Fegmania! is a 1985 album

Album

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 by Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians

Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians

Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians was a band led by Robyn Hitchcock. It was formed in 1984 and split in 1994, and was famous for college-radio hits like "Balloon Man" , Madonna Of The Wasps and "So You Think You're In Love" .-Members:...

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Fegmania! was Robyn Hitchcock's first album with his new backing group, the Egyptians, which included former Soft Boys Andy Metcalfe and Morris Windsor.

"The Man with the Lightbulb Head" was conceived on London's Archway Road and provided a springboard for Hitchcock's first attempt at film making for a promo video. Stills from the video were reproduced as cover art for the front and back of the LP

LP album

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 sleeve.

The album was quickly followed by the live album, Gotta Let This Hen Out!, much of which was recorded on the Egyptians' tour in support of Fegmania!

Eight bonus tracks are added to the subsequent Rhino CD reissue of the album, including an acoustic demo of "Insect Mother", which had been recorded for possible inclusion in the earlier I Often Dream of Trains

I Often Dream of Trains

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, and "The Pit of Souls", a lengthy psychedelic instrumental in several 'movements'. Two alternate versions of "Egyptian Cream" also appear as bonus tracks.

The 2008 YepRoc reissue added seven bonus track to the original album. Unlike the Rhino reissue, "The Pit of Souls" is the full "I-IV" version. The outro which previously appeared as hidden track

Hidden track

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 after "Heaven" is now included as separate, twelfth untitled song. This reissue was also included in the retrospective Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians boxset Luminous Groove

Luminous Groove

Luminous Groove is a 2008 compilation box set of the records Fegmania! , Gotta Let This Hen Out and Element of Light by Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians. The versions included are the extended CD reissues from YepRoc...

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Side one

1. "Egyptian Cream" – 3:33
2. "Another Bubble" – 2:46
3. "I'm Only You" – 4:28
4. "My Wife & My Dead Wife" – 4:19
5. "Goodnight I Say" – 3:14

Side two

1. "The Man with the Lightbulb Head" – 3:05
2. "Insect Mother" – 1:54
3. "Strawberry Mind" – 2:50
4. "Glass" – 3:12
5. "The Fly" – 3:50
6. "Heaven" – 4:41

Midnight CD Bonus Tracks

1. "Bells of Rhymney
   The Bells of Rhymney
   "The Bells of Rhymney" is a song first recorded by folk singer Pete Seeger, using words written by Welsh poet Idris Davies. The lyrics to the song were drawn from part of Davies' poetic work Gwalia Deserta, which was first published in 1938...
   
   " (Davies
   Idris Davies
   Idris Davies was a Welsh poet. He was born in Rhymney, near Caerphilly in South Wales, the Welsh-speaking son of colliery chief winderman Evan Davies and his wife Elizabeth Ann. Davies became a poet, originally writing in Welsh, but later writing exclusively in English...
   
    / Seeger
   Pete Seeger
   Peter "Pete" Seeger is an American folk singer and was an iconic figure in the mid-twentieth century American folk music revival. A fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, he also had a string of hit records during the early 1950s as a member of The Weavers, most notably their recording of Lead...
   
   ) – 3:30 (single)
2. "Dwarfbeat" – 3:00 (b-side from "Heaven" single)
3. "Some Body" – 3:24 (b-side from "Heaven" single)

Rhino CD Reissue Bonus Tracks

1. "Bells of Rhymney" (Davies
   Idris Davies
   Idris Davies was a Welsh poet. He was born in Rhymney, near Caerphilly in South Wales, the Welsh-speaking son of colliery chief winderman Evan Davies and his wife Elizabeth Ann. Davies became a poet, originally writing in Welsh, but later writing exclusively in English...
   
    / Seeger
   Pete Seeger
   Peter "Pete" Seeger is an American folk singer and was an iconic figure in the mid-twentieth century American folk music revival. A fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, he also had a string of hit records during the early 1950s as a member of The Weavers, most notably their recording of Lead...
   
   ) – 3:30
2. "Dwarfbeat" – 3:00
3. "Some Body" – 3:24
4. "Egyptian Cream" [Demo] – 4:35
5. "Heaven" [Live]
6. "Insect Mother" [Demo] – 4:53
7. "Egyptian Cream" [Live]
8. "The Pit of Souls [Parts I-IV]" – 1:41

YepRoc CD Reissue Bonus Tracks

1. "Bells of Rhymney" (Davies
   Idris Davies
   Idris Davies was a Welsh poet. He was born in Rhymney, near Caerphilly in South Wales, the Welsh-speaking son of colliery chief winderman Evan Davies and his wife Elizabeth Ann. Davies became a poet, originally writing in Welsh, but later writing exclusively in English...
   
    / Seeger
   Pete Seeger
   Peter "Pete" Seeger is an American folk singer and was an iconic figure in the mid-twentieth century American folk music revival. A fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, he also had a string of hit records during the early 1950s as a member of The Weavers, most notably their recording of Lead...
   
   ) – 3:30
2. "Some Body" – 3:20
3. "Heaven [Live]" – 4:55
4. "The Pit of Souls [I-IV]" – 9:59
5. "The Drowning Church" – 3:12
6. "The Man with the Lightbulb Head [Instrumental]" – 2:52
7. "Lady Obvious" – 3:21

Note: "Dwarfbeat" dropped from this release.

Personnel

• Robyn Hitchcock
  Robyn Hitchcock
  Robyn Rowan Hitchcock is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist. While primarily a vocalist and guitarist, he also plays harmonica, piano and bass guitar....
  
  - Vocals, guitars, bass on "The Man with the Lightbulb Head"
• Morris Windsor - Drums
• Andy Metcalfe - Bass, keyboards on "I'm Only You", "My Wife & My Dead Wife", "Goodnight I Say", "Insect Mother" & "Heaven"
• Roger Jackson - Keyboards on "Strawberry Mind", "Glass", "The Fly" & "Heaven"
• John Kingham - Drums on "The Man with the Lightbulb Head"