Unchain Your Brain: The Best Of Gillan 76-82

I have been wanting to get my hands on a compilation Cd by the Ian Gillan Band for a long time and at last i have found a copy. This certainly fits the bill. This is a complete history of various musical styles and its definitely not boring. It ranges from bluesey rock with let it slide, and the NWBHM tracks of Vengeance and Roller. Ian gillan is one of the best hard rock / metal vocalists of all time. The stand out tracks areRestlessMutually assured destructionLiving for the cityfor your dreamsVengeanceBite the bulletNightmareDont want the truthMr UniverseBluesy Blue Sea ( very Black Sabbath ironic as this was recorded in 1982 a year before he joined the Band )Let it slideSunbeamRollerChild in Time ( alternative version to Deep Purple )I highly recommend this to anybody who admires the great vocal range of the Maestro Ian Gillan you will not be disappointed

Track Listing is below, the live tracks were done by the Ian Gillan Band in Japan.CD 11 Trouble2 New Orleans3 No Laughing In Heaven4 Restless5 Mutually Assured Destruction6 Living For The city7 For Your Dreams8 Sleeping On The Job9 What's The Matter10 Lay Me Down11 Vengeance12 Bite The Bullet13 Nightmare14 Mercury High (Live)15 Born To Kill16 Clear Air Turbulence (Live)17 Woman From Tokyo (Live)CD 21 The Ballad Of The Lucitania Express2 Dont Want the Truth3 Purple Sky4 Trying To Get To You5 Secret Of The Dance6 Mr. Universe7 Are You Sure?8 Bluesy Blue Sea9 Let It Slide10 Sunbeam11 One For The Road12 Roller13 Child in Time14 Smoke On The Water (Live)

This is an Excellent 2CD Compilation of Ian Gillan's Musical Talent From 1976-1982, Featuring Tracks Gillan's 5 Releases: Mr. Universe (1979) Glory Road (1980) Future Shock (1980) Double Trouble (1981) And Magic (1982).In Addition This Compilation Featuring an Excellent Sellection of Gillan's Classics, it also Features Some Live Tracks Taken From Ian Gillan Band Live At The Budokan in Tokyo during Their 1977 Tour.I Strong Recommend This 2CD Compilation To Fans of Gillan & Ian Gillan Band, as They are Tracks That will appeal To both The Rock & Jazz/Rock Genre of Music, I gave it 5 Stars!

If you're looking for Ian Gillan's solo work, I would heavily suggest this CD. I still rate Ian Gillan as one of the best Rock and Roll singers of all time.

awesome album, just what I was looking for.

Love it

This looks like a really good collection except for one big omission, the collection is called Unchain Your Brain-The Best Of Gillan '76-'82, where is the song Unchain Your Brain? That song is the most essential of all his solo tracks, this is why I gave it only 4 stars instead of 5. I am not sure who makes Gillan's compilations,but they must be braindead,not one of his proper collections has that song on it,oh well...it means you need Glory Road too...I would think most people who bought this collection,already bought it,if not, that is the album that contains Unchain Your Brain,it is a must for any fan of Gillan's solo albums. I suspect anyone not reading the tracklist of Unchain Your Brain: The Best of Gillan '76-'82 would have assumed the song Unchain Your Brain would have been included,I guess that's why one should never assume,This best of is still a good purchase,it is very good except for that omission,so good purchase along with Glory Road as well,those 2 together should satisfy most fans of Gillan's solo stuff...

Fantastic music

The five stars is for some of the magnificent material on here. There are a few mediocre throwaway tracks, but you could say that about a lot of compilations. I was only about 17 when I went to see the original Ian Gillan Band and it wasn't that rewarding an experience. The jazz rock he was playing baffled many of his fans who knew what they wanted to hear. Listening to that stuff on here now, it takes on new meaning, now I'm older and more appreciative. When he ditched that band and got back to what he does best, he brought out an absolute stormer in Mr Universe. It's a shame Fighting Man isn't on here instead of one or two weaker songs, but that's compilations for you. Another couple of good albums followed, then the Purple reunion thing, and he's never looked back. One of the true rock greats.

A best of GILLAN not IAN GILLAN the band he had in the 1980,s. They had several top 40 singles and albums in the UK and EUROPE, the USA were to busy buying POISON and other hair metal bands. This is a DBL so you get alot of tracks for the about £3 i paid. This is just solid old skool hardrock as done by the British so well. I own all there albums BUT sometimes you just want the songs you know so well on your car stereo. BUY!

Bought as my vinyls dead or dyingmixture of bloody good stuffand the usual surely you could have used better tracks than that...overall happy but there is so much brilliant stuff re Gillan and his bands (not the sabbath months)

A trip down memory lane and a great addition. I love his less commercial stuff, but am really glad to have a full selection of most notable Gillan material. Good purchase.