40th Anniversary Collection (2003)

About this title: This reviewer is usually loathe to give compilation albums the highest rating, as they have an unfair advantage over original albums; and it's not as though there aren't already good multi-CD sets on the Searchers, including their 30th Anniversary Collection from Sequel Records. But this two-disc, 56-song collection goes into territory where the early triple-disc set never ventured as the first Searchers compilation to encompass not only their most familiar work on Pye Records, but also Phonogram, RCA, Sire, PRT, and Coconut Records. It also avails itself of the vast expansion of the band's ... read more

Tracks:

1. Sweets for My Sweet [Demo Version] [Pomus/Shuman]
2. All My Sorrows [Demo Version] [Yarborough]
3. Let's Stomp [Demo Version] [Feldman/Gottehrer]
4. Sick and Tired [Live] [Kenner/Bartholomew]
5. Sweet Nothin's [Live] [Self]
6. Rosalie [Live] [Porter]
7. Sweets for My Sweet [Pomus/Shuman]
8. Ain't Gonna Kiss Ya [Smith]
9. Farmer John [Harris/Terry]
10. Sugar and Spice [Nightingale]
11. Some Other Guy [Leiber/Stoller]
12. Needles and Pins [Bono/Nitzsche]
13. Saturday Night Out [Richards]
14. Ain't That Just Like Me [Carroll/Guy]
15. Don't Throw Your Love Away [Jackson/Wisner]
16. Sea of Heartbreak [David/Hampton]
17. Someday We're Gonna Love Again [McMahan]
18. When You Walk in the Room [DeShannon]
19. Love Potion No. 9 [Leiber/Stoller]
20. What Have They Done to the Rain [Reynolds]
21. Blowin' in the Wind [Live] [Dylan]
22. Memphis Tennessee [Live] [Berry]
23. The System [Richards/Pratt]
24. Goodbye My Love [Moseley/Swearingen/]
25. Everybody Come and Clap Your Hands [Barry/Greenwich]
26. I Don't Want to Go on Without You [Berns/Wexler]
27. Bumble Bee [Baker/Fullylove]
28. He's Got No Love [Curtis/Pender]
29. When I Get Home [Darin/Alquist]
30. Take Me for What I'm Worth [Sloan]
31. Four Strong Winds [Tyson]
32. Each Time [DeShannon]
33. Take It or Leave It [Jagger/Richard]
34. Have You Ever Loved Somebody [Ransford]
35. Popcorn, Double Feature [Weiss/English]
36. Western Union [Durrill/Ezell/Rabon]
37. Second Hand Dealer [Pender/Allen]
38. Umbrella Man [Young]
39. Somebody Shot the Lollipop Man [Young]
40. Shoot 'Em Up Baby [Barry/Kim]
41. Kinky Kathy Abernathy [Young]
42. For What It's Worth [Stills]
43. Desdemona [Avon/Spiro]
44. Vahevala [Lottermoser/Loggins]
45. Solitaire [Sedaka/Cody]
46. Spicks and Specks [Gibb]
47. Hearts in Her Eyes [Birch/Wicks]
48. Love's Melody [McMasters]
49. Almost Saturday Night [Fogerty]
50. Everything But a Heartbeat [Birch/Bull]
51. I Don't Want to Be the One [Thompson]
52. Hollywood [McNally/Pender/Alle]
53. Innocent Victim [Thompson]
54. Forever in Love [Hendrik/van Haaren]
55. Somebody Told Me You Were Crying [Carlisle/Thomas]
56. Needles and Pins [1988 Version] [Bono/Nitzsche]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.