Best of Traffic

by Traffic

Best of Traffic cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: October 1969
  • Label: Island
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 42:25
  • Community rating: 4.11/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Released following Steve Winwood's temporary departure to form the supergroup Blind Faith, this collection perfectly encapsulates the band's incredibly eclectic, genre-blurring initial phase. The album highlights their seamless, highly inventive fusion of pastoral British folk, soulful R&B, and whimsical psychedelic pop, standing as a testament to their unique and formidable position within the late-60s progressive rock movement.

Genres

Descriptors: compilation, classic, bluesy, folk, improvisational

Tracklist

  1. Paper Sun (4:15)
  2. Heaven Is In Your Mind (4:16)
  3. No Face, No Name, No Number (3:32)
  4. Coloured Rain (2:43)
  5. Smiling Phases (2:40)
  6. Hole In My Shoe (3:02)
  7. Medicated Goo (3:35)
  8. Fourty Thousand Headman (3:15)
  9. Feelin' Alright (4:18)
  10. Shanghai Noodle Factory (5:06)
  11. Dear Mr. Fantasy (5:40)

Credits

  • Traffic - primary artist
  • Chris Wood - written-by
  • Dave Mason - written-by
  • Jim Capaldi - written-by
  • Steve Winwood - written-by

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