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Songs for Ships and Irons
Compilation album by
Cardiacs
Released16 September 1991[1][a]
Length45:49
LabelAlphabet Business Concern
ProducerTim Smith
Cardiacs chronology
Archive Cardiacs
(1989) 		Songs for Ships and Irons
(1991) 		Heaven Born and Ever Bright
(1992)
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Encyclopedia of Popular Music[2]

Songs for Ships and Irons is a 1991 collection of non-album singles and B-sides by Cardiacs. It combines the whole of the Big Ship extended play, the whole of the "There's Too Many Irons In The Fire" 12-inch single and the B-sides of the "Susannah's Still Alive" 12-inch single.[3] It also includes a bonus song called "Everything is Easy," a longstanding live favorite not previously released as a studio recording. Some of the quiet talking in between tracks from the original Big Ship mini-album differs from the original release in having been edited/lowered in volume.[citation needed]

The album was out of print, but is available from the Cardiacs website.

Track listing

All songs written by Tim Smith unless otherwise indicated.

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Big Ship" 5:47
2."Tarred and Feathered"William D. Drake, Smith3:31
3."Burn Your House Brown" 2:37
4."Stoneage Dinosaurs" 5:22
5."Plane Plane Against the Grain" 1:21
Total length:18:38
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
6."Everything Is Easy!" 3:49
7."There's Too Many Irons in the Fire" 3:17
8."All Spectacular" 2:35
9."Blind in Safety and Leafy in Love"Drake, Smith2:46
10."Loosefish Scapegrace" 7:46
11."All His Geese Are Swans!" 6:58
Total length:27:11

Personnel

Notes

  1. ^ The Encyclopedia of Popular Music indicates a release year of 1990.[2]

References

  1. ^ Cardiacs Museum Yousletter 1 (Newsletter). Archived from the original on 1 July 2009. Retrieved 26 March 2023 – via cardiacs.org.
  2. ^ a b Larkin, Collin (2006). "Cardiacs". The Encyclopedia of Popular Music: Brown, Marion - Dilated Peoples. Muze. p. 182. ISBN 978-0-19-531373-4. Note: Search "Alphabet 1990" (with quotation marks).
  3. ^ "Cardiacs – Songs For Ships And Irons (1991, Vinyl)". Discogs. Retrieved 17 September 2021.

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