What does it sound like?:
Band archivist Andrew Batt has put this sprawling seven cd box together. It’s a mixture of unreleased material combined with difficult to find obscurities, live material, and some familiar tunes in less familiar versions – oh, and there’s a selection of their best material from the first ten years too.
All told, there are one hundred and twenty one tracks, of which fifty five are previously unreleased. It comes together with a good forty eight page book, although I’d have liked more information on the previously unreleased material here.. So there’s a lot to get through, but in brief summary:
Cd 1 basically covers their debut through to Unhalfbricking, including a lovely alternate take of Who Knows Where The Time Goes.
Cd 2 has a selection of Dylan covers and some BBC sessions, together with material from Liege & Lief. The most interesting pieces are a nice Ballad Of Easy Rider and an outtake of The Deserter, but there’s plenty of great music on here from this part of their career.
Cd 3 contains seven previously unreleased live tracks from the Full House era, the highlight being a lengthy version of Sloth. There are » Continue Reading.