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• Definitive two-CD anthology of much-loved 1970 British psychedelic/progressive LP that failed to get beyond test pressing stage at the time.
• Includes several previously-unissued tracks from those 1970 sessions.
• Among the rarest vinyl albums of the era, the last original copy to be openly offered (in 2017) sold for £4000.
In early 1970, Sussex-based power trio Iron Prophet linked up with former Scots of St James/ Fleur de Lys member Graham Maitland to cut an album at IBC Studios under the name Five Day Rain. They worked on the album throughout 1970, with the intended release pressed up as a demo LP that summer.
That version was then rejected, although a number of cuts were salvaged and added to new recordings in the autumn for another test pressing-only album at the end of the year.
When the recordings failed to gain a release, the band changed their name at the beginning of 1971 to Studd Pump, issuing a single in March via the Penny Farthing label before breaking up.
Twenty years later, the second version of the Five Day Rain album was disinterred and finally released, although the intended opening track was excluded, and a couple of other songs were tampered with in the re-mastering studio. All subsequent releases of the album have used those versions.
Containing over two hours of music, ‘Good Year’ corrects these issues to finally give a release to all of the band’s recordings as they were originally cut, although we have also included those ‘90s “amendments” for the sake of completeness.
Both 1970 test pressing albums are included in their entirety, together with the Studd Pump single and three tracks that, slightly remixed, were included without the band’s permission or knowledge on a 1978 album credited to One Way Ticket.
With rare photos, band reminiscences and a note that details the full astonishing story, ‘Good Year’ is the definitive, unexpurgated version of this legendary unissued-at-the-time studio project.
Tracklist
DISC ONE:
1 Too Much Of Nothing (full version)
2 Leave It At That (1993 remix)
3 Good Year
4 Reason Why
5 Fallout
6 Marie’s A Woman (1993 remix)
7 Don’t Be Misled
8 Sea Song (Lifeline)
9 Rough Cut Marmalade (full version)
10 Lay Me Down
Bonus tracks
11 Leave It At That (original 1970 mix)
12 Marie’s A Woman (original 1970 mix)
13 Too Much Of Nothing (edited version)
*1 Previously unreleased full version from unreleased white label LP, second version, recorded 1970
2, 5 1993 Background CD overdubbed/ extended versions of tracks from original unreleased white label LP, second version, recorded 1970
3-4, 6-10 1993 Background CD release of original unreleased white label LP, second version, recorded 1970
11-12 Previously unreleased original versions from white label LP, second version, recorded 1970
13 Edited 1970 acetate version, first
released 2006
DISC TWO:
1 Wanna Make Love To You (original version)
2 So Don’t Worry (original version)
3 Dartboard
4 Miss Elizabeth
5 Lay Me Down
6 Sunny
7 Rough Cut Marmalade (edited version)
8 Spare The Children
9 Floatin’
10 Reason Why (1977 version)
11 Fall Out (1977 version)
12 Antonia
13 So Don’t Worry (augmented 2005 version)
14 The Boy
15 Wanna Make Love To You (augmented 2005 version)
16 Reason Why (1978 remix)
17 Fall Out (1978 remix)
18 Outroduction (Lay Me Down) (1978 remix)
*1-5 Previously unissued, taken from first 1970 white label pressing LP
6 Previously unissued album outtake, acetate EP, recorded 1970
7 Edited version, recorded 1970
8-9 Single as Studd Pump, Penny Farthing PEN 757, released March 1971
10-11 Previously unissued Rick Sharpe remakes of Five Day Rain tracks, recorded 1977
12-15 Original Five Day Rain backing tracks, with additional guitars, harmonica and vocals added by Rick Sharpe in November 2005, first released 2006
16-18 Remixed Five Day Rain recordings, included on the album Time Is Right, credited to One Way Ticket (President PTLS 1069, released 1978)