Track Listing

1. Look at Me I'm You
2. I'll Be Late for Tea
3. Remarkable Saga of the Frozen Dog
4. Telegram Tuesday
5. Love Is
6. What's It For
7. People of the Royal Parks
8. What on Earth
9. Mrs. Murphy's Budgerigar
10. I Will Bring You This
11. Mister Watchmaker
12. When the Alarm Clock
13. Intrepid Balloonist
14. You
15. Track for Speedy Freaks

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #843989 in Music
• Released on: 2006-01-30
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Import

Customer Reviews

WHY is this Album not better known????
I first heard of this album about a year ago (mid 2005) and eventually got a copy of it a few months later. I'm amazed this band and this album particularly is'nt better known.
This is soft-psyche at it's best. I have rarely heard such interesting chord sequences and vocal harmonies in what is essentially pop music, with the possible exception of the wonderful Brian Wilson.
The guitar work is superb. Not the wild freak-out guitar of Hendrix or early Clapton in fact there are no solos on the album at all, but there is a lot of well thought out guitar interplay which is reminiscent of early Steve Howe when he was in Tomorrow. This also reminds me at times of The Pretty Things (S F Sorrow), The Idle Race, The Move, The Left Banke and occasionally early Floyd (Piper....).
There are a few VERY silly songs on this, The Remarkable Saga Of The Frozen Dog and Mrs Murphy's Budgerigar to name but two. The only song that gets a little bit too silly for me is The Intrepid Balloonist's Handbook, Volume One. But hey this was the late sixties what do you expect.
For me this platter is worth the price for the absolutely beautiful Mister Watchmaker (marvelous string arrangement) and Telegram Tuesday, a song with possibly the shortest verse ever, one line and you're straight into the chorus.
It's a shame that their second album Only For A Moment wasn't anywhere near as inspired with them sounding like a slightly heavy version of Wishbone Ash, didn't work for me.
WE ARE EVER SO CLEAN.... buy it, I did and never looked back.

Formative Rock Album
This album and "If Only for a Moment" were gound breaking albums and paved the way for bands like Wishbone Ash and subsequently Thin Lizzy in the use of harmony twin-lead guitars. This band shaped my whole approach to guitar and I cannot believe that they are as relatively inaccessible as appear to be, especially as members of the band rose to quite prominent careers, eg Jim Cregan, Kevin Westlake, Pol Palmer. The industry should be proud of this formative contribution and shout it out loud! It shaped a landscape we now so easily take for granted. Back in those days this was unchartered territory.