A fan favourite, the wandering yet always sweetly melodic playing on Freeway Jam rides past a funky, jazz-fusion backdrop that showed Beck was already moving in far more adventurous waters than his former blues boom alumni. If an album is 'missing' that you think deserves to be here, you can include it in your own chart from the My Charts page! The best album credited to Jeff Beck is Truth which is ranked number 1,449 in the overall greatest album chart with a total rank score of 1,195. The material itself may not be top-notch but Spanish Boots contains a great riff and spectacular work by Beck, while Plynth (Water Down the Drain), The Hangman's Knee and Rice Pudding once again make it possible to draw comparisons with Zeppelin, especially seeing how, despite the fact that Beck and Stewart are better instrumentalists than Page and Plant, the scales clearly fall on the side of Zeppelin because the songs are so much better.

The album contained a large assortment of musicians that included Jan Hammer and Tony Hymas who either wrote or co-wrote all but two songs on the album. Jeff Beck Group' contains "Going Down," one of Beck's best-known tracks and a perennial concert favourite, as well as the album-opening highlight "Ice Cream Cakes. I had Blow by Blow and Jeff Beck with Jan Hammer when all my friends never heard of it, they were big KISS fans.The big moment here however as far as the “emotion” portion of the album is concerned is the magnificent cover of “Over The Rainbow”.

It shows Jeff Beck adopting a more pop style but fusing his always razor sharp lead work in a new framework, giving room for his fireworks.

The album balances the sweeping vistas of a 64-piece orchestra with cool jazz-funk grooves, tarted-up Screamin' Jay Hawkins covers with a pair of Jeff Buckley tunes and a gentle reading of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow. If, as usual, the death of a rock hero ignites a mad scramble to hear their music, there's certainly no shortage of Jeff Beck material to be consumed. Songs like “The Revolution Will Be Televised” and “Oil” rock with the power of any metal band and Jeff Beck seems to be especially charged up on this set of ultra contemporary songs that would delight NIN fans as well as Beck fans who continue to marvel at his incredible range of style.