This release contains eighteen highlights from their ten year career selected from the first five Blyth Power albums written and recorded between 1984 and 1994. When drummer, lead singer and songwriter Josef Porta met Curtis Youe in 1983, this meeting signalled the birth of a band named after a steam engine, Blyth Power. Porta's eloquent lyrics, coupled with a punk influenced mixture of folk and rock drew analogies from England's history, such as Watt Tyler and Oliver Cromwell's army, to the state of present day politics. His attacks on the ruination of the common man's right to English heritage have endeared them to an audience of kindred spirits. The booklet included with this release contains a fascinating geneology of the band who are still working extensively all over Europe.Stand Into Danger / Hurling Time / Probably Going To Rain / Hard Summer Long / He Who Would Valiant Be / Me And Mr Absolutely / Chilterns / Summersong / Song Of The 3rd Cause / Execution Song / Right Hand Man / Inside The Horse / Animal Farm / Knights On Malta / Guns Of Castle Cary / Vane Tempest / Pastor Skull / Royal George |