Fairport Compendium

[davidmjs]

I'm trying to avoid people going off in a huff because they can't stomach early tracks being excluded to include more recent ones.

So how about a double CD. The first 25 years and the second. Well roughly. The break being 'Red & Gold' <-> 'The Five Seasons'

I think some will only be interested in CD1, but there are also the 'youngsters'.

Well?

I can go for the double idea, but it's the wrong place to take the break.  It needs to pre and post original split to my mind.  The early years are more intense and more important.  That's true of any band with a long history, it's not me being partisan.  It's just the way it is.

Jules

Yeah, what Jules said...if you have a break, it has to be at the end of the 70's - it's two very distinct bands and careers.  It's not like the Beatles is it...a 2CD Stones compilation isn't going to split after Steel Wheels, is it?

[Will S]

I'd agree that 2 CDs has to be the way to go.  And I think splitting it between Farewell, Farewell and Gladys Leap is the logical place to do it.  

But I won't kick up a big fuss if you decide to do it differently - it's only a bit of fun, after all.

[hendo (Dave)]

I'm trying to avoid people going off in a huff because they can't stomach early tracks being excluded to include more recent ones.

So how about a double CD. The first 25 years and the second. Well roughly. The break being 'Red & Gold' <-> 'The Five Seasons'

I think some will only be interested in CD1, but there are also the 'youngsters'.

Well?

Double Cd is good. Natural break would be before and after Gladys Leap.
After 85" there have been 2 changes to the band line up. Before 85 there were 8,542.......ish.

[hendo (Dave)]

I'm trying to avoid people going off in a huff because they can't stomach early tracks being excluded to include more recent ones.

So how about a double CD. The first 25 years and the second. Well roughly. The break being 'Red & Gold' <-> 'The Five Seasons'

I think some will only be interested in CD1, but there are also the 'youngsters'.

Well?

I can go for the double idea, but it's the wrong place to take the break.  It needs to pre and post original split to my mind.  The early years are more intense and more important.  That's true of any band with a long history, it's not me being partisan.  It's just the way it is.

Jules

Elbow? Pulp?😇😉

[Jules Gray]

Elbow? Pulp?����

Two exceptions from the minor leagues.  Out of thousands.

Jules

[hendo (Dave)]

Elbow? Pulp?����

Two exceptions from the minor leagues.  Out of thousands.

Jules

I know big boy. The pedant in me just couldn't resist.😜😇😉

[Shane (Skirky)]

Elbow? Pulp?����

Two exceptions from the minor leagues.  Out of thousands.
Jules

Radiohead? Thin Lizzy? Marvin Gaye? The Tremeloes? (...that's enough now - Ed.)

[jimc]

I think the other place you could logically take a split is after Rising. Up to then it seems to me that there was always a dream that they might become major players in the mainstream music scene, and after that there was a gradual acceptance that, OK, that's not going to happen, but maybe we can make a living in a smaller fishpool.

[Jules Gray]

Radiohead? Thin Lizzy? Marvin Gaye? The Tremeloes? (...that's enough now - Ed.)

Interesting.  Let me think about these...

Thin Lizzy had a mid-career peak.  You still wouldn't want that many selections from their last three albums.  And their formative years still count as amongst their most interesting.

Marvin Gaye? Again, a mid-career peak, but there's an awful lot of big hits from earlier on.

Radiohead?  Not an expert, but again, a mid-career peak.  The best stuff would probably still be at the end of disc one.

The Tremeloes - would anyone need two CDs by The Tremeloes?

Jules

[bassline (Mike)]

I for one, love the first two Radiohead albums and lost interest after that, but I guess the popular opinion is, as you say a mid career peak.