Product Description
2011 two CD collection form one of Britain's best Progressive Heavy Rock bands that boasts the best of their 40 year career from those early '70s hit albums right up to their recent critically acclaimed works. Disc One focuses on the band's classic '70s albums such as Top 20 titles Demons And Wizards, Sweet Freedom and Return To Fantasy. Featuring their original flamboyant frontman, the late David Byron, the disc also includes two classic BBC sessions as well as a live track from their famous Shepperton show in '74. Disc Two takes us right up until now, including tracks from their later critically acclaimed albums Abominog and Wake The Sleeper, as well as a track from their famous live show in Moscow and rare B-Sides 'Miracle Child' and 'Love Stealer'.

Disc 1
1. Dreammare
2. Gypsy
3. Lady In Black
4. Look At Yourself
5. July Morning
6. Easy Livin'
7. The Wizard
8. Blind Eye
9. Sweet Lorraine
10. Sweet Freedom
11. Stealin'
12. So Tired
13. Something Or Nothing
14. Wonderworld
15. Return To Fantasy
16. One Way Or Another

Disc 2
1. The Hanging Tree
2. Rollin' On
3. Illusion
4. Free 'N' Easy
5. Whad'ya Say
6. Fallen Angel
7. Woman Of The Night
8. Love Stealer
9. On The Rebound
10. Too Scared To Run
11. Stay On Top
12. The Other Side Of Midnight
13. Heartache City
14. Blood Red Roses
15. Miracle Child
16. Blood On Stone
17. Different World
18. Tears Of The World
19. Light Of A Thousand Stars

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Never bought a Uriah Heep album ever.

Is this comp a good place to start?

And if there are any Heepsters here (bad pun, I know), how about some recommendations for albums?

I got this one recently. Nice.



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Actually, the fans ARE called Heepsters and I'm definitely one of them.

Sooooo many albums and I know the catalogue inside and out (I think we also have DanO, Geff and Rick as big fans).

Must Haves IMO:
Very 'Eavy Very 'Umble
Look At Yourself
Demons And Wizards
The Magician's Birthday
Uriah Heep Live 1973 (double live LP)
Sweet Freedom
Return To Fantasy
Firefly
Abominog
Head First
Sea Of Light
Wake The Sleeper
Celebration
Into The Wild

Good but not perfect:
Wonderworld
Fallen Angel
Equator
Raging Silence
Sonic Origami

Gettin' kinda iffy, but still worthy at times:
Salisbury
High And Mighty
Innocent Victim

Probably best avoid:
Conquest
Different World

If you have the $$$:
A Time Of Revelation 25 Years On (4 CD box)
Chapter And Verse (6 CD box)

both are fantastic!

The above comp John mentioned is probably the best one. I also highly recommend the 2006 2CD comp from Sanctuary called Easy Livin' Singles A's & B's a double CD of almost every single (A side and b-side) from 1970-1989.
When purchasing any Heep go for the 2004-06 Sanctuary remasters-they are beautifully done with loads of bonus tracks, great liner notes and faithful cover art. Most can be found very reasonable.

I purchased the one noted at a steal of a price from Amazon.UK. As IP stated, I am definite "Heepster" as well with more than a couple comps. I liked the song selection and these tracks are the licensed remasters so the sound is excellent. Good place as anyplace to start (or in my place to continue.....).

Rick A.

I'd also go with John G's comp as it includes "Bird of Prey" and "Magician's Birthday".

Thanks for the suggestions, all. It's a shame IP's list of album recommendations was so small, tho.

Sorry, been listening to some Heep on the 'pod this afternoon and only just spotted this.

If you want a small list, just go for Look At Yourself and Demons And Wizards. They're generally regarded as the career high, and I'd go along with that.

Although it does seem to be only me that loves the 16 minute title track of Salisbury, so what the hell do I know!

Alternatively, this comp just picks from the David Byron years and stops in the mid-70's,. Which is by no means a bad thing.



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These Spectrum sets are a killer deal. I just picked up the Thin Lizzy 2 disc for under $10 delivered.

i have the 3CD (brown cover) best of that came out years ago. it's pretty good, although its missing "time to live" from "salisbury'.

i saw them years ago (literally) and they were excellent.

Isn't that the one that was indexed sequentially, rather than each disc being indexed separately? In other words, Disc 2 started with track 14 (or whatever)? It gave my CD player fits at the time.

that's the one!

I saw the original lead singer's group after he left Heep (can't remember the name). It was disappointing. Never saw Heep, though.

That was David Byron and it was Rough Diamond with Clem Clempson. They were not that great.

Wasn't the Lizzy Spectrum comp one disc? That's the one I posted about-didn't know there was another one.

There are actually several Lizzy comps on Spectrum.

Though I was wrong, this one is "Universal TV" (television?), rather than "Universal Spectrum".

I bought the 2 disc "Greatest Hits". For someone like me who doesn't have the entire catalog, it's a great score. I actually got that one from Import cd's for $6.65 + s/h.

It's slightly bright, but I've heard much worse. Disc 1 is the biggest hits, disc 2 is album tracks + Moore & Lynott's Parisienne Walkways, another Moore track (Out In The Fields) that PL is said to have sang backup on, 2 supposedly previously unreleased live tracks (The Cowboy Song & Boys at the end of disc 2 from Sydney 1979) & a bit of Lynott solo.



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1. Boys Are Back In Town
2. Jailbreak
3. Don't Believe A Word
4. Dancing In The Moonlight (It's Caught Me In It's Spotlight)
5. Rosalie/Cowgirl's Song (Live 1976/Hammersmith Odeon, London)
6. Waiting For An Alibi
7. Do Anything You Want To
8. Sarah (Version 3)
9. Chinatown
10. Killer On The Loose
11. Trouble Boys
12. Hollywood (Down On Your Luck) (Live 1983)
13. Cold Sweat
14. Thunder & Lightning
15. Sun Goes Down
16. Dedication
17. Still In Love With You
18. She Knows
19. Yellow Pearl (First 7" Remix)
20. Whisky In The Jar (Full Length Version)
21. Out In The Fields
22. Parisienne Walkways
23. Emerald
24. Bad Reputation
25. Wild One
26. Fighting My Way Back
27. Showdown
28. Black Rose (Live 1983)
29. Dear Miss Lonely Hearts
30. Rocker
31. Are You Ready (Live 1983)
32. Renegade
33. King's Call
34. Angel Of Death
35. Cowboy Song (Live)
36. Boys Are Back In Town (Live)

A fantastic comp I mentioned on here years ago. Shame the liner notes are ridiculously incorrect. I'd have done it for free but they didn't ask me. But damn, they got about 20 things wrong and it's Universal!
Sound quality is very, very good.

I wouldn't have known about the inaccuracies, but the notes are definitely weak.