Track Listing

1. Kingdom Of Madness
2. Universe
3. Invasion
4. In The Beginning
5. All Come Together
6. Great Adventure
7. Foolish Heart
8. Reborn
9. Changes
10. All Of My Life
11. If I Could Live Forever
12. Lights Burned Out
13. Soldier On The Line
14. Spirit
15. Sacred Hour
16. Teacher
17. Back To Earth
18. Runaround Sue
19. Prize
20. Road To Paradise
21. Great Disaster
22. Word
23. Breakdown
24. Just Like An Arrow
25. Endless Love
26. How Far Jerusalem
27. On A Storyteller's Night
28. Before First Light
29. Rock Heavy
30. Tall Ships
31. Vigilante
32. Days Of No Trust
33. Start Talking Love
34. Rocking Chair
35. Only In America
36. Les Morts Dansant
37. Wild Swan
38. Heart Broken Busted
39. Foolish Heart
40. Lonely Night
41. Without Your Love
42. Seabird
43. Stormbringer
44. Slipping Away
45. Captain America
46. True Fine Love

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #138916 in Music
• Released on: 2008-02-26
• Number of discs: 3
• Format: Box set

Customer Reviews

Comments
Magnum was never schizophrenic in their approach. This is of course what you get if you look at all their tracks together, 30 years after they started out, but what sense does that make? Magnum might have been far more progressive in their early days, but they were a band that slowly DEVELOPED towards a more AOR orientated sound that you hear on the later records. But, certainly not schizophrenic.

An excellent band
First, I must admit that this compilation is really my first experience of Magnum's varied output but my impression of them has been very positive. Included on the discs are several truly exceptional songs, "How Far Jerusalem", "The Spirit" and naturally "Kingdom of Madness" being among them.

But listening to the three CDs you may be able to guess at one possible reason why Magnum never achieved huge commercial success. It seems to be difficult to identify one particular sound running through all the songs: their material is extremely varied and consequently lacks identity. The songs which are, in my opinion, the best are the heavy metal type ones. But a lot of the songs, particularly on CD 3, are much more like 70s pop. Some do not even have electric guitars in them. None of these is weak, they are just not as good as the heavier ones.

This Schizophrenia detracts from a superbly talented band and is the reason why I would give this anthology 4, and not 5, stars. But even in the stuff which I view as weaker, you can see incredible talent behind the music.