Shapes of Things (album)

Shapes of Things [1]
Compilation album by The Yardbirds
Released 1977
Genre Blues rock
Length 1:17:43
Label Charly Records [2]
Bomb Records[3]
Producer Giorgio Gomelsky

Shapes of Things is a double LP compilation album of classic recordings from 1964-1966 of the English blues rock band The Yardbirds, released in 1977. The album was manufactured and distributed by P.J. Imports.[4]

Track listing

Side One

Introduction: Hamish Grimes [5]

  1. "Too Much Monkey Business" - 2:51 (C. Berry)
  2. "I Wish You Would" - 2:18 (Billy Boy Arnold)
  3. "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl " - 2:48 (Don Level / Bob Love)
  4. "For Your Love" - 2:27 (Gouldman)
  5. "A Certain Girl" - 2:18 (Neville)
  6. "Got to Hurry" - 2:34 (O. Rasputin)

Side Two

  1. "Smokestack Lightning" - 5:30 (C. Burnett)
  2. "Evil Hearted You" - 2:26 (Gouldman)
  3. "Still I'm Sad" - 3:00 (Samwell-Smith / McCarty)
  4. "Steeled Blues" - 2:37 (Jeff Beck / Keith Relf)
  5. "Train Kept A Rolling" - 3:23 (Tiny Bradshaw / Lois Mann / Howard Kay)
  6. "Here 'Tis" - 5:20 (McDaniel)

Side Three

  1. "What Do You Want" - 3:10 (Beck / Relf / Samwell-Smith / McCarty / Dreja)
  2. "New York City Blues" - 4:17 (Relf)
  3. "For R.S.G." - 4:04 (Beck / Relf / Samwell-Smith)
  4. "You're a Better Man Than I" - 3:17 (Mike Hugg / Brian Hugg)
  5. "Jeff's Blues" - 3:03 (Beck)
  6. "I Ain't Got You" - 1:59 (Calvin Carter)

Side Four

  1. "I Ain't Done Wrong" - 3:39 (Relf)
  2. "Someone to Love (Part 1)" - 2:23 (Beck / Relf / Samwell-Smith / McCarty / Dreja)
  3. "Someone to Love (Part 2)" - 4:17 (Beck / Relf / Samwell-Smith / McCarty / Dreja)
  4. "Boom Boom" - 2:04 (John Lee Hooker)
  5. "My Girl Sloopy" - 5:34 (Bert Russell / Wes Farrell)
  6. "Shapes of Things" - 2:24 (McCarty)

References

  1. ↑ Discogs - Shapes of Things: a Collection of Classic Yardbird Recordings 1964 - 66 images
  2. ↑ Discogs - Shapes of Things Volume 1 compilation vinyl LP 1980 Charly Records (ox 3160) Italy
  3. ↑ Discogs - Shapes of Things: a Collection of Classic Yardbird Recordings 1964 - 66 compilation 2-vinyl LP 1978 Bomb Records (BOMB 104.5 ) Canada
  4. ↑ Discogs - P.J. Imports 1977-1980 discography
  5. ↑ Discogs - Hamish Grimes profile and discography