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Title: 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Steppenwolf
Artist: Steppenwolf
Audio CD (April 20, 1999) 
Original Release Date: April 20, 1999 
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Classic Rock
Format: Free Lossless Audio Codec


Track Listing:

01. Born to Be Wild
02. Magic Carpet Ride
03. It\'s Never Too Late
04. Rock Me
05. Snowblind Friend
06. Hey Lawdy Mama
07. Ride with Me
08. Move Over
09. Who Needs Ya?
10. The Pusher


Amazon Review:
Steppenwolf earned its place in the rock pantheon thanks to \"Born to Be Wild,\" the deathless classic immortalized in the 1969 counterculture flick Easy Rider. But there was more to John Kay & Co. than a theme song for motorcycle rallies. Steppenwolf also offered social commentary in the form of \"Snowblind Friend\" and \"The Pusher,\" prime psychedelia (\"Magic Carpet Ride\"), and plenty of good-time hard rock (\"Hey Lawdy Mama,\" \"Rock Me\"). In some ways, they were the thinking person\'s hard rock band (a specialty niche, to be sure, with Kay\'s band taking their name, after all, from a Hermann Hesse novel). Alas, like so many examples of MCA\'s 20th Century Masters collection, this Steppenwolf set contains some fine music, but is inferior to a previous package -- 1999\'s All-Time Greatest Hits, which offers many more tracks for just a couple more bucks.

Allmusic Review:
Like any record company worth their salt, MCA knows a good gimmick when they see it, and when the millennium came around -- well, the 20th Century Masters -- The Millennium Collection wasn\'t too far behind. Supposedly, the millennium is a momentous occasion, but it\'s hard to feel that way when it\'s used as another excuse to turn out a budget-line series. But apart from the presumptuous title, 20th Century Masters -- The Millennium Collection turns out to be a very good budget-line series. True, it\'s impossible for any of these brief collections to be definitive, but they\'re nevertheless solid samplers that don\'t feature a bad song in the bunch. For example, take Steppenwolf\'s 20th Century volume -- it\'s an irresistible ten-song summary of their MCA years. There may be a couple of noteworthy songs missing, but many of their best-known songs for the label are here, including \"Born to Be Wild,\" \"Magic Carpet Ride,\" \"Rock Me,\" \"Snowblind Friend,\" \"Hey Lawdy Mama,\" \"Ride with Me,\" and \"The Pusher.\" Serious fans will want something more extensive, but this is an excellent introduction for neophytes and a great sampler for casual fans, considering its length and price. That doesn\'t erase the ridiculousness of the series title, but the silliness is excusable when the music and the collections are good.