Complex Live For The Minute: Complex Anthology CD

Three CD set. First-ever career anthology of Blackpool-based psychedelic/progressive pop group. Complex who self-released one of the world's rarest, most expensive albums. In 1970-71, Lancashire quartet Complex pressed 99 copies of their self-titled debut LP and instant follow-up The Way We Feel in an unsuccessful attempt to land a major label recording deal. Based around the songs of their teenage organist Steve Coe (later the mastermind behind Monsoon's Top 20 hit 'Ever So Lonely'), both albums are now hugely collectable, with a copy of their much-eulogized psych-pop first LP selling in 2015 for an astonishing ·10,000. Live For The Minute: The Complex Anthology brings together all of their recordings under one roof for the first time, with those two albums (bolstered by various contemporary out-takes, including the previously-unissued original demo of 'Green-Eyed Lucy') joined by a third CD of subsequent recordings that now gain their first-ever issue. That third disc includes their semi-legendary, 25-minute unreleased acetate LP from early 1972, when Coe's replacement Mike Proctor (collectable in his own right for his 1967 EMI mod/psych single 'Mr Commuter') took the band in a slightly heavier direction - as can now be heard for the first time on the eight-minute progressive rock epic 'No Title (We Don't Know Yet)' and the equally heavy 'To Make You See Me'. Featuring roughly 75 minutes of previously unreleased music alongside newly remastered upgrades of those two albums, 'Live For The Minute' is a long-overdue anthology of the band's body of work that includes the full Complex story, with new quotes and many previously unpublished photos.

1. FUNNY FEELING 2. MESSAGE FROM THE YEAR 2000 3. GREEN-EYED LUCY 4. JOSIE 5. WITCH'S SPELL 6. NORWEGIAN BUTTERFLY 7. SELF-DECLARATION 8. IMAGES BLUE 9. STORM ON WAY 10. MADEMOISELLE JACKIE 11. LIVE FOR THE MINUTE 12. HUSH 13. IMAGES BLUE (alternative version) 14. GREEN-EYED LUCY (alternative version) 15. NORWEGIAN BUTTERFLY (alternative version) 16. GREEN-EYED LUCY (original demo version) 17. EVERY TIME I HEAR THAT SONG 18. AM I 19. WE DON'T EXIST 20. LEMON PIE FAIR 21. THE WAY I FEEL 22. MOVING MOOR 7 23. EANANETTE 24. HEY GIRL YOU'VE GOT STYLE 25. IF YOU ARE MY LOVE 26. MOVING MOOR (alternative version) 27. THE WAY I FEEL (alternative version) 28. NO TITLE (WE DON'T KNOW YET) 29. TO MAKE SEE ME 30. THE WITCH QUEEN OF NEW ORLEANS 31. BY THE TIME I GET TO PHOENIX 32. THEME FROM SHAFT 33. WE DON'T EXIST (alt version) 34. MOVING MOOR (alt version #2) 35. TEENYBOPPER JOE 36. ROCK'N'ROLL STAR 37. SMILEY ANNE 38. WHO GOT THE LOVE 39. SHE TURNS ME ON 40. DOWN TO THE CITY 41. JUBILEE 42. WHO DO YOU THINK I AM 43. CRUEL WOMAN 44. THE CRACK 45. SUSIE MY FRIEND 46. DIAL 999