Magnetic Waves Of Sound: The Best Of The Move

Plays and sounds okay

Just great.

The cd is great.takes me back toMy younger days

Esoteric Recordings continue their campaign of Move reissues with this superb collection of many of the band’s finest moments, a disc which comes complete with a bonus DVD containing some vintage television appearances. Best Ofs are strange affairs: they are never really going to appeal to the die-hard fans. This is, however, a stellar compilation for the uninitiated.Disc one is principally a glorious trawl through the hit singles which, up to and including 1969’s ‘Curly’, are presented in their original monaural format before they transfer to stereo for ‘Brontosaurus’. The use of the original mono single mixes is preferable to my ears, particularly as the Salvo label's compilation from a few years back used a stereo mix of 'Flowers In The Rain' which I didn't like at all. A few album tracks are scattered throughout the collection as well, with some less obvious choices like ‘Cherry Blossom Clinic Revisited’ (from 1970’s SHAZAM!) and late arrival Jeff Lynne’s elongated ‘What?’ (from 1970’s LOOKING ON) making an appearance alongside the big hits. The collection closes with The Move’s final trilogy of Top 30 singles, ‘Tonight’, ‘China Town’ and the Jerry Lee Lewis pastiche ‘California Man’ together with its mighty b-side, ‘Do Ya’, singles released at a time when Roy Wood and Jeff Lynne had become increasingly keen to launch their new venture, The Electric Light Orchestra.The DVD complements the audio half of the collection admirably - although it's not perfect. It includes the promotional film for ‘I Can Hear The Grass Grow’ and, most notably, the entirety of The Move’s January 1969 appearance on the BBC 2 music show COLOUR ME POP. The now four-piece Move (original bass play Chris Kefford had since left the band) are captured here in bold colour and play largely live although the performances of three songs - ‘Beautiful Daughter’, ‘Wild Tiger Woman’ and 'Something', the 'Blackberry Way' b-side - are mimed. The sound and visual quality of the clips is by and large excellent, although the performance of ‘Blackberry Way’ from the German television show BEAT CLUB lets the side down slightly in that it’s an abridged excerpt (perhaps it’s all that survives?), while a transfer to widescreen from the original aspect ratio for these television clips has resulted in a slightly distorted image, a flaw that is especially noticeable during full line-up shots of the band during the COLOUR ME POP material. It would have been better to have preserved the original aspect ratio in order to have avoided this marginally "squashed" effect.The compilation is rounded out with a nice essay from Mark Paytress, while an additional insert features a poster on one side and clippings from music papers and promotional shots on the other. As a Move fan, I have been highly impressed with Esoteric’s reissue campaign (sound quality has generally been a big improvement over the harshness of the Salvo/Union Square repackages). However, it would be nice if they could complete proceedings with a repackaging of the band’s final album, MESSAGE FROM THE COUNTRY, as contemporaneous singles like ‘Tonight’ and ‘China Town’ sound marvellous on this new collection.

A great compilation of Move material, from the first single ‘Night of fear’ through to California Man/Do Ya ? Fly records to Harvest records picking key Album tracks along the way.The compilation flows well starting with the Poppy Move through the heavy move and back to ELOMove, starting in Mono and finishing in stereo, this is about as good as a single disc Move compilation could get the only thing that would make this better would be a DVD containing video of the Move in its prime.But wait it does contain a nicely curated Video disc as well, interestingly some reviewers have complained about aspect ratios of the Video, this I find very strange as these are in 4:3 ratio, and not widescreen on my Toshiba Hi Def TV with Toshiba DVD player and checked on an LG blu ray player as well. I can only assume there is a setting in the player or TV which is forcing the change in ratios.The video quality is as good if not better than can be expected being sourced from 405 line black and white and better quality 625 line colour video. The ‘Colour me Pop’ being great fun though some of the performance is mimed this rivals the Small Faces ‘Colour me Pop’ (Available on the ‘British Invasion’ DVD from Amazon) for music I have wanted to own for a long time.I am happy to own this and grateful that esoteric have gone the extra mile to get the DVD stuff out. Congratulations to all.

A great product quickly delivered 2 CD's to give a choice of single and live performance

If your a Move fan you will buy this, purely because of the DVD, which even if you are lucky enough to have most of them, I would not expect the quality is a as good as this DVD. Watching some of the clips gives you an indication of how good the Move were live, some real energy in there and an edge to the music played. The audio CD is nothing new for a fan, but if your not, it contains a stunning string of hit singles written by Roy Wood, starting with Night of Fear to the fantastic rock n roll classic California Man, sadly the Moves last hit, but sounding a bit like Wizzard?? Of course if your an ELO fan you need to listen to Do Ya which was the A side in the US and the Moves only hit there. Also ELO in it's embryo stage can be heard through the Jeff Lynne track WHAT. I am pleased to see and hear the Moves big hits Blackberry Way, Fire Brigade and Flowers in the Rain, on both CD and DVD (which there are two versions) but also Wild Tiger Woman and When Alice comes back from the farm. Which to this day total baffles me why these two great rock songs were not mega hits. Have a listen, and you will see what I mean.

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The order arrived when they said it would , in great condition! Thanks for carrying some great music :)

Il prodotto funziona a metà in quanto il priMo CD funziona mentre il secondo risulta vuoto. Purtroppo per questioni di logistica non posso rimandarlo indietro.

Musik wie erwartet, gute Qualität

The Move grundades av bl.a. Roy Wood (ELO och Wizzard) och Bev Bevan (ELO och ELO part II). Med tiden anslöt ELO-legendaren Jeff Lynne. Bandet gjorde några riktigt bra album och hade kunnat bli riktigt stora om inte idéen om ELO hade växt fram. En bra samling - inte minst för ELO-fans.

1) Night of Fear2) I Can Hear the Grass Grow3) Wave the Flag and Stop the Train4) Kilroy Was Here5) Here We Go Round the Lemon Tree6) Walk Upon the Water7) Flowers in the Rain8) Fire Brigade9) Wild Tiger Woman10) Blackberry Way11) Curly12) Hello Susie13) Cherry Blossom Clinic Revisited14) Brontosaurus15) When Alice Comes Back to the Farm16) What ?17) Ella James18) Tonight19) China Town20) California Man21) Do Ya ?Region 0 DVD - TV Broadcasts 1967 - 19701) I Can Hear the Grass Grow2) Walk Upon the Water3) I Can Hear the Grass Grow4) Night of Fear5) Fire Brigade6) I Can Hear the Grass Grow7) Beautiful Daughter8) Christian Life9) Flowers in the Rain10) The Last Thing on My Mind11) Wild Tiger Woman12) Goin' Back13) Fire Brigade14) Something15) Blackberry Way16) Fire Brigade17) Wild Tiger Woman18) Blackberry Way19) Curly20) Brontosaurus21) When Alice Comes Back to the Farm