1. For Your Love - Yardbirds & Eric Clapton
2. Heart Full Of Soul - Yardbirds & Eric Clapton
3. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl - Yardbirds & Eric Clapton
4. Still I'm Sad - Yardbirds & Jeff Beck
5. Evil Hearted You - Yardbirds & Jeff Beck
6. Certain Girl - Yardbirds & Eric Clapton
7. Jeff's Blues - Yardbirds & Jeff Beck
8. I Wish You Would - Yardbirds & Eric Clapton
9. New York City - Yardbirds & Jeff Beck
10. I'm Not Talking - Yardbirds & Jeff Beck
11. You're A Better Man Than I - Yardbirds & Jeff Beck
12. Shapes Of Things - Yardbirds & Jeff Beck
13. I'm A Man - Yardbirds & Jeff Beck
14. Boom Boom - Yardbirds & Eric Clapton
15. Smokestack Lightnin' - Yardbirds & Eric Clapton
16. Let It Rock - Yardbirds & Eric Clapton
17. You Can't Judge A Book By Its Cover - Yardbirds & Eric Clapton
18. Who Do You Love - Yardbirds & Eric Clapton
19. Too Much Monkey Business - Yardbirds & Eric Clapton
20. Respectable - Yardbirds & Eric Clapton
21. Pretty Girl - Yardbirds & Eric Clapton
22. Stroll On - Yardbirds & Jimmy Page

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Excellent music
This is an excellent CD, with probably the best compilation of the band's music. I have been playing it over and over since I got it. It made me discover the Yardbirds, which I love for their mix of rock and blues - and lyrics are meningful too.

Youth re lived
OMG take me back to the sixties why don't you ! I had quite forgotten how much the Yardbirds influenced my life choices of music. Great album, some tracks excel whilst others sound like a church hall band trying to sound like the Yardbirds. Others , like 'schoolgirl', are done much better by others(Ten Years After), however the rawness and feeling that exudes from this album just takes me back to my youth. I lent it to my mates 21 yr old guitarist son who was just blown away by it and introduced him to much more of the same type of sixties music. Buy it whatever age you are if you like guitar based rock/blues you wont be disappointed.

Yardbirds
Great album, with a good mixture of tracks. (The ones that I wanted were all there!)

Good value.

Graham

Good Yardbirds overview
Some of lyrics a little twee and dated but overall a very entertaining album if you like 60's British blues/R&B bands

The Very Best of The Yardbirds
Great album, for its price; with all of the tracks that you would expect to find eg: For Your Love, Heart Full of Soul, Still I'm Sad, Shapes of Things etc - but still generally concentrating on the Eric Clapton & Jeff Beck eras.

But, still, as with several other compilations by The Yardbirds, that I have come across, not featuring any more than one track featuring Jimmy Page on it; and always seeming to be the same one - namely "Stroll On," who, I'm sure did more than just this one track. But, I suppose, where Jimmy Page is concerned; that is another story entirely, as he created one of the UK's most successful acts out of the ashes of The Yardbirds, namely Led Zeppelin, when The Yardbirds ceased to exist, as such; and the rest of the members went their own separate ways.

However, for all of its faults, it is still a good compilation, worth purchasing, and giving an excellent overview of one of the UK's finest Rock Bands of the period, as good as The Kinks, although overshadowed by Cream, The Beatles, The Who, and The Rolling Stones.

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