Twenty-Five Views Of Worthing - Rare Studio Recordings 1972 - 1977
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- Опубліковано 5 лип 2024
- First, the good news: it’s sometime in 1972 and your band have been signed to Island Records giving you access to the legendary Basing Street Studios where you start to record your debut. Now, the bad news: a year later, Island drop you and the half album you made goes unreleased, unloved, and left to gather dust.
That’s what happened to Twenty-Five Views Of Worthing. But several decades on and the Island session, along with several other later recordings, have been lovingly gathered to finally see the light of day on a lavish, limited edition, gatefold LP. As detailed in the accompanying expansive booklet, The Worthings, as they were known, paid their dues supporting Amon Düül II, Roxy Music, and others via their connection to Island Records’ live agency. Largely instrumental, with keyboards and sax to the fore, not to mention a brief appearance of a choir, Caravan and Soft Machine provide obvious points of inspiration. Sometimes wistful and boasting oodles of period charm, if parts show their age now and then, the energy and enthusiasm that originally fuelled the London-based quartet, has been deftly rekindled for a brand new 21st century audience.
~ Prog magazine issue 117 / 2021.
01. Vamp Till Ready 0:00
02. Joke Without Words 8:38
03. Freak Show 20:49
04. In For A Quick One 23:17
05. You Are What You Eat 28:48
06. Do The Azimuth 34:31
07. Rat Brain Incision 39:24
08. More Feathers, More Dogs 41:31
09. Ratification 45:19
01 - 03 (1972-73), 04 (1973), 05 - 07, 09 (1977), 08 (1976)
Roger Hillier - organ, electric and grand piano, harpsichord, vibraphone (1971 - 1977)
Mark Sugden - drums, percussions, trumpet, vocals (1971 - 1977)
Paul Devonshire - sax, clarinet, flute (1971 - 1973)
Paul Lindsay - bass guitar, vocals (1971 - 1973)
Peter Teychenné - trombone (1973)
John Knox - bass guitar (1973)
Paul Gillieron - sax, electric piano, vocals (1974 - 1977)
Harlan Cockburn - guitars, vocals (1974 -1977)
Malcolm Barrett - bass guitar (1974 - 1977)
You are what you eat!! I love that track!! I remember it fron ChorleyWood ... a long time ago!
I was a backing singer for this group at the Palace Theatre in Watford!
Very cool! Live a long wonderful life, Marilyn!
great music. worst band name!
Excellent! I love Canterbury style, and I had no idea of this band... It is really great! Thanks a lot for the upload 🙌
good stuff man.
Quite excellent music. Special thanks to the person who introduced the CD.🎸🎧
Glad you enjoyed it
Seelie Court do release quite a lot of dubious amateurish semi-crap, so regularly marketed as "lost masterpieces" that I can't be bothered to take their descriptions seriously anymore. But this one was actually brilliant.
Happy you like Twenty-Five Views Of Worthing. The decades spent collecting CDs taught me to never pay attention to the promotional brainwashing of record labels. On the other hand, even a Seelie has a couple of similar quality releases, where the sound is good and the music is excellent.
@@PsychedelicSapiens I haven't been able to pin down that couple of releases, apparently, and I'd be grateful for any suggestions. Which ones are your favourites?
@@outernothingness1177 The ones that carry both the musical and sound quality are for me Rudi Tchaikovsky - The Castle's Equivalent, The Steve Brown Band - Soul Full Of Sin, Rainbird - Maiden Flight and As You Like It - Ages Come And Ages Go. I also really like Motiffe's album, but the sound quality is poor on that one.
@@PsychedelicSapiens Thanks! I'll certainly be checking them out.
@@outernothingness1177 No worries, I'm glad someone else is interested in this kind of music. Then write if you like one of these albums.