Secrets of the Hive: The Best of Procol Harum (2007)

About this title: When Procol Harum burst onto the pop charts in the summer of 1967 with one of the most unlikely Top 40 singles ever released, the slow, ominous, and endlessly mysterious "A Whiter Shade of Pale," the world scratched its head and wondered what this was all about. The song, with its Bach-inspired spooky church organ riff, still holds a good deal of that eerie mystery all these years later, and the superior mono mix of "A Whiter Shade of Pale" is included in this two-disc, 35-track retrospective of the band's career, along with other favorites like "A Salty Dog" and the gorgeous, baffling ... read more

Tracks:

1. A Whiter Shade of Pale [Mono Version] [Reid/Fisher]
2. A Christmas Camel [Mono Version] [Reid/Brooker]
3. Quite Rightly So [Remastered Version] [Reid/Brooker/Fisher]
4. Long Gone Geek [Remastered Version] [Reid/Brooker/Fisher]
5. All This and More [Remastered Version] [Brooker/Reid]
6. Whisky Train [Remastered Version] [Reid/Trower]
7. Broken Barricades [Reid/Brooker]
8. Simple Sister [Reid/Brooker]
9. A Salty Dog [Live] [Reid/Brooker]
10. Fires (Which Burnt Brightly) [Reid/Brooker]
11. Bringing Home the Bacon [Reid/Brooker]
12. Beyond the Pale [Reid/Brooker]
13. Nothing But the Truth [Reid/Brooker]
14. Something Magic [Reid/Brooker]
15. Holding On [Reid/Brooker]
16. Into the Flood [Live] [Reid/Brooker/Noble]
17. An Old English Dream [Reid/Brooker]
18. Repent Walpurgis [Mono Version] [Fisher]
19. Homburg [Mono Version] [Reid/Brooker]
20. She Wandered Through the Garden Fence [Remastered Version] [Reid/Brooker]
21. Magdalene (My Regal Zonophone) [Remastered Version] [Reid/Brooker]
22. Shine on Brightly [Remastered Version] [Reid/Brooker]
23. The Devil Came from Kansas [Remastered Version] [Reid/Brooker]
24. Whaling Stories [Remastered Version] [Reid/Brooker]
25. Power Failure [Reid/Brooker]
26. Conquistador [Live] [Reid/Brooker]
27. Grand Hotel [Reid/Brooker]
28. A Souvenir of London [Reid/Brooker]
29. The Idol [Reid/Brooker]
30. As Strong as Samson [Reid/Brooker]
31. Pandora's Box [Reid/Brooker]
32. (You Can't) Turn Back the Page [Reid/Brooker/Noble]
33. A Dream in Ev'ry Home [Reid/Brooker/Fisher]
34. This World Is Rich (For Steven Maboe) [Reid/Brooker]
35. Weisselklenzenacht (The Signature) [Fisher]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.