> Folk Music > Records > Island Records Sampler
Island Records Sampler
> Folk Music > Records > You Can All Join In
You Can All Join In
You Can All Join In Island Records IWPS 2 (LP, UK, 1969) |
Tracks
Side 1
- Jethro Tull: A Song for Jeffrey
- Spooky Tooth: Sunshine Help Me
- Free: I’m a Mover
- Art: What’s That Sound (For What It’s Worth)
- Tramline: Pearly Queen
- Traffic: You Can All Join In
Side 2
- Fairport Convention: Meet on the Ledge
from What We Did on Our Holidays - Nirvana: Rainbow Chaser
- John Martyn: Dusty
- Clouds: I’ll Go Girl
- The Spencer Davis Group: Somebody Help Me
- Wynder K. Frog: Gasoline Alley
> Folk Music > Records > Nice Enough to Eat
Nice Enough to Eat
Nice Enough to Eat Island Records IWPS 6 (LP, UK, 1969) |
Tracks
Side 1
- Fairport Convention: Cajun Woman
(2.41)
from Unhalfbricking - Mott the Hoople: At the Crossroads (5.28)
- Spooky Two: Better By You, Better Than Me (3.32)
- Jethro Tull: We Used to Know (3.55)
- Free: Woman (4.47)
- Heavy Jelly: I Keep Singing That Same Old Song (8.18)
Side 2
- Blodwyn Pig: Sing Me a Song That I Know (3.06)
- Traffic: Forty Thousand Headmen (3.12)
- Nick Drake: Time Has Told Me
(4.22)
from Five Leaves Left (Island ILPS 9105, 1969) - King Crimson: 21st Century Schizoid Man (6.56)
- Quintessence: Gungamai (4.20)
- Dr. Strangely Strange: Strangely Strange But Oddly Normal (4.29)
> Folk Music > Records > Bumpers (UK / Germany)
Bumpers (UK / Germany)
Bumpers Island Records IDP 1 (2 LP, UK, 1970) |
The UK and German versions differ in track 2 on side 3 only.
Tracks
Side 1
- Traffic: Every Mother’s Son
(7.06)
from John Barleycorn Must Die - Bronco: Love (4.42)
- Spooky Tooth: I Am the Walrus (6.20)
- Quintessence: Jesus, Buddha, Moses, Gauranga (5.15)
Side 2
- Mott the Hoople: Thunderbuck Ram (4.50)
- Jethro Tull: Nothing to Say (5.10)
- Jimmy Cliff: Going Back West (5.32)
- Blodwyn Pig: Send Your Son to Die (5.35)
- Dave Mason: Little Woman (2.30)
Side 3
- John & Beverley Martyn: Go Out and Get It (3.15)
- [UK:] King Crimson: Cadence & Cascade /
[DE:] Traffic: Roamin’ Thru’ the Gloamin’ With 40.000 Headmen (3.14) - If: Reaching Out on All Sides (5.35)
- Free: Oh I Wept (4.25)
- Nick Drake: Hazey Jane
(4.28)
from Bryter Later (Island ILPS 9134, 1971)
Side 4
- Fairport Convention: Walk Awhile (4.00)
- Cat Stevens: Maybe You’re Right (3.00)
- Renaissance: Island (5.57)
- Fotheringay: The Sea (5.25)
- Clouds: Take Me to Your Leader (2.55)
> Folk Music > Records > Bumpers (Australia)
Bumpers (Australia)
Bumpers Island Records SIL 107/8 (2 LP, Australia, 1970) |
Tracks
- Fairport Convention: Crazy Man Michael
- Fotheringay: Peace in the End
> Folk Music > Records > El Pea
El Pea
El Pea Island Records IDLP 1 (LP, UK, 1971) |
Tracks
Side 1
- Traffic: Empty Pages
from John Barleycorn Must Die - Sandy Denny: Late November
(Alternative version to the one on The North Star Grassman and the Ravens) - Alan Bown: Thru the Night
- John & Beverly Martin: Auntie Aviator
- Fairport Convention: Lord Marlborough
Side 2
- Jethro Tull: Mother Goose
- Quintessence: Dive Deep
- Amazing Blondel: Spring Season
- McDonald & Giles: Extract from Tomorrow’s People - The Children of Today
- Tir Na Nog: Our Love Will Not Decay
- Mountain: Don’t Look Around
Side 3
- Free: Highway Song
- Incredible String Band: Waiting for You
- Cat Stevens: Wild World
- Bronco: Sudden Street
- Mike Heron: Feast of Stephen
Side 4
- Emerson Lake & Palmer: Knife Edge
- Nick Drake: One of These Things First
from Bryter Later (Island ILPS 9134, 1971) - Mott the Hoople: Original Mixed-Up Kid
