Harvest Showdown (Import) (CD)

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• Release Date: September 5, 2005
• Label: Harvest (UK)
• UPC: 094633026322
• WAPI (Tower ID): 106415762
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Officially, this 14-song CD has been issued to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the Move's signing to the Harvest Records label, in the EMI group of labels. So why isn't it listed as a Move release? Because the Move only lasted about a year after that, but in the three years after the contract was inked, members Roy Wood and Jeff Lynne, together and apart, ended up delivering a veritable cornucopia of unusual rock & roll sounds -- that's what this delightfully weird CD is about, and the tragedy is that, because it's not listed under ELO, the Move, Jeff Lynne, or Roy Wood, a lot of their fans are going to miss it. Even worse, it's so much fun that it ought to be heard far beyond the confines of their fandom. The disc basically collects a multitude of singles, and a few rare mixes and edits in the bargain, representing the various facets of Wood and Lynne's work in those contexts, all remastered in state-of-the-art clarity and supported by a nicely illustrated insert booklet. For starters, the sound is killer -- the crunching guitars on the single edit of the Move's "Do Ya" start things off with a bang and the mono U.S. mix of "10538 Overture" keeps that ball rolling. Wizzard's "Ballpark Incident" and Wood's "Forever" show off his rock & roll and pop/rock inclinations of this era at their most finely developed and tuned, and "The Carlsberg Special," with its cascading keyboard sound, takes him into ELO territory, which carries listeners to the single edit of the latter's "Mr. Radio." "Rock Down Low" is a Wood solo rock & roll classic featuring a cello break, no less, while "King Henry VIII's B*ll*cks" is an early version of what eventually became "In Old England Town" on the second ELO album -- and then listeners are back to the single edit of the extraordinary Move acoustic guitar-driven "Tonight." And that's how it goes, the CD alternating between the highlights of the careers associated with all four bodies of music that grew out of that one signing, over that three-year period -- and what makes it really cool, besides the great sound and the choice of songs, is the diversity and the quality of the music. Indeed, it kind of makes one wish that instead of Sony/Legacy gracing listeners with two ELO boxes of varying quality in the last 20 years, some brave soul had put together a Roy Wood/Jeff Lynne/ELO/Wizzard box with something of the same thoughtfulness that went into this CD. ~ Bruce Eder

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