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Egg (album)

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Released
  
13 March 1970

Artists
  
Egg, The Egg

Producer
  
Egg

Length
  
40:30

Release date
  
13 March 1970

Label
  
Deram Records

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Recorded
  
October 1969 (Landsdowne Studios, Trident Studios)

Genres
  
Progressive rock, Canterbury scene

Similar
  
Egg albums, Canterbury scene albums

Egg is the 1970 debut album by British prog rock band Egg.

Contents

Track listing

The album was originally released on vinyl by Deram.

Side one

  1. "Bulb" (Peter Gallen) – 0:09
  2. "While Growing My Hair" (Clive Brooks, Mont Campbell, Dave Stewart) – 3:53
  3. "I Will Be Absorbed" (Brooks, Campbell, Stewart) – 5:10
  4. "Fugue in D Minor" (Johann Sebastian Bach) – 2:46
  5. "They Laughed When I Sat Down at the Piano…" (Brooks, Campbell, Stewart) – 1:17
  6. "The Song of McGillicudie the Pusillanimous (Or Don't Worry James, Your Socks Are Hanging in the Coal Cellar with Thomas)" (Brooks, Campbell, Stewart) – 5:07
  7. "Boilk" (Brooks, Campbell, Stewart) – 1:00

Side two

  1. "Symphony No. 2" (Brooks, Campbell, Stewart) – 22:26
  2. Movement 1
  3. Movement 2
  4. Blane
  5. Movement 4

2004 re-issue

The album was re-issued on CD in February 2004 by Eclectic Discs. Remastered from the original tapes, the re-issue has three bonus tracks, including both sides of the band's first and only single ("Seven Is a Jolly Good Time/You Are All Princes") and "Movement 3" from "Symphony No. 2", which was omitted from the original LP due to copyright difficulties because its tune bears a similarity to part of Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring. There are also similarities to the final Neptune movement of Gustav Holst's orchestral suite The Planets.

The track listing is as follows:

  1. "Bulb" – 0:09
  2. "While Growing My Hair" – 4:02
  3. "I Will Be Absorbed" – 5:11
  4. "Fugue in D Minor" – 2:49
  5. "They Laughed When I Sat Down at the Piano…" – 1:21
  6. "The Song of McGillicudie the Pusillanimous (or don't worry James, your socks are hanging in the coal cellar with Thomas)" – 5:07
  7. "Boilk" – 1:04
  8. "Symphony No. 2" – 23:58
  9. Movement 1
  10. Movement 2
  11. Blane
  12. Movement 3
  13. Movement 4
  14. "Seven Is a Jolly Good Time" – 2:47
  15. "You Are All Princes" – 3:45

Personnel

  • Dave Stewart - organ, piano, tone generator, mellotron
  • Mont Campbell - bass, vocals
  • Clive Brooks - drums
  • Songs

    1Bulb0:09
    2While Growing My Hair4:03
    3I Will Be Absorbed5:12

    References

    Egg (album) Wikipedia