As safe As Yesterday Is - Humble Pie - IMSP 025
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Purchased from new in 1969 this album was played occasionally and has not seen a turntable for probably 40 years. Played carefully on a Goldring Lenco deck. Contains original inner sleeve. Part of my collection that has been stored in cool conditions throughout, and will need a good clean before you play it. Photo is of actual cover. Record will be dispatched in a Vinyl LP Record Box Mailer, corrugated and strong, to prevent damage.
As Safe as Yesterday Is is the debut album by rock band Humble Pie, released in the UK in August 1969.
A blend of heavy blues, crushing rock, pastoral folk, and post-mod pop. Marriott contributed six songs to the album, one co-written with Frampton, who also contributed two solo efforts. The record opens with a cover version of Steppenwolf's "Desperation" and the track "Growing Closer" was written by ex–Small Faces keyboardist Ian McLagan who actually rehearsed with Humble Pie early on, before deciding instead to form The Faces with Rod Stewart, Ron Wood, Kenney Jones, and Ronnie Lane.[5]
The single-only track "Wrist Job" (the UK B-side of "Natural Born Bugie") is a reworking/completion of "The Pig's Trotters", a track that Marriott originally wrote for The Small Faces, although that version only exists as an instrumental backing track. It is thought to be one of the last tracks Marriott recorded with them before leaving the group in early 1969 and was not officially released until it appeared on the band's complete Immediate Records recordings boxed-set in 1995.
Mike Saunders (later to become singer in punk band Angry Samoans) is credited for one of the first coinings of the term heavy metal as a subgenre in a 1970 review of As Safe as Yesterday Is for Rolling Stone, in which he wrote: "Here Humble Pie were a noisy, unmelodic, heavy metal-leaden shit-rock band, with the loud and noisy parts beyond doubt."Side one
- "Desperation" (John Kay) – 6:28
- "Stick Shift" (Peter Frampton) – 2:22
- "Buttermilk Boy" (Steve Marriott) – 4:22
- "Growing Closer" (Ian McLagan) – 3:13 (US version omitted "Growing Closer" in favor of the single "Natural Born Bugie")
- "As Safe as Yesterday Is" (Frampton, Marriott) – 6:05
Side two
- "Bang!" (Marriott) – 3:24
- "Alabama '69" (Marriott) – 4:37
- "I'll Go Alone" (Frampton) – 6:17
- "A Nifty Little Number Like You" (Marriott) – 6:11
- "What You Will" (Marriott) – 4:20
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