- Audio CD (19 Aug 2003)
- Label: pid
- ASIN: B0002546QM
- Other Editions: Audio CD
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 1. Conquistador | |||
| 2. She Wandered Through the Garden Fence | |||
| 3. Something Following Me | |||
| 4. Mabel | |||
| 5. Cerdes (Outside the Gates Of) | |||
| 6. Christmas Camel | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. Milk of Human Kindness | |||
| 2. Too Much Between Us | |||
| 3. Devil Came from Kansas | |||
| 4. Boredom | |||
| 5. Juicy John Pink | |||
| 6. Wreck of the Hesperus | |||
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| Disc: 3 | |||
| 1. Whiter Shade of Pale | |||
| 2. Lime Street Blues | |||
| 3. Homburg | |||
| 4. Good Captain Clack | |||
| 5. Quite Rightly So | |||
| 6. In the Wee Small Hours of Sixpence | |||
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8 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
exellent and wonderfull anthology from one of the most underestimated pop-rock-classic groups. May be there is no scale of estimation for such combined talents. Be it as it may:a fine collection of rare-live -and studio work and a anthology of their finest ,when they were at their 'Summum.
1 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I recommend avoiding this set. The music of course is wonderful. But they have moved the song A Salty Dog from its proper place (first track on the album of the same name of course) to the 3rd disc. So you are unable to listen to the album the way it was intended to be listened to. Mad.
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45 of 46 people found the following review helpful
Close To Perfect Compendium (No BARRICADES, Natch)
26 Aug 2001
Format:Audio CD
As box sets go, this one's pretty damn essential. Brit label Westside has assembled the first four Procol records on 2 CDs, plus a third disk containing singles and alternate mixes. The singles are understandable (two of them are 'Whiter Shade of Pale' & 'A Salty Dog', after all) but the remainder of Disc 3 SHOULD have included the 5th album 'Broken Barricades', thus presenting the complete Brooker/Trower era. One star off for this blown opportunity as well as the nondescript packaging (this has to be the least lavish 30th anniversary box set in memory). While everyone familiar with Procol Harum will admit some kind of grudging respect, they weren't the kind of band you did cartwheels over: they kind of seeped into your high esteem by degrees. And yet they performed accessible and intelligent music that somehow touched all the bases - rock, blues, progressive, folk - all at once, and in a more meaningful way than many of their contemporaries and descendents. While Matthew Fisher's organ (funerals a specialty) and the early metallic scree of Trower's guitar are prime components of their sound, the focal point of Procol was and will always be singer/pianist Gary Brooker, whose haunting, haunted vocals always reminded me of wearing a peacoat in a cold December fog. (The weather's bitterly gloomy, but the coat is warm and comforting.) Add the fact that most of these tracks are products of a songwriting partnership (with Keith Reid) that resonate with distorted echoes of Brecht-Weill and English music-hall artists, and pinning Procol Harum down to a single category becomes impossible. The resulting music somehow holds the disparate elements together, creating something new in the process, and it works beautifully. To Westside's credit, the remastering on all four albums is superb and a big improvement on the original vinyl. Got us a no-brainer here, folks.
25 of 25 people found the following review helpful
here's a bargain
11 Mar 1999
Format:Audio CD
Procol's first four albums, some singles, B-sides, and outtakes, all of which have something to commend them. The sound is much better than previous releases of this material, and the material is often terrific.
At their core, Procol was really a British R&B outfit with an imaginative Hammond organist in Matthew Fisher, and one of the most distinctive guitarists around in Robin Trower (before he submerged his style into that of Jimi Hendrix). And Gary Brooker was always a terrific singer. The first record was mostly Ray Charles influenced, although the lyrics strove for mid-sixties Dylan. The second record is as psychedelic as they come, and the third (Salty Dog) was Beatlesque in its scope and variety. Procol fans shouldn't miss this collection.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Primo!
5 Mar 2004
Format:Audio CD
Only two complaints:
1) I have to put the third CD on if I want to hear "Salty Dog" with the rest of the album.
2) Broken Barricades wasn't on it. But thank the gods in the heavens it's available again separately.
This was the band that moved me the most in my misspent youth, and their most important work is here. What a band! Play "The Band" next to them, and you get some nice reverberations, but these guys are more moving to me. They were just an irreproducible mix of talent.
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