Uriah Heep Album: “20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Uriah Heep”

If you only have enough cash for a single disc "best of" from this great & under-rated 70's band, this Millennium Collection is the definitley the way to go. The 1976 "The Best Of Uriah Heep" is a good single disc album, but only features 9 tracks compared to the 12 offered here. Plus the sound on the Millennium release is much better. My personal advice, however, is to scrape up the extra cash and purchase the vastly superior 2 disc set, "Classic Heep: An Anthology". "An Anthology" contains a whopping 30 tracks and gives a much better musical representation of Uriah Heep. If you're on a tight musical budget though, opt for this album and save you cash for the "Uriah Heep Live - 1973" cd.

I'm old enough that I was around when Uriah Heep was in their heyday but for some reason I never really heard any of their stuff even through freinds that probably listened to them. I rented a dvd of them which was recored live, "ala unplugged" and was totaly blown away with the performance and melodies of the songs. I decided to get this disc figuring it might be a decent overview of the bands music and man was I ever impressed. I plan on getting some more of their music for sure. Uriah Heep had obvious influences from other bands of that period with their own harmonics and style laid in. If you are checking out the band for the first time as I was, I highly suggest getting this disc as a great introduction to a very musical group. How I never heard any of their stuff in the past with the exception of the big hit "Easy Livin'" is totaly beyond me.

If you like Heep you most likely have all these tunes but its solid,it has stealing which is hard to find as well.

This band in my opinion were the masters of the ballad, the selection from the 20th Century Masters album are but a few of the excellent songs that they performed, an outstanding purchase of the many I have made!!!!!!!!

Uriah Heep has been my favorite group of all times for many years now. The powerful voice of David Byron really takes you to other places. Although this collection has some of their best recordings ever, I would prefer to see classics like "Magician's Birthday", "The Spell", "Pilgrim" and "Tales" included as well. Nevertheless, this is a must-have collection for every fan of classic hard rock.