The Move - Tonight (High Quality)

[wagtunes]

They just don't get any better than this. The last track from Split Ends and a perfect end for a fantastic LP.

[spacecowboy7580]

That last guitar riff reminds me of an Elvis song..marie's the name (of his latest flame).

[spacecowboy7580]

I love Roy's voice, far better than carl wayne's.

[Treviscoe]

I like this one a lot, and like dizzyvic it brings back happy memories for me (of being 13 and doing a lot of riding around on my bike). Good sound quality too.

[nunu1958]

This was never on Message from the country- in the Uk

[gsd7755]

Roy Wood featured live on TV last xmas, was note perfect all the way through. Sign of a great musician

[ZenGangster]

When you're a kid you just buy records you love. I got this and played it to death.

[dizzyvic1]

If I had to name one song that said "Childhood Summer" to me it would be this.

Jacko rollerskates,hot-pants,paddlin­g pools and ice-pops.Brilliant memories.

[GibsonGuitarestmatt]

Not One Dislike :) thats cuz everyone who comes on here knows they are listening to REAL music (Y) long live great bands like the move, ELO, the kinks, beatles, queen, trex ect ect :)

[mcf59]

Roy Wood should be knighted and given his own kingdom!!

[luciemelanie25]

A great one,the onely one !

[MrLawman10]

Roy Wood wrote this and offered it to the New Seekers but they turned it down,

[mpl1700]

Can youn imagine those 60ies : Beatles, Stones, Small faces, Kinks, Who, Hollies, Mova, Moody blues, Cream, Zeppelin, Black Sabath, Yes, Wisbone Ash, Hendrix, Clapton, Jimmy Page, Taste, Troggs, ans ther were tons of others ....that's why I had a good youth ! Thanks guys

[xMaaRiiiiie]

@mpl1700 Yes, that's absolutely right!

[MrByrdbath]

You tell em pollys.......but it is included on the 2005 remaster along with another fave single from this transition period - Chinatown.

[pollysubstance]

That's not from Message From the Country!

[Chelmerfella]

Quality!!!

[drwinkle101]

There's no secret why the 1960s were so much better. It's because the musicians were on a roll of inventiveness which began with the Beatles.

[theCheesenOnions]

this reminds me of another track of Roy's "Shes too Good For Me" which is good also...cant seem to find it on UTube...needs to be posted!!!

[ecksact]

@theCheesenOnions You've posted it yourself - you star!

[MrTropicalPriest]

@drwinkle101 There's bands that were around before the beatles that had the same inventive sound. such as the Zombies, most underrated band of all time imo.

[1horton3]

yeah, this is tasteful... and by damn- there's a melody

[kinkybeatle]

Great song from a great band.

[scottieboy2008]

Roy Wood is one of the most under rated songwriters on the planet.

[expatbritingermany]

Loved this song when I was about 17! (It's still great, of course ;-)

[lynniesc]

One of the great Move records, but this photo is The Shazam lineup, not the lineup which recorded Tonight a few years later (Roy Wood, Bev Bevan, and Jeff Lynne).

[tigranvartanovitch]

I bought Message from the Country back in '71. This was never on it. It might have been added at a later date. It was released as a single in UK on the Harvest label. The B side - Don't Mess Me Up - was from the album.

[JustineLaLoba]

masterpiece...pure and simple....

[11xzxzxz]

Fantastic song. And I need to put some of your right:

They were never popular in the US .. who knows why? Bigger in England but not big enough. And back then people were just as stupid and lacking musical taste. But the music was so much better than today.

[thatwilldonicely]

@11xzxzxz fantastic song, but therein lay the 'trouble' with the Move, they were basically a bit patchy, a great 'little' singles band but not quite the searing talent of say the fab four or the who, i lived through that era and i cannot recall a move album that really made any impact, a 'best of the move' cd though will supply some great enjoyment as it does for me

[11xzxzxz]

@thatwilldonicely I see your point. But I thought Shazam and Message From the Country were great records but those where the only ones I owned. Except for the Best of Move 3 CD box set and one record would have sufficed. By the way, I am in the minority but I dislike the Who from overplay... Other than the Who Sellout (great!) and maybe Who's Next, I don't get them . Tommy and everything after was boring to me. Squeeze Boxs annoys as does Who are You?

[thatwilldonicely]

@11xzxzxz hi, i tend to agree, the Who themselves can be a bit patchy, but they had a thread of very fine songs, from the amazing 'the kids are alright' an astonishing song for its time, through to 'quadrophenia' which i think is their finest.album. I think with such great musicians as Entwistle, Moon and Townsend they created some very sophisticated music, its a difficult 'value' judgement, but judgement is really not necessary, just great music to get something out of, Continued

[thatwilldonicely]

@11xzxzxz continued from about, i mean look at a group such as the Hollies!

what a great collection of singles, snappy, quirky, tuneful, but no real impact

on the album front, what an incredible decade for great songs of all kinds

be it pop, middle of the road (witchita lineman!!!) Rock (Layla) and so many

others

[11xzxzxz]

