Odds and Sods: Mis-Takes and Out-Takes (2005)

About this title: This is one of the best conceived box sets to come around since the format made its bow with the Eric Clapton and Allman Brothers packages from Polygram at the end of the 1980s. The problem with most boxes is that the producers can never be sure of the direction in which they should go, especially with acts that have a long history and a lot of hits -- do they represent all of the single A- and B-sides, or plunge into the vaults head first and fill it up with material that will be best known to hardcore fanatics? Luckily, in the case of Manfred Mann's Earth Band, there's a lot of history but ... read more

Tracks:

1. Happy Being Me [Hugg]
2. Travelling Lady [Hugg/Mann]
3. Messin' Up the Land [Hugg/Mann]
4. Fish
5. Turn You Away from My Door [Hugg]
6. Ashes to the Wind [Edmonds/Thompson]
7. Ned Kelly [Traditional]
8. Please Mrs. Henry [Dylan/Sony]
9. Jump Sturdy [Rebennack]
10. Holly Holy
11. Tribute [Mann]
12. Ain't No Crime
13. In the Beginning [Mann/Rogers/Slade]
14. Joybringer [Holst/Mann/Rogers]
15. Be Not Too Hard [Logue/Rogers]
16. Blinded by the Light [Springsteen]
17. Spirits in the Night [Springsteen]
18. Living Without You [Newman]
19. Pretty Good [Prine]
20. Califorina Coastline [Meskell/Martin]
21. Hollywood Town [Schock]
22. Chicago Institute [Thomas/Mann/Flett]
23. Quit Your Low Down Ways [Dylan/Sony]
24. California [Vickers]
25. Runner [Thomas]
26. Summer in the City [Boone/Sebastin]
27. Rebel [Laws]
28. Salmon Fishing [Traditional]
29. Redemption Song (No Kwazulu) [Marley]
30. Singing the Dolphin Through [Heron]
31. For You[Version] [Springsteen]
32. I (Who Have Nothing) [Donida/Leiber/Mogol]
33. Redemption Song (No Kwazulu) [Marley]
34. Africa Suite: Brothers and Sisters of Africa/To Bantustan/Koze ... [Mann/Irving]
35. War Dream [Mann/Lingwood/Walle]
36. Heart on the Street [Gray/Sony]
37. Telegram to Monica [Newman]
38. All Through the Night [Shear]
39. Better Place [Rogers]
40. Demolition Man [Live] [Sumner]
41. Martha's Madman [Live]
42. Instrumedicine Song [Traditional]
43. Geronimo's Cadillac [Murphy/Quarto]
44. Tumbling Ball [Spiro]
45. Lead Me to Water
46. To the Limit [Schuman]
47. Don't Let Me Down [Schuman]
48. Nature of the Beast
49. Pleasure and Pain[Version] [Chapman/Knight]
50. Dirty City
51. Don't Bring Me Down (Castles Burning) [Young]
52. SOS [Andersson/Anderson/]
53. Davy's on the Road Again [Simon/Robertson]
54. Hillbrow

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