Ars Longa Vita Brevis: A Compendium of Progressive Rock 1967-1974

Ars Longa Vita Brevis: A Compendium of Progressive Rock 1967-1974 Artist: Various Artists
Label: Castle
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 3
EAN: 5050159172726
ASIN: B00008YGVN


Release Date: 2005-01-18

Ars Longa Vita Brevis: A Compendium of Progressive Rock 1967-1974


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Tracks:

  1. Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack - The Nice
  2. Aeroplane - Jethro Tull
  3. This Wheel's on Fire - Brian Auger, Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & the Trinity
  4. Song of a Baker - The Small Faces
  5. Fire
  6. America - The Nice
  7. One Inch Rock - Tyrannosaurus Rex
  8. Road to Cairo - Brian Auger, Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & the Trinity
  9. Sky Is Burning - Sam Gopal
  10. Xoanan Bay - Woody Kern
  11. I Keep Singing That Same Old Song - Heavy Jelly
  12. Walking in the Park - Colosseum
  13. Hibou, Anemone and Bear - Soft Machine
  14. Man of the World - Fleetwood Mac
  15. Sinnin' for You - Keef Hartley Band
  16. Seen Through a Light - Moochie Mack
  17. Mrs Moon and the Thatched Shop - Mike Oldfield
  18. Natural Born Bugie - Humble Pie
  19. Shangri-La - The Kinks

Tracks:

  1. Billy the Monster - The Deviants
  2. Spunk Box - Man
  3. Who Do You Love? - Juicy Lucy
  4. Kings and Queens - Renaissance
  5. Down the Dustpipe - Status Quo
  6. Come to the Sabbat - Black Widow
  7. Green Manalishi - Fleetwood Mac
  8. All in Your Mind - Stray
  9. Bath Sister
  10. Answer - Pete Bardens
  11. Tomorrow Night - Atomic Rooster
  12. Junior's Wailing - Status Quo
  13. Follow You Home - UFO
  14. Money Can't Save Your Soul - Savoy Brown
  15. Lucky Man
  16. Levinia - Steamhammer
  17. Diana - Comus

Tracks:

  1. Prelude to the Arena - Marsupilami
  2. Blind to Your Light - Delivery,
  3. Devil's Answer - Atomic Rooster
  4. Mice and Rats in the Loft
  5. Hiroshima - Wishful Thinking
  6. Gone With the Mouse - Fuchsia
  7. Eternal Messenger
  8. Daughter of the Hillside - Chicken Shack
  9. Easy Livin' - Uriah Heep
  10. Skin Valley Serenade - Skin Alley
  11. Buffalo - Writing on the Wall
  12. Sad Go Round - The Groundhogs
  13. Karn Evil (1st Impression, Pt. 2)
  14. Starlight Starbright - Gravy Train
  15. Funeral Empire - Tempest
  16. Opening Move - Gryphon
  17. Seventh Secret - Fruupp

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Album Description

Full title - Ars Longa Vita Brevis Compendium Of Progressive Rock 1967 1974. Import exclusive three CD set. Artists include The Nice, Jethro Tull, Crazy World Of Arthur Brown, Soft Machine, Renaissance, Atomic Rooster, & many more. Castle. 2005.

Album Details

This Multi-headed Beast of Musical Endeavour Combines Many Styles and Forms. As Welll as Rock, the Genres of Classical, Jazz, Psychedelia and Literary Elements were Plundered and Brought to Mass Appeal by Art-rock Bands Like Yes, Pink Floyd and King Crimson Who's Albums Typically Featured Seven to 10 Minute Songs with Shifting Time Signatures and Evolving Musical Themes. Progs Gestation and Birth However, Began in the Late 60's as the Beat Combos Began to Stretch and Broaden their Musical Chops. With the Release of the Beatles Sgt. Pepper Album in 1967, a Musical Doorway was Thrown Open Onto Another World Not Limited to the Versechorus-verse-chorus Framework that Had Previously Restricted the Three Minute Pop Dittie and Increasingly, Bands Such as Soft Machine and Man Began to Explore and Broaden their Musical Psyche.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Every night I just want to play out.......2006-03-11

There has been a spate of these compendia recently in Britain, mainly in celebration of the so-called progressive movement, an all encompassing term for non-pop music from the mid 1960-s through to the early 1980s. Personally I have been very attracted to these as I grew up in the era of the sampler album where you could get a taste of new bands for a low price and then buy an album or twelve.

I opted for this particular gem because it had a number of tracks which I had previously only had on 45's or where the album is no longer/not available on CD.

And gem it is, although there are bound to be some dissenting voices about the tracks and whether or not rarities should be included. The title is the same as an old Nice album and unsurprisingly the first track is a Nice song entitled the Thoughts of Emerllist Davjack a combination of the names of the musicians who made up that particular band. Given space considerations I will restrain myself and not go through track by track but will select some highlights and I am sure others will have a different view.

I recall vividly in the mid 1960s being totally transfixed by the voice of Julie Driscoll emanating from our television set whilst she sang the Dylan song Wheel's On Fire as the vocalist for the Brian Auger Trinity. With her short hair, mary Quandt makeup and Carnaby Street gear she epitomised Swinging London and what would now be termed Cool Britannia but the song remains to this day a classic of the period and one which I had only on a single vinyl disc on the Marmalade label. Sticking with singles, disc 1 includes the Crazy World of Arthur Brown with Fire, a top ten hit in England and the subject of a rather bizarre performance by Arthur on the rather odd movie, the Committee. Also is the single mix of the Nice's America, an eloquent testimony to Keith Emerson's classical training and his uncanny ability to turn a symbol of America into an anti-war song. There are a number of great blues and avant-garde tracks on this first disc including those of Fleetwood Mac and Soft Machine but the concluding track is the simply superb song of the Kinks undermining growing middle class aspirations in Shangri-La. For you younger folks the Kinks are still, to this day, the ultimate social commentary band although most of there best material dates from the 1960s.

Disc 2 offers Man's Spunk Rock (a rose by any other name) their version of a grateful dead song before the jamming starts. Juicy Lucy in an awesome rendition of Who Do you Love, enhanced by the novel use of the pedal steel but only a shadow of the Quicksilver Messenger Service version. After the morning mania music we have a number of heavier boogie type bands such as Status Quo and UFO as well as Peter Bardens and the Sunderland Locarno smock dressed ladies favourite Come to the Sabbat by Black Sabbat.

Disc three is in many ways the most interesting of the discs eschewing the more popular material and including tracks by Jan Dukes De Grey alongside lesser known material from the Groundhogs and Uriah Heap although I suspect many will be disappointed by the failure to include the classic track of that last group, Gypsy. I know that Jan and Pauline will be. This disc has by far the greatest range of material and reflects better than most of these compilations the variation and experimentation of the progressive era.

I heartily recommend this album to all lovers of progressive music even if your only intention in buying it is to play it in the car and think of standing on one leg, playing the flute and living in the past.

5 out of 5 stars Lover, not critic.......2005-08-28

It must have been on the UK Amazon, this collection had some negative remarks. I was born in 1959 and have spent most of my life as a musician, lover, and collector of music (10,000 plus recordings, various media), especially 'adventurous' music (within every context of my stages of life). Suffice it to say, I personally view this collection as 'manna', most enjoyable and a true gift for it's release. Thats all ;-).

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