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15 essential Nice tracks, featuring a comprehensive selection from their 1967-1969 Immediate recordings, including highlights from albums and singles. Includes the classic hit single ‘America’ (featured in UK version and also in rare US edit single version) .
Presented in our popular Digipak format.
Booklet with authoritative and extensive liner notes by respected author and journalist Chris Welch.
Expertly remastered - superb sound - top quality reproduction.
The Nice was of the most innovative and exciting of all the new bands that burst on the UK music scene in the late Sixties. Headed by keyboard wizard Keith Emerson, the group pioneered a daring mix of rock, the classics and even elements of jazz and folk. They took the best of their favourite songs and themes and turned them into dynamic arrangements and blew away audiences at gigs that became full blown concerts.
The Nice had many enthusiastic champions, including Rolling Stones manager Andrew Oldham, who recorded them for his own Immediate Records label. The result was a spate of dynamic albums and singles that often caused controversy, especially their rendition of Bernsteins America from West Side Story. This stomping, bravura instrumental is among the highlights of a 15 track CD that encompasses the best of the bands Immediate label output from 1967 to 1969.
Here are the lively pop singles like The Thoughts Of Emerlist Davjack and poignant version of Tim Hardins classic Hang On To A Dream. The thrilling Rondo is pitched against the dramatic Azrial (Angel Of Death). With the outstanding musicianship of Davy OList on guitar and vocals, Lee Jackson (bass and vocals) and the late Brian Davison (drums) propelling Emerson to fresh heights of inspiration, here is the essence of true early progressive rock at its best.
Track listing:
1. Hang On To A Dream Single (D) Immediate 1C 006-90903
2. Intermezzo From The Karelia From the LP ‘Ars Longa Vita Brevis’
3. Rondo From the LP ‘The Thoughts Of Emerlist Davjack’
4. Dawn From the LP ‘The Thoughts Of Emerlist Davjack’
5. Diary Of An Empty Day Single B-side (D) Immediate 1C 006-90903
6. Brandenburger Single A-Side (UK) Immediate IM 072
7. America (UK single version) Single A-side (UK) Immediate IM 068
8. War And Peace From the LP ‘The Thoughts Of Emerlist Davjack’
9. Azrial (Angel Of Death) Single B-side (UK) Immediate IM 059
10. Diamond Hard Blue Apples Of The Moon Single B-side (UK) Immediate IM 068
11. Flower King Of Flies From the LP ‘The Thoughts Of Emerlist Davjack’
12. The Thoughts Of Emerlist Davjack Single A-side (UK) Immediate IM 059
13. Ars Longa Vita Brevis (4th Movement) Denial From the LP ‘Ars Longa Vita Brevis’
14. Azrael Revisited From the LP ‘Nice’
15. America (US edit single version) Single A-side (US) Immediate ZS7 5008"
