Rhino has a history of doing things up right, but this time it's outdone itself. More than five hours of prog, from The Nice to Golden Earring,
presented thoroughly and largely chronologically. Depending on your
outlook, it's either heaven or hell. There's plenty here to occupy the
idle, drug-riddled mind; some well known (Focus's "Hocus Pocus," ELP's "Knife Edge," Genesis)
and some wonderfully obscure (Wigwam in their pre-Virgin days, when
they were an obscure, Finnish-Irish outfit, and Hatfield and the
North's delicious first single, "Let's Eat Again [Real Soon]," which
had nothing to do with food). With cover art by Roger Dean, it's
everything you could imagine a prog rock box being.
Volume 1
1. The Nice - America
2. Traffic f. Stevie Winwood - Paper Sun
3. Procol Harum - Repent Walpurgis
4. Pretty Things - Private Sorrow-Balloon Burning
5. Moody Blues - Legend of a Mind
6. Renaissance - Kings & Queens
7. Rare Bird - Sympathy
8. Pete Sinfield - Under the Sky
9. Klaus Schultze - Searching
10. Kingdom Come - Sunrise
Volume 2
1. Aphrodite's Child - The System-Babylon
2. Atomic Rooster - Death Walks Behind You
3. Ash Ra Tempel - Der Vierte Kuss
4. Van Der Graaf Generator - Killer
5. Can - Oh Yeah
6. Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Knife-Edge
7. Caravan - In The Land Of Grey And Pink
8. Curved Air - It Happened Today
9. Focus - Hocus Pocus
10. Wigwam - Prophet-Marvelry Skimmer
Volume 3
1. Yes - Perpetual Change
2. Argent - Lothlorien
3. Roxy Music - Ladytron
4. Supersister - Radio
5. Savage Rose - Dear Little Mother
6. Genesis - The Musical Box
7. Electric Light Orchestra - Roll Over Beethoven
8. Strawbs - New World
9. Premiata Forneria Marconi - Celebration
10. Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Karn Evil 9- 1st Impression, Parts 1 & 2
Volume 4
1. Genesis - Dancing with the Moonlit Knight
2. Yes - And You and I
3. Roxy music - Virginia Plain
4. Wishbone Ash - Warrior
5. Lard Free - Warinobaril
6. Amon Duul II - Mozambique
7. Strawbs - Round and Round
8. Nektar - Questions and Answers
9. Ange - Fils De Lumiere
10. Le Orme - Ritorno Al Nulla
11. Clearlight - Without Words
Volume 5
1. Seventh Wave - Star Palace of the Sombre Warrior
2. Gong - Perfect Mystery
3. Gentle Giant - Free Hand
4. Henry Cow - Slapp Happy
5. Samla Mammas Manna - Andra Satsen
6. Hatfield & The North - Let's Eat (Real Soon)
7. Banco- Traccia II
8. Magma - Troller Tanz (Ghost Dance)
9. Faust - It's A Rainy Day, Sunshine Girl
10. Quiet Sun - Mummy Was an Asteroid, Daddy Was a Small Non-Stick Kitchen Utencil
11. Golden Earring - Radar Love
12. Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - Inca Roads
