Songs for Ships and Irons
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| Released | 16 September 1991[1][a] | |||
| Length | 45:49 | |||
| Label | Alphabet Business Concern | |||
| Producer | Tim Smith | |||
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| Encyclopedia of Popular Music |   [2] |
Songs for Ships and Irons is a 1991 collection of non-album singles and B-sides by Cardiacs. It combines the whole of the Big Ship extended play, the whole of the "There's Too Many Irons In The Fire" 12-inch single and the B-sides of the "Susannah's Still Alive" 12-inch single.[3] It also includes a bonus song called "Everything is Easy," a longstanding live favorite not previously released as a studio recording. Some of the quiet talking in between tracks from the original Big Ship mini-album differs from the original release in having been edited/lowered in volume.[citation needed]
The album was out of print, but is available from the Cardiacs website.
Track listing
[edit]All songs written by Tim Smith unless otherwise indicated.
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Big Ship" | 5:47 | |
| 2. | "Tarred and Feathered" | William D. Drake, Smith | 3:31 |
| 3. | "Burn Your House Brown" | 2:37 | |
| 4. | "Stoneage Dinosaurs" | 5:22 | |
| 5. | "Plane Plane Against the Grain" | 1:21 | |
| Total length: | 18:38 | ||
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 6. | "Everything Is Easy!" | 3:49 | |
| 7. | "There's Too Many Irons in the Fire" | 3:17 | |
| 8. | "All Spectacular" | 2:35 | |
| 9. | "Blind in Safety and Leafy in Love" | Drake, Smith | 2:46 |
| 10. | "Loosefish Scapegrace" | 7:46 | |
| 11. | "All His Geese Are Swans!" | 6:58 | |
| Total length: | 27:11 | ||
Personnel
[edit]- Tim Smith – guitar, vocals
- Jim Smith – bass
- Sarah Smith – saxophone
- William D. Drake – keyboards
- Dominic Luckman – drums
- Tim Quy – percussion
Notes
[edit]- ^ The Encyclopedia of Popular Music indicates a release year of 1990.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Cardiacs Museum Yousletter 1 (Newsletter). Archived from the original on 1 July 2009. Retrieved 26 March 2023 – via cardiacs.org.
- ^ a b Larkin, Collin (2006). "Cardiacs". The Encyclopedia of Popular Music: Brown, Marion - Dilated Peoples. Muze. p. 182. ISBN 978-0-19-531373-4. Note: Search "Alphabet 1990" (with quotation marks).
- ^ "Cardiacs – Songs For Ships And Irons (1991, Vinyl)". Discogs. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
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