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~ The Nice
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  • Audio CD (10 Dec 1990)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Charisma
  • ASIN: B000024ZSR
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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Listen  1. Fantasia 1st Bridge / 2nd Bridge (Live) 2:41£0.69
Listen  2. Chorale 3rd Bridge (Live) 3:27£0.69
Listen  3. High Level Fugue - 4th Bridge (Live) 4:01£0.69
Listen  4. Finale - 5th Bridge (Live) 7:58£0.69
Listen  5. Intermezzo (Karelia Suite Op 11 No 1) (Live) 9:01£0.69
Listen  6. Pathetique (Symphony No 6 3rd Movement) (Live) 9:22£0.69
Listen  7. Country Pie / Brandenburg Concerto No 6 In B Flat Major BWV 1051 (Live) 5:40£0.69
Listen  8. One Of Those People (Live) 3:08£0.69
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Listen10. Flower King Of Flies 3:35£0.69
Listen11. Bonnie K 3:19£0.69
Listen12. Diary Of An Empty Day 3:58£0.69
Listen13. America / America (2nd Amendment) 6:06£0.69

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4.0 out of 5 stars the fog on the Tyne is all mine all mine, 23 Aug 2006
By Gerry O'neill (Morrisville, NC United States) - See all my reviews
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I finally got this album following a bout of nostalgia for my native land and in particular for an area of the country where I frequented my youth.

Thirty seven or so years later, the album does not generate as much enthusiasm as it did in my younger days. While the expanded edition is a most welcome addition to the growing repetoire of the available music of the Nice, it really has not stood the test of time too well.

All the trademarks of the band are there in their glorious splendour while Keith Emerson towers as a colossus virtuoso against the others in the band who are no novices in the rock game themselves. However there is a gnawing sense of doubt against the project of group and orchestra in the Fairfield Hall. The music of the time stands as empty as a Tyneside shipyard today despite all of Emerson's skills as a musician. I find that the commissioned work is not a real reflection of the city either then or now. The city which has undergone a major renovation and has been transformed into a city of culture from a city of deindustrialisation and now presents a bold new face to the future.

In retrospect it seems to me that this is a vainglorious attempt at a novel approach for the arts in bringing a progressive rock band together with an orchestra via the mechanism of Emerson who clearly is a talented and gifted musician but who lacks the rquisite skills of composition to do a significant portrayal of the city of Newcastle.

Having said all of that the musicianship of this album is no doubt exceptional and certainly portrays the power and intensity of the Nice and the orchestra. It is a real pity that a DVD does not exist which would transform the aural experience to the multi-media event that a Nice performance was. One can almost see the daggers fly into the Hammond organ as one writes.

As another reviewer commented the additional tracks are a real treat. As I drove through a northern city in New Jersey the other day with America blasting out into the 86 degree sunny atmosphere, a driver called out to me at a traffic light that he had never heard such a rendition with so much life and gusto. As the lights changed I explained that this was music by a sixties English band called the Nice whom he had never heard of.

A very satisfying acclamation from a musical innocent. A good album no doubt, a grand project no doubt, the best album by the band? No I must say I prefer the three disc compilation with the live version of Rondo at Newcastle City Hall, but the Nice are always better live than in the studio which cannot be said to have captured their true essence.
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3.0 out of 5 stars An interesting experiment that doesnt feel complete, 24 Oct 2001
By drgonzo3@hotmail.com (Stockholm, Sweden) - See all my reviews
Keith Emerson tried the symphony - rock group merge before others (Deep Purple etc), it is not easy to get a piece of music feeling complete with that setting. Many very interesting ideas, but at times the different parts just dont hold together. Switching between rock group and the orchestra in the usual manner most of the time. The part that holds together the best is the add-on version of Karelia, where the rock group AND the symphony orchestra plays together, and it really rocks! It is a great piece to have if you are a Nice fan (like I am). If you are not, then there are better records to begin with, like "the thoughts of Emerlist DavJack".
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13 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Nostalgia - is better than it used to be!, 22 Jan 2005
I was 18 when I first heard this album. That was 33 years ago!
I never bought it - I was too broke!
Some ten years ago, on a sailing trip to Jersey, I came across a vinyl copy of the album, in a second hand record shop and succumbed. Since then I wore it out.
Recently I saw a CD copy advertised on Amazon and could not resist. To my delight I got the full flavour of the best of 'Nice' and the progressive rock that I enjoyed in my youth.
The quality is much better than I remembered it - either as a kid or more recently on vinyl. It stirs all the emotions of a classical musician, with rock 'breakout' tendencies.
Now I'm old enough not to care - I can finally turn up the volume and enjoy the full brilliance of 'The Nice'.
A must-have for rock geriatrics like me - who intend to rock till they drop!!
Enjoy top quality classical rock music that is timeless. Just buy it.
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