Nice - The Thoughts Of Emerlist Davjack (deluxe edition) (1967)
Rock | 2cd | EAC Rip | Flac + Cue + Log | covers
Sanctuary/Castle | CMQDD790 | 2003 remaster | 710Mb
The 1998 Castle Communications reissue (ESM 647) of the only album by the progressive band as a quartet runs circles around every other version of this album on CD, including the material in the 1995 Charly Records box, which was pretty good. Otherwise, the music is a flawed but valiant effort at progressive-type art rock, a little too heavily influenced by spaced-out, druggy psychedelia and suffering severely from the lack of a real singer in the ranks of the band. Keith Emerson's organ and piano flourishes never sounded crisper, and Davy O'List's Hendrix-ish guitar is in sharp relief as well.