Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Whiter Shade Of Pale, A
2. Lime Street Blues
3. Homburg
4. In The Wee Small Hours Of Sixpence
5. Cerdes (Outside The Gates Of)
6. Salad Days (Are Here Again)
7. Repent Walpurgis
8. Shine On Brightly
9. In Held 'Twas In I A: Glimpses Of Nirvana
10. In Held 'Twas In I B: 'Twas Teatime At The Circus
11. In Held 'Twas In I C: In The Autumn Of My Madness
12. In Held 'Twas In I D: Look To Your Soul
13. In Held 'Twas In I E: Grande Finale
14. Salty Dog, A
15. Milk Of Human Kindness, The
16. Pilgrim's Progress
17. Long Gone Geek
18. Still There'll Be More
19. About To Die
20. Barnyard Story

Disc 2:

1. Your Own Choice
2. Broken Barricades
3. Rum Tale, A
4. For Liquorice John
5. Robert's Box
6. Beyond The Pale
7. As Strong As Samson
8. Thin End Of The Wedge, The
9. Pandora's Box
10. Fools Gold
11. Taking The Time
12. Unquiet Zone, The
13. King Of Hearts, The
14. Perpetual Motion
15. Emperor's New Clothes, The
16. So Far Behind
17. Man With A Mission
18. Blue Danube

Disc 3:

1. New Lamps For Old
2. Last Train To Niagara
3. Crucifiction Lane
4. Rambling On
5. Juicy John Pink
6. Broken Barricades
7. Tv Ceasar / Rule Britannia
8. Souvenir Of London
9. You Can't Turn Back The Page
10. Learn To Fly
11. One Eye On The Future
12. Whisky Train
13. All This And More
14. Luskus Delph

Disc 4:

1. Bringing Home The Bacon
2. Toujours L'Amour
3. Devil Came From Kansas
4. Idol
5. Something Magic
6. Butterfly Boys
7. Nothing But The Truth
8. Into The Flood
9. Simple Sister
10. Whaling Stories
11. VIP Room
12. Kaleidoscope
13. Alpha
14. Old English Dream
15. Grand Hotel
16. As Strong As Samson
17. Quite Rightly So
18. Conquistador
19. Piggy Pig Pig
20. Seem To Have The Blues (Most All Of The Time)
21. Memorial Drive
22. Wizard Man

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4482 in Music
• Released on: 2009-09-28
• Number of discs: 4
• Formats: Box set, Original recording remastered
• Dimensions: .89 pounds

Customer Reviews

A chance partially wasted
This was the opportunity to put out all the previously unreleased material that Procol Harum have been keeping under wraps for so many years. The fact is that the opportunity hasn't been taken, and because of that I can't give this box set a full 5 stars.
Any anthology is down to personnal taste, but there are some really glaring omissions in this set. And why on earth is the full In Held Twas In I suite included?
Basically, what you get for your bucks are 2 CDs of previously released material, heavily weighted towards the first 4 album releases, and without representation from the Edmonton record or Something Magic, and only one track from Broken Barricades. Some of Procols greatest work is missing from these CDs and there are none of the eagerly anticipated tracks sucn as I'm A Reader and A Writer, So Far Behind, Musical Fish, One Eye on the Future, Old Dog and You Better Wait (though some of these are released on the 40th anniversary version of Something Magic). The 'rare' tracks are confined to B-sides which most Procol fans will have several times over.
Of course, the music is great. That goes almost without saying, and for the casual fan will more than suffice. Not for the fanatics though!
Just a quick note as well to concur with the previous reviewer regarding the difficulty of getting the CDs out of the case. Back to the drawing board with that one! The packaging, otherwise is exemplary and the booklet informative and full of great pictures.
Returning to the musical content then....
The third CD is Procol captured Live. Some great tracks here, especially with the appearance of 'Night Train to Niagara'. Some cuts are too close to their original studio versions. This is almost definitely down to the Procol's consumate professionalism, but I personally prefer my live concerts to have a rougher edge. A few of the tracks are a bit sterile.
The forth CD is essentially extracts from 5 previously available shows dating back to the Danish TV show of 1974, through Copenhagen 2001, the great Union Chapel concert of 2003, the Isle of Wight 2006 and the orchestral augmented show from Ledreborg 2006. All are in fantastic quality, but beware, if you have collected live Procol concerts, you may already have these.
So, all in all, a great overview of the band through the past 40 years, but a little short on those missing gems. Ah well, maybe they'll be in the 50th Anniversary Box Set....

Wonderful music but...
This is a maginificent anthology of on of the original progressive-rock groups. The track selection is good for the newcomer and there's enough rarities for the fan too. The booklet is good, if somewhat gushing.

But which idiot thought up the new inserts? They are some kind of complex sprung plastic design which grips the CDs only via the edges and therefore you can't push into the middle to get them out, instead having to resort to gently trying to force them over the edge clips without breaking the CDs in the process.

This box is well worth buying, but if you do, take the CDs out of the box and repackage them as soon as they arrive. This could prevent you hearing horrible, expensive cracking sounds one day when you're impatient to play the discs...

excellent value for little money....
..So much great tracks (audio or video) & a beautiful and instructive book...it's a pleasure to watch and to
listen...What a great group, now on the way of complete recognition....(or buy the beautiful originals albums)