Mountain – The Best Of Mountain

Recently acquired a Taiwan counterfeit pressing of this album with the standard Taiwan bootleg plastic sleeve/jacket

Today, I picked this up sealed for $2 at my local record store (Randy Now’s Man Cave in New Jersey) with the intention of having Never in My Life and Mississippi Queen and 10 other great songs, as I’d heard of how great everybody thought they were. While I didn’t find any downright “bad” songs on here, I found Never In My Life and Mississippi Queen to be the only “great” tracks on here, with their cover of Roll Over Beethoven being a rather interesting tune. Hopefully this grows on me, as I’d love for it to.

I have Japanese press TD 1214 on Union records the best of mountain

I probably need to come back and give this another shake, but on initial listen, I found it to be a reasonable collection of Mountain's output, but I was not knocked out over the sonics of the reissue.

variant : Matrix / Runout (Runout A, stamped): AL 32079-1AD S1 COLUMBIA NY A3
Matrix / Runout (Runout B, etched):P BL- 32079-2E S1 A4

Closest I've found to mine. Side 1 etched and stamped is:
T1 PAL 32079-1D (0 STERLING LH3 stamped) B5
Side 2:
T1 0 PBL 32079-1C (STERLING LH2 stamped) B17

Mine is 1973 but has a different label with A1 and A2, B1 and B2 above the spindle hole, I only ? this as I have the same runout etched on A and B plus what looks like an A1 in a circle etched in on the b side and I also have a 0 or an o etched half way between the C2D and the PAL, PBL etching on both sides, finally my sleeve is a reverse gatefold but no no single line writing under the track listing on the rear.

I have a reverse gatefold version of this. Not listed here

this is the original 1973 pressing of this mountain compilation that consists of some of there best songs recorded between 1969 and 1972, this is a really nice thick gatefold sleeve with a top cap japan obi strip wich also includes a four page insert with lyrics in english/japanese and an essay on mountain in japanese as well, the vinyl is typical thick early 70s pressing and this is a gem , very hard to find complete......like this one i just found...

Island 86 758 IT, anybody? Printed in Western Germany?