The last of four Island compilations with samples from some of the label's most successful acts coupled with at the time odder stuff. You get Traffic, Cat Stevens, Mountain, Free, Jethro Tull, Emerson Lake & Palmer and other big selling bands, but also cuts by Mike Heron, Nick Drake, McDonald & Giles, Tir Na Nog and Quintessense. Twentyone tracks, most of them very good and non bad, conveyed by excellent audio all though. All that would be enough to make it part of any decent sampler collection, but there's more. As with "Bumpers" they apparently wanted to get tasters out as early as possible so some of the cuts are earlier versions than on the final albums. It is known Sandy Denny "Late November" here is a different mix than on "North Star..." and as far as I can hear also Fairport Convention "Lord Marlborough" has a bit other outcome than on Angel Delight. Alan Bown "Through The Night" (last recording with Robert Palmer) didn't make the Stretching Out LP as intended and remained otherwise unissued up till the 2010 Esoteric CD release. Further Bronco's "Sudden Street" sounds like a slightly different version than the Ace Of Sunlight one. There may be other deviations, but these are the only ones I can distinguish at the moment. Contemporary releases in Germany, Holland and Spain. Unfortunately this initial UK issue suffered from the same "foamed" PVC inners as for exemple Colosseum Live, destroying many first press records. It had label as shown here and cover as thin matt fold/out sheet environing the PVC inners. (SÄM*) (FÄHZ*)
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