Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack - Nice (1)
2. Aeroplane - Jethro Tull
3. This Wheel's On Fire - Driscoll, Julie & Brian Auger/The Trinity
4. Song Of A Baker - Small Faces
5. Fire - Crazy World Of Arthur Brown
6. America - Nice (1)
7. One Inch Rock - Tyrannosaurus Rex
8. Road To Cairo - Driscoll, Julie & Brian Auger/The Trinity
9. Sky Is Burning - Gopal, Sam
10. Xoanan Bay - Woody Kern
11. I Keep Singing That Same Old Song - Heavy Jelly
12. Walking In The Park - Colosseum (1)
13. Hibou Anemone And Bear - Soft Machine
14. Man Of The World - Fleetwood Mac
15. Shinin' For You - Hartley, Keef Band
16. Seen Through A Light - Mooche
17. Mrs Moon And The Thatched Shop - Oldfield, Mike
18. Natural Born Bugie - Humble Pie
19. Shangri La - Kinks

Disc 2:

1. Billy The Monster - Deviants (1)
2. Spunk Box - Man (1)
3. Who Do You Love - Juicy Lucy
4. Kings And Queens - Renaissance (1)
5. Down The Dustpipe - Status Quo
6. Come To The Sabbat - Black Widow
7. Green Manalishi - Fleetwood Mac
8. All In Your Mind - Stray
9. Bath Sister - Jody Grind
10. Answer - Bardens, Pete
11. Tomorrow Night - Atomic Rooster
12. Junior's Wailing - Status Quo
13. Follow You Home - UFO (1)
14. Money Can't Save Your Soul - Savoy Brown
15. Lucky Man - Emerson Lake & Palmer
16. Levinia - Steamhammer
17. Diana - Comus

Disc 3:

1. Prelude To The Arena - Marsupilami
2. Blind To Your Light - Delivery
3. Devil's Answer - Atomic Rooster
4. Mice And Rats In The Loft - Jan Dukes De Grey
5. Wishful Thinking - Hiroshima
6. Gone With The Mouse - Fuchsia
7. Eternal Messenger - Kingdom Come (2)
8. Daughter Of The Hillside - Chicken Shack
9. Easy Livin' - Uriah Heep
10. Skin Alley Serenade - Skin Alley
11. Buffalo - Writing On The Wall
12. Sad Go Round - Groundhogs
13. Karn Evil 9 - Emerson Lake & Palmer
14. Starlight Starbright - Gravy Train (1)
15. Funeral Empire - Tempest (1)
16. Opening Move - Gryphon
17. Seventh Secret - Fruupp

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5612 in Music
• Released on: 2008-02-26
• Number of discs: 3
• Format: Box set
• Dimensions: .28 pounds

Customer Reviews

Nostalgia satisfied.
This superb boxed set took me back to my fifth form days at school when we were allowed to bring in our albums and play them on the common room record player. Being pretty much strapped for cash most of the time, samplers were very popular.

These were usually cheap and often double albums. They usually featured resident bands on labels like Vertigo, Island, who released the excellent "El Pea" and CBS who released the equally impressive "Fill Your Head With Rock" etc. They were a great way to hear a lot of music at a relatively cheap price.

We were very much in to progressive rock then and this album reflects the inventiveness of the era. Names you've heard of and names you haven't. Somehow I managed to have heard of the bands if not the music.

But while we have the giants of the genre such as ELP, Jethro Tull, The Nice, The Kinks, Fleetwood Mac, Uriah Heep and Atomic Rooster represented here, there are gems from lesser known names such as Black Widow (how we got away with playing a song called Come to the Sabbat with the RE master in the room beats me), early, pre Annie Haslam Rennaisance, Man (Always worth hearing) and Savoy Brown (Oh, the memories).

On board too are oddities by Mike Oldfield, Gothic folksters Comus, Pre T.Rex Tyrannosaurus Rex and, oh, look at this, even some Status Quo. Something for everyone then but maybe you need to be of a certain age to really appreciate this.

Or maybe you just need to appreciate well thought out and often intelligent music that didn't follow the set formula.

This 3 CD set is the best I've heard in amany a long year. Better even than the also superb Vertigo Retrospective. For a 50 something and rapidly aging male nurse, rejuvenation was suddenly discovered and I was 17 again. Please release more like this.

'Highly' recommended
This collection has had some negative remarks. I was born in 1959 and have spent most of my life as a musician (including some prog rock stints), music lover, and importantly, a collector of music (10,000 plus recordings, various media), of especially 'adventurous' music (within every context of my stages of life). Suffice it to say, I personally view this collection as 'manna', most enjoyable and a true gift for it's release. Thats all ;-). Was this review helpful to you (just kidding ;-))

btw, I am listening to these recordings as I write, wish you were here.