Silver Town (album)

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Silver Town
Studio album by The Men They Couldn't Hang

Publication
(s)

1989

Label (s) Silvertone

Format (s)

LP, CD

Genre (s)

Folk punk , folk rock

Title (number)

11

running time

38:02

occupation

production

Mick Glossop

Studio (s)

Woodcray Studios & The Manor

chronology
Waiting for Bonaparte
(1988) 		Silver Town The Domino Club
(1990)

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
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
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
Allmusic

The Allmusic Guide rated the album four and a half stars out of five.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rain, Steam and Speed in the Official UK Charts (English)
  2. ↑ Silver Town in the Official UK Charts (English)
  3. ↑ The Men They Couldn't Hang: Silvertown. In: Allmusic . Retrieved October 13, 2017 .

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