The Nice - THE THOUGHTS OF EMERLIST DAVJACK

The Nice - THE THOUGHTS OF EMERLIST DAVJACKInterestingly they started as the backing band for P. P. Arnold but quickly found their own identity. This is the first studio album by The Nice: Keith Emerson, David O'List, Brian Davison and Lee Jackson (hence the album title get it? Yes, I know, bloody obvious really).

Young ever since this

'Ninety Nine and a Half' (Steve Cropper/Wilson Pickett) and 'Day Tripper/We Can Work It Out' (Beatles) plus their hit single 'San Francisco Girls'

Classic Moodys

This is the original and sought after UK release

Released at the height of the Punk Rock era

I may be biaised as I do think Brian Wilson was as good a songwriter as anything we produced in the UK (controversial

I still think this is a good album despite the fact that it received some fairly poor reviews

This is the original UK release with the 'Octagonal' Gatefold sleeve

Following the departure of Sandy Denny and Ashley Hutchings

Probably the pinacle of Fairports' output and while a move towards more traditional fok material

I heard his first album before it was released in the UK as a friend had bought a copy back from Ccanada (along with Joni Mitchel's UK unreleased 'Songs To A Seagull')

This is the original UK release with the large poster/lyric sheet insert