CHANGES

Problem for an album like this is the comparison with other releases by this eminent band. This is a sort of release Pendragon did in later years releasing earlier works or earlier versions of more recent songs. It's typically a purchase for fans and completionists but because I own only Moonshine and Safe (not Basnie alas) this was after all an interesting release for me.

And the problem I mentioned in the first sentence is that this can never be any kind of match for the two albums I already bought simply because these two were their best to me. So this could only be less, in this case it is in both compositional as productional quality. As a big fan of Collage I want to know all their songs so I would have bought it anyway even if I had known this is not really a great compilation of songs.

But it's no coincidence that in the end Lovely Day and The Blues were the best songs to me on this album even though the versions here are not as good as on Moonshine. The other songs are no more than curiosities to me, nice ones but none of them really great. Alas, but well, you can't win them all, can you ? 3 stars anyway (2,8).