National Health - Complete [2CD. all three studio albums plus bonus tracks] (1990)

Year: 1990 (CD 1990)
Label: East Side Digital (US), ESD 80402/412
Style: Progressive rock, Canterbury scene
Country: Canterbury, England
Time: 79:02, 79:25
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 526, 526 Mb

National Health were an English progressive rock band associated with the Canterbury scene. Founded in 1975, the band featured members of keyboardist Dave Stewart's band Hatfield and the North and Alan Gowen's band Gilgamesh, including guitarists Phil Miller and Phil Lee and bassist Mont Campbell as original members. The band was named after Stewart's National Health spectacles. Bill Bruford (previously of Yes and King Crimson) was the initial drummer, but was soon replaced by Pip Pyle. Campbell was replaced by Neil Murray and then John Greaves. Alan Gowen left the group before its first album (although he appeared on it as a guest musician), but returned for their final tours, replacing Dave Stewart, who resigned after their second album. Amanda Parsons sang with the group in its original lineup but also appeared on the first album only as a guest; the group never had another full-time vocalist, although Richard Sinclair appeared a few times as a guest vocalist, and Greaves sang on one track of the second album and occasionally in concerts. Guitarist Phil Miller was National Health's only constant member.
They toured extensively and released their first album, National Health, in 1978. Although it was created during the rise of punk rock, the album is characterized by lengthy, mostly instrumental compositions. National Health continued performing live until winter 1980, but disbanded without recording another album.
After the May 1981 death of Gowen, the Queues lineup of Stewart, Miller, Greaves and Pyle reunited to record the album D.S. Al Coda, a set of compositions by Gowen, most previously unrecorded. The original albums and additional archival material have subsequently been released on CD.
The intro of National Health's "Binoculars" was used as a sample on American rock band Deftones' "Black Moon".
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Health)

01. Paracelsus (01:45)
02. Tenemos Roads (14:34)
03. Brujo (10:18)
04. Borogoves (Excerpt From Part Two) (04:12)
05. Borogoves (Part One) (06:35)
06. Elephants (14:31)
07. The Bryden 2-Step (For Amphibians), Part 1 (08:54)
08. The Collapso (06:18)
09. Squarer for Maud (11:50)

01. Dreams Wide Awake (08:50)
02. Binoculars (11:45)
03. Phlakaton (00:08)
04. The Bryden 2-Step (For Amphibians), Part 2 (05:33)
05. Apocalypso (06:50)
06. Portrait of a Shrinking Man (05:35)
07. T.N.T.F.X. (03:12)
08. Black Hat (04:52)
09. I Feel a Night Coming On (06:37)
10. Arriving Twice (02:22)
11. Shining Water (08:53)
12. Tales of a Damson Knight (01:56)
13. Flanagan’s People (05:20)
14. Toad of Toad Hall (07:26)

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Caravan - The Show Of Our Lives - Live At The BBC 1968-1975 [2CD] (1998)

Year: 1998 (CD 2007)
Label: Decca Records (Europe), 5301443
Style: Canterbury Scene, Art Rock, Progressive Rock
Country: Canterbury, Kent, England
Time: 71:36, 73:20
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 358, 430 Mb

Caravan were formed in 1968, during the reign of the Canterbury sound – a sudden waft of enthusiasm for avant-garde progressive rock. By the mid-seventies, the band had become synonymous with the scene. They found themselves saddled with a titanic irony: having effectively scripted for the rulebook for a scene borne from a desire to defy all musical rules and conventions.
Throughout the eighties and nineties, the band faded quietly into the background. But, in recent years, shows like BBC 6 Music’s Freak Zone have acted like a life support machine for the band, with Stuart Maconie regularly dusting off their records, and generating intrigue in their quirky, jazz-riddled rock.
The Show Of Our Lives – the closest thing to a Caravan release for four years – is a collection of BBC archive recordings, charting the band’s youth from 1968 to 1975. It’s a rich resource, bringing together well-polished recordings of some of the band’s best known and most respected work.
It’s a release which will appeal exclusively to fans of Caravan. Of course, this’ll come as no surprise to the Caravan boys: after forty years of skirting the fringes of obscurity, they’ll be well aware that their indulgent organ solos and hysterical song structures aren’t to everyone’s tastes.
Like any album forged together from the archives, it does feel rather disjointed. For those unfamiliar with the Canterbury sound’s proudest survivors, The Show Of Our Lives will be a pretty slapdash and substandard introduction. But if you’re already well acquainted with their idiosyncratic sound, then it should be a different story.
(bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/vmf9/)

01. Place Of My Own (04:13)
02. Hide (04:18)
03. If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You (02:47)
04. Hello Hello (03:13)
05. As I Feel I Die (06:25)
06. Love To Love You (03:13)
07. Love Song Without Flute (03:34)
08. In The Land Of Grey And Pink (03:46)
09. Nine Feet Underground (14:28)
10. Feelin', Reelin', Squeelin' (09:31)
11. A Hunting We Shall Go (09:16)
12. Waffle Part One: Be Alright & Chance Of A Lifetime (06:46)

01. Memory Lain Hugh (05:04)
02. Headloss (04:29)
03. The Love In Your Eye (13:55)
04. Mirror For The Day (04:17)
05. Virgin On The Ridiculous (07:02)
06. For Richard (15:06)
07. The Dabsong Conshirtoe (15:13)
08. Stuck In A Hole (03:16)
09. The Show Of Our Lives (04:54)

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