The Man From Gong: The Best Of
Daevid Allen
Label: Charly
SNAP264CD
CD Digipack
Price:
£ 8.80
(£7.65 outside EU)
THE BEST OF THE GONG FRONTMAN – FEATURING SOFT MACHINE, GONG AND SOLO CLASSICS
Rock’s oldest and most overlooked bohemian poet, Australian composer/guitarist Daevid Allen has been a highly-respected figure in progressive music circles for over forty years.
Spanning nearly 20 years of his rich recording legacy, this comprehensive compilation traces chronologically Allen’s career from his early proto-psych recordings with The Soft Machine through to solo experimental material recorded in New York and Jamaica in the 1980s.
the album’s highlights include the fantastic Allen-penned, early Soft Machine song ‘You Don’t Remember’, with Robert Wyatt on vocals; ‘Banana Moon’s mad cap ‘Stoned Innocent Frankenstein’; the emblematic ‘Tried So Hard’, from the legendary Gong debut ‘Camembert Electrique’; ‘Now Is The Happiest Time Of Your Life’s gentle ‘Only Make Love If You Want To’; the terrific punk-psych energy of ‘Floatin’ Anarchy’ and ‘Too Old’ and the far darker ‘When’ from the disturbing experimental album Dividedalineplaybax 80.
The accompanying booklet features rare pictures, plus a step-by-step guide to Allen’s eventful career.
Attractive digipak packaging
Tacklisting - You Don’t Remember (with The Soft Machine)
- Pretty Miss Titty
- Stoned Innocent Frankenstein
- Fred The Fish
- White Neck Blooze
- Tried So Hard
- Floatin’ Anarchy (with Planet Gong)
- Opium For The People (with Planet Gong)
- Why Do We Treat Ourselves Like We Do?
- Only Make Love If You Want To
- Poet For Sale
- It’s A Fine Air For Fliss
- No Other Than My Mother Is The Song
- Much Too Old (with New York Gong)
- Strong Woman (with New York Gong)
- When
- Pearls
- Bananareggae
- Are You Ready
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