Wrecks - Related / Similar Products and Compilation Appearances

Procol Harum - Procol Harum/Shine On Brightly. Dble CD. (B.G.O. Records - BGOCD556) Duet of classic albums from Sarfend's finest. The debut album, also known as 'A Whiter Shade Of Pale' where that track is added, was one of the strongest UK psych releases and features Procol in a whimsical mode (on 'Mabel' 'Good Captain Clack' 'She Wandered Through The Garden Fence' and 'Salad Days Are Here Again') but tracks such as 'Cerdes (Outside The Gates Of)' 'A Christmas Camel' 'Something Following Me' and the fan favourite 'Conquistador' all hint at the doom-laden mood that would soon characterise Keith Reid's songwriting, with lyrics that tell of shipWrecks, pogroms, bad acid and chewing on tombstones. 'Shine On Brightly', released barely a year later, is more fully developed, and contains four cast-iron classics in the title track, 'Quite Rightly So' the morose, suicide-obsessed 'Rambling On' and the 22-minute long 'In Held Twas In I'- one of the first true concept pieces of British progressive rock, and still possibly its darkest, with Robin Trower's slashing guitar licks and Matthew Fisher's eerie choral arrangements providing the perfect coating to Gary Brooker's blueswailin' yet somehow quintessentially Cockney delivery of Reid's bitter, twisted lyric. The hit singles of the time ('Homburg' and the inevitable 'Whiter Shade'. . .) are appended to the package as extras.

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