The Move

Magnetic Waves Of Sound: The Best Of…

BirminghamÕs first great pop band on audio and screen.

Somewhat obliterated by the global triumphs of its successors Electric Light Orchestra and, to a lesser extent, Wizzard, The Move were one of the most distinctive mid-tolate ’60s UK pop-rock bands as this excellent Best Of illustrates. Fed by the melodious yet punchy Beatles-inspired songs of Roy Wood, a fourvoice frontline (Wood, Carl Wayne, Trevor Burton, Ace Kefford), and heavy industry bass guitar (Kefford, later Burton), their singles rarely disappointed as the nine Top 12 tracks, misses like Do Ya?, and LP tracks such as Walk Upon The Water reveal. On the DVD (Beeb and German TV), despite changing line-ups the band never loses its essential ooomph. They hear The Grass Grow and call the Fire Brigade three times each, go down Blackberry Way twice and, in 1968, predate most Americana fads to cover, masterfully, the Louvins’ Christian Life.