The Nice : 5. Discography. 5.1. Albums,

The Nice

5. Discography.

5.1. Albums

• The Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack (Immediate, 1967)
• Ars Longa Vita Brevis (Immediate, 1968)
• Nice / Everything As Nice As Mother Makes It (Immediate, 1969)
• Five Bridges (Charisma, 1970)
• Elegy (Charisma, 1971)
• America - The BBC Sessions (Receiver, 1996)
• The Swedish Radio Sessions (late 1967) (Sanctuary, 2001)
• BBC Sessions (Sanctuary, 2002)
• Vivacitas (Sanctuary, 2004)
• Live At The Fillmore East December 1969 (Virgin, 2009)

Keith Emerson with The Nice (Japan) (1972).

Everything As Nice As Mother Makes It is the U.S. version of Nice after Immediate's distribution changed from Columbia to Capitol. Nice had been initially released in the U.S. with a slightly longer version of Rondo 69 not available on the UK or on the Capitol distributed U.S. versions. The first U.S. version of Nice was briefly reissued in 1973 by Columbia Special Products. Both Five Bridges and Elegy were released in the U.S. by Mercury and in Germany by Phillips. Both albums were reissued as a two record set in both the U.S. and Germany in 1972 as Keith Emerson and The Nice (see compilations). On the U.S. reissues of Five Bridges from the 1980s, "One Of Those People" features a noticeably different mono mix in place of the stereo mix on the original issue.

5.2. Singles.

• "The Thoughts Of Emerlist Davjack"/"Azrial (Angel Of Death)" (Immediate, November 1967)
• "America"/"The Diamond Hard Blue Apples Of The Moon" (Immediate, 1968)
• "Brandenburger"/"Happy Freuds" (Immediate, 1968)
• "Diary Of An Empty Day"/"Hang On To A Dream" (Immediate, 1969)
• "Country Pie/Brandenburg Concerto No.6"/"One Of Those People" (Charisma, 1969)

The singles listed here are the original releases. Many of the singles were re-released throughout the 1970s with different B-sides.

5.3. Compilations.

• The Best of The Nice (EMI/Immediate, 1971)
• Keith Emerson with The Nice (Mercury, 1972)
• In Memoriam (Immediate, 1973)
• Autumn '67 - Spring '68 (Charisma, 1972, UK), released as Autumn to Spring (Charisma, 1973, USA)
• Hang On To A Dream (EMIDisc, 1974)
• The Immediate Years (2-LP set) (Sire, 1975)
• Amoeni Redivivi (NEMS/Immediate, 1976)
• Greatest Hits (NEMS/Immediate, 1977)
• Greatest Hits (Big Time, 1988)
• The Immediate Years (3-CD Boxed Set) (Charly, 1995)
• Here Come The Nice - The Immediate Anthology (3-CD Boxed Set) (Castle Communications, 2002)

Keith Emerson with The Nice was reissued on CD in 1990 as a single disc, eliminating "Country Pie/Brandenburg Conc.#6" and "One Of Those People" from Five Bridges and "Pathetique" from Elegy. The Immediate Collection contains all three albums and all the singles originally released by Immediate records along with several unreleased recordings. Some of the compilations listed (namely Autumn to Spring, Hang On To A Dream and In Memoriam) feature slightly different mixes than originally released on the albums. Due to Immediate Records' dissolution in 1970, the recordings of The Nice (along with other artists on the Immediate label) were leased out to many record companies, resulting in a high number of compilation albums (many of which are not listed here) with different packaging, but similar track listings.