Bob Stanley / Pete Wiggs Three Day Week (When The Lights) WCDCHD 1542 CD Album

Description: Bob Stanley / Pete WiggsThree Day Week (When The Lights Went Out 1972-1975)Ace Records CDCHD 1542Stereo, MonoUK Compilation CD AlbumTracklist 1The Brothers Part Of The Union2:552Small Wonder Ordinary Boy2:553Ricky WildeThe Hertfordshire Rock2:474The KinksWhen Work Is Over2:065The Sutherland Bros BandSailing2:366Adam FaithIn Your Life2:397Phil CordellLondonderry3:088Stud LeatherCut Loose3:029The TroggsI'm On Fire2:1210Mike McGearKill1:4911Lieutenant PigeonAnd The Fun Goes On3:0312Mungo JerryOpen Up3:2413Matchbox Rod2:1214HawkwindUrban Guerilla3:3815Edgar Broughton BandHomes Fit For Heroes4:1816BombadilBreathless3:0417Robin Goodfellow Why Am I Waiting3:3518Cockney RebelWhat Ruthy Said2:2919Paul BrettClocks1:3920Climax ChicagoMole On The Dole5:0121Barracuda I Feel So Down2:3922Wigan's OvationNorthern Soul Dancer2:1823Stavely MakepeaceDon’t Ride A Paula Pillion2:5024Pheon BearWar Against War3:0225Roly Roly Pin3:5526David EssexStardust2:49 Britain wasn’t on its own in having a thoroughly miserable 1973: O Lucky Man! and Badlands both found a great year to premiere; Watergate brought America to a new low. But America didn’t still have back-to-backs and outside bogs. Tens of thousands of Britons were still housed in wartime pre-fabs. The bright new colours of the post-war Festival of Britain and Harold Wilson's talk in the 60s of the “white heat of technology” now seemed very distant as strikes, inflation, and food and oil shortages laid Britain low. What had gone wrong? And what did pop music have to say about it? The songs on “Three Day Week” amplified the noise of a country still unable to forget the war, even as it watched the progressive post-war consensus disintegrating. We hear shrugs and cynicism, laughter through gritted teeth. Comparing it to the richness of records made just five or six years earlier, you might think musical instruments had been rationed, and that everyone has one eye on the clock, cutting corners to get the recording finished before the next power cut. You picture engineers in donkey jackets, with a brazier by the mixing desk. You hear odd electronic explosions, quacks and squiggles. The pub piano is predominant, with its brown ale, Blitz-spirit, grin-and-bear-it jollity. And under many of these tracks is a barely concealed frustration (sexualised on the Troggs’ ‘I’m On Fire’) and even anger (how else to read ‘Urban Guerrilla’, or the howling and the hand grenade at the end of Stud Leather’s ‘Cut Loose’?). Think of “Three Day Week” as an extended, musical Play For Today Few of the songs on “Three Day Week” are politically direct: the Edgar Broughton Band had been Ladbroke Grove rabble rousers at the tail end of the 60s, but their ambitions sound entirely blunted on the monochrome hopelessness of ‘Homes Fit For Heroes’; Phil Cordell’s ‘Londonderry’ is diffuse, but it was an odd place to single out for a song title in 1973; Pheon Bear appears to be losing the will to live even as he shouts himself hoarse on ‘War Against War’. The ambivalence of the Strawbs on ‘Part Of The Union’ – a #2 hit – is entirely in keeping with the pub humour and shrugging cynicism of the era. So there is a little agitation here, but there is plenty of gleeful irreverence. One more drink? What have we got to lose? The government’s on its knees and we might all be out of work tomorrow. Quick, somebody, get on the piano before the lights go out again. BOB STANLEY CD probably not opened or played comes in original factory Flat Pack ready for you to put into your own Jewel Case in Excellent condition (see photos) I have a selection of Flat pack titles in the ACE Records Series - please see my other listings.If you would like a Standard Jewel case sent with your order send me a message before you pay.

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