Brown, Pete - Can't Get Off The Planet: The Recordings 1968-1973 : 6 x CD box set due to weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed)
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23-ECLEC 62916
Pete Brown was the lyricist for Jack Bruce and even though I love Jack during and post-Cream, I never paid any attention to Pete’s own bands of the same period, wrongly assuming, for no good reason, that they weren’t any good.
When I finally played played Battered Ornaments and Piblokto!, decades and decades later, they were pretty much uniformly great; I know that if I heard this when these tracks were actually recorded in 1969/70, it would have ripped my head off!
I heard hints of things that could be compared to Van der Graaf Generator, Colosseum and most obviously, Family, but this really had it's own, adventurous, late, late 60s sound. Recommended!
“• WITH 30 BONUS TRACKS, 11 PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED, DRAWN FROM SINGLES, BBC RADIO AND STUDIO SESSIONS AND A PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED PIBLOKTO! CONCERT FROM 1971.”
DISC ONE
PETE BROWN AND HIS BATTERED ORNAMENTS
‘A Meal You Can Shake Hands With in the Dark’
1 Dark Lady
2 The Old Man
3 Station Song
4 The Politician
5 Rainy Taxi Girl
6 Morning Call
7 Sandcastle
8 Travelling Blues (or The New Used Jew’s Dues Blues)
Bonus tracks
9 Then I Must Go and Can I Keep (Morgan Studios 1968)
10 Sandcastle (Morgan Studios 1968)
11 Security Blues (EMI Abbey Road Studios 1969)
12 The Week Looked Good on Paper (A-side of single)
DISC TWO
PETE BROWN AND PIBLOKTO!
‘Things May Come and Things May Go, But the Art School Dance Goes On Forever’
1 Things May Come and Things May Go, But the Art School Dance Goes On Forever
2 High Flying Electric Bird
3 Someone Like You
4 Walk for Charity, Run for Money
5 Then I Must Go and Can I Keep
6 My Love’s Gone Far Away
7 Golden Country Kingdom
8 Firesong
9 Country Morning
Bonus tracks
10 Living Life Backwards (A- side of single)
11 Can’t Get Off the Planet (A- side of single)
12 Broken Magic (B-side of single)
DISC THREE
PETE BROWN AND PIBLOKTO!
‘Thousands on a Raft’
1 Aeroplane Head Woman
2 Station Song Platform Two
3 Highland Song
4 If Only They Could See Me Now Parts One AND Two
5 Got a Letter from a Computer
6 Thousands on a Raft
Bonus tracks
7 Flying Hero Sandwich (A-side of single)
8 My Last Band (B-side of single)
DISC FOUR
PETE BROWN AND PIBLOKTO!
‘Studio & Radio Sessions 1969-1971’
1 Prophet (Demo 1969)
2 Country Morning (Demo 1969)
3 High Sorrow (Demo 1969)
4 Aeroplane Head Woman (Demo 1970)
5 Dawn of a Night Wasp (Demo 1970)
6 Raining Pins and Needles (Abbey Road studios January 1970)
7 Christmas Party in a Deserted Seaside Station (Station Song Platform Two) (Abbey Road studios January 1970)
8 Aeroplane Head Woman (BBC Radio session – August 1971)
9 Dawn of a Night Wasp (BBC Radio session – August 1971)
10 Got a Letter from a Computer (BBC Radio session – August 1971)
DISC FIVE
PETE BROWN AND PIBLOKTO!
‘Live in Paris – October 1971’
1 Aeroplane Head Woman
2 Golden Country Kingdom
3 Got a Letter from a Computer
4 The Politician
5 Milk is Turning Sour in My Shoes
DISC SIX
GRAHAM BOND AND PETE BROWN
‘Two Heads Are Better Than One’
1 Lost Tribe
2 Ig the Pig
3 Oobati
4 Amazing Grass
5 Scunthorpe Crabmeat Train Sideways Boogie Shuffle Stomp
6 C.F.D.T. (Colonel Fright’s Dancing Terrapins)
7 Mass Debate
8 Looking for Time
Bonus tracks
9 Macumbe (A-side of EP)
10 Milk is Turning Sour in My Shoes (B-side of EP)
PETE BROWN AND FRIENDS
11 Nights in Armour (Decca Studios 1973)
12 Barbed Wire Night Dress (Decca Studios 1973)
13 Night at Joan and Roy’s (Demo 1973)
14 She Used to Come and See Me When I Slept on the Floor (Demo 1973)
- LabelEsoteric
- UPC5013929491649