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The Best of the Move
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Track Listing
- Night Of Fear
- I Can Hear The Grass Grow
- Flowers In The Rain
- Fire Brigade
- Wild Tiger Woman
- Blackberry Way
- Curly
- Brontosaurus
- When Alice Comes Back To The Farm
- Turkish Tram Conductor Blues
- Ella James
- Tonight
- Chinatown
- Do Ya
- California Man
- Down On The Bay
- Disturbance
- Wave The Flag And Stop The Train
- Lemon Tree
- Walk Upon The Water
- Omnibus
- Lightning Never Strikes Twice
- Killroy Was Here
- Something
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #58585 in Music
- Released on: 2000-01-01
- Number of discs: 1
- Dimensions: .22 pounds
Customer Reviews
It's All Here
This is excellent. Everything wonderful that remains of "The Move" and then some. All original versions - no re-recordings here.
So, The Move - who they? A band from Birmingham UK. They played the first music heard on BBC Radio 1 when it opened in 1967 ("Flowers in the Rain"). They had one of the first "drug song" hits in the UK ("I Can Hear the Grass Grow") they made some of the best hippy-pop singles ("Fire Brigade" and "Curly" for examples). They also had probably one of the first heavy-guitar hit singles ("Brontosaurus").
Like so many successful group acts there was a sweet and sour tension in the band which probably enhanced their success. Sometimes the sweet won out ("Flowers in the Rain") and sometimes the more hard edged side did ("Wild Tiger Woman").
Roy Wood, the man who wrote most of the Move's hit singles, was a master at whimsical lyrics and catchy tunes and took the lead vocal on most of their hits, though Carl Wayne's more substantial rock voice poked through in alternation on some of them.
They first hit the charts in 1966 with "Night of Fear" - which in a rocky way borrows heavily from the main theme of Beethoven's 1812 Overture. This semi-novelty approach might have consigned them to the dreaded category of one hit wonders. However, as this collection amply demonstrates, the band's skills (and Wood's composing talent) allowed them to be hugely successful at riding the bucking bronco of changing music tastes through to the early 1970s.
In the early 1970s the Move fragmented and Jeff Lynne (ex Idle Race) became involved. But, all that soon exploded too, Roy Wood released solo material and also started Wizzard (and had THAT Christmas hit which will keep him in royalties to his dying day) and Lynne started the Electric Light Orchestra with stratospherically successful results through the 1970s and into the 80s. Both acts could be said to be built on the ashes of "The Move".
This CD contains all the hits and B sides of The Move's hits, including some later stuff that was really just Roy Wood. An usefully complete collection and one that I highly recommend.
