VA - Immediate, The Singles Collection [2000] (6 x CD's)

IMMEDIATE SINGLES COLLECTION

VA - Immediate, The Singles Collection [2000] (6 x CD's)

This extravagant six-CD set documents the astonishing life span of the first pop independent label in the U.K., Immediate Records. Founded in 1965, Immediate flipped, flopped, and staggered its own way, competing against unhip American labels like EMI and Decca until late 1969. The label, and the documentary CD set, showcases in particular the Small Faces, who enjoyed a brief U.K. number one hit, Ogden's Nut Gone Flake. More familiar to American listeners will no doubt be the three-chord sock-hop favorite "Hang on Sloopy" by the McCoys, and a number of covers of familiar American folk-rock hits are present as well.  The esoteric collector will appreciate inclusions by such café balladeers as the Poets and Les Fleurs-de-Lis, also signed by Immediate before the advent of the swinging London sound, marked by the Rolling Stones revolution and other mod developers influencing the pants off the tiniest studio cover bands. Immediate also helped sculpt the success of anguished bellower Chris Farlowe, soon to be joined by the similarly throaty vibrato of PP Arnold and, of course, manager, producer Andrew Oldham's best toss of the dice, the Small Faces, whom he ripped away from Decca. By the fourth disc, you are, in fact, in the throes of swinging London, featuring Farlowe's heart-stopping "Yesterday's Papers" and Arnold's "The First Cut Is the Deepest," written by the much-in-demand Cat Stevens. Most of the music is minimal and often out of tune, production at an early-time low, replete with tinny echoes and accidental outtake moments. The most successfully recorded instruments seem to be the sitars, baroque strings, and arpeggio harpsichord riffs that "translate" well under Immediate's studio circumstances. Notable moments: Small Faces' "Here Comes the Nice" and "Itchypoo Park," Murray Head's "She Was Perfection," and the Marquis of Kensington's Kinks, new vaudeville hybrid, "Changing of the Guard." 

This is a luxurious, overcollected document that could be easily managed on one museum-piece disc, although it would be hard cull dozens of small contributions by say, drop-ins Nico, Rod Stewart, and Mick Fleetwood. The jewel on the record is without question the Faces version (sung not by Stewart but by Chris Farlowe) of "Handbags and Glad rags": "They told me you missed school today, So I suggest you just throw it all away, The handbags and glad rags that your granddads had to sweat, So you could buy." Very British, very Immediate. (AllMusic Review by Becky Byrkit)

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VA - Immediate, The Singles Collection [2000] CD1+CD2
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VA - Immediate, The Singles Collection [2000] CD5+CD6+Booklet
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Track lists

CD1
01    McCoys    Hang on Sloopy    3:04
02    McCoys    I Can't Explain It    2:28
03    Fifth Avenue    The Bells of Rhymney    2:52
04    Fifth Avenue    Just Like Anyone Would Do    2:21
05    Nico    I'm Not Sayin'    2:50
06    Nico    The Last Mile    2:30
07    Gregory Phillips    Down in the Boondocks    2:38
08    Gregory Phillips    That's the One    2:39
09    Masterminds    She Belongs to Me    2:45
10    Masterminds    Taken My Love    2:46
11    Poets    Call Again    2:24
12    Poets    Some Thing's I Can't Forget    1:51
13    Strangeloves    Cala-Lin    2:32
14    Strangeloves    (Roll On) Mississippi    2:27
15    Van Lenton    Gotta Get Away    2:49
16    Van Lenton    You Don't Care    2:09
17    Factotums    In My Lonely Room    2:01
18    Factotums    A Run in the Green and Tangerine Flaked Forest    2:19
19    Golden Apple    The Monkey Time    2:52
20    Golden Apple    Chocolate Rolls, Tea & Monopoly    2:29
21    Barbara Lynn    You Can't Buy My Love    1:56
22    Barbara Lynn    That's What a Friend Will Do    2:32
23    John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers    I'm Your Witchdoctor    2:12
24    John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers    Telephone Blues    3:57
25    Glyn Johns    Mary Anne    2:39
26    Glyn Johns    Like Grains of Yellow Sand    3:03
27    Mick Softley    I'm So Confused    2:51
28    Mick Softley    She's My Girl    1:57
29    Mockingbirds    You Stole My Love    2:42
30    Mockingbirds    Skit Skat    2:02

