Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart - The Move, Hanley, James F.
The Girl Outside
Fire Brigade
Mist on a Monday Morning
Cherry Blossom Clinic
Night of Fear [*]
The Disturbance [*]
I Can Hear the Grass Grow [*]
Wave Your Flag and Stop the Train [*]
Vote for Me [#][*]
The Disturbance [Alternate Take][#][*][Version]
Fire Brigade [Alternate Take][#][*][Version]
Second Class (She's Too Good for You) [#][*]
Cherry Blossom Clinic [#][*]
(Here We Go Round) The Lemon Tree [*]
Weekend [*] - The Move, Post, Bill
Flowers in the Rain [*]
Useless Information [*]
Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart [*] - The Move, Hanley, James F.
The Girl Outside [*]
Walk Upon the Water [*]
The Move's debut album expanded to a deluxe 2 CD set. Features four Top 5 hits (including Flowers In the Rain) and a wealth of previously unreleased tracks including brand new stereo mixes of the entire album. Remastered f... more »rom original master tapes by Rob Keyloch at Church Walk Studio, the music here has never sounded better. Stylish double digipack with 20 page booklet designed by Grammy award winner Rachel Gutek and containing rare and previously unseen photographs plus detailed, authoritative notes by Mojo's Mark Paytress. In short it was pop psychedelic masterpiece and Salvo is now proud to present the most comprehensive and beautifully realised reissue of 'Move' yet. Immaculately remastered and expanded to a 90-minute deluxe 2-CD set, it is sure to get the band's existing fans, as well as 60s pop and psychedelic rock enthusiasts in a lather. It includes the classic hits 'Flowers In the Rain', 'Fire Brigade', 'I Can Hear The Grass Grow' and 'Night Of Fear', rare B-sides and a wealth previously unreleased songs.Salvo 2007« less
The Move's debut album expanded to a deluxe 2 CD set. Features four Top 5 hits (including Flowers In the Rain) and a wealth of previously unreleased tracks including brand new stereo mixes of the entire album. Remastered from original master tapes by Rob Keyloch at Church Walk Studio, the music here has never sounded better. Stylish double digipack with 20 page booklet designed by Grammy award winner Rachel Gutek and containing rare and previously unseen photographs plus detailed, authoritative notes by Mojo's Mark Paytress. In short it was pop psychedelic masterpiece and Salvo is now proud to present the most comprehensive and beautifully realised reissue of 'Move' yet. Immaculately remastered and expanded to a 90-minute deluxe 2-CD set, it is sure to get the band's existing fans, as well as 60s pop and psychedelic rock enthusiasts in a lather. It includes the classic hits 'Flowers In the Rain', 'Fire Brigade', 'I Can Hear The Grass Grow' and 'Night Of Fear', rare B-sides and a wealth previously unreleased songs.Salvo 2007
CD Reviews
Wow...a major milestone reissue!!!!!
B. Margolis | Minneapolis, MN United States | 09/15/2007
(5 out of 5 stars)
"This wonderful reissue is the first by the reorganized Fly Records, using the SALVO label.
Disc 1 is the complete first Move album in mono, followed by "Vote For Me" (in stereo), (the first two singles); "Disturbance", "Night Of Fear", "Wave The Flag And Stop The Train" and "I Can Hear The Grass Grow" (all in mono). Crisp, clean sound.
Disc 2 - Wow, all stereo! Here's the rundown:
1 & 2 Move Intro & Move - a newly found song!
3 Cherry Blossom Clinic - new stereo remix
4 Fire Brigade - 1st time stereo
5 Kilroy Was Here - 1st time stereo
6 (Here We Go Round) The Lemon Tree - new stereo remix
7 Weekend - new stereo remix and longer ending!
8 Zing! Went The Strings Of My Heart - new stereo remix
9 Don't Throw Stones At Me - a newly found song!
10 Mist On A Monday Morning - 1st time stereo
11 Vote For Me - newly found alternate version!
12 Night Of Fear - 1st time stereo, but doesn't quite sound like the 45
13 The Girl Outside - standard stereo version
14 Walk On The Water - standard stereo version
15 Useless Information - standard stereo version
16 Flowers In the Rain - new stereo remix, punchier and fades later!
The package is terrific....useful, well written booklet.
Consider that The Move were the best, most popular UK band of the 1960's (and early 1970's) that were huge everywhere but in the US, this material is essential and (for many US buyers) all new and fresh.
