Product ReviewsDragon - The Essential 2cd Reissue Greatest

Buy it with eyes open to its limitations

You may not realize how interesting a compilation this is until you read the liner notes. This is essentially 2 1/2 albums on 2 CDs with a little extra on the side.

The album elements are excellent - better than I remembered in some cases, as good as remembered in others. I would have liked more from "O Zambesi" but I knew going in that this contained only half of that hard-to-find CD.

There were two negatives, and I need to explain them for anyone reading this to understand why they have not impacted the score. The first is "Konkaroo" - the version here is not the one that appears on various compilations and is a less-polished, less commercially-appealing version. Not only do I not care about this track, but I have the single version on a various-artists CD, so this is a trivial complaint, and may even have been a selling point if I had known it in advance.

The other negative is also about expectations, and is a little more substantial. The version of "Dreaded Morococzy Bind" included here is NOT the same as the one that appeared on the Prince's Trust / Countdown compilation back in the late 70s, and this was a track that I -DID- want - a fact that was definitely disappointing. That said, this was (according to my investigations) the version that originally appeared on the Dragon LP of which it is part. So this was a matter of misplaced expectation on my part, not a problem with the compilation.

Overall, if you want "Get That Jive" and "Sunshine", and the albums from which they derive, and "Are You Old Enough" and half the album it comes from, this is the package you want to buy - but buy it with your eyes wide open to its limitations.Read full review...

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Breathing 🔥 Fire.

Dragon was one of the great pub bands of it era. So many hits in this essential album.

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good old stuff worth listing to

has a few good oldies on it

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great cd

all the great music when I was growing up in the seventies

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if you like Dragon, you will love this

it was new

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Great,

Great Aussie band,,

Dragon rocks!

Great album.

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Not all their hits

Didn't have all the hits

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old songs

The old songs of the 70's good memories

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