Horslips Happy To Meet, Sorry To Part UK 1972 LP DJM Recs
  £   15
  $   20

 


£ 15 Sold For
Jun 28, 2016 Sold Date
Jun 20, 2016 Start Date
1 Number Of Bids
  Great Britain Country Of Seller
eBay Sold at
 
save auction  

Description

Horslips Happy To Meet, Sorry To Part UK 1972 LP DJM Records Catalogue Number DJF 20544

Get ready for the ride of your life through Irish folk-rock styles. The opening track of the group's debut album, with its pipes, button accordion, and percussion, could pass for any Chieftains record, but then the electricity kicks in on "Hall of Mirrors," and the rest is melodic rock, not so much folk-rock as folkish rock. John Fean sounds like he's playing folk melodies even as he plays runs on his electric guitar on "The Clergy's Lamentation," and the group follows this with an anthem-like piece of Gaelic rock ("An Bratach Ban") with a dance-like instrumental break. "Bim Istigh Ag Ol" is probably the best track on the album, and "Hall of Mirrors" and "Furniture" remained in their stage act for years, the latter, with its superb middle section transformed into a 15-minute epic. And just when you think you've got them pegged as a progressive folk-rock outfit, they deliver the exquisitely languid, almost impressionistic "The Shamrock Shore" and the playful "Dance for Yer Daddy," which sounds like the Cheiftains with vocals until Fean's electric guitar kicks in. And Feans's playing on "The Musical Priest," by itself, is worth the price of the album.

?

Tracklisting

?

Side 1

1. Happy To Meet

2. Hall Of Mirrors

3. The Clergy's Lamentation

4. An Bratach Bán

5. The Shamrock Shore

6. Flower Amang Them All

7. Bím Istigh Ag Ól

?

Side 2

1. Furniture

2. Ace And Deuce

3. Dance To Yer Daddy

4. Scalloway Ripoff

5. The Musical Priest

6. Sorry To Part

?

Gatefold Sleeve EX-. Record EX-

P&P UK £4.00 Overseas at cost #


price rating