Shape of the Rain: Riley Riley Wood & Waggett
Shape of the Rain: Riley Riley Wood & Waggett
Format: CD
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Artist: Shape of the Rain
Label: Grapefruit
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 5013929186705
Genre: Rock
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.
Tracks:
1.1 Woman
1.2 Patterns
1.3 Castles
1.4 Wasting My Time
1.5 Rockfield Roll
1.6 Yes
1.7 Dusty Road
1.8 Willowing Trees
1.9 I’ll Be There
1.10 Broken Man
1.11 My Friend John
1.12 The Very First Clown
1.13 What You Gonna Do Now
1.14 You’re The One
1.15 From Me And From You
1.16 No Use Cryin’ Again
1.17 Watercolour Sunshine
1.18 Nothin’ You Could Do
1.19 We Can Put It Right
1.20 Lady Of My Dreams
1.21 It All Depends On You
1.22 Listen To My Heart
1.23 Now’s The Time To Start
1.24 Don’t You Know
1.25 Second Time Around
2.1 Broken Man (Demo Version)
2.2 I Don’t Need Nobody
2.3 I’ll Be There (Demo Version)
2.4 We’re Not Their Boys
2.5 Hallelujah
2.6 Hello 503
2.7 I Doubt If I Ever Will
2.8 Willowing Trees (Demo Version)
2.9 Canyon
2.10 Spring
2.11 Words
2.12 Look Around
2.13 Advertising Man
2.14 Go Around And See It
2.15 It’s So Good Here
2.16 Big Black Bird
2.17 Everyone The Fool
2.18 You Just Call
2.19 It’s My Life
2.20 Dusty Road (Demo Version)
2.21 Too Many Lies
2.22 Yes (Demo Version)
3.1 Willowing Trees
3.2 Passing Of Time
3.3 Imagination
3.4 I’ve Been Wrong
3.5 Spring
3.6 Everyone The Fool
3.7 Vanishing Cottage
3.8 Ceiling
3.9 Big Black Bird
3.10 Go Around And See It
3.11 Say It’s Goodbye
3.12 Woman
3.13 We’re Not Their Boys
3.14 Hello 503