@thatwilldonicely The Who were they? tires were always patchy and threading and treads on tired tires that blew out. I think the Hollies are fine for what they were .. good singles. Layla bores. The greats I like you probably don't, : The Replacements/ Neil Young/ NY and Crazy Horse/ Buffalo Springfield/ The Beatles/ Love with Arthur Lee/ Smokey Robinson / Graham Parker and the Rumor

[thatwilldonicely]

@11xzxzxz such as Brahms, Bruckner, Beethoven, Sibelius, Scriabin and more, simply incredible creations, something for everyone. its very interesting to me why people like what they like! For example Bruckner symp no 8 to some would just be like a strange cocophany of sound but to me and others of my ilk its possibly the greatest work of all time? i suppose what we are exposed to as children? also how parts of our brains are wired up? all good stuff though,

[11xzxzxz]

@thatwilldonicely I have no classical background but as a child I enjoyed classical when wired up. Primates love it too! Thought crocodiles regurgitate it when on their backs. Hey wild and nice - just my fricken Opinion OK? I don't understand how your logic, tastes, aesthetics work. Taste is most taste except to snobs. Good time to get out of rock and into Classical as rock has been dead mostly since 1993 (Urge Overkill's Sister Havana was great but that was it for most rock) RIP

[11xzxzxz]

@thatwilldonicely / The Yardbirds/ Marshall Crenshaw / Them / David Bowie/ early Elvis Costello/ The Velvet Underground / Lloyd Cole/ Roxy Music / Van Morrison/ The Smiths/ Bob Dylan/ Phil Ochs /The Impressions. The Witchata Lineman is achingly beautiful as was Procol Harem's "whiter shade..". Psychedelic Furs Love My Way. Neil Young's "I've been waiting for you" in the studio though. Paul Westerberg's "Things".

[thatwilldonicely]

@11xzxzxz hey no sweat buddy, great artists there, i love Bowie circa 70-75, Smiths brilliant, i have Love, Smokey, Roxy in my collections, there are some that are 'patchy' in my mind, as at times i wandered in and out of the music listening world, those songs i mentioned well i could have mentioned tons, there is a wonderful cornucopea for all of us out there, my own tastes have a tendency to melody and harmony which is why i have been heavily into classical music in the last 25 years.

[benny266698]

i forgot just how many wee gems they recorded

[robwaying]

totally forgot this one thanks for putting up

[GriefTourist]

classic

[bondsee]

great track,when bands were bands and had tons of natural talent.not like the crap that call them selves bands today.

[blackmichael75]

@bondsee there are plenty great bands out there. The problem is greedy record companies that just want to market the same thing over and over again.

[notahemi]

Too much tallent in one band. I guess they couldn't work together forever. Roy Wood and Jeff Lynn together were eve better together than either one alone. That's not a "cut". It's like vanilla and chocolate ice cream. Both are great alone, but together each adds something. The orginal "Genesis" band was like that.

[notrobbage]

Already has that early ELO sound

[ppaulmorris]

Cracking song.

[bluehairspaz]

oh wait, jeff lynne was a member of the move. so there is a reason that the wilburys sounds like the move. lol.

[bandcouver]

Yes, Jeff Lynne was a member of The Move later in their career ,but, Roy Wood was the original mastermind behind most of their top notch material from 1967-1971.

[al1967dude]

I've always thought it interesing how the Traveling Wilbury's music was a bit similar to some of the Move's music and this song is a good example of that. The first time I heard some of the TW's music I noticed that and wondered just how much influence it might have had on how the TW group as a whole made their music.

[bluehairspaz]

well that would be up to jeff lynne, the singer and song writer of e.l.o. because he put the traveling wilburys together and wrote their songs. he was the least known and most talented writer of the bunch.

[penrhyndeundraeth]

Excellent lyrics about all the mind games that go on in relationships.

If you were half so bright you'd plan your life ahead

Instead of waiting till you're old in your head

[Krzyszczynski]

A fine return to form for The Move in the summer of '71, after a longish quiet spell - but I do think it could have done without the last two repetitions of the chorus.

BTW, the line-up in the photo isn't the one that recorded this. Carl and Rick Price were gone by then, and Jeff Lynne had arrived.

[bluehairspaz]

yes and thats why they sound like the wilburys because of lynne.

[grantzx]

fantastic

[teenyr]

I love this song too and used to have the single!

[johnjarvo]

I did..... it was on the Harvest label...

Great song in it?

[beatlesgirl01]

Thanks for putting this video up!!! I love this song!!!!

[kreide7]

gutes lied

[johnjarvo]

Very underrated this at the time; but what a gem it is....

Roy Wood...brilliant!

[cthomann]

Thanks for posting. Move rule.

[artlongjr]

This got some good airplay in my area of the U.S. as a followup to "Do Ya", in 1972.

[saguaroboy]

My understanding is that The Move were generally scorned in the UK. True?

I know in the States they were virtually unknown- except by Cheap Trick who built a CAREER stealing Roy's heavy riffs.

I love'm both!

[Scott06066]

Anyone know where I can find "Message from the Country" on YouTube?

[Fruth37]

I bought Best of Roy Wood cd and it is GREAT! Thanks for posting this and introducing some fine tidbits of music you can't always hear on the radio. I did hear this song on XM "deep cuts" on New Years Eve.