- Jimmy Cliff: Cant’ Stop Worrying, Can’t Stop Loving
- Mick Abrahams: Greyhound Bus
> Folk Music > Records > Island June-July 1975
Island June-July 1975
Island June-July 1975 Island Records IXP-4 (LP, USA, 1975) |
> Folk Music > Records > Island Life Media Sampler
Island Life Media Sampler
Island Life Media Sampler Island Records MP1 (LP, UK, summer 1986) |
Tracks
Side 1
- Bob Marley and the Wailers: No Woman No Cry
- John Martyn: Certain Surprise
- Traffic: Low Spark of High Heeled Boys
- Mott the Hoople: Rock and Rool Queen
- Cat Stevens: Moon Shadow
- Nick Drake: Time Has Told Me
from Five Leaves Left (Island ILPS 9105, 1969)
Side 2
- Grace Jones: Private Life
- Free: Alright Now
- Tom Waits: 16 Shells from a 30.6
- Fairport Convention: Matty Groves
edited version from Liege and Lief - Marianne Faithful: Broken English
- Jimmy Cliff: The Harder They Come
> Folk Music > Records > Island Life Media Sampler
Island Life Media Sampler
Island Life Media Sampler Island Records MP2 (LP, UK, autumn 1986) |
Tracks
Side 1
- The Wailers: Concrete Jungle (4.12)
- Spencer Davis Group: Keep on Running (2.42)
- Linton Kwesi Johnson: Sonny’s Lettah (4.56)
- John Martyn: May You Never (3.40^
- B-52’s: Planet Claire (4.35)
- Tom Tom Club: Genius of Love (5.34)
Side 2
- Cat Stevens: Wild World (3.18)
- Bob Marley & The Wailers: Is This Love? (3.53)
- Ultravox: Just for a Moment (3.03)
- Traffic: Empty Pages
(4.47)
from John Barleycorn Must Die - Sandy Denny: Let’s Jump the Broomstick
(2.40)
from The North Star Grassman and the Ravens - Grace Jones: I’ve Done It Again (3.48)
> Folk Music > Records > The Island Story
The Island Story
The Island Story Island Records ISL 25 (2 LP, UK, 1987) |
CD Tracks
- U2: With or Without You (4.56)
- Steve Winwood: Higher Love (4.15)
- Robert Palmer: Addicted to Love (3.58)
- Free: All Right Now (4.16)
- Roxy Music: Virginia Plain (3.01)
- Grace Jones: Slave to the Rhythm (4.24)
- Kid Creole & Coconuts: Annie I’m Not Your Daddy (3.55)
- Gibson Brothers: Cuba (3.03)
- Bob & Earl: Harlem Shuffle (2.50)
- Bob Marley & Wailers: No Woman No Cry (4.08)
- Bryan Ferry: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (2.54)
- Pete Wingfield: Eighteen with a Bullet (3.32)
- Fairport Convention: Si Tu Dois Partir (2.23)
- Cat Stevens: Morning Has Broken (3.20)
- Jethro Tull: Living in the Past (3.27)
- Julian Cope: World Shut Your Mouth (3.08)
- Amazulu: Too Good to Be Forgotten (3.03)
- Will Powers: Kissing With Confidence (3.59)
- Christians: Forgotten Town (4.00)
- Frankie Goes to Hollywood: Rage Hard (5.04)
> Folk Music > Records > Island Life: 25 Years of Island Records
Island Life: 25 Years of Island Records
Island Life: 25 Years of Island Records Island Records IBX 25 (7 LP, UK, 1988) |
Tracks
Side 1
- The Spencer Davis Group: I’m a Man
- Free: Mr Big (Live)
- Spooky Tooth: Better By You, Better Than Me
- Mott the Hoople: Rock and Roll Queen
- Traffic: No Face, No Name, No Number
Side 2
- Jim Capaldi: Eve
- Art: What’s That Sound (For What It’s Worth)
- Jethro Tull: A Song for Jeffrey
- Heavy Jelly: I Keep Singing That Same Old Song
- Heads, Hands and Feet: Warming Up the Band
Side 3
- Bryan Ferry; A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
- Eno: Baby’s On Fire
- Roxy Music: Do the Strand
- King Crimson: 21st Century Schizoid Man
Side 4
- Bad Company: Feel Like Makin’ Love
- John Cale: Heartbreak Hotel
- Paul Kossoff with Jess Roden: I’m Ready
- Robert Palmer: You’re Gonna Get What’s Coming
- Kevin Ayers: May I?
