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The Nice were continually cursed with bad timing during their three
-year existence, either trailing the pop culture trends of the day or
else out so far ahead that it amounted to the same thing. Formed in
1967 by keyboardist Keith Emerson, bassist Lee Jackson, drummer Ian
Hague, and guitarist Davy O'List as a support band for singer P.P.
Arnold (who was quickly replaced by Brian Davison), the Nice's first
album, The Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack, was an ambitious psychedelic
project that was inexplicably delayed a year, finally appearing in
1968 when psychedelia had already become a faddish clichΘ. O'List
exited, and the Nice became essentially a trio, which tightened the
group's sound considerably for their second album, the proggish
(before prog rock was even on the musical map) Ars Longa Vita Brevis,
released in late 1968 to critical praise and an equally resounding
commercial silence. The group's third album, a hodgepodge of live and
studio tracks that somehow exhibited a real coherence, never even got
a proper title, and was known variously as Nice, Everything Nice as
Mother Makes It, and finally, as Nice 3. As luck would have it, the
album attracted commercial attention just as the group's label,
Immediate Records, declared bankruptcy. By the end of 1969, Emerson
had departed to form Emerson, Lake & Palmer, and for all practical
purposes, the Nice were done, although cobbled-together albums
continued to appear for a time. This two-disc set draws tracks from
the three main albums, and what emerges in retrospect is a band that
was more varied than its subsequent reputation would suggest. The Nice
are difficult to anthologize because of the sheer length of some of
their tracks ("Ars Longa Vita Brevis," at nearly 20 minutes in length,
took up one entire side of its namesake LP), but this set manages to
capture the feel and range of the Nice, well, nicely. "Ars Longa" is
here in full, as well as more focused and succinct explorations like
"Rondo" (and its beefed-up offspring, "Rondo [69]") and pure pop
attempts like the snappy "Little Arabella," as well as Emerson's taut
cover of Tim Hardin's "Hang on to a Dream." True, a lot of the Nice's
output sounds dated now, but no more so than the other prog rock
-leaning bands of the era. This collection has all of the Nice that
most folks will ever need, and maybe then some.
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Tracks:
CD #1
01. Flower King Of Flies (3:19)
02. The Thoughts Of Emerlist Davjack (2:48)
03. Bonnie K (3:24)
04. Rondo (8:21)
05. War And Peace (5:13)
06. Tantalising Maggie (4:35)
07. Dawn (5:17)
08. The Cry Of Eugene (4:34)
09. America / Second Amendment (6:20)
10. The Diamond Hard Blue Apples Of The Moon (2:48)
11. Daddy Where Did I Come From? (3:43)
12. Don Edito El Gruva (0:14)
13. Ars Longa Vita Brevis (19:20)
CD #2
01. Little Arabella (4:18)
02. Happy Freuds (3:27)
03. Intermezzo From The Karelia Suite (8:59)
04. Brandenburger (4:26)
05. Azrael Revisited (5:59)
06. Hang On To A Dream (4:47)
07. Diary Of An Empty Day (4:01)
08. For Example (8:56)
09. Pathetique Symphony 4th (Live) (10:23)
10. Lt. Kije (The Troika) / Rondo (Live) (8:01)
11. Rondo (69) (Live) (7:56)
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