Expletive Delighted!

Expletive Delighted!
Studio album by Fairport Convention
Released August 1986
Recorded February, April & May 1986 at Woodworm Studios, Barford St. Michael, Oxfordshire
Genre folk rock
Length 35:53
Label Woodworm WR007
Producer Fairport Convention
Fairport Convention chronology
Gladys' Leap
(1985)		 Expletive Delighted!
(1986)		 In Real Time: Live '87
(1987)
Professional ratings
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Allmusic [1]

Expletive Delighted! is a 1986 album by folk rock band Fairport Convention. It is the band's only album consisting solely of instrumental tracks, despite the claim "Lyric sheet enclosed" on the album cover.[2]

Ric Sanders, who had played on some tracks on the previous album Gladys' Leap, was invited to join Fairport full-time, as was Maartin Allcock; the result, according to Dave Pegg,

"Ric and Maart were both writing stuff, composing these great instrumental pieces. I thought we should do something immediately, catch the moment. So we put out an all instrumental album, Expletive Delighted. I really wanted to show everyone just what these new chaps could do, how brilliantly they could play. ... The line-up meant we could tour again, it meant we had new material for Cropredy, it meant there was a Fairport again. So from 1986 on, Cropredy wasn't just a reunion festival any more. We had a band." [3]

This new lineup would last for the next eleven years, the most stable of all of Fairport's configurations to that point.[4]

Allmusic's reviewer described Expletive Delighted! as "alternately enjoyable and maddening", criticising the prominence of Dave Mattacks's drums in the mix, while praising "Portmeirion" and the title track as "delicate and beautiful as any work that this version of the band has done".[5]

Contents

Track listing

Side one

  1. "The Rutland Reel/Sack the Juggler" (Ric Sanders) - 3:20
  2. "The Cat on the Mixer/Three Left Feet" (Maartin Allcock) - 3:37
  3. "Bankruptured" (Dave Pegg) - 3:04[6]
  4. "Portmeirion" (Ric Sanders) - 5:21
  5. "Jams O'Donnell's Jig" (Dave Pegg) - 2:48

Side two

  1. "Expletive Delighted" (Ric Sanders) - 1:55
  2. "Sigh Beg Sigh Mor" (O' Carolan) - 7:18[7]
  3. "Innstuck" (Maartin Allcock) - 2:08
  4. "The Gas Almost Works" (John Kirkpatrick) 1:58
  5. "Hanks for the Memory" (various, arrangement by Jerry Donahue) - 4:38[8][9]
    1. "Shazam" (Duane Eddy, Lee Hazlewood)
    2. "Pipeline" (Bob Spickard, Brian Carmen)
    3. "Apache" (Jerry Lordan)
    4. "Peter Gunn" (Henry Mancini)

Release history

Personnel

References

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ a b "Expletive-Delighted - The Fairport Convention Discography Website Sponsored by Musikfolk Limited (www.musikfolk.com)". www.fcfansite.fsnet.co.uk. http://www.fcfansite.fsnet.co.uk/. Retrieved 2009-11-21. 
  3. ^ "Dave Pegg recounts Fairport's history - Fairport Convention's official website". www.fairportconvention.com. http://www.fairportconvention.com/dave_pegg_history.php. Retrieved 2009-11-21. 
  4. ^ "History: Simon Nicol writes about Fairport - Fairport Convention's official website". www.fairportconvention.com. http://www.fairportconvention.com/simon_nicol_on_fairport.php. Retrieved 2009-11-21. 
  5. ^ "allmusic ((( Expletive Delighted! > Overview )))". www.allmusic.com. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r7051. Retrieved 2009-11-21. 
  6. ^ A reworking of the track that appeared on Tipplers Tales in 1978
  7. ^ the original is titled "Sí Bheag, Sí Mhór"
  8. ^ "Expletive-Delighted - The Fairport Convention Discography Website". Ian & Stephanie Rennie. http://www.fcfansite.fsnet.co.uk/. Retrieved 2009-11-21. 
  9. ^ Recorded in August 1985 and Ric Sanders violin overdubbed 1986
  10. ^ "Expletive-Delighted - The Fairport Convention Discography Website". Ian & Stephanie Rennie. http://www.fcfansite.fsnet.co.uk/. Retrieved 2009-11-21. 

External links

Fairport Convention

Maartin Allcock · Dan Ar Braz · Bob Brady · Roger Burridge · Gerry Conway · Sandy Denny · Jerry Donahue · Judy Dyble · Tom Farnell · Roger Hill · Ashley Hutchings · Martin Lamble · Chris Leslie · Cathy Lesurf · Trevor Lucas · Dave Mattacks · Iain Matthews · Simon Nicol · Dave Pegg · David Rea · Bruce Rowland · Ric Sanders · Dave Swarbrick · Richard Thompson · Paul Warren
Studio albums

Fairport Convention (1968) · What We Did on Our Holidays (1969) · Unhalfbricking (1969) · Liege & Lief (1969) · Full House (1970) · Angel Delight (1971) · Babbacombe Lee (1971) · Rosie (1973)  · Nine (1973)  · Rising for the Moon (1975) · Gottle O'Geer (1976)  · The Bonny Bunch of Roses (1977) · Tipplers Tales (1978) · Gladys' Leap (1985) · Expletive Delighted! (1986) · In Real Time: Live '87 (1987) · Red & Gold (1988) · The Five Seasons (1990)  · Jewel in the Crown (1995) · Old New Borrowed Blue (1996)  · Who Knows Where the Time Goes? (1997)  · The Wood and the Wire (2000) · XXXV (2001) · Over the Next Hill (2004) · Sense of Occasion (2007) Festival Bell (2011)
Singles

"If I Had a Ribbon Bow" (1968) · "Meet on the Ledge" (1968) · "I'll Keep It with Mine" (1969) · "Si Tu Dois Partir" (1969) · "If (Stomp)" (1970) · "Now Be Thankful" (1970)
Live albums

Fairport Live Convention (1974) · Live at the L.A. Troubadour (1977) · Farewell Farewell (1979) · Moat on the Ledge - Live at Broughton Castle (1982) · House Full (1986) · Heyday (1987)  · 25th Anniversary Concert (1992) · Cropredy 98 (1999)  · The Quiet Joys of Brotherhood (2004) · Journeyman's Grace (2005) · Live at the BBC (2007) · Off the Desk (2008) Off the Desk (2008) Live at Cropredy 08 (2009)
Compilations

History of Fairport Convention (1972) · Tour Sampler (1975) · Fairport Chronicles (1976) · The Woodworm Years (1991) · A Chronicle of Sorts 1967 - 1969 · Meet On the Ledge: The Classic Years 1967-1975 · Some of Our Yesterdays · Fairport Convention · Then & Now 1982 - 1996: The Best of Fairport Convention · Rhythm of the Times (2003) Across the Decades (2003)
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