This review refers to the Revolutions single CD. With this CD you get a cross-section on Winwood's career until his last album Nine Lives. So there is solo songs from the Spencer Davis Group, Traffic, Blind Faith and Winwood. In principle, not a bad idea. This CD features 16 songs with a maturity of less than 70 minutes (the American CD partially provides other titles with significantly longer maturity). That's the first offense. It would thus still room for two more songs have been. What the title Forty Thousand Headmen has to look for in a Very Best Of concentrate here me is a complete mystery. Why has managed no title from the second traffic time on the CD, is also a mystery to me. Here missing with The Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys or John Barleycorn Must Die least 2 About songs. After Roll With It is represented, that has managed to not Boxset (!!!!). From Back In The High Life Again they took the short version despite the presence of an open season. With The Finer Things and Do not You Know What The Night Can Do missing 2 Top Ten hits. Talking Back To The Night, Arc Of A Diver or One And Only Man I would have preferred 2010, Spanish Dancer.
About the new Mastering: As with almost all new remastering it is very noisy with less dynamics, therefore a matter of taste.
Conclusion: One CD are indeed only 80 minutes available. This time could have been used much better.
For Boxset only this: The selection of the Spencer Davis, Traffic and Blind Faith songs is mostly fine. Unfortunately, there is nothing of Winwood's side projects. Rares one seeks in vain. Are the first 3 CDs of box sets still in chronological order, provides CD 4 a mess. With regard to the selection of his solo songs is the boxset quite a disaster. The weighting at all is wrong. Too much unimportant new things and selected the wrong songs. Far From Home and The Light Of Day are boring first class. Winwood wanted to show well that he can write long songs again. Because there would have been better songs from their albums. It lacks even a particularly large number of good songs and hits from the 80s. Here Winwood lacks the critical view on his own work. Better for The Finer Things Boxset grab and still buy plus a few late works.
