Got this in an email today:

"Airline Records

THE STEREO ALBUM
Lost Women
Over Under Sideways Down
The Nazz Are Blue
I Can’t Make Your Way
Rack My Mind
Farewell
Hot House Of Omagararshid
Jeff’s Boogie
He’s Always There
Turn Into Earth
What Do You Want
Ever Since The World Began

THE NON-LP SINGLE
Happenings Ten Years Time Ago
Psycho Daisies

THE MONO ALBUM
Lost Women
Over Under Sideways Down
The Nazz Are Blue
I Can’t Make Your Way
Rack My Mind
Farewell
Hot House Of Omagararshid
Jeff’s Boogie
He’s Always There
Turn Into Earth
What Do You Want
Ever Since The World Began

KEITH RELF SINGLES
Mr. Zero
Knowing
Shapes In My Mind (Version 1)
Shapes In My Mind (Version 2)
Blue Sands (excerpt)

The Yardbirds are often overlooked in favor of other bands from the heyday of the British Invasion, but their legacy has loomed large decades after their demise. After all, they fostered the careers of Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and Jimmy Page, and bands such as Renaissance, Cream, Led Zeppelin, Blind Faith, and the Jeff Beck Group. After cutting their teeth as faithful, if energetic, blues revivalists on live albums and a handful of singles, they cut this, their first real studio album, in 1966. The ‘Birds produced what remains one of blues-rock’s most progressive and distinctive albums - and one that, remarkably, was never initially released in the U.S. in its original form. Veering sharply from Beck’s classic riffing on the rollicking “Over Under Sideways Down,” the band explores broad palettes of style and hue, be it the more traditional blues of “Lost Woman,” neomedieval turns (“Ever Since the World Began,” “Turn into Earth”), strange psychedelia (“Hot House of Omagarashid”), or showcases for Beck’s playful, pioneering fret work (“Jeff’s Boogie”). As an added bonus, both sides of the band’s sonically apocalyptic single “Happenings Ten Years Time Ago”/“Psycho Daisies” (with the rare twin-lead guitar lineup of Beck and Jimmy Page) are also included. An album as enjoyable as it is historically influential.

This release of Roger The Engineer includes both the stereo and radically different mono versions of the album, along with 7 bonus tracks."

This one might sound better than the Repertoire expanded reissue.

Is this the album that is known as there very best work?

In my opinion it is, along with the very hard to find live with Jimmy Page. I suspect you'll find a wide divergence of opinion on your question, though.

Roger is certainly their most mainstream psych/harder rock album. The others tend to lean either more to blues or commercial pop.

O.K. Sounds good

Beck kills on this. Also that collection of live BBC recordings - the band smokes on that!

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000002NHC/?tag=imwan-20

Agreed.

I love the BBC disc, I've got the first edition of that one. I'm a total Yardbirds obsessive and completist. I'm actually buying this music sometimes two or three times over.

I only realized recently how much better the ROGER tracks on Rhino's ULTIMATE! sound vs. the 1998 Repertoire reissue. I may, indeed, buy this album on CD for the 4th(!) time if I know the sound has been improved.

I also only recently realized how much better the mono mix is, overall. I'd originally been introduced to ROGER via the stereo mix (on the early 90s, yello-cover CD issue) so I had a definite bias, but the awful fake stereo on tracks like "Over Under Sideways Down" and "Jeff's Boogie" just can't match the sharper, clearly mono mixes.

(Now, if could just get a copy of CUMULAR LIMITS for less than the $20-$99 prices I'm seeing, my collection would be complete).

$20 for Cumular Limit is a bargain considering how rare that CD is.

I looked on Amazon.com and the cheapest copy of Cumular Limit is just under $90......I have a copy btw.[not for sale though]

I have one also. I remember when it was a cutout.........

I just got a copy, sealed, from DeepDiscount.com for $17.98 plus shipping.

Not a cut-out.

Wow, thanks for the heads up, pobbard!! I thought Cumular was out of print / gone forever due to legal issues, etc. Just ordered my copy, too...

I ordered one too....and got an e-mail yesterday saying it shipped.