21-12-2010, 17:23
This is not quite as simple as I would like it to be.
The Magna back catalog is not as readily available as it should be and it is not as it should be.
Some items are excellent but the prices on Amazon are extortionate.................
For example " Martin's Cafe " is really worth having but at 24 GBP it is too expensive to get that way.
The other problem is there are times when Magna have recycled their tracks and you can end up with repeats.....................and Magna also like rerecording things so it is hard to tell the difference..................
However this is what I would recommend:
1) Lord Of The Ages .....................( The Repertoire issue is well packaged and remastered.)
or
2) Lord Of The Ages?Martin's Cafe the download. ( I have the CD and MC is really excellent and different from LOTA)
3) Seasons is excellent and if you can get it coupled with Songs from Wastie's Orchard
well worth it.
4) Midnight Blue/Live and Let Live is excellent from Angel Air and shows a completely different MC from 1 to 3
5) The Ambitions issue of Time For The Leaving is usually cheap and contains both live at Grassington albums
6) I think Where To Now is excellent as it has some rare demos not avaliable else where but it can cost.
Try those to start with
The Magna back catalog is not as readily available as it should be and it is not as it should be.
Some items are excellent but the prices on Amazon are extortionate.................
For example " Martin's Cafe " is really worth having but at 24 GBP it is too expensive to get that way.
The other problem is there are times when Magna have recycled their tracks and you can end up with repeats.....................and Magna also like rerecording things so it is hard to tell the difference..................
However this is what I would recommend:
1) Lord Of The Ages .....................( The Repertoire issue is well packaged and remastered.)
or
2) Lord Of The Ages?Martin's Cafe the download. ( I have the CD and MC is really excellent and different from LOTA)
3) Seasons is excellent and if you can get it coupled with Songs from Wastie's Orchard
well worth it.
4) Midnight Blue/Live and Let Live is excellent from Angel Air and shows a completely different MC from 1 to 3
5) The Ambitions issue of Time For The Leaving is usually cheap and contains both live at Grassington albums
6) I think Where To Now is excellent as it has some rare demos not avaliable else where but it can cost.
Try those to start with
Nice to be able to go back to trust and friendship!!!!!!!!!
It's a mixed up sensation this being alive
Oh! it wears a man down into the ground
It's the strangest elation
I can't describe it
Oh it leaves a man weary
It makes a man frown..............................Chris Simpson ( "Mixed Up Sensations" 1975 Martin's Cafe )
It's a mixed up sensation this being alive
Oh! it wears a man down into the ground
It's the strangest elation
I can't describe it
Oh it leaves a man weary
It makes a man frown..............................Chris Simpson ( "Mixed Up Sensations" 1975 Martin's Cafe )