Release and reception
After the Lovin' Spoonful's dissolution in 1968, many of the band's original multi-track master tapes were lost. [4] [5] The band's earliest CD reissues were instead made from the best available stereo masters, [5] leaving the material sounding substandard when compared to reissues of other 1960s music. [6] After rediscovering the first-generation master-tapes, Buddha Records issued Greatest Hits as the first digital remaster of the band's material. [1] [7]
Greatest Hits was released on February 22, 2000. [8] The compilation features 26 tracks, [1] including the Lovin' Spoonful's first seven singles, all of which reached the U.S. Top Ten upon initial release. [2] In his review of the album for AllMusic, Hal Horowitz described its sound as possessing "a crispness and definition previously unheard", and he counted it as the band's most essential one-disc compilation. [1] The critic Robert Christgau described it as a slight improvement on the band's 1990 compilation Anthology , and he added that there are only a few weak tracks in the selection which "slow down its historical mission of evoking the balmy upsurge to the Summer of Love like no other body of music". [2]
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