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The Very Best of the Move
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Track Listing
- Flowers In The Rain
- I Can Hear The Grass Grow
- Hear We Go 'round The Lemon Tree
- Night Of Fear
- Disturbance
- Fire Brigade
- Walk Upon The Water
- Wild Tiger Woman
- Blackberry Way
- Omnibus
- Useless Information
- Curly
- Your Love Keeps Lifting Me Higher And Higher
- Cherry Blossom Clinic Revisited
- Beautiful Daughter
- Brontosaurus
- Lightning Never Strikes Twice
- Open Up Said The World At The Door
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #67478 in Music
- Released on: 2000-10-16
- Number of discs: 1
Customer Reviews
Open Up said the World at the Door
I bought this album on the strength of Blackberry Way and Flowers in the Rain, and was very pleasantly surprised by the others on here.
I have to start with the final song on here though, as it is worth the money on its own. At the risk of sounding like a moron, 'OPEN UP SAID THE WORLD AT THE DOOR' works on several levels. The title is as psychadelic and philosophical as you can really get without mentioning brightly coloured flowers. Jeff Lynne's fast blues piano is massively catchy and Roy Wood's cheeky oboe seems to chase the ear around a magical town of melody.
Layered harmonies make me want to listen to this again and again, and the album ends with a satisfying drum arrangement.
Cherry Blossom Clinic is also wonderfully odd and, like other Move songs, is a refreshing change from melancholic love songs.
I really don't know why the Move aren't as famous as they should be. I guess they were overshadowed by the twilight of the Beatles' era and the overrated act that was the Stones.
You may not get as much respect for getting a best of, but it is a poor ear that does not listen to this cd.
Omnibus!
Got this for the Flowers In The Rain and Blackberry Way - played those tracks to death and then forgot about it....last night...slightly worse for wear, thought i'd give it another chance - folks, i was not disappointed - please check out ''omnibus'' - roy wood does saucy! ''Here We Go Round (the Lemon Tree)'' - an absolute psyche gem, finish off with Weller's fave Move track ''Beautiful Daughter'' and three undiscovered classic are firmly entrenched in your head forever!
What I got from just these tracks was that the Move were a perfect amalgamation of the raw vitality of the Who, the stonking bass lines of Motown, the sublime, rich backing vox of the Beach Boys/Beatles and all wrapped up in Wood's brilliant way with a word and a melody - this man should be knighted!
Fantastic yet tragically underrated!
This is a fabuous introduction to the music of The Move, currently a tragically underrated band, despite their great influence and popularity (at least in the UK) at the time. The scope of their music is very wide, from catchy pop tunes like "Fire Brigade" to the prog-rock of "Open Up Said The World At The Door". Far from a typical and thus dated 60s pscychadelia group, The Move still sound fresh today, and this album is a great compilation of their best work.
Great tracks to look out for include the seminal "Blackberry Way", and the quirky "Cherry Blossom Clinic Revisited".
BUY THIS ALBUM! I guarantee you will like it!!
(Don't be put off, by the way, by Roy Wood's leading role in the band - he was actually pretty good before ELO, and, god forbid, Wizzard!!)
