Friendliness (album)

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Friendliness
Studio album by Stackridge
Released	November 1972 (U.K.)
Recorded	August 1972
Genre	Rock
Length	41:30
Label	MCA Records, Demon Records, (CD re-issue) Angel Air, (CD re-issue)
Producer	Stackridge, Victor Gamm
Stackridge chronology
Stackridge (1971) Friendliness (1972) The Man In The Bowler Hat (1974)
U.K. LP label
Image:Friendliness2uk.jpg Record label (MCA Records)

Friendliness is the second album by the British rock group Stackridge. The album was produced by Stackridge and Victor Gamm at Sound Techniques, London. This was the only Stackridge album to be released on the MCA Records label both in the U.K. and the U.S.

The album has a wide variety of songs. "Lummy Days" is a galloping instrumental with strong English folk and classical music influences. "Syracuse The Elephant" is progressive rock similar to early Genesis. "Keep On Clucking" is in a modified blues form and is the heaviest rock tune recorded by Stackridge. "Amazingly Agnes", which the group claims to be a song about a cow, is possibly the first reggae style song ever recorded by an English rock group. "Anyone For Tennis" is in the English music-hall style, similar to what Paul McCartney performed on The Beatles' song Honey Pie.

[edit] Track listing

1. Lummy Days (Davis) 3:22
2. Friendliness (Part 1) (Warren) 2:29
3. Anyone For Tennis (Warren) 2:32
4. There Is No Refugee (Warren) 3:24
5. Syracuse The Elephant (Walter, Davis) 8:46
6. Amazingly Agnes (Warren) 3:30
7. Father Frankenstein Is Behind Your Pillow (Warren) 3:35
8. Keep On Clucking (Walter, Davis) 4:03
9. Story Of My Heart (Slater) 2:03
10. Friendliness (Part 2) (Warren) 1:55
11. Teatime (Walter, Davis) 5:51

Bonus Tracks from the 2006 re-issue on Angel Air.

1. Everyman (Davis, Warren) 4:27 (b-side)
2. Purple Spaceships Over Yatton (Walter, Davis) 6:39 (b-side)
3. C'est La Vie (Warren, Davis) 3:21 (b-side)
4. Do The Stanley (Wabadaw, Sleeve) 2:54 (single)

[edit] Personnel

• Andy Cresswell-Davis - guitar/keyboards/vocals
• James Warren - guitar/vocals
• Michael Evans - violin/vocals
• Michael "Mutter" Slater - flute/vocals
• James "Crun" Walter - bass
• Billy Bent aka Billy Sparkle - drums