CD2

01    Chris Farlowe    The Fool    3:03
02    Chris Farlowe    Treat Her Good    2:01
03    Joey Vine    Down & Out    2:51
04    Joey Vine    The Out of Towner    2:33
05    Jimmy Tarbuck    Someday    2:19
06    Jimmy Tarbuck    Wastin' Time    2:29
07    Variations    The Man With All the Toys    2:12
08    Variations    She'll Know I'm Sorry    2:34
09    Les Fleur De Lys    Moondreams    2:28
10    Les Fleur De Lys    Wait for Me    2:23
11    McCoys    Fever    2:49
12    McCoys    Sorrow    2:04
13    Factotums    You're So Good to Me    2:08
14    Factotums    Can't Go Home Anymore My Love    2:11
15    Chris Farlowe    Think    3:37
16    Chris Farlowe    Don't Just Look at Me    2:44
17    Poets    Baby Don't You Do It    2:28
18    Poets    I'll Come Home    2:06
19    Charles Dickens    So Much in Love    2:44
20    Charles Dickens    Our Soul Brother Th    2:38
21    Goldie    Going Back    2:28
22    Goldie    Headlines    3:38
23    Tony Rivers & the Castaways    Girl Don't Tell Me    2:45
24    Tony Rivers & the Castaways    The Girl From Salt Lake City    1:59
25    McCoys    Don't Worry Mother, Your Son's Heart is Pure    3:16
26    McCoys    Ko-Ko    2:18
27    McCoys    Up and Down    2:37
28    McCoys    If You Tell a Lie    1:59
29    London Waits    Softly Softly    2:36
30    London Waits    Serenadio    2:55

CD3

01    Turtles    You Baby    2:16
02    Turtles    Wanderin' Kind    2:07
03    Fleur De Lys    Circles    3:03
04    Fleur De Lys    So Come On    1:50
05    Twice as Much    Sittin' on a Fence    3:11
06    Twice as Much    Baby I Want You    2:15
07    McCoys    Runaway    2:36
08    McCoys    Come on Let's Go    2:39
09    Chris Farlowe    Out of Time    3:32
10    Chris Farlowe    Baby Make it Soon    2:17
11    Twice as Much    Step Out of Line    3:06
12    Twice as Much    Simplified    3:53
13    McCoys    (You Make Me Feel) So Good    2:43
14    McCoys    Everyday I Have to Cry    2:29
15    Chris Farlowe    Ride on Baby    2:46
16    Chris Farlowe    Headlines    3:10
17    Twice as Much    True Story    2:17
18    Twice as Much    You're So Good for Me    2:31
19    P.P.Arnold    Everything Gonna Be Alright    3:08
20    P.P.Arnold    Life is But Nothing    3:46
21    Chris Farlowe    My Way of Giving    2:33
22    Chris Farlowe    You're So Good for Me    2:15
23    Twice as Much    Crystal Ball    2:46
24    Twice as Much    Why Can't They All Go and Leave Me Alone    2:56
25    Apostolic Intervention    (Tell Me) Have You Ever Seen Me    2:00
26    Apostolic Intervention    Madame Garcia    2:52
27    Nicky Scott    Big City    2:30
28    Nicky Scott    Everything's Gonna Be Alright    3:20