For Move fans, you can't live without this.
100% terrific...all around! (Only "Night Of Fear" doesn't sound like it used to....)
"
Immaculately remastered....not
J. Busher | PA USA | 09/18/2007
(2 out of 5 stars)
"This set is a wonderful release for serious Move fans, containing newly discovered songs and stereo remixes. Unfortunately, the mastering is horrible. It's too loud, shrill, and they used noise reduction on the intros and outros of the songs, so it sounds like the songs are going underwater at the end. They even used NR on the stereo remixes! You would think that it wouldn't be necessary when you're using master tapes, but apparantly, the people who mastered this set think that it was. Also, two or three songs are INFERIOR to past releases, most notably "Walk Upon The Water". It supposedly took years for them to find the original tapes. Unfortunately, it's all for naught. Salvo/Fly need to find better people to master their releases, and they need to stop bragging on the back of their releases how great the remastering is. In my opinion, they failed on almost every level."
Wonderful album extended for 40th anniversay
Kevin D. Rathert | Carbondale, IL | 07/28/2009
(5 out of 5 stars)
"I'm not sure what cd the guy who described this wonderful release as poorly mastered was listening to, but either we got different masterings, or our ears just plain hear things starkly differently. I was, I must admit, skeptical of this release, as the 1997 Repertoire release was so wonderfully mastered and absolutely chock full of bonus tracks, 16 all told. However, the fine lot at Salvo tempted my once I obtained their wonderful sounding, but short on running time, 4 cd box set "Anthology." Much to my relief and delight, this double disc release not only adds even more bonus tracks, 21 in all, and lovely studio banter among the band members, but is deliciously sounding. To my ears at least. No noticeable noise reduction to my admittedly amateurish sonic receptors. Sounds warm and fuzzy to me. But I'm a record collector not a perfectionist audiophile, so perhaps I'm missing something somewhere. My take on this release is that the fine folks at Salvo took great efforts to obtain the master tapes, did a bang up job of remastering the sound, and gave us about 14 minutes of additional music. Roy Wood and company's debut album is a pure delight. While the band never quite fit into any convenient pigeonhole, they surely did produce some wonderful pop pscyh singles early on, before maturing into a heavier rock band on later releases. My advice, if you've got the Reperoire piece, still in print by the way, grab this one for comparison sake. It can be obtained inexpensively from drop shippers. If you don't have this cd in your collection and psychedelic music is your preference or among your tastes, get this double disc 40th anniversary release and give it a spin. My money says you'll be delighted. If not, bash my review and set me straight. As for the music itself, many brilliant singles appear here, among them, "Flowers In The Rain" "Fire Brigade" "Night of Fear" and "I Can Hear The Grass Grow." The first three available in both the original as well as previously unreleased mixes. The rest of the album is good British psychedelia, including a cover of Moby Grape's classic "Hey Grandma." There's nary a weak link in the chain of tunes found on this deluxe release. The piece is worth full retail, but availabale much more reasonably through drop shippers. Show your support for both Roy Wood and company, and the fledgling, but dynamic Salvo label and pick up this set. Then judge for yourself. I'm betting you love it."
A Classic Improved
Morten Vindberg | Denmark | 11/15/2008
(5 out of 5 stars)
"The Move were one of the most talented bands of the British pop-psych-era in the late 1960's. The original line-up only recorded one album along with a string of catchy and inventive singles during 1966-69.
The extended remastered version of the 1968 album contains some of the most interesting music of that era. Besides the the original 13 tracks of the album 22 extra tracks have been added - the early pre-album singles, and handful of outtakes, and newly created stereo mixes of most of the album tracks.
To my ears they have never sounded better than on these newly remastered tracks.
The original album which was originally delayed several times contains their two big hits "Flowers in the Rain" and "Fire Brigade" along with at least 4 other potential hit-recordings; "Walk Upon the Water", "Yellow Rainbow", "The Lemon Tree" and "Useless Information" - all great orignal songs from guitarist and songwriter Roy Wood. Moreover it has three slower melodic; almost folky, tracks in "Kilroy Was Here", "Mist on a Monday Morning" and "The Girl Outside" - the first two really outstanding.
There is also the controversal "Cherry Blossom Clinic", was at a certain point was planned as their fourth single - but was dropped due to scandals in connections in the promotion of "Flowers in the Rain" - the band could not afford more scandals. The B-side "Vote for Me" was not even included on the album - fortunately it has now found its place on the album.
