This disc reproduces all but a couple of songs from the first Move album. I’d better explain this obscure group and frequent answer to radio trivia contests, because the Move is one of my all-time favorites, and probably my hands-down favorite from the 1960s. The original Move consisted of Roy Wood, Bev Bevan, Trevor Burton, Ace Kefford and Carl Wayne from Birmingham, England, a group of musicians who got fed up with the strictures of the cover bands they played in, and decided to form their own group to play originals and get a record contract. From about this time, two very important bands were formed in Birmingham: the Move and the Moody Blues. The latter is still around today, while the former transformed into the Electric Light Orchestra (my all-time favorite rock/pop act) in 1971. But enough of the future – the 
majority of this disc’s material is derived from the Move’s 1968 debut album, and it’s worth many a listen. In the space of that first album, the band went from pseudo-psychedelic rockers to ballads with string players (shades of ELO!) to Monkees-like pop numbers. It was a flashpoint of amazing diversity, and even their later releases were nowhere near as inventive.
- Night of Fear (2:13)
- Disturbance (2:47)
- I Can Hear The Grass Grow (3:00)
- Flowers in the Rain (2:28)
- (Here We Go Round) The Lemon Tree (3:02)
- Fire Brigade (2:24)
- The Girl Outside (2:56)
- Mist on a Monday Morning (2:33)
- Cherry Blossom Clinic Revisited (7:42)
- Wild Tiger Woman (2:40)
- Omnibus (3:56)
- Blackberry Way (3:36)
- Something (3:31)
- Curly (2:45)
- This Time Tomorrow (3:41)
- Beautiful Daughter (2:38)
- Brontosaurus (4:27)
- Lightning Never Strikes Twice (3:12)
- When Alice Comes Back to the Farm (3:43)
- What? (6:44)
Released by: Dojo
Release date: 1997
Total running time: 65:58
