bought the 'Rhino' Very Best Of Double CD (34 songs total). had no idea the Spill The Wine was a colaborative effort with Eric Burdon, nice surprize. all the favorites I grew up with: Spill The Wine/Low Rider/All Day Music/Galaxy/World Is A Ghetto/East LA/Cinco De Mayo/Ballero and more. great listening quality and addition to collection.

WAR is one of the all time great bands out there! This album demonstrates that to a tee. Anyone that appreciates music must have this album in there catalog.

My favorite songs from War are "Smile Happy" ,"City, Country, City", and "Four Cornered Room."
I listened to the first two and realized that they have been cut considerably. I bought this CD to hear those 3 songs but since they are much, much shorter than the originals. I want my money back. I never would have purchased a CD where the songs are just samples of the originals. What's the point?

I enjoyed War in the 70's and this is a great double album of the Greatest Hits. Their calm style is refreshing for an old fart like me. If you like good music, and you grew up in the 60's and 70's this is a great "blast from the past."

I have always like War, however, I am not a diehard or really knowledgeable fan. This collection was a bit more War than I really needed. Perhaps with a bit more listening, many of the more obscure songs will grow on me. If you are that diehard or very knowledgeable fan, perhaps it IS for you.

Either you appreciate War or you don't...if ya do then this is the collection!

These two CD's are a very good introduction to WAR. The only problem that I've found with this CD is that, in order to fit in as many songs as possible, they edited and abridged many of the songs (Ballero, Deliver the Word, The World is a Ghetto all fall into this category). And as mentioned before some of the songs on the second CD do not do justice WAR, mainly their attempts at disco fall short. This also lacks many of the groups songs that they did with Eric Burdon (Spill the Wine and Tobacco Road are the only ones to make the cut) and it would have been nice to see more those songs on the album instead of some of their later work. This is a great introduction to band but do yourself a favor and check out more of them so you can get a full sense of WAR.

There are few groups my daughter and I both share an interest in, (35yr age difference) this is one of them...she's been singing "Low Rider" word for word since she was 4, to the amazement of my co-workers at the tire company I worked at. This CD covers all the best hits, not just one or two like most.

6/7 reviews show alot how this group fail to become well known even with a long list of hits. War is by far my favorite group. They are really incredible and their songs have so much depth, postivity and quality to them. Each individual song has it's own personilty and that is something you cannot find in too many collection of hits. War wanted to be different and for that people didnt fully understand but I did and that's why I truly love their sound and music. I can let this whole entire CD ride from beginning to end. Everything sounds so fresh despite the time period like most music. It's a crime War never really became a house hold name but their music will defiently live on through all the fans who supported their work and appreciate their music like I do.

I have listened to War since Eric Burton and War were together and liked them. This album shows the many types of music War can cover. Funky,mellow and rock. Great album. Brings back memories.

This is the best 2 disc compilation of War you will find. All of the hits are here and then some. The sound is great and you won't be disappointed. I would recommend this to any 70's soul, funk and rock fan, War has all of those elements. A pleasure to listen to.

If you want every single one of WAR's biggest hits, this is the one and ONLY collection to buy. You'll find everything you'll looking for. "Slippin' In the Darkness", "The World Is A Ghetto", "Why Can't We Be Friends?" "Low Rider", "Don't Let No One Get You Down", "City, Country, City", and the list goes on. I grew up listening to these guys, and I could honestly say that I have never heard a more positive group, not to mention one that's unique in it's sound. A must have for all fans of R&B/Soul out there.

True Funkophiles!!! Strike back for the future! Ground your kids on a Saturday afternoon this summer, buy them a funky shirt and some cool shades and make them sit on the patio and drink some lemonade with you while you play this album of "Daddy's Old Music" for them. If they haven't come around by the end of "Me and Baby Brother", just tell yourself you did your best, give 'em back the TV remote or send them off to listen to Britney and Christina. You should stay there, freshen up the sun screen, and wait a couple of hours for when they come back and say, "What did you say the name of that band was?" Funk on!

War were the grandfathers of mulit-ethnic, political-party monster, rap-rock bands. Without them would we really have LA's Latin-rap-rockers Ozomatli or the hip-hop-Jewish-Black-east coast-west-coast culture-clash of the Beastie Boys or the British-by-way-of-India asiandubfoundation?!

