Smallcreep's Day (album)

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Smallcreep's Day

Studio album by Mike Rutherford
Released	January 1980
Recorded	Autumn 1979
Genre	Progressive Rock
Length	51:28
Label	Charisma Records
Producer(s)	David Hentschel
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Mike Rutherford chronology
	Smallcreep's Day (1980)	Acting Very Strange (1982)

Smallcreep's Day is the first solo album by Genesis bassist and guitarist Mike Rutherford. The title suite (occupying side 1 of the original vinyl version) is based on a novel by Peter Currell Brown. It was released in 1980. The album was produced by David Hentschel, who also produced the Genesis album Duke the same year. Anthony Phillips, Rutherford's original songwriting partner in Genesis, plays keyboards on the album. It was recorded at ABBA's Polar Studios in Stockholm, Sweden, for tax purposes, in the fall of 1979.

[edit] Track listing

All tracks written by Mike Rutherford.

"Smallcreep's Day"
I. "Between the Tick & the Tock" – 3:59
II. "Working In Line" – 3:07
III. "After Hours" – 1:45
IV. "Cats and Rats (In This Neighbourhood)" – 4:50
V. "Smallcreep Alone" – 1:33
VI. "Out Into the Daylight" – 3:49
VII. "At the End of the Day" – 5:35
"Moonshine" – 6:23
"Time and Time Again" – 4:52
"Romani" – 5:25
"Every Road" – 4:13
"Overnight Job" – 5:43

The US pressing of the original LP reversed the sides, so that the "Smallcreep's Day" suite was on side two. It was released there by Passport Records.

There was also one track called "Compression" which was left off the album but appeared as a B-side. This track is perhaps one of the rarest Genesis-related tracks to find since it has never been released on CD (except on a very limited-edition German fan club CD, "It's Only Knock And Knowall", in 2002).