Nice - Here Come The Nice (The Immediate Anthology) (2000) [repost]

Posted By : uff | Date : 03 Feb 2012 10:17:28 | Comments : 5 |

There have been so many reissues and recompilations of the music that the Nice did for Immediate Records that it's difficult even for people who worked on those reissues to tell some of them apart without a scorecard. However, this set stands out, not only for its comprehensive nature but also for its sound quality, which is exceptional. The vexing aspect of working with the Nice's Immediate catalog was the lack of first-generation master tapes -- the record company's holdings were scattered to the four winds when it went bankrupt at the dawn of the 1970s, and the closest that anyone got on the early CDs was Sony in the early '90s, with the clean original production masters from the Columbia-distributed Immediate catalog. Castle Communications, however, has finally found what sounds like the real thing, and it makes a world of difference: no background noise, minimal tape hiss, each instrument loud and upfront, and all of the playing sharply delineated even in the busiest passages of the group's most complex works. What's more, the stereo separation is now sharp enough to enhance the music in a serious way -- the divided string section in the "Brandenburger" section of "Ars Longa Vita Brevis," for example, adds to the appeal of the band's playing in ways that were difficult to discern on earlier CD releases, as well as on most of the LP issues. And the live cuts from the Fillmore East from the third album are now transcendent -- every note is right in your lap, from Brian Davison's rapid-fire drumming to Keith Emerson's dizzying keyboard flourishes, and the balance between Emerson's organ and Lee Jackson's bass on "She Belongs to Me" is finally set at a proper level on a CD, for the first time. Just as important as the research that went into locating the first-generation tapes is the producers' success in finding the group's complete alternate takes; every odd outtake that ever surfaced in the band's history is present on disc three of this set, along with a quartet of previously unreleased live tracks recorded in concert during 1968 and 1969, among them "America," the fourth movement of Tchaikovsky's Pathetique symphony, and the Troika from Prokofiev's Lieutenant Kijé suite (which was later adapted by Emerson, Lake & Palmer into "I Believe in Father Christmas").

3CD set includes 40 tracks, some previously unissued, as well as their 3 complete albums for the label.

Track listing
Disc: 1
1. Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack
2. Azrial (Angel of Death)
3. Sampler for the Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack LP
4. Flower King of Flies
5. Bonnie K
6. Rondo
7. War and Peace
8. Tantalising Maggie
9. Dawn
10. The Cry of Eugene
11. America: I) America/II) Second Amendment
12. The Diamond Hard Blue Apples of the Moon
13. Daddy Where Did I Come From
14. Little Arabella
15. Happy Freuds
16. Intermezzo from the Karelia Suite
Disc: 2
1. Ars Longa Vita Brevis (Symphony for Group and Orchestra) /I) Prelude
2. Brandenburger
3. Azrael Revisited
4. Hang on to a Dream
5. Diary of an Empty Day
6. For Example
7. Rondo "69" [Live at Fillmore East, New York]
8. She Belongs to Me (Live at Fillmore East, New York)
Disc: 3
1. America : I) America/II) Second Amendment [Live Newcastle '68]
2. Rondo [Live Newcastle '68]
3. The Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack [Long Version]
4. Flower King of Flies [Alternative Version][Alternate Take]
5. Bonnie K [Alternative Version][Alternate Take]
6. America : I) America/II) Second Amendment [Alternative Stereo Version]
7. Dawn [Alternative Version][Alternate Take]
8. Tantalising Maggie [Alternative Version][Alternate Take]
9. The Cry of Eugene [Alternative Version][Alternate Take]
10. Daddy Where Did I Come from [Alternative Version][Alternate Take]
11. Brandenburger (Demo Version)
12. Pathetique Symphony 4th [Live Fairfields Hall '69]
13. Lt Kije (The Troika) /Rondo [Live Fairfields Hall '69]

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Posted By: tonki Date: 03 Feb 2012 17:07:32

Thank you very much!

Posted By: FrancyD Date: 04 Feb 2012 12:20:57

Thanks so much for the share.

Posted By: tocinillo Date: 06 Feb 2012 08:37:02

Excellent!! Thank you!!

Posted By: Kutya Date: 07 Feb 2012 21:39:39

Thank You!

Posted By: Doccus Date: 07 Apr 2012 06:13:22

Hey Thanks man! I was looking for this one.. even though I've got a drawer full of rare "The Nice' cassettes, I don't really want to play these, sometimes nearly one of a kind tapes...
Yay!

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