Colosseum

Elegy – The Recordings 1968-1971


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• 6CD BOXED SET CELEBRATING THE WORK OF COLOSSEUM RECORDED BETWEEN 1968 AND 1971.

• A REMASTERED SET INCLUDING THE ALBUMS ‘THOSE ABOUT TO DIE SALUTE YOU’, ‘VALENTYNE SUITE’, ‘THE GRASS IS GREENER’, ‘DAUGHTER OF TIME’ AND ‘COLOSSEUM LIVE’ PLUS AN ADDITIONAL 12 BONUS TRACKS DRAWN FROM STUDIO SESSIONS AND LIVE RECORDINGS.

• INCLUDES AN ILLUSTRATED BOOK WITH ESSAY.

Tracklist

DISC ONE
Those Who Are About to Die Salute You
1 Walking in the Park
2 Plenty hard Luck
3 Mandarin
4 Debut
5 Beware the Ides of March
6 The Road She Walked Before
7 Backwater Blues
8 Those About to Die
Bonus tracks – recorded at Pye Studios, November 1968
9 I Can’t Live without You
10 In the Heat of the Night
11 Those About to Die (demo)

DISC TWO
Valentyne Suite
1 The Kettle
2 Elegy
3 Butty’s Blues
4 The Machine Demands a Sacrifice
5 The Valentyne Suite
a. January’s Search
b. Theme Two – February’s Valentyne
c. Theme Three – The Grass is Always Greener
Bonus track
6 Tell Me Now

DISC THREE
The Grass is Greener
1 Jumping Off the Sun
2 Lost Angeles
3 Elegy
4 Butty’s Blues
5 Rope Ladder to the Moon
6 Bolero
7 The Machine Demands a Sacrifice
8 The Grass is Always Greener

DISC FOUR
Daughter of Time
1 Three Score and Ten Amen
2 Time Lament
3 Take Me Back to Domesday
4 The Daughter of Time
5 Theme for an Imaginary Western
6 Bring Out Your Dead
7 Downhill and Shadows
8 The Time Machine
Bonus tracks
9 Bring Out Your Dead (demo)
10 Jumping Off the Sun (Lansdowne Studios – 3rd May 1970)
11 The Pirate’s Dream

DISC FIVE
Colosseum Live
1 Rope Ladder to the Moon
2 Walking in the Park
3 Skellington
4 I Can’t Live Without You
5 Tanglewood ‘63
6 Encore… Stormy Monday Blues
7 Lost Angeles

DISC SIX
Live Recordings 1971
1 Rope Ladder to the Moon (live – Brighton 1971)
2 Skellington (live – Brighton 1971)
3 I Can’t Live Without You Time Machine – The Machine Demands a Sacrifice (live – Manchester University 1971) 4 Stormy Monday Blues (live – Bristol University 1971)
5 The Valentyne Suite
a. January’s Search
b. Theme Two- February’s Valentyne
c. Theme Three – The Grass is Always Greener (live – Manchester University 1971)