Colosseum - Elegy (The Recordings 1968-1971) (2024) 6CD

Artist: Colosseum
Title Of Album: Elegy
Year Of Release: 2024
Label (Catalog#): Esoteric
Country: UK
Genre: Prog Rock, Jazz-Rock, Blues Rock
Quality: FLAC (*tracks)
Bitrate: Lossless
Time: 05:42:32
Full Size: 2.12GB(+3%)

Tracks:
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DISC ONE: Those Who Are About to Die Salute You
01. Walking in the Park (3:56)
02. Plenty Hard Luck (4:28)
03. Mandarin (4:25)
04. Debut (6:20)
05. Beware the Ides of March (5:37)
06. The Road She Walked Before (2:43)
07. Backwater Blues (7:38)
08. Those About to Die (4:57)
Bonus Tracks – recorded at Pye Studios, November 1968:
09. I Can’t Live without You (4:15)
10. In the Heat of the Night (4:48)
11. Those About to Die (demo) (4:10)

DISC TWO: Valentyne Suite
01. The Kettle (4:28)
02. Elegy (3:14)
03. Butty’s Blues (6:47)
04. The Machine Demands a Sacrifice (3:56)
05. The Valentyne Suite (16:59)
Bonus Track:
06. Tell Me Now (3:41)

DISC THREE: The Grass is Greener
01. Jumping Off the Sun (3:36)
02. Lost Angeles (5:33)
03. Elegy (3:13)
04. Butty’s Blues (6:45)
05. Rope Ladder to the Moon (3:44)
06. Bolero (5:29)
07. The Machine Demands a Sacrifice (2:51)
08. The Grass is Always Greener (7:38)

DISC FOUR: Daughter of Time
01. Three Score and Ten, Amen (5:39)
02. Time Lament (6:12)
03. Take Me Back to Doomsday (4:25)
04. The Daughter of Time (3:33)
05. Theme for an Imaginary Western (4:07)
06. Bring Out Your Dead (4:20)
07. Downhill and Shadows (6:14)
08. The Time Machine (8:13)
Bonus Tracks:
09. Bring Out Your Dead (demo) (4:45)
10. Jumping Off the Sun (Lansdowne Studios – 3rd May 1970) (3:37)
11. The Pirate’s Dream (12:04)

DISC FIVE: Colosseum Live
01. Rope Ladder to the Moon (9:47)
02. Walking in the Park (8:23)
03. Skellington (14:59)
04. I Can’t Live Without You (7:52)
05. Tanglewood ‘63 (10:16)
06. Encore… Stormy Monday Blues (7:32)
07. Lost Angeles (15:48)

DISC SIX: Live Recordings 1971
01. Rope Ladder to the Moon (live – Brighton 1971) (10:58)
02. Skellington (live – Brighton 1971) (14:44)
03. I Can’t Live Without You / The Time Machine / The Machine Demands a Sacrifice (live – Manchester University 1971) (21:42)
04. Stormy Monday Blues (live – Bristol University 1971) (5:14)
05. The Valentyne Suite (live – Manchester University 1971) (21:20)

Personnel:
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Jon Hiseman – Drums
Dick Heckstall-Smith – Saxophones
Dave Greenslade – Organ, Keyboards, Backing Vocals
James Litherland – Guitar, Vocals (discs 1 & 2)
Dave “Clem” Clempson – Guitar (discs 3-6), Lead Vocals (disc 3), Backing Vocals (discs 4-6)
Tony Reeves – Bass (discs 1-3)
Mark Clarke – Bass (discs 4-6)
Chris Farlowe – Vocals (discs 4-6)
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Jim Roche – Guitar (disc 1, track 7)
Neil Ardley – Conductor (disc 3, track 4), String Arrangement (disc 3, track 3; disc 4, tracks 2 & 4)
Barbara Thompson – Flute, Saxophones, Vocals (disc 4, tracks 1-4)
Louis Cennamo – Bass (disc 4, tracks 2,3,4 & 7)

All thanks to original releaser