Hatfield and the North | ||||
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Released | February 1974 | |||
Recorded | October 1973 – January 1974 | |||
Genre | Progressive rock, Canterbury scene | |||
Length | 46:10 | |||
Label | Virgin | |||
Producer | Hatfield and the North Tom Newman | |||
Hatfield and the North chronology | ||||
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AllMusic | [1] |
Hatfield and the North is the first album by the English Canterbury scene rock band Hatfield and the North, released in February 1974.
In the Q & Mojo Classic Special Edition Pink Floyd & The Story of Prog Rock, the album came #34 in its list of "40 Cosmic Rock Albums".[2]
The cover of the original vinyl release was designed by Laurie Lewis. The front and back outer cover is a panoramic photograph of Reykjavík, with the sky on the right merged with a transparency of a 15th-16th century fresco in Orvieto Cathedral by Luca Signorelli, "The Damned". The inside gatefold is a collage that includes photographs of the personnel and guests involved in the music, the cast of the TV show Bonanza, together with a cropped photograph by Jacques Henri Lartigue of a man throwing a dog.[3]
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "The Stubbs Effect" | Pip Pyle | 0:22 |
2. | "Big Jobs (Poo Poo Extract)" | Richard Sinclair, Pyle | 0:36 |
3. | "Going Up To People and Tinkling" | Dave Stewart | 2:25 |
4. | "Calyx" | Phil Miller | 2:45 |
5. | "Son of 'There's No Place Like Homerton'" | Stewart | 10:10 |
6. | "Aigrette" | Miller | 1:37 |
7. | "Rifferama" | Sinclair; arr. Hatfield and the North | 2:56 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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8. | "Fol de Rol" | Sinclair, Robert Wyatt | 3:07 |
9. | "Shaving Is Boring" | Pyle | 8:45 |
10. | "Licks for the Ladies" | Sinclair, Pyle | 2:37 |
11. | "Bossa Nochance" | Sinclair | 0:40 |
12. | "Big Jobs No. 2 (By Poo and the Wee Wees)" | Sinclair, Pyle | 2:14 |
13. | "Lobster in Cleavage Probe" | Stewart | 3:57 |
14. | "Gigantic Land Crabs in Earth Takeover Bid" | Stewart | 3:21 |
15. | "The Other Stubbs Effect" | Pyle | 0:38 |
The 1987 CD re-release of the album added two bonus tracks, the A- and B-sides of a 1974 single, previously available on the 1980 compilation Afters:
The 2009 Esoteric Recordings reissue (ECLEC2139) also included the above, along with a further bonus track:
Taken from the Virgin Records Sampler (VD 2502) from January 1975.