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Rumble!...The Best Of

Link Wray Format: Audio CD
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Track Listings

1 Rumble - By Link Wray & His Ray Men
2 THE SWAG - By LINK WRAY
3 Raw-Hide - By Link Wray
4 Dixie-Doodle - By LINK WRAY
5 RAMBLE - By LINK WRAY
6 AIN'T THAT LOVIN' YOU BABE - By LINK WRAY
7 JACK THE RIPPER - By LINK WRAY
8 THE BLACK WIDOW - By LINK WRAY
9 Big City After Dark - By LINK WRAY
10 RUN CHICKEN RUN - By LINK WRAY
11 THE SHADOW KNOWS - By LINK WRAY
12 Deuces Wild - By LINK WRAY
13 Hang On - By LINK WRAY
14 ACE OF SPADES - By LINK WRAY
15 I'm Branded - By LINK WRAY
16 BATMAN THEME (1966 TV THEME) - By LINK WRAY
17 HIDDEN CHARMS - By LINK WRAY
18 Climbing A High Wall - By LINK WRAY
19 SWITCHBLADE - By LINK WRAY
20 JACK THE RIPPER (Live) - By LINK WRAY

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The first definitive retrospective to chronicle the legendary grunge guitarist's 20-year career. Includes his signature power chord instrumental, "Rumble"!

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  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.88 x 5.59 x 0.47 inches; 3.32 ounces
  • Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Rhino Records
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ 2020129
  • Original Release Date ‏ : ‎ 1993
  • Date First Available ‏ : ‎ October 21, 2006
  • Label ‏ : ‎ Rhino Records
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000003308
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 190 ratings

