Album: Complete
Artist: National Health
1990 East Side Digital
CD: ESD 80402/412

Band Members:
Dave Stewart: Keyboards
Phil Miller: Guitars
Pip Pyle:  Drums, Percussion, Electric Drums
Neil Murray: Bass (2-6)
John Greaves: Bass (7-13, 15-23)
John Mitchell: Percussion (2-5)
Alan Gowen: Keyboards (2-6)
Amanda Parsons: Vocals (2-6, 15-23)
Jimmy Hastings: Flute (2-6, 15-23), Clarinets & Bass Clarinet (9)
Geogrie Born: Cellos (7, 9, 13)
Paul Nieman: Trombones (7, 13)
Phil Minton: Trumpet (7, 11, 13)
Selwyn Baptiste: Steel Drums (8)
Keith Thompson: Oboe (9, 11)
Peter Blegvad: Voice (9)
Rick Biddulph: Bass (10)
Dave Reed: Percussion programming (14)
Ted Emmett: Trumpet (15-23)
Annie Whitehead: Trombone (15-23)
Barbara Gaskin: Backing Vocals (15-23)
Elton Dean: Saxello (15-23)
Richard Sinclair: Vocals (15-23)
Steve Hillage: Guitar (1)
Mont Campbell: Bass (1)
Bill Bruford: Drums (1)

Disc One:
1.  Paracelsus (Mont Campbell)  (1:41)
2.  Tenemos Roads  (Dave Stewart)  (14:32)
3.  Brujo  (Alan Gowen)  (10:13)
4.  Borogoves (Excerpt from Part Two)  (Dave Stewart)  (4:12)
5.  Borogoves (Part One)  (Dave Stewart)  (6:29)
6.  Elephants  (Alan Gowen/Dave Stewart)  (14:32)
7.  The Bryden 2-Step (for Amphibians) Part 1  (Dave Stewart)  (8:52)
8.  The Collapso  (Dave Stewart)  (6:16)
9.  Squarer For Maud  (John Greaves)  (11:30)

Disc Two:
10.  Dreams Wide Awake  (Phil Miller)  (8:48)
11.  Binoculars  (Pip Pyle)  (11:43)
12.  Phlakaton  (Pip Pyle)  (0:08)
13.  The Bryden 2-Step (for Amphibians) Part 2  (Dave Stewart)  (5:31)
14.  The Apocalypso  (Dave Stewart)  (6:32)
15.  Portrait of a Shrinking Man  (Alan Gowen)  (5:33)
16.  T.N.T.F.X.  (Alan Gowen)  (3:12)
17.  Black Hat  (Alan Gowen)  (4:51)
18.  I Feel a Night Coming On  (Alan Gowen)  (6:35)
19.  Arriving Twice  (Alan Gowen)  (2:17)
20.  Shining Water  (Alan Gowen)  (8:50)
21.  Tales of a Damson Knight  (Alan Gowen)  (1:53)
22.  Flanagan's People  (Alan Gowen)  (5:20)
23.  Toad of Toad Hall  (Alan Gowen)  (7:25)

Comments: (*****) Brilliant stuff.  This is a compilation of the three
National Health albums:  _National Health_ (1977), _Of Queues and Cures_
(1978), and _D.S. Al Coda_ (1982), plus two bonus tracks.

Thanks to Scott R. Burrows for providing this information



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