Side 5
- Fairport Convention: Matty Groves
from Liege and Lief - Fairport Convention: Poor Will and the Jolly Hangman
previously unreleased - Fotheringay: Nothing More
from Fotheringay - John & Beverly Martin: Traffic Light Lady
Side 6
- Fairport Convention: Now Be Thankful
stereo remix of original mono single - Nick Drake: River Man
from Five Leaves Left (Island ILPS 9105, 1969) - Richard Thompson: The Poor Ditching Boy
from Henry the Human Fly - Morris On Band: Cuckoo’s Nest
from Morris On - Albion Country Band: Albion Sunrise
from Battle of the Field - The Bunch: Love’s Made a Fool of You
from Rock On
Side 7
- Richard and Linda Thompson: Hokey Pokey (Live)
from Over the Rainbow - Traffic: John Barleycorn
from John Barleycorn Must Die - Renaissance: Island
- Sutherland Brothers: Sailing
- Cat Stevens: Peace Train
Side 8
- The Incredible String Band: Dear Old Battlefield
- Murray Head: Say It Ain’t So
- Sandy Denny: The King and Queen of England
(previously unreleased) - John Martyn: You Can Discover (Live)
- Mike Heron: Flowers of the Forest
Side 9
- Steve Winwood: Hold On
- Bob Marley and the Wailers: Exodus
- John Martyn: Certain Surprise
- Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Breakdown
- Steel Pulse: Handsworth Revolution
Side 10
- Ultravox: My Sex
- The B-52’s: Planet Claire
- Marianne Faithful: Witches Song
- Linton Kwesi Johnson: Street ’66
- Grace Jones: Feel Up
Side 11
- Was (Not Was): Carry Me Back to Old Morrocco
- Third World: Prisoner in the Street
- Robert Palmer: Johnny & Mary
- Tom Tom Club: Genius of Love
- Black Uhuru: Right Stuff
Side 12
- Art of Noise: Close (to the Edit)
- Sunny Ade and His African Beats: Ja Funmi
- Aswad: African Children (Live)
- Frankie Goes to Hollywood: Power of Love
Side 13
- U2: I Will Follow (Live)
- The Waterboys: The Whole of the Moon
- Tom Waits: 16 Shells from a 30.6
- Julian Cope: Spacehopper
- The Triffids: Bury Me Deep in Love
Side 14
- The Christians: … and That’s Why
- Trouble Funk: Trouble
- Sly & Robbie: Let’s Rock
- Courtney Pine: Children of the Ghetto
> Folk Music > Records > Nice Enough to… Join In
Nice Enough to… Join In
Nice Enough to… Join In Island Records IMCD 150 (CD, UK, 1992) |
Most of the tracks from the 1969 compilation LPs Nice Enough to Eat and You Can All Join In on one CD. Unfortunately, Island forgot Fairport Convention’s Cajun Woman on the way.
Tracks
- Jethro Tull: A Song for Jeffrey
- Spooky Tooth: Sunshine Help Me
- Free: I’m a Mover
- Art: What’s That Sound (For What It’s Worth)
- Tramline: Pearly Queen
- Traffic: You Can All Join In
- Fairport Convention: Meet on the Ledge
from What We Did on Our Holidays - Nirvana: Rainbow Chaser
- John Martyn: Dusty
- Clouds: I’ll Go Girl
- The Spencer Davis Group: Somebody Help Me
- Wynder K. Frog: Gasoline Alley
- Blodwyn Pig: Sing Me a Song That I Know
- Traffic: Forty Thousand Headmen
- Nick Drake: Time Has Told Me
from Five Leaves Left (Island ILPS 9105, 1969) - Quintessence: Gungamai
- Dr. Strangely Strange: Strangely Strange But Oddly Normal
- Mott the Hoople: At the Crossroads
- Spooky Two: Better By You, Better Than Me
- Free: Woman
- Heavy Jelly: I Keep Singing That Same Old Song
> Folk Music > Records > Folk Routes
Folk Routes
Folk Routes Island Records IMCD 197 (CD, UK, 1994) |
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New Folk Routes Rev-Ola / Cherry Red Records CD REV 237 (CD, UK, 2008) |
For a long time this was the only known official CD release of Man of Iron and My Girl in the Month of May.
New Folk Routes is a reissue of the Folk Routes CD with a different track order.