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mom
5.0 out of 5 stars great cd
Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2024
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Quick shipping, nicely wrapped. The cd is in great condition, no scratches. Great sound quality. Highly recommend this seller. :) ;)
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John Thomas Barton Jr
5.0 out of 5 stars The one you want
Reviewed in the United States on June 27, 2019
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This excellent album includes all high-rate music from Link Wray. The first Wray album I bought was Link Wray and his Wraymen, which listed "Rumble" as a track (actually, two tracks, as it was also a bonus track as an alternate take). It was, in fact, a different track called "Ramble", which was released as follow-up to "Rumble". I believe it was intentionally mislabelled by the label, who probably did not own the rights to Wray's biggest hit. This disc includes the proper track "Rumble" (as indicated by the title), along with a number of other great tracks, including "Ace of Spades" and "Jack the Ripper". Truly a best of Link Wray's work, including some live bonus tracks.
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music man
4.0 out of 5 stars good
Reviewed in the United States on April 24, 2023
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this cd is good, but not quite what i expected
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J. Anderson
5.0 out of 5 stars Innovative guitar master
Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2021
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Man, Link could play that electric guitar and many learned from him. However, he never made the big time, in my opinion, since very few of his songs had lyrics. All instrumentals, however, good, do get a bit boring. But I'm glad to have this CD and still play it occasionally.........although rarely all the way through.
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Firebrand
5.0 out of 5 stars Filthiest, nastiest guitarist of his time, godfather of modern guitar
Reviewed in the United States on June 24, 2008
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Link Wray is the greatest unsung pioneer of modern guitar-based rock, not only the inventor of the power chord and crazy new forms of distortion, this original axe barbarian combined rockabilly-tinged aggression, amped up blues, and uniquely insane new sounds. What Wray was already doing full force in the late 1950s and early 60s would influence generations to follow: metal, surf, electric blues, rock instrumentals, etc. This fine collection of rare singles and album selections provides a perfect overview. Here is the classic "Rumble" and variations of it ("Ramble"). The raucous, strutting 1962 "Big City After Dark" (Wray was playing Jeff Beck nastiness, before Beck), the 1960 "Ain't That Lovin You Babe" (a wonderfully filthy cover of a Jimmy Reed blues, a Yardbirds/Rolling Stones sound pre-dating those groups, with a vocal by one-lunged Link that sounds like Mick Jagger), and the 1966 "Hidden Charms", a raunchy Howlin Wolf cover that sounds like the Doors, channeled through punk rock.
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Traven
5.0 out of 5 stars Cool little record
Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2006
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This disk is a serious bargain. If you're worried "Rumble" will be the only good thing on it, don't be. In my opinion it's not even the best. (I think "Deuces Wild" is.) That said, a number of tracks on the album sound similar to "Rumble," as Wray attempted to repeat its success. Still, there are so many tracks that you get a bunch of cool sounds. (A few have vocals, which are generally poor -- Wray lost a lung in Korea -- but add to the biographical feel of the disk.) I could have done without the cover of "Dixie," which the liner notes encourage you to see as a parody, but the rest of it's great. Speaking of, the liner notes are long and excellent except that they fail to note when he was born. According to Google, 1929.
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railfan
5.0 out of 5 stars Oh Yeah!
Reviewed in the United States on October 1, 2012
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This, children, is Rock and Roll at it's best. Link Wray was right up there with Duane Eddy and the rest, and his stuff still has it. I have quite a bit of his material on 45RPM records and vinyl, but this CD outshines them all! Here you have his work at it's clearest and cleanest, and it is Link Wray to the core! If you're like me, a child of the 50's and 60's, this disk is an absolute "must-have." As the old commercial said, "Try it! You'll Like It!"
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Don Kidwell
4.0 out of 5 stars Let's Hope This 2018 Nominee For the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Finally Makes it in This Year
Reviewed in the United States on June 19, 2018
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Excellent guitar riffs (along with limited vocals like in song "Ain't That Lovin' You Babe " and "Hidden Charms") from late 50s forward that were a true blast from the past. Hit songs like "Rumble" , "The Swag" , "The Black Widow" and the renown "Batman Theme" took me back...way back. Cryin' shame this guy whom many might credit with introducing all manner of ways to make an electric guitar sing isn't already in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Only knock I have with the product is not posting track lengths anywhere but c'mon...induct the man already!
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cooksontrains
5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding
Reviewed in Canada on May 17, 2019
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Every tune here is a gem. Very overlooked artist. Avant garde, ahead of his time and master/innovator of the power chord.Brilliant. I can hear where many musicians got inspired by this man and his 3 piece band.
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Amazon カスタマー
5.0 out of 5 stars 伝説
Reviewed in Japan on December 6, 2018
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このギタリストは50'sを生き抜いとるんやで⁉️
このセンスは恐るべきモンがあるわ💦
デュアン・エディの100倍不良な音がします(笑)
うん、ロックンロール🎵
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D. J. H. Thorn
5.0 out of 5 stars Rumbling
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 19, 2008
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If you think that electric guitar didn't become freaky until the Hendrix generation, you haven't heard Link Wray. Half breed Wray broke through with his instrumental 'Rumble' in the late 1950s, inspired by a fight he witnessed at a gig. This and several other recordings reveal some heavy powerchording was going on, though the state of technology at the time meant the effect was lighter. Wray, though, moved on to other experiments such as 'Big City After Dark' when he starts off sounding as if he's garotting his guitar. And it was only 1962. He went wild on the pulsing 'Jack The Ripper', while 1964's 'Deuces Wild' saw him getting heavy again. Interestingly, in the late 1960s, Wray was sounding more like more like so-called garage punk bands, judging by what's on offer here. 1970's 'Climbing A High Wall' is brilliant, one of the few songs on this disc, a swirling, abrasive piece of aural barbed wire that freaks out. By this time, Wray was knocking on 40. He doesn't sound the most gifted guitarist but he blows hot all the time.
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Gary J. Smith
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in Canada on January 25, 2018
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Could listen to this CD over & over again. The TRUE beginnings of Rock & roll !!!
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jack frost
5.0 out of 5 stars an original guitar hero.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 3, 2008
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link wray paved the way for many a budding hero in the sixties,jimmy page&
pete townshend have admitted they would not have ever picked up a guitar
had it not been for link wray.in the fifties there were no guitar multi-
-effects boxes ,so link drilled holes in his speaker to get extra sounds
like a phaser effect,as the echo boxes were limited he used to stand @ the top of a spiral staircase of a hotel & record classics like"jack the
ripper".he had a style of using a combination of power-chords & twangy riffs.all of the best tracks of his are here,"ace of spades" "rumble"
"the swag" etc.i have an old black & white video of him from the fifties
playing a daneletro "longhorn" guitar thrashing out "rumble" for all hes
worth! and incidentally,you can buy a replica of the danelectro longhorn
on amazon! you can be sure if you watch the movies some film is using link
wray on its soundtrack,cool with a capital C.
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