Friendliness (album)
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Friendliness is the second album by the British rock group Stackridge
Stackridge
Stackridge are a British folk, pop and progressive rock group who were at the height of their success during the early 1970s. The band's output is characterized by quirky humour and rhythmic catchy sing-along tunes....

. The album was produced by Stackridge and Victor Gamm at Sound Techniques
Sound Techniques (studio)
Sound Techniques was a popular London recording studio at 46a Old Church Street, Chelsea, London, SW3 founded in December 1964. The premises were originally built as a dairy. It quickly became one of the top independently-owned studios in England. In 1976 the original location in Old Church Street...

, London. This was the only Stackridge album to be released on the MCA Records
MCA Records
MCA Records was an American-based record company owned by MCA Inc., which later gave way to the larger MCA Music Entertainment Group , of which MCA Records was still part. MCA Records was absorbed by Geffen Records in 2003...

 label both in the U.K. and the U.S.

The album has a wide variety of songs. "Lummy Days" is a galloping instrumental with strong English folk and classical music
Classical music
Classical music is the art music produced in, or rooted in, the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 11th century to present times...

 influences. "Syracuse The Elephant" is progressive rock
Progressive rock
Progressive rock is a subgenre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of a "mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility." John Covach, in Contemporary Music Review, says that many thought it would not just "succeed the pop of...

 similar to early Genesis
Genesis (band)
Genesis are an English rock band that formed in 1967. The band currently comprises the longest-tenured members Tony Banks , Mike Rutherford and Phil Collins . Past members Peter Gabriel , Steve Hackett and Anthony Phillips , also played major roles in the band in its early years...

. "Keep On Clucking" is in a modified blues
Blues
Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...

 form and is the heaviest rock tune recorded by Stackridge. "Amazingly Agnes", which the group claims to be a song about a cow, is possibly the first reggae
Reggae
Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady.Reggae is based...

 style song ever recorded by an English rock group. "Anyone For Tennis" is in the English music-hall style, similar to The Beatles
The Beatles
The Beatles were an English rock band, active throughout the 1960s and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Formed in Liverpool, by 1962 the group consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr...

' song Honey Pie
Honey Pie
"Honey Pie" is a song by the Beatles, from their 1968 eponymous album The Beatles, also known as The White Album. Although credited to Lennon–McCartney, it was composed solely by Paul McCartney.-Interpretation:...

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Track listing

  1. Lummy Days (Davis) 3:22
  2. Friendliness (Part 1) (Warren) 2:29
  3. Anyone For Tennis (Warren) 2:32
  4. There Is No Refuge (Warren) 3:24
  5. Syracuse The Elephant (Walter, Davis) 8:46
  6. Amazingly Agnes (Warren) 3:30
  7. Father Frankenstein Is Behind Your Pillow (Warren) 3:35
  8. Keep On Clucking (Walter, Davis) 4:03
  9. Story Of My Heart (Slater) 2:03
  10. Friendliness (Part 2) (Warren) 1:55
  11. Teatime (Walter, Davis) 5:51


Bonus Tracks from the 2006 re-issue on Angel Air
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  1. Everyman (Davis, Warren) 4:27 (b-side)
  2. Purple Spaceships Over Yatton (Walter, Davis) 6:39 (b-side)
  3. C'est La Vie (Warren, Davis) 3:21 (b-side)
  4. Do The Stanley (Wabadaw, Sleeve) 2:54 (single)

Personnel

  • Andy Cresswell-Davis - guitar/keyboards/vocals
  • James Warren - guitar/vocals
  • Michael Evans - violin/vocals
  • Michael "Mutter" Slater - flute/vocals
  • James "Crun" Walter - bass
  • Billy Bent aka Billy Sparkle - drums
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