The Move – The Best Of The Move
For those interested in the Move’s single releases, there’s no better introduction than this. It features such classics – trust me, even if you’ve never heard of the Move before now, they were classics – as “Blackberry Way” (an atypically Beatle-ish tune from Roy Wood, which also turned out to be the Move’s first and only U.K. #1 single), the trippy “I Can Hear The Grass Grow”, the raunchy (and badly-mixed) “Fire Brigade”, and the first song ever played on BBC Radio 1, “Flowers In The Rain”. It’d be hard for me 
to pick a favorite out of all these. Some of the sound quality and mixing – again singling out “Fire Brigade” – are less than spectacular, but these songs do come from the late 60s and early 70s, and not everybody had access to Abbey Road Studios.
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- Blackberry Way (3:36)
- Curly (2:45)
- Yellow Rainbow (2:37)
- I Can Hear The Grass Grow (3:00)
- Fire Brigade (2:25)
- Hey Grandma (3:14)
- Kilroy Was Here (2:45)
- Night of Fear (2:12)
- Feel Too Good (9:33)
- Brontosaurus (4:26)
- Flowers in the Rain (2:24)
- Walk Upon The Water (3:12)
- Stephanie Knows Who (3:06)
- Turkish Tram Conductor Blues (4:42)
- Useless Information (2:51)
- Weekend (1:46)
- Cherry Blossom Clinic (7:42)
- So You Want To Be A Rock ‘n’ Roll Star (3:01)
Released by: Music Collection International
Release date: 1991
Total running time: 65:17
There really aren’t enough words with which to praise this band’s third album. It was really the best of all possible worlds – Tim and Neil Finn, formerly the front men of Split Enz, united again and lavishing their quirky one-of-a-kind vocal harmonies on a number of marvelously concocted (and some decidedly strange) songs. There’s little about this album not to like. Specific cuts to listen to: “Weather With You”, “Whispers and Moans”, “She Goes On”, “As Sure As I Am”, and my favorites, “Fall At Your Feet” and the Tim-tries-to-be-Sinatra tune with the orchestral backing, “All I Ask”. Quite simply a solid and highly enjoyable 
collection, and one of my favorite albums of all time! Sadly, Tim and Neil had a falling-out during the tour for this album, and did not collaborate again until 1995, after Crowded House broke up. This is unfortunate, because the two Finn brothers harmonizing tend to out-Everly the Everly Brothers, and then some.
This British double disc is quite a nifty item, despite the fact that it duplicated the entire contents of ELO’s first two albums (though that too is understandable, as those albums had been out of print in the U.K., never having seen a CD pressing). Why did I splurge on this? Because, like Afterglow, it has some neato extra stuff, including very interesting quadrophonic mixes of some songs from the first album (which, in stereo, simply reveal different aspects of the existing performances that are inaudible in the original stereo album 
This was a weird film, and it deserves a weird soundtrack, and did it ever get one. There are tantalizing snippets of a wonderfully low-key, cello-drenched Graeme Revell score, but the rest of the album is comprised of an eclectic list of “various artists.” The best entries here are those by the Talking Heads, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, REM, and U2. Also represented are Depeche Mode, T-Bone Burnett, Daniel Lanois, and a rather dull cover of “Summer Kisses, Winter Tear”s by Julee Cruise of Twin Peaks fame. If only for the 
