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Riley Riley Wood & Waggett Expanded edition
Shape Of The Rain
Riley Riley Wood & Waggett Expanded edition
Shape Of The Rain
Three CDs. Issued by underground imprint RCA Neon in mid-1971, the Shape of the Rain album Riley Riley Wood & Waggett sold poorly at the time despite glowing reviews from the British music weeklies. A surging collision of Beatlesesque writing and harmonies and Byrds-like jingle-jangle guitars, sadly it would take another couple of decades before the LP was finally disinterred by a new generation of record collectors. Half-a-century after it's original release, that lost jewel of an album finally gets the attention it deserves as the cornerstone of Grapefruit's definitive new anthology of a criminally neglected late '60s/early '70s British band. In addition to that 1971 album, our release features a post-LP single, a clutch of studio demos, taped rehearsals and alternative versions as well as more than a dozen previously-unissued demos of material for an aborted second album. Recorded in 1972 by band leader and chief vocalist/songwriter Keith Riley, these songs are a staggering new find, occupying similar musical territory to newly-solo McCartney, Badfinger man Pete Ham's home demos and Chris Bell's post-Big Star work. Our release also features some incendiary Shape of the Rain live recordings, including a 50-minute show from May 1970 that stands as a rare and enthralling document of a West Coast-influenced English psychedelic band captured in full and glorious flow at the turn of the decade. Boasting a 24-page booklet that includes numerous rare photos as well as a new history of the band, this expanded, four-hour edition of Riley Riley Wood & Waggett features approximately two hours of previously unreleased music.
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Media | Music CD (Compact Disc) |
Number of discs | 3 |
Specielt cover | Digipak |
Released | May 22, 2020 |
EAN/UPC | 5013929186705 |
Label | GRAPEFRUIT CRSEG067T |
Genre | Rock Progressive Rock |
Dimensions | 127 × 129 × 12 mm · 117 g |
Track list
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1. CD
- Woman
- Patterns
- Castles
- Wasting My Time
- Rockfield Roll
- Yes
- Dusty Road
- Willowing Trees
- I'll Be There
- Broken Man
- My Friend John
- The Very First Clow
- What You Gonna Do Now
- You're the One
- From Me and from You
- No Use Cryin' Again
- Watercolour Sunshine
- Nothin' You Could Do
- We Can Put It Right
- Lady of My Dreams
- It All Depends on You
- Listen to My Heart
- Now's the Time to Start
- Don't You Know
- Second Time Around
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2. CD
- Broken Man (Demo Version)
- I Don't Need Nobody
- I'll Be There (Demo Version)
- We're Not Their Boys
- Hallelujah
- Hello 503
- I Doubt if I Ever Will
- Willowing Trees (Demo Version)
- Canyon
- Spring
- Words
- Look Around
- Advertising Man
- Go Around and See It
- It's So Good Here
- Big Black Bird
- Everyone the Fool
- You Just Call
- It's My Life
- Dusty Road (Demo Version)
- Too Many Lies
- Yes (Demo Version)
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3. CD