HW: Repeat Performance (was: 80s and beyond)

[Douglas Pearson]

On Wed, 28 Mar 2001 09:21:11 +0100, iain ferguson <iainferguson at AOL.COM>
wrote:
>Repeat Performance is an absolute stunner of a compilation album.
>I also love the picture of the Baron on the back. Now if I could get
>that picture in a 10 X 8, I'd get it signed by the man and frame it.

Yes!  At the time it was quite essential, since it was the only place you
could find "Back On The Streets" and the single versions of "25 Years"
& "Psi Power" (the last of which has *still* never been released on CD!).

>John Rennie wrote:
>> Mind you I don't know if anyone remembers the compilation album
>> Repeat Performance released by Charisma some time around 1979.
>> This is pretty close to being a definitive best of the Calvert albums.
>> Sadly it never made it to CD.

Like Keith H said, the 'Tales From Atomhenge' collection (and before that,
the 'Spirit of the Age' collection on Virgin) was a good compilation of the
Calvert / Charisma era, despite a few serious glaring omissions ("Death
Trap"!!).  Also the only place to get the P.X.R.5 LP version of "High Rise"
on CD, since there's a different version of the P.X.R.5 CD.

Of course, they're *all* out of print now (except for the few tracks
on 'Epoch Eclipse').  WHY?!?!?!!

    -Doug
     ceres at sirius.com

P.S. Recently made a 74-minute CD-R "best of" for that era (76-78).

Tracklist:
Reefer Madness
Steppenwolf
Kerb Crawler
Back on the Streets
Spirit of the Age
Quark, Strangeness & Charm
Hassan i Sahba
Death Trap
Robot
Psi Power (single version - mastered from a 12" vinyl copy)
25 Years (single version)
Flying Doctor
Valium Ten (7" single edited version aka part 1)
Who's Gonna Win The War (single version)