Released January 1971 Nantucket Sleighride
(1971) Flowers of Evil
(1971) Release date January 1971 Label Windfall Records | Length 35:12 Artist Mountain Producer Felix Pappalardi | |
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Recorded late 1970
The Record Plant
New York City, New York Genres Hard rock, Blues rock, Heavy metal Similar Mountain albums, Blues rock albums | ||
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Nantucket Sleighride is the second album by the American hard rock band Mountain.
Contents
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Title track
The song and album title is a reference to the experience of being towed along in a boat by a harpooned whale (see Nantucket sleighride). Owen Coffin, to whom the song is dedicated, was a young seaman on the Nantucket whaler Essex, which was rammed and sunk by a sperm whale in 1820. In the aftermath of the wreck, Coffin was shot and eaten by his shipmates. The story of the Essex was recorded by its First Mate Owen Chase, one of eight survivors, in his 1821 Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex.
The instrumental break in the second half of the track uses the melody of the Irish song "Parting Glass". The closing section of "Nantucket Sleighride" was used as the theme to the long-running British political television show Weekend World (1972-1988).
A cover version was recorded by British heavy metal band Quartz in 1980.
The album itself reached number 16 on the Billboard Hot 200 Album Chart in 1971.
Bonus tracks
The bonus tracks on the 2004 edition include the Chuck Berry cover "Roll Over Beethoven" and the original song "Crossroader", which were released as the A- and B-sides of a promotional single in 1971. The latter was later released on Flowers of Evil (1971). Live versions of both tracks appeared on subsequent live releases, such as Mountain Live: The Road Goes Ever On (1972) and Twin Peaks (1974).
Personnel
Songs
1Don't Look Around3:44
2Taunta (Sammy's Tune)1:00
3Nantucket Sleighride5:53