Silver Town (album)
Silver Town | ||||
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Studio album by The Men They Couldn't Hang | ||||
Publication |
1989 |
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Label (s) | Silvertone | |||
Format (s) |
LP, CD |
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Title (number) |
11 |
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running time |
38:02 |
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occupation |
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Mick Glossop |
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Studio (s) |
Woodcray Studios & The Manor |
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Silver Town is a music album by British folk-punk band The Men They Couldn't Hang , released in 1989. Along with Waiting for Bonaparte, it is one of their most famous albums.
history
As singles released A Place in the Sun , A Map of Morocco and Rain, Steam and Speed , which was ranked 88th with the only single in the UK's top 100th
Nick Muir, who z. B. had already worked with Take That and Fire Next Time, joined the band as a new member and was also featured on the follow-up album The Domino Club . He stayed with the Men They Couldn't Hang until it was broken up in 1991. Muir later became successful with the duo Bedrock and as a producer of electronic music.
Silver Town ranked 39th as the only The Men They Couldn't Hang album in the British Top 40 and thus became their most successful album. It is also the first of two albums by the band to be released on the Silvertone label, the same label that released the Stone Roses' debut album .
Like its two predecessors, How Green Is the Valley and Waiting for Bonaparte , the album was produced by Mick Glossop.
Track list
No. | title | Lead vocals | written by | length |
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1. | Rosettes | Cush | Cush / P. Odgers / J. Odgers / Simmonds | 3:37 |
2. | A place in the sun | Cush, Odgers | Simmonds | 3:09 |
3. | Home fires | Cush | Simmonds | 4:01 |
4th | Diamonds, Gold and Fur | Odgers | P. Odgers | 2:42 |
5. | Company Town | Cush, Odgers | Cush / P. Odgers / J. Odgers / Simmonds | 5:43 |
6th | Lobotomy, Gets' Em Home | Cush | Cush | 3:01 |
7th | Blackfriars Bridge | Cush | Simmonds | 4:06 |
8th. | Rain, Steam and Speed | Odgers | Simmonds | 3:53 |
9. | Down all the days | Cush | Cush | 2:44 |
10. | Hellfire and Damnation | Odgers | P. Odgers | 2:39 |
11. | El Vaquero | Instrumental | P. Odgers | 2:46 |
Republication
No. | title | Lead vocals | written by | length |
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1. | Rosettes | Cush | Cush / P. Odgers / J. Odgers / Simmonds | 3:37 |
2. | A place in the sun | Cush, Odgers | Simmonds | 3:09 |
3. | Home fires | Cush | Simmonds | 4:01 |
4th | Diamonds, Gold and Fur | Odgers | P. Odgers | 2:42 |
5. | Company Town | Cush, Odgers | Cush / P. Odgers / J. Odgers / Simmonds | 5:43 |
6th | Lobotomy, Gets' Em Home | Cush | Cush | 3:01 |
7th | Blackfriars Bridge | Cush | Simmonds | 4:06 |
8th. | Rain, Steam and Speed | Odgers | Simmonds | 3:53 |
9. | Down all the days | Cush | Cush | 2:44 |
10. | Hellfire and Damnation | Odgers | P. Odgers | 2:39 |
11. | El Vaquero | Instrumental | P. Odgers | 2:46 |
12. | Rubber bullets | Cush | Gouldman / Godley / Cream | 4:56 |
13. | The Day the Clocks Went Back | Instrumental | Cush / P. Odgers / J. Odgers / Simmonds | 3:30 |
14th | Rosettes (Extended Mix) | Cush | Cush / P. Odgers / J. Odgers / Simmonds | 4:14 |
15th | A Place in the Sun (Demo) | Cush | Simmonds | 3:04 |
16. | Rain, Steam and Speed (Demo) | Odgers | Simmonds | 3:42 |
17th | A Map of Morocco | Odgers | Cush / P. Odgers / J. Odgers / Simmonds | 3:07 |
reception
source | rating |
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Allmusic |
The Allmusic Guide rated the album four and a half stars out of five.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rain, Steam and Speed in the Official UK Charts (English)
- ↑ Silver Town in the Official UK Charts (English)
- ↑ The Men They Couldn't Hang: Silvertown. In: Allmusic . Retrieved October 13, 2017 .