TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of Ventures
Ventures
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
1.4113
Ventures Album Rankings
1
If one looks hard, there are so many CDs out on the Ventures, covering just about every phase of their history, that it's almost impossible to keep track of which numbers appear in what versions on wh
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3
Surprisingly enough, this turns out to be a nice overview of the group's Dolton sides, including original versions of "Walk Don't Run," "Perfidia," "Hawaii Five-O," and "Walk Don't Run '64.
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8
See For Miles reissued two of the Ventures' television-oriented records, Batman and TV Themes, on on CD in 1997.
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24
Two Ventures albums that cover their transitional period of the late '60s and early '70s very effectively on one CD.
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30
One Way reissued two Ventures albums from the early and mid-'70s, Rock & Roll Forever and Now Playing, on a single disc in 1997.
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32
The Ventures' live efforts are among the most wild and energetic entries in the group's catalog, and On Stage is no exception; on See for Miles' 1997 reissue, it's paired with the Surfing LP.
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36
This CD mixes one pretty fair album and one fairly dire album together, and it's always a question what to say about something like that.
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43
Stars on Guitars is a collection of the Ventures performing virtually every popular surf guitar instrumental that has ever been released, along with several other rock instrumentals.
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44
The title track to 1963's The Lonely Bull was one of the Ventures' biggest hits, and is the clear standout on the album of the same name; See for Miles' 1997 reissue also includes the lively $1,000,0
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50
In 1998, See for Miles released On Stage Encore/The Ventures Live, Again!, which contained two complete albums -- On Stage Encore (1967, originally released on Liberty) and Ventures Live, Again! (196
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60
One Way reissued two albums the Ventures released in 1969, Hawaii Five-O and Swamp Rock, on a single disc in 1996.
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