Kevin Ayers Whatevershebringswesing/Bananamour 2LP gatefold France NEAR MINT
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Kevin Ayers
Whatevershebringswesing/Bananamour
2LP gatefold from France
Harvest ?– 2 C 150-52507, Harvest ?– 2 C 150-52508 2 × Vinyl, LP, Album, Compilation 1977 (France)
AllMusic: Kevin Ayers' third and fourth albums represent, respectively, the last will and testament of the Whole World, the almost freakishly maverick band he pieced together around Mike Oldfield, David Bedford, and Lol Coxhill, and the first flowering of the willfully pop-tinged moods into which he moved once that band shattered. As with its predecessors, Joy of a Toy and Shooting at the Moon, both LPs are prone to wander off on some quite bewildering passages, the hallmark of Ayers' founding role in the Soft Machine. But still there's a brilliance at work here that cannot be quantified by any one song, or dismissed by any other -- "Song from the Bottom of a Well," from Whatevershebringswesing, remains a startling exercise in dislocated noise and savagery, which Oldfield himself described as the nearest he ever came in the studio to repeating what he habitually did on-stage: "I would do an electric guitar solo, and depending on how pissed I was, I used to let it feedback and do somersaults all over the floor." Elsewhere, however, the flamboyant "Stranger in Blue Suede Shoes" proved just how easily Ayers could write classic, commercial rock songs, a brief that Bananamour extended across almost half of its body weight. "Don't Let It Get You Down" and "Shouting in a Bucket Blues" are both exemplary (Steve Hillage's guitar solo during the latter is one of his all-time finest), while the quirky bounce of "Oh! Wot a Dream" really ought to have been a hit single. Elsewhere, "Decadence" predicts Ayers' later collaboration with Nico by dedicating at least a couple of verses to her, and packs a moody grandiosity that might well rank among Ayers' most perfectly realized compositions ever. Fans frequently cite Ayers' earlier albums as the man at his finest and that may be true. But this pair catch him at a peak nevertheless and, if you can add the period comp Odd Ditties to the pile, you'll never put them down again.
Tracklist
A1a There Is Loving
A1b Among Us
A1c There Is Loving
A2 Margaret
A3 Oh My
A4 Song From The Bottom Of A Well
B1 Whatevershebringswesing
B2 Stranger In Blue Suede Shoes
B3 Champagne Cowboy Blues
B4 Lullaby
C1 Don't Let It Get You Down
C2 Shouting In A Bucket Blues
C3 When Your Parents Go To Sleep
C4 Interview
C5 Internotional Anthem
D1 Decadence
D2 Oh! Wot A Dream
D3 Hymn
D4 Beware Of The Dog
Made By – Pathé Marconi EMI
Unlike the original release this has no loop on B4 Lullaby.
Released in a gatefold sleeve.
Condition: NEAR MINT VINYL (very little spindle no surface marks), paper sleeves gatefold sleeve VG+ minor ring
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