The Four Tops - The Early Classics

There's an overabundance of Four Tops compilations on the market, mostly thanks to Motown's differing marketing stragegies over the decade and a half since the CD boom began (meanwhile, the long-promised box set languishes forgotten, off the release schedule0. What sets this release apart is its low price ($12 or less) and its 18 songs, which include not only the essential hits ("Reach Out," "I Can't Help Myself," "It's The Same Old Song," "Baby I Need Your Loving," "Ask The Lonely" etc.) but any number of early LP tracks and b-sides, including "Love Feels Like Fire," "Helpless," "Where Did You Go," "Just As Long As You Need Me," and "Is There Anything That I Can Do," many of which haven't been on CD since the early, woefully badly mastered two-on-one disc of their first two albums was deleted. Read More