Tracks
- Amazing Blondel: The Siege of Yaddlethorpe (2.31)
- Fairport Convention: Matty Groves
(8.09)
from Liege and Lief - Traffic: John Barleycorn
(6.25)
from John Barleycorn Must Die - John Martyn: Seven Black Roses (4.04)
- Sandy Denny: It Suits Me Well
(5.06)
from Sandy - Nick Drake: Road
(2.02)
from Pink Moon (Island ILPS 9184, 1972) - Richard and Linda Thompson: When I Get to the Border
(3.26)
from I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight - Doctor Strangely Strange: Strangely Strange But Oddly Normal (4.31)
- The Incredible String Band: Black Jack David (3.56)
- Morris On: The Nutting Girl
(4.39)
from Morris On - Fairport Convention: She Moves Through the Fair
(4.12)
from What We Did on Our Holidays - The Albion Country Band: I Was a Young Man
(4.07)
from Battle of the Field - Fotheringay: Peace in the End
(4.05)
from Fotheringay - Ashley Hutchings & John Kirkpatrick: Long Odds / Mr Cosgill’s Delight
(2.14)
from The Compleat Dancing Master - Mike Heron: Audrey (4.12)
- Sandy Denny: Man of Iron
(7.36)
from the single Pass of Arms - The Bunch: My Girl in the Month of May
(2.13)
from Rock On - John Locke: Hornpipe
(0.48)
from Rattlebone & Ploughjack
> Folk Music > Records > Strangely Strange But Oddly Normal
Strangely Strange But Oddly Normal
Strangely Strange But Oddly Normal Universal/Island 982 295-0 (3 CD, UK, 2005) |
Tracks
CD 1
- Art: Supernatural Fairy Tales (3.34)
- Traffic: Paper Sun (4.12)
- Wynder K. Frog: Harpsichord Shuffle (3.56)
- Nirvana: Rainbow Chaser (2.51)
- Tramline: Pearly Queen (3.43)
- Spooky Tooth: Sunshine Help Me (3.04)
- John Martyn: Dusty (3.01)
- Fairport Convention: Meet on the Ledge
(2.49)
from What We Did on Our Holidays - Jethro Tull: A Song for Jeffrey (3.18)
- Clouds: The Carpenter (3.26)
- Heavy Jelly: I Keep Singing That Same Old Song (8.18)
- White Noise: Black Mass (Electric Storm in Hell) (7.21)
- Free: Over the Green Hills (Part 1) (0.49)
- Free: Worry (3.27)
- Quintessence: Giants (4.37)
- Amazing Blondel: Queen of Scots (1.42)
- Traffic: Feelin’ Alright? (4.21)
- Blodwyn Pig: Sing Me a Song That I Know So Well (3.02)
- Fairport Convention: A Sailor’s Life
(11.11)
from Unhalfbricking
CD 2
- Jethro Tull: A New Day Yesterday (4.10)
- Traffic: No Time to Live (5.22)
- Nick Drake: Three Hours
(6.14)
from Five Leaves Left (Island ILPS 9105, 1969) - Spooky Tooth: Lost in My Dream (5.07)
- John & Beverley Martyn: Stormbringer (4.19)
- Dr. Strangely Strange: Strangely Strange But Oddly Normal (4.28)
- Quintessence: Notting Hill Gate (2.57)
- Fotheringay: Banks of the Nile
(8.06)
from Fotheringay - Cat Stevens: Wild World (3.21)
- Incredible String Band: Painted Chariot (3.39)
- King Crimson: Cat Food (4.54)
- King Crimson: Groon (3.31)
- Sandy Denny: The Northstar Grassman and the Ravens
(3.28)
from The Northstar Grassman and the Ravens - McDonald & Giles: Suite in C; Including Turnham Green / Here I Am and Others (11.17)
- Amazing Blondel: The Siege of Yaddlethorpe (2.33)
CD 3
- Emerson Lake & Palmer: Knife Edge (5.05)
- Mott The Hoople: Thunderbuck Ram (4.49)
- Nick Drake: Northern Sky
(3.44)
from Bryter Later (Island ILPS 9134, 1971) - Alan Bown: Thru the Night (4.15)
- Robin Williamson,: Dark Dance (1.07)
- Spooky Tooth: I Am the Walrus (6.23)
- John Martyn: Glistening Glyndebourne (6.30)
- Free: Fire and Water (3.58)
- Blodwyn Pig: See My Way (5.05)
- Vinegar Joe: See the World (Through My Eyes) (6.19)
- Cat Stevens: Peace Train (4.13)
- Clouds: Watercolour Days (5.28)
- Traffic: Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys (11.43)
- Heads Hands & Feet: Song for Suzie (7.12)