The least interesting tracks on the album are the three covers - "Hey Grandma", "Zing Went the String" and "Weekend" - though none of them are bad at all.
The two early singles "Night of Fear" and "I Can Hear the Grass Grow" along with their B-sides are also found among the bonus-tracks - both great of course, as is the weird "Disturbance"
CD 2 contains the alternate stereo mixes, along with the never before released outtake "Don't Throw Stones" - all great stuff in some cases markedly different from the mono-mixes.
Later incarnations of the Move recorded 3 more albums and though they were all good in their own rights, none of them has the excitement of their debut.
This is really a "Classic Improved""
MOVE! MOVE! MOVE!
M. McKay | Downey, CA United States | 01/05/2009
(4 out of 5 stars)
"Well it's about time! And in such style too! WOW! For being one of England's hottest selling groups in the late '60s coupled with the legacy they created by eventually morphing into The Electric Light Orchestra, this band sure has been ignored over the past two decades. In 1998, the German label Repertoire reissued their debut album on CD with a selection of bonus tracks and sound quality that was so topped out and harsh, it'd make your ears bleed! I used to think to myself, "I know these tapes are old but couldn't they have done a better job than this?!" Not to mention the CD featured lousy liner notes that made mention of a single only track, "Wild Tiger Woman," being included in the set and was nowhere to be found! Needless to say, after years of owning the aforementioned CD and the 1974 double album "The Best Of The Move" (which featured better but not greatly improved sound quality), I was thrilled to hear in late '07 that both the band's debut and their second release "Shazam" were to be remastered and reissued PROPERLY for the first time, and remastered from the ORIGINAL master tapes.
It's actually quite surprising that the master tapes were recovered for this reissue. With many albums of this sort, the masters have been lost or even destroyed in some cases. I mean this isn't "Sgt. Pepper" we're talking about where the masters were kept in a shrine for preservation! However, after intense research, the master tapes were found and make this reissue sound better than any previous release of it.
The digipak case is gorgeous with vibrant color photos of the band when opened. The booklet included is very informative and packed with more rare photographs. Like many groups of the era, The Move's debut album lends itself to a fine display of psychedelic pop rock experimentation. From straight ahead rock and roll ("Weekend" and "Hey Grandma") to flower power anthems ("Flowers In The Rain") to novelty ("Zing Went The Strings Of My Heart") to harpsichord and string drenched ballads ("The Girl Outside" and "Mist On A Monday Morning") to full on freak outs ("Cherry Blossom Clinic"). Roy Wood was one of the best songwriters of his era, blending the psychedelic fantasy of Syd Barrett with the sarcastic social commentary of The Kinks' Ray Davies.
The sound quality is far better than the previous CD issue but not quite as good as I was hoping for. You can only squeeze so much out of these old tapes. Some things just cannot be helped, like the mili-second of tape damage that occurs during "(Here We Go 'Round) The Lemon Tree" right after Roy sings the first line. The drop out occurs on both the original mono and the new stereo mix.
The second disc presents some (not all) of the album's tracks in newly mixed stereo, well, let's just call it "duophonic." Some of these stereo mixes are not really stereo, that can't be achieved if the master tape was strictly a monophonic recording. However, the process of "fake stereo" has been in practice since stereo records were first put on the market in the 1950s. The previously unreleased tracks on disc two are outstanding! Both the songs "Move" and "Don't Throw Stones At Me" are the band showcasing their Motown influence, and a good job they do at it! The UNRELEASED version of the UNRELEASED B-side "Vote For Me" rocks ten times harder than the original version that was to be issued as the flip side for "Cherry Blossom Clinic."
For the band being so popular in England, it's still a mystery why they remained such a cult curio to American audiences. They were being distributed by a major label, A&M, but the label seemed to have no interest in backing them until after the fact! "Flowers In The Rain" should have been a hit here in the U.S. in 1967 plain and simple. The band never toured the U.S. in their first phase line up (Carl Wayne, Roy Wood, Trevor Burton, Ace Kefford, and Bev Bevan) which was undoubtedly their most powerful. A spot at The Monterey Pop Festival probably would've made them a household name! We can love them now however and it's nice that this great band is getting their due with these great reissues!"
Track Listings (29) - Disc #1