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The latest of EMI’s ongoing budget box sets should be of particular interest for fans of early hard rock group UFO: a vault-vacuuming set of the band’s early material for Chrysalis Records.

UFO are now a respectable name among rock and metal fans, but the band’s early experimental material for Beacon Records only earned them modest success in other parts of Europe and Asia. When the band added 18-year-old former Scorpions guitarist Michael Schenker to the group, however, a cleaner but no less heavy sound was built. And chart success came with it: the band’s critical and commercial acclaim was highest with 1977’s Lights Out. The band would stay with Chrysalis with alternating band members throughout the ’80s (Schenker left to form his own eponymous group), but the music continues to live on among classic rock fans.

EMI’s The Chrysalis Years compilation does a good job of showing off that influence, compiling the band’s first six albums for the label (from 1974’s Phenomenon to 1979’s live Strangers in the Night) as well as a great amount of bonus material, including single edits and unreleased live cuts (including BBC sessions and a whole unreleased show from 1974). While all the bonus tracks on the label’s 2007-2008 reissues aren’t included, it’s a hell of a primer for the new fan who wants a lot of material – and a considerable bargain, given its modest packaging.

The Chrysalis Years came out this past Monday in the U.K., and you can order it here. The full track list is after the jump. (Thanks to reader George for the tip!)

UFO, The Chrysalis Years (EMI 50999 028805 2 5 (U.K.), 2011)

Disc 1: Phenomenon and bonus material

1. Give Her the Gun
2. Sweet Little Thing
3. Oh My
4. Crystal Light
5. Doctor Doctor
6. Space Child
7. Rock Bottom
8. Too Young to Know
9. Time on My Hands
10. Built for Comfort
11. Lipstick Traces
12. Queen of the Deep
13. Doctor Doctor (Single Edit)
14. Rock Bottom (Bob Harris Session – 10/28/1974)
15. Time on My Hands (Bob Harris Session – 10/28/1974)
16. Give Her the Gun (Bob Harris Session – 10/28/1974)

Disc 2: Live at the Electric Ballroom, Atlanta – 11/5/1974 and Force It

1. Oh My
2. Doctor Doctor
3. Built for Comfort
4. Give Her the Gun
5. Cold Turkey
6. Space Child
7. Rock Bottom
8. Prince Kujuku
9. Let It Roll
10. Shoot Shoot
11. High Flyer
12. Love Lost Love
13. Out in the Street

Disc 3: more Force It, More Heavy Petting and Obsession

1. Mother Mary
2. Too Much of Nothing
3. Dance Your Life Away
4. This Kid’s (Including ‘Between the Walls’)
5. Natural Thing
6. I’m a Loser
7. Can You Roll Her
8. Belladonna
9. Reasons Love
10. Highway Lady
11. On with the Action
12. A Fool in Love
13. Martian Landscape
14. Too Hot to Handle
15. Just Another Suicide
16. Try Me
17. Lights Out

Disc 4: more Lights Out, Obsession and bonus material

1. Gettin’ Ready
2. Alone Again
3. Electric Phase
4. Love to Love
5. Try Me (Single Remix)
6. Too Hot to Handle (John Peel Session – 6/27/1977)
7. Lights Out (John Peel Session – 6/27/1977)
8. Try Me (John Peel Session – 6/27/1977)
9. Only You Can Rock Me
10. Pack It Up (and Go)
11. Arbory Hill
12. Ain’t No Baby
13. Lookin’ Out for No. 1
14. Hot ‘N’ Ready
15. Cherry
16. You Don’t Fool Me
17. Lookin’ Out for No. 1 (Reprise)
18. One More for the Rodeo
19. Born to Lose
20. Only You Can Rock Me (Single Version)

Disc 5: Strangers in the Night and bonus material

1. Natural Thing (Live)
2. Out in the Street (Live)
3. Only You Can Rock Me (Live)
4. Doctor Doctor (Live)
5. Mother Mary (Live)
6. This Kid’s (Live)
7. Love to Love (Live)
8. Lights Out (Live)
9. Rock Bottom (Live)
10. Too Hot to Handle (Live)
11. I’m a Loser (Live)
12. Let It Roll (Live)
13. Shoot Shoot (Live)
14. Doctor Doctor (Live) (Single Edit)
15. On with the Action (Live)

Disc 1, Tracks 1-2 released as Chrysalis single CHS-2024 (U.K.), 1973
Disc 1, Tracks 3-12 released as Phenomenon – Chrysalis LP CHR-1059, 1974
Disc 1, Track 13 was A-side of Chrysalis single CHS-2040 (U.K.), 1974
Disc 1, Tracks 14-16, Disc 2, Tracks 1-8 and Disc 4, Tracks 6-8 previously unreleased
Disc 2, Tracks 9-13 and Disc 3, Tracks 1-4 released as Force It – Chrysalis LP CHR-1074, 1975
Disc 3, Tracks 5-13 released as No Heavy Petting – Chrysalis LP CHR-1103, 1976
Disc 3, Tracks 14-17 and Disc 4, Tracks 1-4 released as Lights Out – Chrysalis LP CHR-1127, 1977
Disc 4, Track 5 was A-side of Chrysalis single CHS-2178 (U.K.), 1977
Disc 4, Track 9-19 released as Obsession – Chrysalis LP CDL-1182 (U.K.)/CHR-1182 (U.S.), 1978
Disc 4, Track 20 was A-side of Chrysalis single CHS-2241 (U.K.), 1978
Disc 5, Tracks 1-13 released as Strangers in the Night – Chrysalis LP CJT-5 (U.K.)/CH2-1209 (U.S.), 1979
Disc 5, Tracks 14-15 released on Chrysalis single CHS-2287 (U.K.), 1979