A Meal You Can Shake Hands With in the Dark [Import]

A Meal You Can Shake Hands With in the Dark [Import]

A Meal You Can Shake Hands With in the Dark [Import]

Track Listings
 
1. Dark Lady
2. Old Man
3. Station Song
4. Politican
5. Rainy Taxi Girl
6. Morning Call
7. Sandcastle
8. Travelling Blues
9. High Sorrow [#][*][Outtake]
10. Raining Pins and Needles [#][*][Outtake]

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Includes Two Bonus Tracks.

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A Meal You Can Shake Hands With in the Dark/ Mantle-Piece
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    		A Meal You Can Shake Hands With in the Dark/ Mantle-Piece
    Pete Brown & His Battered Ornaments
    Manufacturer: Bgo - Beat Goes on
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B000056H47
    Release Date: 2001-02-05

    Tracks:

    1. Dark Lady - Pete Brown & His Battered Ornaments
    2. Old Man - Pete Brown & His Battered Ornaments
    3. Station Song - Pete Brown & His Battered Ornaments
    4. Politician - Pete Brown & His Battered Ornaments
    5. Rainy Taxi Girl - Pete Brown & His Battered Ornaments
    6. Morning Call - Pete Brown & His Battered Ornaments
    7. Sandcastle - Pete Brown & His Battered Ornaments
    8. Traveling Blues (Or the New Used Jew's Dues Blues) - Pete Brown & His Battered Ornaments

    Tracks:

    1. Sunshades - The Battered Ornaments
    2. Late into the Night - The Battered Ornaments
    3. Then I Must Go - The Battered Ornaments
    4. Crosswords and the Safety Pins - The Battered Ornaments
    5. Staggered - The Battered Ornaments
    6. Twisted Track - The Battered Ornaments
    7. Smoke Rings - The Battered Ornaments
    8. Take Me Now - The Battered Ornaments
    9. My Love's Gone Far Away - The Battered Ornaments
    10. Week Looked Good on Paper [*] - The Battered Ornaments

    Album Description

    UK reissue combines two of the acclaimed songwriter's albums with the Battered Ornaments, 'A Meal You Can Shake Hands With In The Dark' (1969) and 'Mantle-Piece' (1970). Best known for writing the lyrics to many of Cream's major hits, 'Sunshine Of your Life', 'White Room', 'I Feel Free', 'Politician', Brown also worked with the band Piblokto, The First Real Poetry Band featuring guitarist John McLaughlin and the poets Allen Ginsberg and Robert Creeley. Includes one bonus track, 'The Week Looked Good On Paper'. 2000 release. Standard jewel case.

    Album Details

    Twofer Reissue of his First Two Late 60's Solo Ventures. Legendary British Organist Graham Bond & Guitarist Chris Spedding Guest on Several Tracks. Brown Co-Wrote Several Hit with Jack Bruce for the 60's Supergroup Cream Including 'White Room', 'I Feel Free', 'Sunhine of Your Love' and Many More.
    A Meal You Can Shake Hands with in the Dark
    Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    • Correction to Amazon's listing
    • A bit weird in places, but with some real gems
    		 A Meal You Can Shake Hands with in the Dark
    Pete Brown & His Battered Ornaments
    Manufacturer: Repertoire
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B000006V6Q
    Release Date: 1994-03-21

    Tracks:

    1. Dark Lady
    2. Old Man
    3. Station Song
    4. Politician
    5. Rainy Taxi Girl
    6. Morning Call
    7. Sand Castle
    8. Travelling Blues (Or the New Used Jew's Dues Blues)
    9. High Sorrow
    10. Raining Pins and Needles

    Album Details

    Includes Two Bonus Tracks.

    Customer Reviews:

    4 out of 5 stars Correction to Amazon's listing.......1999-04-19

    Incidentally the correct album title is 'A Meal You Can Shake Hands With In The Dark' by Pete Brown and His Battered Ornaments. Now you know.

    4 out of 5 stars A bit weird in places, but with some real gems.......1999-04-15

    Pete Brown was Jack Bruce's chief lyricist in the late 60's and early 70's. This was his first album, recorded in 1969 with a group of session musicians (the 'Battered Ornaments'). It was also the third album I ever bought, after Cream's 'Goodbye' and Taste's first album. 30 years later I still play it and though I tend to skip the more 'inventive' (=strange) tracks such as 'Sandcastle', there are three real gems which make the purchase of this album worthwhile. Firstly, the original 'The Politician' which Brown co-wrote with Jack Bruce and was recorded by Cream on 'Wheels of Fire' and 'Goodbye'. Apart from the lyrics this is nothing like Cream's version - you have been warned! The drunken/doped spoken intro is a scream. Secondly, 'Rainy Taxi Girl' is a beautifully melodic piece of Brown's poetry and could have been a minor hit if it had been released as a single. It was after hearing this track on Kid Jensen's radio show (UK radio) that I bought the album. Thirdly, 'Travelling Blues' (or 'New Used Jew's Dues Blues') which is a lazy 12-bar blues featuring Chris Spedding on lead guitar. It must be one of the most original 12-bar blues ever! Lyrically and melodically the album is inventive and always interesting, if a little bit wild in places. If you are interested in the development of 60's rock it deserves a place in your collection.

    The last 2 tracks on the CD version of the album were later additions to the original vinyl and I must admit that I've never heard them.

    Brown went on to make a couple more very good albums in the early 70's with his next group 'Pipblokto!'. These were 'Things May Come And Things May Go...' (no longer available) and 'Thousands on a Raft'. Both albums feature fine guitar work by a young Jim Mullen who went on to find minor fame in the 'Average White Band', 'Kokomo' and as a solo jazz guitarist.

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    9. Anthology
    10. Antichrist Superstar [Explicit Lyrics]

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