In fact, asiandubfoundation's "Community Music" is like listening to War 25 years in the future! "Slippin Into Darkness" contorts into Community Music's "Truth Hides" in melody and feeling and groove. "Why Cant We Be Friends" skip-hops into the joy of "New Way, New Life." And "The World Is A Ghetto" slides into the message of "Collective Mode."

Open your mind, expand your geographical exercursions, be a culture vulture and make War!

I DOWNLOAD LOW RIDER AND I DOWNLOAD SPILL THAT WINE

what more could you ask in a greatest Hits package?War is a Band that you name it Musically in style&they did&also pulled off something else without even trying.this Set showcases all of there jams&flavors&how it all rolls as one.you get the un-cut Funk&Grooves of this Mighty Band.Bands like this Nowadays are given Corperate Logo Names but with War there Music did the talking&it was up to the Person to elect if they wanted to go for the ride.I miss those days when Radio&Tv didn't hand pick what you must think&feel.alot of Bands owe a debt to War&what they Brought to the Music table.

After all these years, revisiting the best of War (pretty much disc one of 'The Very Best of War') was an expected pleasure. Hearing what War had done in the years after their mid-seventies commercial peak (pretty much disc two) was an unexpected one.

Heavyweights in the days before hyper-demographic radio, War co-existed with the likes of the Rolling Stones, the Doobie Brothers and Elton John on FM playlists across the country. Their brand of latin-tinged r&b, coupled with a talent for jamming, struck a chord with listeners of the day, as War was something of a cross between the Allman Brothers Band and Graham Central Station. They were a rhythm and blues band whose frequently-joyful music crossed all racial boundaries.

And this collection gets it all down. Not only are the hits here ("Slipping Into Darkness", "Low Rider", "The World Is A Ghetto", "Why Can't We Be Friends" and "Gypsy Man"), but so are significant album tracks ("Four Cornered Room", "Don't Let No One Get You Down") and overlooked nuggets as well ("I'm The One Who Understands", "River Niger" and "East L.A."--which sports an amazing guest vocal from Jose Feliciano).

And the remastered sound, courtesy of Bill Inglot and Dan Hersch, just sparkles. The sonic detail is amazing, and with a multi-instrumental, polyrhythmic band like War, hearing it revealed is a truly awesome experience.

But 'The Very Best of War' isn't without its flaws: I'm not sure "Ballero" is the best representative of 'War Live!', "Galaxy" and "You Got The Power" are two very mediocre attempts at disco, and several other album tracks are depressingly pedestrian.

But in the end, this is a well done collection that provides a comprehensive look at War for less than an earlier War anthology costs. In short, this is one time I will urge people to go to War.

I USED TO OWN ALL THE WAR LP'S WHEN I WAS YOUNGER AND JUST GETTING STARTED TO LIKE THE FUNK. BUT, I DIDN'T LIKE THEM AT ALL. THESE LP'S WERE GIVEN TO ME. I LISTENED TO THEM ONE TIME AND DONATED THEM TO A STATE COLLEGE RADIO STATION. PRESENTLY, I SAW THIS CD ON TV AND AND LISTENED TO THE SONG SAMPLES. THEY DIDN'T SOUND BAD WITH A FRESH EAR. I BOUGHT IT AND LISTENED TO IT. THESE GUYS ARE GREAT!!! I DON'T KNOW WHAT WAS WRONG WITH ME BACK THEN, BUT NOW I RATE THIS GREAT STUFF INDEED. THE CD KICKS OFF WITH 2 SONGS FROM ERIC BURDON AND WAR "SPILL THE WINE" AND "TOBACCO ROAD" AFTER THAT, THE REALLY GOOD STUFF STARTS TO SHINE. ALL THE HITS ARE HERE. FOR EXAMPLE, GYPSY MAN, THE WORLD IS A GHETTO, CISCO KID, OUTLAW....ALL ARE MASTERPIECES AND IN ONE COLLECTION! THE ONLY BAD SIDE IS THAT THEY ARE THE SHORTER VERSIONS AS COMPARED TO THE LENGHTY LP TRACKS. THIS COLLECTION COVERS FROM 1970 TO THEIR LATEST 1994 LP, "PEACE SIGN." IT EVEN HAS THE TITLE TRACK TO THE SOUNDTRACK "YOUNGBLOOD" THIS WAS WELL WORTH THE MONEY, NOW I WISH THAT I NEVER GAVE AWAY THE LP'S!! ALSO WORTH GETTING IS THE "GROOVES AND MESSAGES" CD. THIS HAS A SPECIAL CD FOR JUST EXTENDED MIXES OF CERTIAN HITS