Little Games

Review

by Bruce Eder

This two-CD set assembles the complete Little Games album and all of the usable rehearsals, unmixed backing tracks, and alternate takes associated with it in one place, along with a few Yardbirds-related holdings in the EMI vaults. For a variety of reasons (not all the fault of the band), Little Games was the Yardbirds' least successful album, but it was also their only full-length studio recording featuring guitarist Jimmy Page, who seems to have hung back here in exerting his musical inclinations, in keeping with the desires of producer Mickie Most's quest for a pop/rock tone to the album. The odd B-sides, outtakes, alternate takes, and bonus tracks reveal a high level of virtuosity that Most failed to exploit -- the unanthologized B-sides …  » Read more

Tracks

				Title	Composer	Time
		1		Little Games		2:25
		2		Smile On Me		3:20
		3		White Summer		3:52
		4		Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor		2:45
		5		Glimpses		4:23
		6		Drinking Muddy Water		2:53
		7		No excess Baggage		2:37
		8		Stealing, Stealing		2:29
		9		Only The Black Rose		2:52
		10		Little Soldier Boy		2:36
		11		Puzzles		2:02
		12		I Remember The Night	Pirollo	3:00

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