{"id":41372,"date":"2009-02-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/greatest-hits-15\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T11:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T11:20:12","slug":"greatest-hits-15","status":"publish","type":"review","link":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/greatest-hits-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Greatest Hits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\"MsoNormal\"\">The year 2008 was an exciting one for Glen Campbell. It was about as exciting as it gets for a 77 year old pop-country icon. His totally unexpected comeback and surprisingly excellent album <i>Meet Glen Campbell<\/i> (click <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/meet-glen-campbell\/\">here<\/a>  to see my review) was a pleasant surprise for fans who might have otherwise thought they\u2019d lost the legendary singer and guitar player to alcohol, bad record concepts and\u2026uh\u2026just plain old age. Given that <st1:city w:st=\"\"on\"\"><st1:place w:st=\"\"on\"\">Campbell<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> is back at home on Capitol Records, it should come as no surprise to anyone that the ever money-hungry and highly criticized label is cashing in on last year\u2019s success with the new and mostly unnecessary <i>Glen Campbell: Greatest Hits<\/i> compilation. Capitol is scrambling, indeed: see Daily Vault writer <a href=\"%5C%22https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/the-best-of\/%5C%22\">Vish Iyer\u2019s take<\/a>  on their similarly superfluous Radiohead compilation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"MsoNormal\"\">In any event, <i>Glen Campbell: Greatest Hits<\/i> is thorough enough for the casual listener, featuring sixteen of the singer\u2019s most successful songs. Included here are the genius Jimmy Webb-penned songs \u201cWichita Lineman,\u201d \u201cBy The Time I Get To Phoenix,\u201d \u201c<st1:place w:st=\"\"on\"\"><st1:city w:st=\"\"on\"\">Galveston<\/st1:city><\/st1:place>\u201d and \u201cHoney, Come Back.\u201d Other phenomenally successful tunes like <st1:city w:st=\"\"on\"\"><st1:place w:st=\"\"on\"\">Campbell<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>\u2019s classic version of John Hartford\u2019s \u201cGentle On My Mind\u201d and the mega-smash country yacht-rock hits \u201cRhinestone Cowboy\u201d and \u201cSouthern Nights\u201d are all preserved in this collection, making for a damn fine Sunday barbecue album. Also, Capitol has included two tracks from <i>Meet Glen Campbell<\/i>, his cover of the Foo Fighters\u2019 \u201cTimes Like These\u201d and his wonderful version of Jackson Browne\u2019s classic \u201cThese Days.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"\"MsoNormal\"\">What\u2019s most important about <i>Glen Campbell: Greatest Hits<\/i> is that all of the tracks have been remastered for this collection and even though all of the most important Glen Campbell studio albums have already been remastered, this disc makes it easier to cut through the fat and get to the real meat of his catalog. As it stands, though, <i>Glen Campbell: Greatest Hits<\/i> hardly compares to EMI\u2019s 1998 stupendously thorough and comprehensive two-disc collection <i>Glen Campbell: The Capitol Years 65\/77<\/i>. Although the latter mentioned collection &#8212; by nature of its title &#8212; omits tunes like \u201cRhinestone Cowboy\u201d and \u201cSouthern Nights,\u201d it hardly matters because those over-commercialized tunes aren\u2019t representative of Glen Campbell\u2019s talent or importance as an American music icon. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\"MsoNormal\"\">So in the end, <i>Glen Campbell: Greatest Hits<\/i> would be a really nice and safe Christmas gift for your folks, but not for anyone who cares about Glen Campbell, the artist, the legend, the brilliant guitar player and the universally adored singer. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":29765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[8277],"rating":[5619],"class_list":["post-41372","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-glen-campbell","rating-rating-c"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/41372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/41372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=41372"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=41372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}