Raven's 2007 two-fer Climbing!/Nantucket Sleighride combines Mountain's first two albums on one disc, supplemented by a few bonus tracks. They're also Mountain's two best and biggest albums, making this a greatest hits of sorts, especially as this contains their two charting singles -- the inevitable "Mississippi Queen" and the considerably less-known "The Animal Trainer and the Toad" -- and what amounts to seven of the 12 songs on their 1973 greatest hits, The Best of Mountain. Although both Climbing! and Nantucket ...
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Raven's 2007 two-fer Climbing!/Nantucket Sleighride combines Mountain's first two albums on one disc, supplemented by a few bonus tracks. They're also Mountain's two best and biggest albums, making this a greatest hits of sorts, especially as this contains their two charting singles -- the inevitable "Mississippi Queen" and the considerably less-known "The Animal Trainer and the Toad" -- and what amounts to seven of the 12 songs on their 1973 greatest hits, The Best of Mountain. Although both Climbing! and Nantucket Sleighride were reissued by Columbia/Legacy not long before this disc, this Raven set is as good as those two individual discs -- in some ways, it's better as it gets you both albums in one tidy package, along with the title track of 1971's Flowers of Evil and Bo Grumpus' Felix Pappalardi's co-written "Travelin' in the Dark," taken from the 1968 album Before the War, as bonus cuts. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi
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