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Music : Going to Go-Go / Away We Go-Go
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Going to Go-Go / Away We Go-Go by: Smokey Robinson and the Miracles List Price: $18.98 CD-Charts Price: $10.97 You Save: $8.01 (42%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0044001722721 Format: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered Label: Motown Manufacturer: Motown Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Motown Release Date: March 26, 2002 Studio: Motown Sales Rank: 147060 MPN: 017227 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.com: Most mid-'60s pop and R&B albums are like Hamburger Helper: a little meat and a lot of filler. But Smokey Robinson and the Miracles gratifyingly confound that notion on the first half of this two-album collection. Not surprisingly, it's also the first album to give vocalist-writer-producer Robinson star billing in his veteran band. Cut in the midst of producing chores for the Temptations and Marvin Gaye (Robinson was also a Motown label VP), Going to a Go-Go was something of a minor tour de force for Robinson, who cowrote all but one of the album's songs. Although its name refers to a partying dance craze (the origins of the infectious hit title track), it's an album largely centered around bittersweet, emotionally charged hits like "Tracks of My Tears" and "Ooo Baby Baby," as well as unusually strong cuts like "My Girl Has Gone" and "A Fork in the Road." By contrast, the second half here often sounds haphazard and less focused, as could be expected from a quickly produced sequel to a massive hit. Still, Robinson's glorious tenor illuminates even such standard fare as "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me." Previously unreleased bonus tracks include the stereo mix of "It's Fantastic," a fellow Away We Go-Go outtake of the lounge standard "Goin' Out of My Head," and a glorious, impassioned 1966 live rendition of "A Fork in the Road." --Jerry McCulley Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - THE FIRST MOTOWN GROUP....AND STILL THE BEST !!!With the passing of time, people tend to forget that in the years before The Temptations, the Supremes, & the Four Tops were even heard of, THE MIRACLES reigned as the number one MOTOWN group.Their hits actually BUILT THE LABEL, and their importance can not be overstated (although fans of some of the aforementioned groups try to UNDERSTATE IT from time to time). They also have the distinction of having had more two- sided hit singles than ANY OTHER MOTOWN GROUP. Too many people reviewing this , and other MIRACLES albums, tend to mistakenly and unfairly credit only SMOKEY for this group's success. They don't realize the tremendous TALENT posessed by ALL the members of the MIRACLES. ALL OF THEM WERE SONGWRITERS,AND HAD A SHARE IN WRITING ... Read More: Rating: - The Best of"Going To A Go-Go" is one of the best albums by this group. Not only did it spit out singles such as "Going To A Go-Go", "Choosey Begger", "The Tracks Of My Tears", "Ohh Baby Baby" and of course the fillers such as "Since You Won My Heart" & "Let Me Have Some". In my opinion, this is the best album by this group. It was a contemporary of the Temptations "Temptations Sing Smokey" & "Temptin' Temptations" in which both lp's spat out quite a few hit singles & B'sides themselves in which Smokey himself produced. Smokey is a genius. Even tho the CD has added tracks, it's just another album by Smokey Robinson & The Miracles in 1966 "Away We Go-Go". But the original "Going to a go go" is the best of all. Enjoy Rating: - Still 'Go-Going' near 40 years laterFor better or worse, when it appeared in the last days of 1965, The Miracles "Going to a Go-Go" LP raised expectations among Motown fans about the quality level we would anticipate from the company's album output from then on. And they succeeded at least as often as they failed. Tellingly, `Going to a Go-Go,' was the first Miracles LP to nudge it's way into the Top Ten album charts. As it was, it was a mini-greatest hits in itself as it contained every one of their 1965 singles and their flip sides: "Ooo Baby Baby," "The Tracks of my Tears," "My Girl Has Gone," and the title song, along with (respectively) "All That's Good," "A Fork In The Road," "Since You Won My Heart," & "Choosey Beggar." "Beggar" and "Road" (especially) ... Read More: Rating: - Mucho funWell, you get six hit records; you get some great B sides--so much part of the Motown legend; you get a rare live side; you get two songs--Baby Baby and Oh Be My Love--later retooled for the Supremes and in their original versions nearly unrecognizable (Motown was forever doing this; for example the Marvelettes' "Only Your Love Can Save Me" became Marvin and Tammi's "This Poor Heart of Mine); and you get the worst of Motown, four awful, terrible covers of dreck such as "You Don't Have To Say You Love Me," Berry's achilles heel. He just couldn't stay away from white mush--everytime I hear Diana trying to navigate "Ode to Billy Joe" I end up helplessly laughing. Through it all there is that Motown sound, just irreplaceable. The biggest shock ... Read More: Rating:  - Pretty Goodit's cool that this Includes quite a few songs.makes me long for the days when Pop Songs were 2-3 Minutes long as to Artists trying to fill every space on Disc.this is also the Classic Case of Genius&Miss.when Smokey&Crew Hit it's some of the Greatest Music Ever when it doesn't it's filler that unless you are a Die-Hard Fan you wouldn't even go near.but the cool thing about this set is that it showcases A ballance of a Very Creative Musical Genius.not many Artists before or since have captured the Simplicity&Depths within there Material as Smokey RObinson. |
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