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This CD combines the contents of both Decca Records LPs by the Hertfordshire, England sextet, plus seven additional tracks that were never on either of their albums. The result is a somewhat uneven collection that is melodious enough at various times but often lacking in excitement and drive. The group treads a fine line between delicacy and blandness as they go through various originals, spiced by covers of such familiar fare as "You've Lost That Loving Feeling," "Cotton Fields," "500 Miles," and "La Bamba." Their elegant vocal textures can be startling and even revelatory, as on their cover of the then-new Bob Dylan song "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere." They got better as they went along, but they were never able to come up with a song to match the attractiveness of "Concrete and Clay," from their own pens or in the form of covers of other authors' work. Their legacy, presented virtually in full here, is a body of soft acoustic pop/rock that's only interesting enough to sustain itself about half the time. The remastering is superior to the sound on Decca's vinyl collections of their material from the late 1970s, although -- for reasons that are unclear -- apparently everything that the group ever recorded, even as late as 1967, was issued in mono only.
CD 1
01. Unit Four Plus Two - The Green Fields (2:43)
02. Unit Four Plus Two - Swing Down Chariot (2:40)
03. Unit Four Plus Two - Sorrow And Pain (2:43)
04. Unit Four Plus Two - The Lonely Valley (2:25)
05. Unit Four Plus Two - Concrete And Clay (2:18)
06. Unit Four Plus Two - When I Fall In Love (2:27)
07. Unit Four Plus Two - Woman From Liberia (1:43)
08. Unit Four Plus Two - Wild Is The Wind (2:14)
09. Unit Four Plus Two - Cotton Fields (2:11)
10. Unit Four Plus Two - Cross A Million Mountains (2:07)
11. Unit Four Plus Two - To Be Redeemed (2:15)
12. Unit Four Plus Two - (You've) Never Been In Love Like This Before (2:31)
13. Unit Four Plus Two - Tell Somebody You Know (2:16)
14. Unit Four Plus Two - Couldn't Keep It To Myself (2:41)
15. Unit Four Plus Two - You'll Remember (3:02)
16. Unit Four Plus Two - 500 Miles (2:58)
17. Unit Four Plus Two - La Bamba (2:35)
18. Unit Four Plus Two - You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' (3:45)
19. Unit Four Plus Two - The Girl From New York City (3:10)
20. Unit Four Plus Two - Hark (2:25)
21. Unit Four Plus Two - Stop Wasting Your Time (2:26)
22. Unit Four Plus Two - You've Got To Be Cruel To Be Kind (2:26)
23. Unit Four Plus Two - I Won't Let You Down (2:30)
CD 2
01. Unit Four Plus Two - Baby Never Say Goodbye (1:59)
02. Unit Four Plus Two - Rainy Day (2:28)
03. Unit Four Plus Two - For A Moment (2:21)
04. Unit Four Plus Two - Fables (2:06)
05. Unit Four Plus Two - I Was Only Playing Games (2:41)
06. Unit Four Plus Two - I've Seen The Light (2:56)
07. Unit Four Plus Two - Too Fast, Too Slow (2:22)
08. Unit Four Plus Two - Booby Trap (2:44)
09. Unit Four Plus Two - Butterfly (3:00)
10. Unit Four Plus Two - A Place To Go (2:22)
11. The Unit - Loving Takes A Little Understanding (2:47)
12. The Unit - Would You Believe What I Say? (2:15)
13. Unit Four Plus Two - You Ain't Goin' Nowhere (3:01)
14. Unit Four Plus Two - So You Want To Be A Blues Player (2:56)
15. Unit Four Plus Two - 3.30 (3:06)
16. Unit Four Plus Two - I Will (2:39)
17. Unit Four Plus Two - Face In My Head (2:53)
18. Unit Four Plus Two - Something I Can Believe In (2:40)
19. Unit Four Plus Two - (Living In) The World Of Broken Hearts (2:30)
20. Unit Four Plus Two - I Can't Stop (2:37)
Thanks for sharing this! I have a compilation or two from these folks and found them enjoyable (if not exactly ground-breaking). Will be nice to have everything in one neat little package.
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