THE EARLY SINGLES

Never actually owned this CD, but I have heard it before. It's almost the exact same thing as Masters of Rock Vol. 1, except it replaces two of the Piper tracks with the studio version of "Careful With That Axe, Eugene", and the hard to find "Point Me At the Sky," which is probably the only one of their early singles I'd consider to be substandard, but despite that feeling and even though Relics has "Biding My Time", I'm giving this one the essential rating out of the 3 compilations I'm reviewing today, mainly because it has the best track sequence out of the three with the least amount of songs recurring on regular studio albums, (only one this time), and because I love these songs!