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The Move, Message from the Country
Audio CD
Disk ID: 1018753
Disk length: 40m 45s (10 Tracks)
Original Release Date: 2005
Label: Unknown
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Tracks & Durations
| 1. It Wasn't My Idea To Dance | 5:30 |
| 2. The Minister | 4:30 |
| 3. Message From TheCountry | 4:46 |
| 4. The Words Of Aaron | 5:26 |
| 5. Ben Crawley Steel Company | 3:06 |
| 6. Until Your Mama's Gone | 5:06 |
| 7. No Time | 3:43 |
| 8. Ella James | 3:15 |
| 9. Don't Mess Me Up | 3:14 |
| 10. My Marge | 2:01 |
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Review
Although they had three more fine singles in them--the Supergrass- inspiring "Tonight" and "Chinatown" together with "California Man"--album-wise, Message from the Country, released in July 1971, was the Move's curtain call. It was also the first ELO album in all but name. The Birmingham band responsible for an enviable run of eclectic '60s hits ("Flowers in the Rain," "I Can Hear the Grass Grow," "Fire Brigade," "Brontosaurus") had now trimmed down to a nucleus of three members--principal songwriter, autodidactic multi- instrumentalist and latter-day heavy-rocking hairball Roy Wood, dependable drummer and fellow cofounder Bev Bevan and former Idle Race rival and Beatles disciple Jeff Lynne.
Oddly--given the quality of their work--the Move only existed at this time as a financial vehicle to fund Wood and Lynne's vision for fusing rock music with classical instruments in the manner of the Beatles' "I Am the Walrus." Thus, the Electric Light Orchestra, whose live debut was only months away, would go one better than John and Paul by playing their own cellos (Roy Wood, who else?) and the gothic, chamber orchestra rock blueprint can be heard on Message from the Country. It remains a fascinating chapter in the bafflingly complicated Move/ELO/Wizzard/Roy Wood chronicles. --Kevin Maidment
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Tracks: 18 (+8 tracks), Disk length: 1h 16m 19s (+35m 34s)
Tracks: 18 (+8 tracks), Disk length: 1h 16m 36s (+35m 51s)
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