Description
DESCRIPTION
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.
TracksCredits
- Disc 1 -
1 Woman
2 Patterns
3 Castles
4 Wasting My Time
5 Rockfield Roll
6 Yes
7 Dusty Road
8 Willowing Trees
9 I'll Be There
10 Broken Man
11 My Friend John
12 The Very First Clown
13 What You Gonna Do Now
14 You're the One
15 From Me and from You
16 No Use Cryin' Again
17 Watercolour Sunshine
18 Nothin' You Could Do
19 We Can Put It Right
20 Lady of My Dreams
21 It All Depends on You
22 Listen to My Heart
23 Now's the Time to Start
24 Don't You Know
25 Second Time Around
- Disc 2 -
1 Broken Man (Demo Version)
2 I Don't Need Nobody
3 I'll Be There (Demo Version)
4 We're Not Their Boys
5 Hallelujah
6 Hello 503
7 I Doubt If I Ever Will
8 Willowing Trees (Demo Version)
9 Canyon
10 Spring
11 Words
12 Look Around
13 Advertising Man
14 Go Around and See It
15 It's So Good Here
16 Big Black Bird
17 Everyone the Fool
18 You Just Call
19 It's My Life
20 Dusty Road (Demo Version)
21 Too Many Lies
22 Yes (Demo Version)
- Disc 3 -
1 Willowing Trees
2 Passing of Time
3 Imagination
4 I've Been Wrong
5 Spring
6 Everyone the Fool
7 Vanishing Cottage
8 Ceiling
9 Big Black Bird
10 Go Around and See It
11 Say It's Goodbye
12 Woman
13 We're Not Their Boys
14 Hello 503
