Neil Christian & The Crusaders That's Nice!: The Anthology Tracks: 1 Feel In The Mood 2 The Road To Love 3 The Big Beat Drum 4 A Little Bit Of Someone Else 5 Get A Load Of This 6 Honey Hush 7 One For The Money 8 Give The Game Away 9 Let Me In 10 I Like It 11 That's Nice 12 She's Got The Action 13 Two At A Time 14 Wanna Lover 15 Oops 16 She Said Yeah 17 Dedicated Follower Of Fashion 18 I Remember 19 What Would Your Mama Say Now 20 I'm Gonna Love You Baby 21 Bit By Bit 22 Count Down 23 Bad Girl 24 You're All Things Bright & Beautiful 25 Let Me Hear You Laugh 26 My Baby Left Me 27 Yaketty Yak 28 All Last Night Line up: Neil Christian - vocals Ritchie Blackmore - Guitar Joe Brown [AKA Elmer Twitch] - piano Tornado Evans - drums Bibi Blange - bass Tony Dangerfield - bass Matt Smith - keyboards Carlo Little - drums Jimmy Page - guitars Albert Lee - guitars Record Label / Year of Release: Sanctuary/Castle Music 2003 Notes: The 28-song That's Nice: Anthology contains, track for track, exactly the same Neil Christian & the Crusaders material that showed up a decade earlier on the 1992 See for Miles compilation 1962-1973. The differences are slight but noteworthy: the tracks are here sequenced in chronological order instead of jumping back and forth, and the liner notes are considerably better, also adding a bunch of nice pictures and sleeve repros absent from the See for Miles booklet. That gives it the edge, but it's still only of marginal interest to British Invasion fans, despite a couple of excellent songs. With the exception of one uninteresting 1973 recording that was not released at the time, everything was recorded between 1962-1968, covering singles, EP cuts, and a few tracks that lay unissued until the 1992 See for Miles comp. Still, the only truly outstanding items are the 1963 single "Get a Load of This," Christian's best stab at Merseybeat (with sterling guitar by Jimmy Page), and the mid-'60s cut "I Like It," which boasts some storming British R&B guitar (also by Page). Otherwise Christian was just too prone to mediocre pop tunes, some of them sub-music hall-ish outings that could be cringe-inducingly lame. The 1962 demo "Feel in the Mood" isn't bad, and the 1962 Joe Meek-produced single "The Road to Love" is of some interest to fans of the eccentric producer. But even most of Christian's attempts to rock out don't cut it either on crummy covers of old '50s rock & roll hits or his interpretations of fine Miki Dallon-penned rockers like "Let Me In" and "She's Got the Action." Those last two, incidentally, are way worse than the fine versions cut around the same time by the British group the Sorrows, a highly recommended alternative if you want to hear Dallon's songs at their best.