- Audio CD (12 Mar 2007)
- Number of Discs: 4
- Format: Box set
- Label: Sanctuary
- ASIN: B000EPF8LC
- Other Editions: Audio CD | MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 150,913 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 1. Mirage | |||
| 2. Waltz | |||
| 3. Poison | |||
| 4. Travelling Song | |||
| 5. Forty-Eight | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. Lord Franklin | |||
| 2. Jack Orion | |||
| 3. Cruel Sister | |||
| 4. Helping Hand | |||
| 5. Faro Annie | |||
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| Disc: 3 | |||
| 1. Waltz | |||
| 2. Way Behind The Sun | |||
| 3. The Time Has Come | |||
| 4. Let No Man Steal Your Thyme | |||
| 5. So Early In The Spring | |||
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| Disc: 4 | |||
| 1. Pentangling | |||
| 2. Sally Go 'Round The Roses | |||
| 3. Sarabande | |||
| 4. Sally Free And Easy | |||
| 5. Wondrous Love | |||
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Product Description
UNCUT, February 2007
★★★★ "Rare mercurial magic" "An impressive overview of the group's best years"
Album Description
* Digitally re-mastered. * Compiled in conjunction with the band. * Extensive sleevenotes by Pentangle historian Colin Harper and Pete Paphides (chief Rock critic, The Times). * Featuring many rare and unreleased tracks. * Full colour 60 page booklet with unseen photos and memorabilia.
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42 of 43 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Manufacturing fault detracts slightly from this truly great release,
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This review is from: The Time Has Come 1967 - 1973 (Audio CD)
This is an absolutely essential set for Pentangle fans. Lovely sound & packaging except for one small problem. The excellent, but hefty booklet is too heavy to stay attached. If you order this set you will very likely find the booklet already separated from the hardcover book style case. If it isn't, it will be before you finish reading it. Sanctuary are aware of the problem, but it seems doubtful that anything can be done to fix it at this stage. Don't let that put you off buying this superb release though. The booklet is much easier to read once it's detached from the case anyway, & the music is superb. The whole of disc 4 is previously unreleased, plus there are several previously unreleased, upgraded or rare tracks on the first two discs. Disc 3 is a resequenced, reedited version of the Live at the Royal Festival Hall performance from 1968, previously released as 'Sweet Child'. It has all the bonus tracks from the 2001 remaster, but edits out the extraneous applause, banter & retuning.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
great music patchy release,
By HJ (London UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Time Has Come 1967 - 1973 (Audio CD)
I got my box for £17 through an Amazon pre-order sale so I'm happy! But if you are thinking of paying the full £30 asking price you might want to approach with caution. The box is stylish but mine fell apart after a couple of days. In fact the box (or is it a wallet?) doesn't close so book & discs come tumbling out. The book itself is good & Colin Harper gives a definitive telling of the Pentangle story (based on new interviews), though I would have liked more info about the actual tracks on the discs (especially as the track listing annotations are in microscopic print). As for the music, well, you get a fairly standard greatest hits selection on the first 2 discs, interspersed with rarities, b-sides, alternate takes etc. Disc 3 is the Festival Hall 68 concert, which might annoy those who got the recent Sweet Child upgrade containing the same show (albeit in different edit). Disc 4 is completely unreleased stuff (some interestingly left-field), mostly TV sessions, some with less than perfect sound quality.
I have to say that each disc is very well programmed & enjoyable. And given that Pentangle are back in vogue at the moment, it's probably timely to have a comprehensive overview rather than just a box of rare stuff for fanatics. Initial "previously unreleased" highlights, for me, include an alternate 13 minute studio take of Reflection & a 20 minute live Pentangling from 1970 - the latter confirming how improvisational they were from night to night. Perhaps the real disappointment is that so few live concerts have surfaced. The book mentions that they used to tour regularly with the Grateful Dead & play the Fillmore, such shows were routinely taped, so is there a stash of Pentangle concerts gathering dust on a shelf somewhere in the US? Anyway, the music on this box has never sounded so good & should keep Pentanglers old & new occupied for a long time to come - but my advice would be to shop around.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
there's glue and then there are things that matter,
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This review is from: The Time Has Come 1967-1973 (Audio CD)
I got this box set and with great excitement I opened the packaging to expose the product, in my eagerness i held it to the light and .... the booklet fell out. OK I thought and played the discs back to back, made a cup of tea and did the whole thing again. ne'er a week goes by without me playing this fantastic collection of songs. It contains all the hits and more, one thing that did rankle a bit is the music from the TV series Tam Linn, admittedly it is a great version (comparable at least to Fairport's version) but the sound effects of the running river tend to remind you it was culled from TV. But allowing for this one thing the rest of the set is outstanding. After all the trees do grow high but I got a feeling that no man will steal their thyme. Keep on Pentangling.
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