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Perspectives
Perspectives Fuse Records CFCD006 (Compilation CD, UK, 1997) |
Musicians
Leon Rosselson: vocals [1-4, 6-13, 15-18],
backing vocals [5],
guitar [1-4, 7, 9-10, 13-14, 16-17],
glockenspiel [5],
piano [14-15],
melodeon [14],
moog [14];
Martin Carthy: guitar [1, 5],
harmonicas [13],
moog [14],
chorus [4],
backing vocals [5];
Roy Bailey: vocals [4-5, 14];
John Kirkpatrick: button accordion [4],
jew’s harp [4],
chorus [4];
Sue Harris: oboe [4],
chorus [4];
Fiz Shapur: piano [5, 11-12],
keyboards [6, 18];
synthesiser [10, 12],
French horn [5];
Billy Bragg: electric guitar [8];
The Oyster Band (Alan Prosser: electric guitar, chorus; John Jones: melodeon, chorus; Ian Kearey: electric bass; Ian Telfer: fiddle; Russel Lax: percussion)
[8];
Steve Berry: bass [11];
Rory McLeod: harmonica [13];
Dave Bishop: alto saxophone [18];
Terry Johnston: guitars [18];
Steve McManus: bass [18]
Tracks
- The Ant and the Grasshopper (2.33)
- Perspectives (3.01)
- They’re Going to Build a Motorway … (2.48)
- Plan (4.04)
- The Man Who Puffs the Big Cigar (4.21)
- Garden of Stone (2.44)
- History Lesson (2.54)
- Ballad of a Spycatcher (5.26)
- Song of the Moderate Man (3.55)
- Consider the Majority (3.17)
- The Saint (3.18)
- No Cause for Alarm (6.00)
- Experts (4.29)
- In the Park (3.12)
- The Last Chance (11.40)
- The Rules of the Game (3.04)
- Somebody’s Stolen the End of My Dream (4.33)
- Topside Down Party (4.49)
All words by Leon Rosselson
#1, 2*, 3*, 4 first released on That’s Not the Way It’s Got to Be, Acorn CF 251
#5, 14 first released on Love, Loneliness, Laundry, Fuse CF 271
#6*, 18 first released on The Word is Hugga Mugga Chugga Lugga Humbugga Boom Chit, Trailer LER 3015
#7*, 16* first released on Palaces of Gold, Acorn CF 249
#8, 12, 13 first released on I Didn’t Mean It, Fuse CF 392
#9* first released on If I Knew Who the Enemy Was …, Fuse CF 284
#10, 11 first released on Bringing the News From Nowhere, Fuse CF 390
#15 first released on Temporary Loss of Vision, Fuse CF 384
#17* first released on For the Good of the Nation, Fuse CF 381
Tracks marked * are re-recordings.