The Move – Message From The Country, 1971 (2006)
Mini LP cardboard sleeve reissue + bonus tracks
EAC rip | APE tracks, CUE, LOG | covers | 460Mb | 3% recovery | rs.com
Toshiba EMI Japan | TOCP-70061
EAC rip | APE tracks, CUE, LOG | covers | 460Mb | 3% recovery | rs.com
Toshiba EMI Japan | TOCP-70061
1 Message From The Country
2 Ella James
3 No Time
4 Don't Mess Me Up
5 Until Your Moma's Gone
6 It Wasn't My Idea To Dance
7 The Minister
8 Ben Crawley Steel Company
9 The Words of Aaron
10 My Marge
11 Tonight*
12 Chinatown*
13 Down On The Bay*
14 Do Ya*
15 California Man*
16 Don't Mess Me Up**
17 The Words of Aaron**
18 Do Ya**
19 My Marge**
* Bonus track
** Previously unreleased session track
Although they had three more fine singles in them – the Supergrass - inspiring "Tonight" and "Chinatown" together with Cheap Trick's adopted live staple "California Man" – album-wise, Message from the Country, released in July 1971, was the Move's curtain call. But it was also the first ELO album in all but name. The Birmingham band responsible for an enviable run of many-flavored 60s hits ("Flowers in the Rain", "I Can Hear the Grass Grow", "Fire Brigade", "Brontosaurus", etc.) 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 co-founder Bev Bevan and former Idle Race rival (in the most gentlemanly sense) and Beatles disciple Jeff Lynne. Deceptively – 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 was right here on Message from the Country – caustic, marching staccato strings (seemingly played by Heavy Metal fans with saws), oboes and bassoons intertwining like arcane snake charmer music and, yes, Beatles melodies like Jeff Lynne's "The Minister", practically a melodic re-publishing of "Paperback Writer" but louder and heavier than lead. It remains a fascinating chapter in the bafflingly complicated Move/ELO/Wizzard/Roy Wood chronicles.
- Kevin Maidment
Exact Audio Copy V0.99 prebeta 4 from 23. January 2008
EAC extraction logfile from 17. July 2009, 17:28
The Move / Message From The Country
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EAC extraction logfile from 17. July 2009, 17:28
The Move / Message From The Country
Used drive : ATAPI DVD A DH20A4H Adapter: 0 ID: 1
Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No
Read offset correction : 6
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Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
Used output format : Internal WAV Routines
Sample format : 44.100 Hz; 16 Bit; Stereo
TOC of the extracted CD
Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector
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