Various Artists - Beyond The Pale Horizon - The Progressive Pop Sounds Of 1972 (Grapefruit)

Format:  3 x CD Clamshell Box Set
Cat No:  CRSEGBOX091

From a musical perspective, the Seventies didn't really begin until 1972, when the sudden appearance of pioneering art-rock adventurers Roxy Music saw them spearhead a new generation of bands making the first genuinely post-Sixties music. But 1972 was also a year in which established blues and progressive rock bands found a new level of popularity. Free, Family, Thin Lizzy, Argent, The Moody Blues and a re-emergent Status Quo all issued pivotal hit singles, Mott The Hoople and Strawbs finally made commercial breakthroughs, Hawkwind took everyone by surprise with the success of “Silver Machine”, while The Move completed their long-delayed metamorphosis into The Electric Light Orchestra.

Away from the singles chart, underground behemoths like Yes and Uriah Heep continued to thrive, while the likes of Caravan, Home and Medicine Head were regulars on the college/university network. Kevin Coyne painted his harrowing masterpiece with the album 'Case History', and the equally uncompromising Van der Graaf Generator made an unlikely bid for chart success with the single “Theme One”.

Boasting four hours of music and a lavishly annotated and illustrated 40-page booklet housed in a stylish clamshell box, Beyond The Pale Horizon features all of the above as well as the usual array of cult bands and obscure studio creations. Includes a significant number of Top Ten singles, some glorious misses, a few turntable hits (including much-loved 45s by Pagliaro and Mike Hugg), superior B-sides and several key album tracks, together with a handful of cuts that didn't appear at the time or were only issued as limited edition private pressings – indeed, we even feature a previously unheard alternative recording of a track from 'Dark Round The Edges', one of the most valuable albums of all time. It's all here, and, with the noble exception of Stackridge's vegetarian call-to-arms “Keep On Clucking”, it's all meat.

TRAACKLISTING:

DISC 1:
1. THEME ONE – Van Der Graaf Generator
2. VIRGINIA PLAIN – Roxy Music
3. HOLD YOUR HEAD UP (single edit) - Argent
4. HERE IT COMES (alternative version) - Strawbs
5. HEY MAN – Rare Bird
6. THE VERY FIRST CLOWN – Shape Of The Rain
7. DO YA – The Move
8. INTO THE COUNTRY - Byzantium
9. ISN'T LIFE STRANGE – The Moody Blues
10. LOVIN' YOU AIN'T EASY - Pagliaro
11. ONCE UPON A DREAM - Rusty
12. FOOL ABOUT YOU - Nazareth
13. FUNNY – Open Road*
14. KEEP ON CLUCKING - Stackridge
15. HAMBURGERS – Rupert Hine
16. STRANGE PEOPLE – Eddie Hardin
17. WONDERIN' Y - Slade
18. HONALOOCHIE BOOGIE (demo version) – Mott The Hoople
19. ARISTOCRACY – Caravan
20. I NEED YOUR LOVE TONIGHT - Nirvana
21. AMERICA (single edit) - Yes

DISC 2:
1. 10538 OVERTURE (album version) – The Electric Light Orchestra
2. LITTLE BIT OF LOVE - Free
3. LORD OF THE RINGSIDE - Clown
4. SEWING MACHINE - Tuesday
5. BURLESQUE - Family
6. OH NO NO NO - Silverhead
7. TRAVELLER IN TIME – Uriah Heep
8. NOBODY'S FOOL – Cold Turkey
9. MAYBE I'M LOST WITHOUT YOU – Neil Harrison
10. FEELS LIKE A WOMAN - Troggs
11. BIRDS MUST LEARN TO FLY – Rocky Cabbage
12. KING OF SCURF – Bonzo Dog Band
13. ALL FALL DOWN - Lindisfarne
14. RISE UP - Home
15. MAYPOLE (alternative mix) – Dark*
16. KUM ON – Medicine Head
17. WHEN THE CITY SLEEPS - Bombadil
18. BEACHCOMBER – White Plains
19. SOMETHING THAT YOU LOVED - Pluto
20. BLUE SUEDE SHOES AGAIN – Mike Hugg
21. FUNERAL – Second Hand

DISC 3:
1. WHISKEY IN THE JAR – Thin Lizzy
2. PAPER PLANE – Status Quo
3. THE WENCH - Hello
4. ONE WAY TICKET – Curtiss Maldoon
5. SILVER MACHINE (single version) - Hawkwind
6. WAKE UP – Roy Wood
7. TAKE A LOAD OFF YOUR FEET – Summer Wine
8. COAST TO COAST - Trapeze
9. I AM... I THINK – Grobbert & Duff
10. RAINBOW CHASING - Andromeda
11. THE DEMON TRUCKER – Jade Warrior
12. EVERYTHING'S TURNING OUT FINE - Hobbit
13. TEDDY BOYD'S ROCK'N'ROLL SHOW - Atlantis
14. TIGERS WILL SURVIVE - Plainsong
15. SARAH'S CONCERN – Curved Air
16. TAKEN ALIVE – Hard Stuff
17. GOD BLESS THE BRIDE – Kevin Coyne
18. ZIMMERMAN BLUES (album version) – Ralph McTell
19. AND IN THE MORNING – Jake
20. ALL ALONE – Guest & Edwards
21. NOTICEINGLY BY – Nimbo
22. MASS DEBATE – Bond & Brown
23. MUMMY – Patto