It's All Up Now: Anthology

Castle Music, Sanctuary Records Group (LC 6448 ® 2004; CMDDD1019)
Sleeve Notes: Geoff Gillespie and David Wells
Release Coordination: Steve Hammonds and Jon Richards 

Peter Farrelly: Bass Guitar & Lead Vocals 
Martin Foye: Drums
Stephen Houston: Keyboards & Vocals
John Mason: Keyboards
Vincent McCusker: Guitar & Vocals

Disc One:
1.  Future Legends 
2.  Decision
3.  As Day Breaks with Dawn
4.  Graveyard Epistle
5.  On a Clear Day
6.  Lord of the Incubus
7.  Song for a Thought
8.  Future Legends
9.  Wise as Wisdom
10. White Eyes
11. Garden Lady
12. Three Spires
13. Elizabeth
14. The Seventh Secret

Disc Two:
1.  Prince of Heaven 
2.  It's All Up Now
3.  Prince of Darkness
4.  Annie Austere
5.  Knowing You
6.  Crystal Brook
7.  The Perfect Wish
8.  Misty Morning Way
9.  Masquerading with Dawn
10. Gormenghast
11. Why
12. Janet Planet
13. Sheba's Song

Sleeve Notes for It's All Up Now: Anthology (excerpts)

I can remember it like it was yesterday. On my then brother-in-law's insistence, I stood in the grimy pit that passed for my local record store,
holding the exquisitely-textured sleeve of the debut Fruupp album Future Legends. My brother-in-law was a singer/songwriter, and his friend
owned Escape Studio in Kent. During some down time, he had heard Fruupp recording the album and, suitably impressed, he advised me to pick up the album upon its release...Easier said than done...Clutching the disc, I moved towards the counter where 'Fred Head' sat staring at me as I approached..."You won't like it."..."Sorry?"..."That album -- you won't like it.  Bit too progressive for you, I think."...This went on for awhile before he finally decided to sell me the album. I was just fourteen. And he was wrong. I did like it. I liked it very much indeed...

Fruupp's place in Progressive Rock's hall of fame has been held over for far too long, the kudos equivalent of the cheque being in the post.  That really should change. Fruupp were unique -- how often do you hear that word used in a musical context these days?

What was special about Fruupp was that indefinable quality that sought to combine the free will and bravado that was Progressive Rock at its best and, at times, its worst. The bold sweep of the brush that enabled Fruupp to make their occasionally twee folk-based music also enabled ELP to take out a financially crippling orchestra on tour in America and Yes to make the over ambitious (some would say tedious!) Tales From Togographic Oceans album. It's that 'anything goes' attitude that helped make rock truly progressive.

...and no band defined Progressive Rock quite as well as Fruupp.