Classic Rock Gold

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Classic Rock Gold
Classic Rock Gold cover
Compilation album by Various
Released April 26, 2005
Recorded Various
Genre Classic rock
Length 2.3 hours
Label Hip-O Records
Producer various
Professional reviews

Classic Rock Gold is a two-disc compilation album released in 2005. It features thirty-three of the greatest hits to come out of classic rock, many of which are from the Universal Music Group catalogue.

The cover features, clockwise from the top left: Whitesnake, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Steppenwolf, Scorpions, Joe Walsh, Rod Stewart, and Peter Frampton.

Contents

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[edit] Disc one

  1. Steppenwolf - "Born to Be Wild" (3:30) (Bonfire)
  2. Santana - "Evil Ways" (3:57) (Henry/Zack)
  3. The Guess Who - "American Woman" (5:07) (Bachman/Cummings/Kale/Peterson)
  4. Free - "All Right Now" (5:30) (Rodgers/Fraser)
  5. Jethro Tull - "Locomotive Breath" (4:33) (Anderson)
  6. The James Gang - "Walk Away" (3:34) (Walsh)
  7. Rod Stewart - "Maggie May" (5:46) (Stewart)
  8. Ten Years After - "I'd Love to Change the World" (3:44) (Lee)
  9. The Hollies - "Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress)" (3:17) (Clarke/Cook/Greenaway)
  10. The Edgar Winter Group - "Frankenstein" (4:45) (Winter)
  11. Elton John - "Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting" (4:55) (John/Taupin)
  12. Grand Funk Railroad - "We're An American Band" (3:26) (Brewer)
  13. Joe Walsh - "Rocky Mountain Way" (5:16) (Walsh/Grace/Passarelli/Vitale)
  14. The Doobie Brothers - "China Grove" (3:16) (Johnston)
  15. Golden Earring - "Radar Love" (6:25) (Hay/Kooymans)
  16. Lynyrd Skynyrd - "Sweet Home Alabama" (4:41) (Van Zant/King/Rossington)
  17. Bachman-Turner Overdrive - "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" (3:53) (Bachman)

[edit] Disc two

  1. Bad Company - "Bad Company" (4:48) (Rodgers/Kirke)
  2. Nazareth - "Hair of the Dog" (4:09)
  3. Head East - "Never Been Any Reason" (5:11)
  4. Foghat - "Slow Ride" [Single version] (3:56) (Peverett)
  5. Peter Frampton - "Show Me the Way" [Live] (4:39) (Frampton)
  6. Blue Öyster Cult - "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" (5:09) (Pearlman)
  7. Foreigner - "Cold As Ice" [Single version] (3:20) (Gramm/Jones)
  8. Ted Nugent - "Cat Scratch Fever" (3:39) (Nugent)
  9. The Cars - "Just What I Needed" (3:45) (Ocasek)
  10. Eddie Money - "Two Tickets to Paradise" (3:49) (Money)
  11. Cheap Trick - "I Want You to Want Me" [Live] (3:42) (Nielsen)
  12. .38 Special - "Hold On Loosely" (4:40) (Barnes/Carlisi/Peterik)
  13. Red Rider - "Lunatic Fringe" (4:22) (Cochrane)
  14. Billy Idol - "White Wedding" (4:13) (Idol)
  15. Scorpions - "Rock You Like a Hurricane" (4:12) (Schenker/Meine/Rarebell)
  16. Whitesnake - "Here I Go Again" (4:35) (Coverdale/Marsden)

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