Ozrics - Bargains or Chuff?

I already have Erpland and The Hidden Step by Ozric Tentacles and I like them very much.

101cd.com have a special offer on some other single and double CDs by the Ozrics. Are any of these worth getting? Are they similar or different or what? They are:

Become The Other
Pungent Effulgent + Strangeitude
Tantric Obstacles + Erpsongs
The Bits Between The Bits + Sliding
There Is Nothing Live

All at a nice wallet-friendly £5.99 each

 

Just buy Chris, I've got the entire back catologue, not many naff ones really and for that cash a steal mate Wm

 

another big thumbs up from me too. top tunes although they do tend to recycle songs / themes across albums so you end up with things sounding a bit familiar. still the gems to be discovered are worth it.
cheers


julian

 

Agree with julian, can be a bit samey, strangeitude is the best to these ears. Still very good, and well recoded to boot.

 

Yup, its all class. In its way.

 

yeah, I'm a fan - tho, I don't think I could possibly listen to all of their back catelogue...but I do own about 5 of their cds...

 

Thumbs up from me - I've just listened to Pungent Effulgent and "Kick Muck" is the business..

 

I'm in the process of checking out ebay...got some good stuff on brian eno...I'm going ambient crazy just now, have bought about 15 cd's in the last week...one cost me 21 quid, while most of the other cost under a fiver...mind you, got a couple of turkeys tho...sigh...

 

They have started the process of remastering the Ozrics back catalogue. I think there's a good few of them out now as remasters in digi-packs. These double packs are the unremastered versions, well worth picking up for the money. I've heard the remasters of Strangeitude, Erpland and Live Underslunky and all are a marked improvement. Having a load of those double CD issues though, I'm not likely to replace any more than I already have.

Live At The Pongmasters Ball was in a 2 for £12.99 at Play.com recently as well. Recommend that one!

 

I dont know whether you know (though being ozric fans i guess you do),that one of thier offshoot alter ego ,Eat Statics abduction album is also a worthwhile buy.Gulf breeze being a particular favourite of mine.
ellison

 

Cool, I didn't know Eat Static were anything to do with the Ozrics, I have some of theirs, good stuff

 

There was some former members of ozrics that formed them.
http://fusionanomaly.net/eatstatic.html
Ive only seen ozrics once and very brilliant they was too.In amsterdam at a place called the milky way i belive.It was on a halloween night(or roundabouts) in early nineties.Maybe some can recall the gig im referring too>?
ellison

 

Abduction is a GREAT album - I got it for £3 (Smack Generators) after hearing them live; both the Ozrics and Eat Static are phenomenal live acts to see "in the flesh"