The Move

Shazam The Move's second LP expanded to double its original size and featuring the No. 1 smash hit Blackberry Way and 6 previously unreleased tracks. Remastered from original master tapes by Rob Keyloch at Church Walk Studio, Shazam has never sounded better. Stylish wallet-style packagi...	Looking On 2008 digitally remastered and expanded edition of The Move's third album featuring seven bonus tracks, including previously unreleased and rare material. Looking On features the Roy Wood-penned Hard Rock singles 'Brontosaurus' and 'When Alice Comes Back To The Farm'. Released in ...	Boulders Limited Edition Japanese pressing of this album comes housed in a miniature LP sleeve. 2007.	Anthology 1966-1972 2008 limited edition four CD box set from the '60s band led by the genius mind of Roy Wood. The first pressing comes with five exclusive Move postcards and a double-sided poster! More than 40 years in the making. 62 career-spanning tracks and well over three hours of Move magnifi...	Flowers in the Rain 2007 Digitally Remastered Edition that Commemorates the 40th Anniversary of this Portentous Release and the Kick off of a Move Reissue Programme by the Salvo Label. The Supplementary Tracks on this CD Single Are "Beautiful Daughter", Taken from the Newly Discovered Original Maste...
Message from the Country The group's last good album, weaker than Shazam but pleasant enough in its sub-White Album way. EMI. 2005.	Wizzard Brew Digitally remastered reissue of Pop eccentric/genius Roy Wood and Wizzard's 1973 opus featuring eight bonus tracks: 'Ball Park Incident', 'Carlsberg Special', 'See My Baby Jive', .'Bend Over Beethoven', 'Angel Fingers', 'You Got The Jump On Me', 'Rob Roy's Nightmare' and the holi...	Back to the Story 2007 reissue of this superb two CD set from the often overlooked British '60s band featuring future Move member and E.L.O. leader Jeff Lynne. Back To The Story features all three Idle Race albums (1968's Birthday Party, The Idle Race from '69 and the Lynne-less Time Is from '71...	The Piper at the Gates of Dawn At the time The Piper at the Gates of Dawn was originally released in 1967, it was one among many aurally ripped, acid-tripped albums including Jimi Hendrix's Are You Experienced, Cream's Disraeli Gears, Jefferson Airplane's After Bathing at Baxter's, and, of course, Sgt. Pepper'...	Pacific Ocean Blue (Legacy Edition) Apart from the non-release of Smile, the biggest lament of hardcore Beach Boys fans is that Bruce Johnston aside, none of the non-Brian Wilson solo albums are available on CD. But now, for fans of late drummer Dennis Wilson, there's reason to celebrate as his only-released solo a...

MOVE! MOVE! MOVE!
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 expierementation. 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've 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 probally 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!

A Classic Improved
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"

Needs more listeners
I love this album. Great for fans of The Move, and maybe as good to become familiar with their British prog-rock, quirky, psychedelic sound. Melodic and catchy with witty lyrics. If you love early ELO, you'll love this too, though this has a flavor of it's own. (Roy Wood style). The band Sparks (Ron and Russell Mael) cite The Move as being one of their influences, and being a Sparks fan as well, I can hear that.

Immaculately remastered....not
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.

Wow...a major milestone reissue!!!!!
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....)