July Complete Recordings CD

Six CD box set. Released by the Major Minor label in 1968, the self-titled July album has long been acknowledged by genre enthusiasts as one of the classic UK psychedelic one-shots, mixing the ambition and experimentation of "Sgt. Pepper" with a lo-fi charm and endearing garage band artlessness. It is also one of the most hotly-pursued artefacts of the British psychedelic era, with an original UK copy (only graded at VG++) recently selling on eBay for around ·3700. This definitive six CD overview of the band's activities includes newly-remastered versions of the album in both mono and stereo formats as well as the various single issues, including a completely different recording of album nugget 'The Way'. Disc Three contains The Second Of July, a collection of pre-album demos that appeared in the mid-Nineties to capitalize on the band's growing reputation as original copies of their LP began to sell for increasingly large sums of money. The remainder of the boxed set consists of more recent July recordings following their triumphant return to live work a few years ago. Disc Four is the aborted album Temporal Anomaly, which was recorded circa 2010 but which gains a first-ever release, while Disc 6 is the appropriately-titled Resurrection, which received a limited release in 2013. Disc Six comprises the latest July magnum opus, The Wight Album, which has been pieced together over the last few years by Tom Newman and Peter Cook at Tom's recording studio on the Isle of Wight. Now finally completed, The Wight Album - described by Tom as "the greatest July album" - brings the July story bang up to date. Housed in a clamshell box, and with a 40-page booklet containing a 7000 word essay on the band featuring new quotes and some priceless period photos, The Complete Recordings is an epic look at the studio activities of one of the biggest cults to emerge from the original British psychedelic scene.

1. My Clown 2. Dandelion Seeds 3. Jolly Mary 4. Hallo To Me 5. You Missed It All 6. The Way 7. To Be Free 8. Move On Sweet Flower 9. Crying Is For Writers 10. I See 11. Friendly Man 12. A Bird Lived 13. My Clown (Single Version) (Bonus Track) 14. Dandelion Seeds (Single Version) (Bonus Track) 15. Hello, WhoÆs There (Bonus Track) 16. The Way (Single Version) (Bonus Track) 17. My Clown 18. Dandelion Seeds 19. Jolly Mary 20. Hallo To Me 21. You Missed It All 22. The Way 23. To Be Free 24. Move On Sweet Flower 25. Crying Is For Writers 26. I See 27. Friendly Man 28. A Bird Lived 29. You Missed It All 30. My Clown 31. Dandelion Seeds 32. The Stamping Machine 33. A Bird Lived 34. Look At Her 35. The Way 36. Friendly Man 37. I See 38. The Girl In The Caf? 39. You See Me, I See You 40. Man Outside 41. Move On Sweet Flower 42. Hallo To Me 43. I Like It 44. If 45. A Day To Remember 46. All The Hours There Are 47. Don't Let Me Down 48. Magical Days 49. Regeneration 50. Dreams 51. I'm Talking To You 52. Lights 53. Dreams 54. I Like It 55. Can I Go Back Again 56. Counting The Minutes 57. A Day To Remember 58. King Bee 59. All The Hours There Are 60. I'm Talkin' To You 61. Linear Thinking 62. Heaven Or Hell 63. Magical Days 64. Regeneration 65. Can I Go Back Again (Extended Version) (Bonus Track) 66. Can I Go Back Again (Original Demo) (Bonus Track) 67. The Devil Inside 68. Special Guy 69. Sophie 70. Animals 71. We Are The Masters 72. Love 'N' Love 73. Protest Song 74. Henry's Squirrel 75. It's Up To Me 76. Seeking The Hacksaw Blades 77. Let Me 78. CatchinÆ Up 79. Mods Of Ryde 80. The Game 81. What's Gonna Be 82. Disc Klingon 83. ItÆs A Fine Line 84. Dancing 85. Truth 86. The Traveller 87. Home 88. Once When We Was Free 89. Right Place Wrong Time