• 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-eulogised psych-pop first LP (“the strongest tracks are as good as anything I’ve heard”, claimed a review in UK prog/psych guide book Galactic Ramble) 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anthology of the band’s body of work that includes the full Complex story, with new quotes and many previously unpublished photos. Tracklist DISC ONE:1 FUNNY FEELING2 MESSAGE FROM THE YEAR 20003 GREEN-EYED LUCY4 JOSIE5 WITCH’S SPELL6 NORWEGIAN BUTTERFLY7 SELF-DECLARATION8 IMAGES BLUE9 STORM ON WAY10 MADEMOISELLE JACKIE11 LIVE FOR THE MINUTEBonus tracks 12 HUSH13 IMAGES BLUE (alternative version)14 GREEN-EYED LUCY (alternative version)15 NORWEGIAN BUTTERFLY (alternative version)16 GREEN-EYED LUCY (original demo version) 1-11 The album ‘Complex’, recorded November 197012-13 Unreleased at the time 7” acetate, recorded July 197014-15 Unreleased at the time, recorded January 197116 Previously unreleased, recorded circa mid-1970 DISC TWO:1 EVERY TIME I HEAR THAT SONG2 AM I3 WE DON’T EXIST4 LEMON PIE FAIR5 THE WAY I FEEL6 MOVING MOOR7 JEANANETTE8 HEY GIRL YOU’VE GOT STYLE9 IF YOU ARE MY LOVEBonus tracks10 MOVING MOOR (alternative version)11 THE WAY I FEEL (alternative version) 1-9 The album ‘The Way We Feel’, recorded June/July 197110-11 Unreleased at the time, recorded January 1971 DISC THREE:1 NO TITLE (WE DON’T KNOW YET)2 TO MAKE SEE ME3 THE WITCH QUEEN OF NEW ORLEANS4 BY THE TIME I GET TO PHOENIX5 THEME FROM SHAFT6 WE DON’T EXIST (alt version) 7 MOVING MOOR (alt version #2)8 TEENYBOPPER JOE9 ROCK’N’ROLL STAR10 SMILEY ANNE11 WHO GOT THE LOVE12 SHE TURNS ME ON13 DOWN TO THE CITY14 JUBILEE15 WHO DO YOU THINK I AM16 CRUEL WOMAN17 THE CRACK18 SUSIE MY FRIEND19 DIAL 999 Previously unreleased:1-5 10” acetate LP, recorded March 19726-8, recorded spring 19739-10 recorded 197313 recorded December 197514-19 1976-78 recordings11-12 Pye single, 7N 45589, recordedDecember 1975, released April 1976
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