CD4

01    Nicky Scott    Backstreet Girl    2:30
02    Nicky Scott    Chain Reaction    2:11
03    McCoys    I Got to Go Back    2:43
04    The McCoys    McCoys -    2:12
05    P.P.Arnold    The First Cut is the Deepest    3:07
06    P.P.Arnold    Speak to Me    2:16
07    Mort Shuman Iv    Monday Monday    2:38
08    Mort Shuman    Little Children    2:53
09    Chris Farlowe    Yesterday's Papers    2:13
10    Chris Farlowe    Life is But Nothing    4:03
11    Small Faces    Here Come the Nice    2:58
12    Small Faces    Talk to You    2:07
13    Marquis of Kensington    The Changing of the Guard    2:24
14    Marquis of Kensington's Minstrels    Reverse Thrust    1:57
15    Murray Head    She Was Perfection    2:48
16    Murray Head    Secondhand Monday    2:16
17    Australian Playboys    Black Sheep R.I.P.    2:45
18    Australian Playboys    Sad    2:55
19    P.P.Arnold    The Time Has Come    2:41
20    P.P.Arnold    If You See What I Mean    2:08
21    Chris Farlowe    Moanin'    2:36
22    Chris Farlowe    What Have I Been Doing    3:07
23    Small Faces    Itchycoo Park    2:47
24    Small Faces    I'm Only Dreaming    2:23
25    Warm Sounds    Sticks and Stones    3:21
26    Warm Sounds    Angeline    2:36
27    Nice    The Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack    2:49
28    Nice    Azrial (Angel of Death)    3:45

CD5

01    Rod Stewart    Little Miss Understood    3:40
02    Rod Stewart    So Much to Say    3:15
03    P.P.Arnold    (If You Think You're) Groovy    2:55
04    P.P.Arnold    Though it Hurts Me Badly    4:20
05    Small Faces    Tin Soldier    3:21
06    Small Faces    I Feel Much Better    3:57
07    Billy Nichols    Would You Believe    2:42
08    Billy Nichols    Daytime Girl    2:43
09    Small Faces    Lazy Sunday    3:03
10    Small Faces    Rollin' Over (Part2 of Happiness Stan)    2:11
11    Chris Farlowe    Handbags & Gladrags    3:24
12    Chris Farlowe    Everyone Makes a Mistake    2:00
13    Chrs Farlowe    The Last Goodbye    2:50
14    Chris Farlowe    Paperman Fly in the Sky    2:46
15    P.P.Arnold    Angel of the Morning    3:18
16    Outer Limits    Great Train Robbery    3:38
17    Outer Limits    Sweet Freedom    3:01
18    Nice    America    6:20
19    Nice    The Diamond Hard Blue Apples of the Moon    2:48
20    Small Faces    The Universal    2:43
21    Small Faces    Donkey Rides, a Penny, a Glass    2:49
22    Duncan Browne    On the Bombsite    2:47
23    Duncan Browne    Alfred Bell    4:36

CD6

01    Chris Farlowe    Paint it Black    2:59
02    Chris Farlowe    I Just Need Your Loving    3:13
03    Nice    Brandenburger    4:25
04    Nice    Happy Freuds    3:27
05    Amen Corner    (If Paradice Is) Half as Nice    2:45
06    Amen Corner    Hey Hey Girl    3:03
07    Chris Farlowe & the Thunderbirds    Dawn    3:49
08    Chris Farlowe & the Thunderbirds    April Was the Month    3:53
09    Michael D'abo    (See the Little People) Gulliver Travels    2:34
10    Michael D'abo    An Anthology of Gulliver's Travels-Part Two    1:09
11    McCoys    This is Where We Came In    1:38
12    Small Faces    Afterglow of Your Love    3:22
13    Small Faces    Wham Bam Thank You Mam    3:20
14    Fleetwood Mac    Man of the World    2:51
15    Earl Vince & the Valiants    Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked in Tonite    2:40
16    Amen Corner    Hello Susie    2:35
17    Amen Corner    Evil Man's Gonna Win    4:01
18    Humble Pie    Natural Born Bugie    4:16
19    Humble Pie    Wrist Job    4:15
20    Amen Corner    Get Back    2:52
21    Amen Corner    Farewell to the Real Magnificent Seven    6:29
22    Hill    Sylvie    3:22
23    Hill    The Fourth Annual Convention of the Battery Hen Farmers Association - Part2    4:35

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