Listen My Friends! The Best of Moby Grape
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Release Date: 05/15/2007 12:00
Blessed (though also, in a way, cursed) with five singeramp;#150;songwriters and briefly groomed as San Franciscos psychedelic Great White Hope, Moby Grape made only one blueribbon record their selftitled 1967 debut before molding faster than a strawberry. This onehour distillation of their first four albums tries to make the case that their later stuff was just as good, and it nearly does: Their tight, terse arrangements and weightless harmonies remained more or less intact even after Skip Spence (who wrote their sole minor hit, Omaha) was committed to the psychiatric ward of Bellevue Hospital in New York, ending their first lineups splendid threeguitar tangle. But the dropoff in songwriting is precipitous (the two tracks from 1969s imitationcountryByrds Truly Fine Citizen are embarrassing), and any Moby Grape compilation without Fall on You or Naked, If I Want To is distinctly and curiously incomplete. Download: Omaha, Hey Grandma