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The Best of Mountain is the only compilation album by American hard rock band Mountain. It consists of material recorded throughout 1970-1971, culled from their first three LPs. It consists of material recorded throughout 1970-1971, culled from their first three LPs.
Mountain was an American rock band formed on Long Island, New York, in 1969. [1] [2] Originally consisting of vocalist-guitarist Leslie West, bassist-vocalist Felix Pappalardi, keyboardist Steve Knight, and drummer N. D. Smart (soon replaced by Corky Laing), the group disbanded in 1972, but reunited on several occasions prior to West's death in 2020. [3]
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Hypermagic Mountain was met with near-universal acclaim, with an average of 88 out of 100 based on 23 reviews on Metacritic. [4] The same site rates the album at number 145 on the all-time highest rated albums, [15] and as the fifth best album of 2005. [16]
Mountain Live: The Road Goes Ever On was a minor commercial success, reaching number 63 on the US Billboard 200 and number 21 on the UK Albums Chart (the latter of which was the highest position the band achieved on the chart). The album spawned one single, "Waiting to Take You Away", which was released in July 1972.
In the original list, most of the selections were albums by white male rock musicians, with the top position held by the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967). In 2012, Rolling Stone published a revised edition, drawing on the original and a later survey of albums released up until the early 2000s.
Michael Jackson's Thriller, estimated to have sold 70 million copies worldwide, is the best-selling album ever. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Jackson also currently has the highest number of albums on the list with five, Celine Dion has four, while the Beatles, Madonna , Whitney Houston and Pink Floyd each have three.
The album spent a total of eight weeks on the chart, peaking at number 142 in the week of March 30, 1974. [11] This marked the lowest peak position of any Mountain release to that date, and remains the second lowest ahead of only Go for Your Life at number 166. [12] Twin Peaks also peaked at number 138 on the US Cash Box magazine albums chart. [13]