5013929186705

Riley Riley Wood & Waggett

Shape Of The Rain

£21.99
£21.99
Out of Stock

Format: 3CD

Cat No: CRSEG067T

Release Date:  22 May 2020

Label:  Grapefruit / Cherry Red

Packaging Type:  Digipak

No of Units:  3

Barcode:  5013929186705

Genres:  Rock  Folk  

  • Description


    • Issued by underground imprint RCA Neon in mid-1971, the Shape Of The Rain album “Riley Riley Wood & Waggett” sold poorly at the time despite glowing reviews from the British music weeklies. A surging collision of Beatlesesque writing and harmonies and Byrds-like jingle-jangle guitars, sadly it would take another couple of decades before the LP was finally disinterred by a new generation of record collectors.



    • Half-a-century after its original release, that lost jewel of an album finally gets the attention it deserves as the cornerstone of Grapefruit’s definitive new 3-CD anthology of a criminally neglected late Sixties/early Seventies British band.



    • In addition to that 1971 album, our release features a post-LP single, a clutch of studio demos, taped rehearsals and alternative versions as well as more than a dozen previously-unissued demos of material for an aborted second album. Recorded in 1972 by band leader and chief vocalist/songwriter Keith Riley, these songs are a staggering new find, occupying similar musical territory to newly-solo McCartney, Badfinger man Pete Ham’s home demos and Chris Bell’s post-Big Star work.



    • Our release also features some incendiary Shape Of The Rain live recordings, including a 50-minute show from May 1970 that stands as a rare and enthralling document of a West Coast-influenced English psychedelic band captured in full and glorious flow at the turn of the decade.



    • Boasting a 24-page booklet that includes numerous rare photos as well as a new history of the band, this expanded, four-hour edition of “Riley Riley Wood & Waggett” features approximately two hours of previously unreleased music.



    • It’s a fascinating overview of a band that, with the right handling, could surely have joined the likes of Badfinger, The Raspberries and Big Star as early Seventies proto-power pop avatars of an immediately post-Beatles new dawn.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Woman
      • 2. Patterns
      • 3. Castles
      • 4. Wasting My Time
      • 5. Rockfield Roll
      • 6. Yes
      • 7. Dusty Road
      • 8. Willowing Trees
      • 9. I'll Be There
      • 10. Broken Man
      • 11. My Friend John
      • 12. The Very First Clown
      • 13. What You Gonna Do Now
      • 14. You're The One
      • 15. From Me And From You
      • 16. No Use Cryin' Again
      • 17. Watercolour Sunshine
      • 18. Nothin' You Could Do
      • 19. We Can Put It Right
      • 20. Lady Of My Dreams
      • 21. It All Depends On You
      • 22. Listen To My Heart*
      • 23. Now's The Time To Start
      • 24. Don't You Know
      • 25. Second Time Around

      Disc 2

      • 1. Broken Man (Demo Version)
      • 2. I Don't Need Nobody
      • 3. I'll Be There (Demo Version)
      • 4. We're Not Their Boys
      • 5. Hallelujah
      • 6. Hello 503
      • 7. I Doubt If I Ever Will
      • 8. Willowing Trees (Demo Version)
      • 9. Canyon
      • 10. Spring
      • 11. Words
      • 12. Look Around
      • 13. Advertising Man
      • 14. Go Around And See It
      • 15. It's So Good Here
      • 16. Big Black Bird
      • 17. Everyone The Fool
      • 18. You Just Call
      • 19. It's My Life
      • 20. Dusty Road (Demo Version)
      • 21. Too Many Lies
      • 22. Yes (Demo Version)

      Disc 3

      • 1. Willowing Trees
      • 2. Passing Of Time
      • 3. Imagination
      • 4. I've Been Wrong
      • 5. Spring
      • 6. Everyone The Fool
      • 7. Vanishing Cottage
      • 8. Ceiling
      • 9. Big Black Bird
      • 10. Go Around And See It
      • 11. Say It's Goodbye*
      • 12. Woman
      • 13. We're Not Their Boys
      • 14. Hello 503

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