song among so many others. Great to have them on LP and CD now.
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  • Donald E. Gilliland
    4.0 out of 5 stars welcome back
    Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2012
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    I had been looking for a copy of "Road Food" for a long time, and was happy to see this 2-for-1 reissue. I had never heard "Power in the Music" in its entirety, and was pleasantly surprised at how good it sounds. But I still prefer "Road Food" and some of the terrific non-hit singles tracks on there such as the title track, "One Way Road to Hell" and especially "The Ballad of the Last Five Years." I can't quibble with the sound quality on here. To my ears, it sounds fine. The Guess Who were truly a great band, one that doesn't get the accolades that they truly deserve. And "Road Food" is an especially fine addition to their catalog. People might think that "Clap for the Wolfman" was a silly single, but there's a whole bunch of "deeper" songs on here.
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  • S. Fuschini
    5.0 out of 5 stars Road Food/Power in the Music
    Reviewed in the United States on November 17, 2008
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    This CD is very good, despite mixing two works by Guess from distinct seasons. The formation of the Group is completely different.
    But the sound is remixed in a good manner and I think that the real Guess Who fans will like it very much.

    Highly recommneded.
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  • Greg Shannon
    4.0 out of 5 stars Good Album
    Reviewed in the United States on October 5, 2013
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    It's got some great but highly underrated music. If I remember correctly, the critics weren't kind to "Road Food" and those who rely on critics to determine what their tastes in whatever should be followed the advice and ignored the album.
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  • The Green Man
    4.0 out of 5 stars Great music, but disappointing sound
    Reviewed in the United States on August 21, 2004
    Yes, what you may have read about the sound quality of the 4 two-albums-on-one-CD reissues of Guess Who RCA-era albums is true. The sound is not quite up to the standard of original CD reissues. But, you can compensate fairly well with a graphic equalizer or bass and treble controls on your stereo system. (Of course, you probably can't do much about the sound when playing on a portable CD player these days, since some marketing genius decided that bass-boost was the only tone control that anyone needs anymore.) But what about the actual muusic offered here? Well, the first album is "Road Food," the band's suprise comeback hit of 1974. I still find that it is simply the best album they ever did. Every song is quality material. This reissue returns the songs to their original LP sequence, which is something of a plus. (For some reason, the original reissue put the LP side 2 songs first, just as the cassette version did. I suppose that was to draw attention to the top 10 hit "Clap for the Wolfman.") Though the material here is mostly about their adventures as an endlessly touring band, the lyrics are light years ahead of the usual "the road is hell" stuff written for previous albums. This is a band having a good time, and the music reflects it. "Straighten Out" and "Don't You Want Me" (an improvement over the original from "Rockin'") are flat-out joyus fun. You wish that you could be there while it's being committed to tape. If you can't find a copy of the original "Road Food" used somewhere, this is the next best thing. 5 stars for "Road Food." The second LP is their final RCA offering, "Power in the Music." This time the band seems to be getting too pretentious for its own good. Most of the songs are decent material, but Dom Troiano's jazzy guitar just seemed to sterilize the material on the 2 albums that he played on. Yes, he's a good musician, but he just didn't fit in for me. "Rich World, Poor World" and "Power in the Music" always seemed a bit embarrasing to me. They lacked the feeling that the lyrics seemed to be trying to extract from your soul. "Rosanne" (the first single) was half of a great tune, and "When the Band was Singing "Shakin' All Over'" (the second single) has always been an intresting bit of nostalgia, but ultimately falls short of the band's stunning first hit that it refers to. I've always found it telling that the band never performed any songs from the 2 Troiano albums during their various reunion tours later. Only 3 stars for "Power in the Music." But, if you really want to get it (as any true fan would), this is the only place you can get it on CD. By the way, the CD offers the entire package of LP covers and inserts, a plus if you like those kinds of things. Note the covers of the original LP's; they seem to betray their contents. "Road Food" has the band in real rock & roll jeans and t-shirts, while "Power in the Music" shows the band dressed up in the standard slick leisure suits, more akin to disco than rock. Sadly, there is no additional written material with the CD, as previous remastered CD's of Guess Who included.
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  • Steve Marshall
    1.0 out of 5 stars hang on to your vinyl
    Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2004
    The pairing of these albums has nothing to do with each other aside from the fact that they would fit on a single disc. Most of the tracks on Road Food lack bass, and all of them suffer from too much compression. Burton Cummings' lead vocals are mixed too low on "Attila's Blues" and "Don't You Want Me." "One Way Road to Hell" fades out early. "Pleasin' for Reason" and the title track have too much bass, and the latter fades out slightly early.
    Power in the Music doesn't fare any better. The entire album (especially the first half) is compressed. The high end is boosted a bit on "Down and Out Woman." The end vocals on "Dreams" are buried in the mix, and Bill Wallace's intricate bass work is now lost in the mix. Cummings' spoken word parts in "Rich World, Poor World" are buried as well. One of the worst jobs on any of the tracks is on "Rosanne," when the intro is actually faded in. The title track (which is incorrectly listed as "Shopping Bag Lady" in the lyrics) has dropouts at 6:12 and 6:21 into the song.
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  • R.J.
    4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent re-issue series
    Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2004
    It's hard to quibble with these Guess Who CD releases. Road Food and Power In the Music are two of their later releases, featuring some excellent tracks such as "Road Food", "Clap For The Wolfman", "Star Baby" and "When The Band Was Singing Shakin' All Over". The real value lies in the album tracks, in which there are some excellent finds for the uninitiated. Both these albums were either unavailable or impossible to find in CD version before, so it's great to see these come out. Next up, when are they ever going to release the lost album "The Way They Were" on CD?
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  • Amazon Customer
    4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 2, 2015
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    Two more good album from Guess Who>
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  • Corybant
    5.0 out of 5 stars 良かったですよ。
    Reviewed in Japan on July 25, 2017
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    GuessWhoの1970年AmericanWoman は初めて買ったロックのLPでした。次作のシェアザランドを先日聴いて（＾＾；良かったので、改めてこの２in１シリーズを４作購入しました。ですが1971～1973までの作品は私にとっては残念な作品で、はっきり言って駄作ですね。やはりランディ・バックマン脱退後の影響が暫くあったのではないでしょうか？曲に纏まりがなく散漫で雑な印象でした。ですが1974年以降の「Road Food」「Power In The Music」「Flavours」は本来のゲス・フー＋バートン・カミングスのソロ作品というような構成になって非常にキャッチーながら腰のあるサウンドになっています。メンバーも落ち着いてしっかりと曲作りができたのでしょうね。やっぱり本気になったら素晴らしいバンドですよね。この２in１はその中でもお勧めの出来です。
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  • Alastair Hughan
    4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 25, 2015
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    very good
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