THE MOVE Message From The Country LP HARVEST 1971 UK orig SHSP 4013 JEFF LYNNE

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THE MOVE

ROY WOOD, JEFF LYNNE, BEV (BASHER) BEVAN

Adventurous British combo that began with merry psychedelic odes but later pumped up 

their guitar amperage and attack to planet-cracking levels. The Move were the best and 

most important British group of the late '60s that never made a significant dent 

in the American market. Through the band's several phases (which were sometimes 

dictated more by image than musical direction), their chief asset was guitarist 

and songwriter Roy Wood, who combined a knack for Beatlesque pop with a 

peculiarly British, and occasionally morbid, sense of humor. 

 "MESSAGE FROM THE COUNTRY"

Produced by Roy Wood and Jeff Lynne

1971      LP        HARVEST RECORDS   STEREO  SHSP 4013

MADE IN ENGLAND    ORIGINAL PRESSING

Released in a textured single cover with flipback on rear

printed by Garrod & Lofthouse

This version: On the cover the artist appears as just ''Move'', on the label as ''The Move''

Barcode and Other Identifiers

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LABEL: HARVEST -  GREEN/YELLOW LABEL and boxed 'EMI' logo - BLACK TEXT (Green on rim)

Catalog on cover:  (spine) SHSP 4013       (rear) SHSP 4013 (E 062 o 04785)  

Catalog on labels: SHSP 4013 (SHSP.4013A) / SHSP 4013 (SHSP.4013B) 

Matrix / Runout (Side A, Stamped): SHSP 4013 A - 4U  (Stamped, Scratched Out): SHSP 4013 A//2

Matrix / Runout (Side B, Stamped): SHSP 4013 B - 5U  (Stamped, Scratched Out): SHSP 4013 B//2

On labels: top rim text reads "The Gramophone Co Ltd........Reserved"

bottom rim text reads "Unauthorized Public.........Prohibited"

"Made in Gt. Britain" (on the labels appears at 6 o'clock)

?1971 on both labels (on the labels the release year appears at 9 o'clock circa)

Produced by Roy Wood and Jeff Lynne

On Back Sleeve: File under POPULAR : Pop Groups

Phil Copestake - Telephone

Album Produced by Roy Wood and Jeff Lynne   ?1971

Front Cover Painting By Roy Wood Based On An Idea By Jeff Lynne.

E.M.I. Records (The Gramophone Company Ltd)

Made and Printed in Great Britain

7105   TPS   Printed and made by Garrods & Lofthouse Ltd.  Patent No. 943,895  SHSP 4013

tracklisting

Side 1:MESSAGE FROM THE COUNTRY - ELLA JAMES - NO TIME

DON'T MESS ME UP - UNTIL YOUR MOMA'S GONE

Side B: IT WASN'T MY IDEA TO DANCE - THE MINISTER

BEN CRAWLEY STEEL COMPANY - THE WORDS OF 

  grading

RECORD VG(+) but (please, read above description)

SLEEVE VG(+) but (please, see pictures and read above description)

By 1971, it was clear that changes were in the offing for the Move. Message from the Country 

shows them carrying their sound, within the context of who they were, about as far as they could. 

One can hear them hit the limits of what guitars, bass, drums, and keyboards, 

with lots of harmony overdubs and ornate singing, could do. Indeed, parts of this record 

sound almost like a dry run from the first Electric Light Orchestra album, which was 

in the planning stages at the time. The influence of the Beatles runs through most of 

the songs stylistically. Particularly in Jeff Lynne's case, it was as though someone 

had programmed "Paperback Writer" and other chronologically related pop-psychedelic 

songs by the Beatles into the songwriting and arranging, but across its ten songs, 

the album also shot for a range of sound akin to the White Album, except that 

the members of the Move are obviously working much more closely together. 

Reduced to a trio and all but wiped out as a live act, they went ahead and generated 

what was, song for song, their most complex and challenging album. 

Heard today, it seems charmingly ornate in execution, yet also simple 

in the listening, very basic rock & roll dressed up in the finest raiment 

that affordable studio time could provid...(AllMusic)