Rare "Egg" tracks on The Metronomical Society
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Topic: Rare "Egg" tracks on The Metronomical Society
Posted By: hugo1995
Subject: Rare "Egg" tracks on The Metronomical Society
Date Posted: February 06 2020 at 13:57
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Hi friends, I come to you with another request for finding lost or archived songs from the bands we love the most. This time it's Egg. These aren't lost tracks this time, they just don't seem to exist on the internet as far as YouTube, Spotify goes. Basically, there was an archival release of unreleased Egg tracks in 2007 called The Metronomical Society. There are 3 songs that were unreleased (apart from on this album) and have not managed to surface on the internet yet. Official release (temporarily lost) tracks from Egg - The Metronomical Society 2007 7. There's No Business Like Show Business https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gk0uW1Whuw" rel="nofollow - 8. Blane Over Camden (Found and updated post) 12. I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside  Bootleg album Egg - Saturn (2015) with more 'lost' tracks: C2: Saturn - The Bringer of Old Age (live 1971) D4: Swooping Bill D5: Ego Man D6: The Salesman Song D7: Saturn - The Bringer of Old Age  Does anyone have these released on a public site (legally)? Or were they only released on this CD. Lastly, there is a .fr domain website that has a timeline of every Canterbury band, it has Egg's entire timeline including a trackilist of songs they played (never recorded to my knowledge, or never released). These included covers of The Nice songs as well as other blues stuff. Just a cool piece of history, can't remember this french website about Canterbury bands but I hope someone remembers it. Update: Another rare release, this was a bootleg back in the day and it was Egg's last concert ever. Dave Stewart (LEGENDARY keyboardist of Egg, Arzachel/Uriel, Hatfield and the North and National Health) said about The Roundhose Tapes bootleg: "Some of the music was recorded at our last-ever London gig at the Roundhouse in July 1972; those tapes reflect exactly how the band sounded to me on stage, with a bite, attack and visceral power that our '70s albums failed to capture." This album was only recently actually uploaded in a good quality 2 months ago (since it's ripped from Vinyl). The old release from years back used a terrible vinyl to USB pickup and the album had pitch modulation and fuzz (not the canterbury prog kind!). ------------- interests: Moon Safari, Gilgamesh, Egg, ELP, Soft Machine, Gong, Opeth (Everything pre watershed), Brighteye Brison, The Flower Kings |
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Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: February 06 2020 at 14:37
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Perfect timing--thanks! I've been on a super Egg kick lately. What genius those young dudes had! ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: February 06 2020 at 14:49
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Good hunting...I know nothing about finding those but I do own The Metronomical Society and all the other official Egg releases.......love them also. :) ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: hugo1995
Date Posted: February 06 2020 at 15:05
At one point they turned into my greatest of all time prog act. It hurts to know that they were brimming with musical creativity but didn't make enough money to continue. They basically recorded those two albums over a year (the albums were released over 2 years though because the label totally stiffed them), and then Mont Campbell the guy who wrote a modern Stravinsky-esque progressive epic https://youtu.be/1hmwi8zezQM?t=1188" rel="nofollow - Egg Symphony No. 2 , or the most beautifully nostalgic track https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7_xdm_CJ_k" rel="nofollow - A Visit to Newport Hospital , just completely took his song writing ability and quit Rock music. Sure he made World music in the 80s til now, but it's nothing like the classically influenced Prog era of Egg. ------------- interests: Moon Safari, Gilgamesh, Egg, ELP, Soft Machine, Gong, Opeth (Everything pre watershed), Brighteye Brison, The Flower Kings |
BrufordFreak wrote:Posted By: hugo1995
Date Posted: February 06 2020 at 15:06
I might end up buying Metronomical Society just to complete my catalogue. ------------- interests: Moon Safari, Gilgamesh, Egg, ELP, Soft Machine, Gong, Opeth (Everything pre watershed), Brighteye Brison, The Flower Kings |
Posted By: jayem
Date Posted: February 07 2020 at 05:01
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Those live recordings and studio pieces like Enneagram or Zabaglione with "auditorium" preset on my audio manager suggest to which extent Egg & related projects were completely "muzzled" in studio (Arzachel less so) ------------- http://www.digger.ch/?lang=en" rel="nofollow - Support mine-clearing ! https://bandcamp.com/machinechance/?lang=en" rel="nofollow - bandcamp collection |
Posted By: jayem
Date Posted: February 07 2020 at 05:12
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This rendering has much more life than The Civil Suprface's 'n't it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFlQd72fCTI" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFlQd72fCTI ------------- http://www.digger.ch/?lang=en" rel="nofollow - Support mine-clearing ! https://bandcamp.com/machinechance/?lang=en" rel="nofollow - bandcamp collection |
Posted By: hugo1995
Date Posted: February 09 2020 at 15:35
I agree with this 100%. I always preferred the BBC Session of Enneagram. When that fuzz bass kicks in at 1:12, holy. Revolutionary before its time. ------------- interests: Moon Safari, Gilgamesh, Egg, ELP, Soft Machine, Gong, Opeth (Everything pre watershed), Brighteye Brison, The Flower Kings |
Posted By: pfloyd
Date Posted: December 15 2020 at 19:12
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Any updates on those rare tracks? Need my Egg fix ------------- check out my art: http://alexanderbennett33.wixsite.com/portfolio 
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