THE ARGENT ANTHOLOGY: A COLLECTION OF GREATEST HITS

The "Argent Anthology" is a rather brief and superficial overview of the band's most commercial recordings. Many of the tracks here were released as singles, with varying degrees of success.

"Hold your head up" and "God gave rock'n'roll to you", both thankfully included in full here rather than as single edits, were massively successful and introduced the band to a worldwide audience. While the former is reasonably representative of their output, the latter verges on the glam-rock, a point highlighted by the subsequent covering of the song by Kiss(!).

There's not really much in the way of prog here, the compilation clearly being designed to appeal to the commercial market, rather than to offer a balanced perspective on the band's output. Consequently, their most progressive album, "Nexus", is ignored completely, as are their more jazz orientated post-Ballard releases. The album is rounded off by a cover of the Zombies "Time of the season" from the excellent "Encore live" album.

At a mere 42 minutes, the CD hardly offers value for money, even when available as a budget release. The general dearth of Argent material on CD however means that this compilation at least offers a rare opportunity to experience a sample the music of this fine band.

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