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Artist: Kevin Ayers Title: The Confessions Of Dr Dream And Other Stories Label:   Parlophone / Harvest Country: UK Date: 2014 Catalogue: 268 2952 Barcode: 5099926829524 Format: CD Album Collection:   I Own It     I Want It  Community:  4 Own Price Guide: Valuation Page » Search eBay #AD  » Search Amazon #AD This site contains affiliate links for which we may be compensated.

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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
01	Kevin Ayers	Day By Day	Kevin Ayers	Rate
02	Kevin Ayers	See You Later	Kevin Ayers	Rate
03	Kevin Ayers	Didn't Feel Lonely Till I Thought Of You	Kevin Ayers	Rate
04	Kevin Ayers	Everybody's Sometime And Some People's All The Time Blues	Kevin Ayers	Rate
05	Kevin Ayers	It Begins With A Blessing / Once I Awakened / But It Ends With A Curse	Kevin Ayers	Rate
06	Kevin Ayers	Ballbearing Blues	Kevin Ayers	Rate
The Confessions Of Dr. Dream
07	Kevin Ayers	Part One: Irreversible Neural Damage	Kevin Ayers	Rate
08	Kevin Ayers	Part Two: Invitation	Kevin Ayers	Rate
09	Kevin Ayers	Part Three: The One Chance Dance	Kevin Ayers	Rate
10	Kevin Ayers	Part Four: Dr. Dream Theme	Kevin Ayers	Rate
11	Kevin Ayers	Two Goes Into Four	Kevin Ayers	Rate
Bonus Tracks: The John Peel Show 30/7/74
12	Kevin Ayers	Another Whimsical Song	Kevin Ayers	Rate
13	Kevin Ayers	Lady Rachel	Kevin Ayers	Rate
14	Kevin Ayers	Stop This Train	Kevin Ayers	Rate
15	Kevin Ayers	Didn't Feel Lonely Till I Thought Of You	Kevin Ayers	Rate
Bonus Tracks: Singles:
16	Kevin Ayers	The Up Song	Kevin Ayers	Rate
17	Kevin Ayers	After The Show	Kevin Ayers	Rate
18	Kevin Ayers	Thank You Very Much	Kevin Ayers	Rate

Notes

tracks 1-11 = the original album released 1974 on island ILPS 9263
produced by rupert hine for banana productions ltd, engineers steve nye, john punter, assistants sean milligan, gerry leitch.
rhythm tracks recorded at rampart studios, london.
recorded and remixed at air studios, london.
as this album was designed to be listened to as a whole, there is a distinct gap in the audio record before the bonus tracks commence.

tracks 12-15: recorded live 9/7/1974 at langham studio, maida vale, london for the john peel show transmitted 30/7/1974 on bbc radio1. producer pete ritzema, eng. bill aitken.

tracks 16-18: island singles WIP 6194-A, 6201-A & -B 1974

tracks 1-4, 8-11 digital remaster (p) 2009; 5-7, 16 (p) 2008;
tracks 12-15 (p) 2009 bbc;
tracks 17 & 18 digital remaster (p) 2005

digitally remastered from the original tapes by peter mew, abbey road studios, london

8pp saddle-stapled front insert
3pp liner-notes by mark powell, 1p lyrics of "the confessions of dr. dream", listing of musicians: kevin ayers: vocals, acoustic & electric gtrs & foot; sam mitchell: electr gtr; mark warner: gtrs, rupert hine: clavinet, organ, arp synth, electr pno & perc (track 3); john perry: bass; mike giles: drums; the g'deevy ensemble: perc; doris troy, rosetta hightower, joanne williams: bcking vcls; brass arrs: simon jeffes. 14 further musicians given playing on 1-3 of tracks 2-5, 7-10 incl. ollie halsall, mike oldfield, cal batchelor, steve nye, lol coxhill, nico...

compilation originally (p) & © 2009 emi records ltd: this reissue indicated (p) & © 2009 parlophone records ltd. a warner music group company, but prob'ly actually 2014, after they bought the reorganised parlophone records ltd. etc. from the wreck of emi records.)

Comments and Reviews

ppint. 1st Nov 2016		philmh: only the seven digit cat#, artist • title & parlophone, under the curly L in a circle logo. both spines. (and i ain't half glad i don't have to determine the point on these in a way both accurate and acceptable to those who prefer pictures to words!) (whether wea's parlophone has a fixed length of time after which they have to pay universal more to continue to use the disc design, or else adopt some new artwork, for those albums by artists whose catalogue they took over that emi ltd had placed on the harvest list...) (- i'm sure it'll've been covered in the sale's contract small print somewhere, but whether it's ever publicly announced...)
PhilMH 31st Oct 2016		The Discogs entry for this catalogue number and barcode combination appears to be the 2009 original via EMI Records Ltd. If this Warner Music-distributed issue has exactly the same catalogue number and barcode, then normally that would just be treated as a later pressing, and the year changed to 2009 for our purposes - Discogs works a bit differently, so when the Warner issue gets listed there, it should have the 2014 date. BUT - the issue now is whether the later pressing is still considered to be on the Harvest label; Harvest was definitely still part of EMI in 2009, and several accounts of the EMI sale to Universal had that label going to them, and staying with them - this is confirmed by Universal Music Enterprises' website. Presumably Kevin Ayers was signed directly to EMI Records Ltd., so his masters went to Parlophone/Warners, and the current Harvest/Universal catalogue is new artists only. So, this is what we're left with, I think: 2009 original, distributed by EMI Records Ltd - label is Harvest; 2014 repressing, distributed by Parlophone Records Ltd. - label is Parlophone, with the Harvest logo and artwork being legacy/facsimile? Sometimes the spine of the disc will help - does it show Harvest? Parlophone? Both? Neither?
ppint. 30th Oct 2016		yr hmbl srppnt.'s not at all sure this ~2014 reissue by wea/warner music group shouldn't be labelled & flagged parlophone (records ltd.) & yeurrp, as the copyrights and live music corpses logoes on the packaging & disc are in that name, and the harvest label no longer exists as an independently-managed subsidiary°: the recreation of the harvest design on the disc is really just being employed as nostalgia-inspiring eye-candy. 1/11/16 edit: harvest no longer exists as an independently-managed subsidiary of parlophone records/ wea/warner music group, whose cds these kevin ayers reissues from ~2014 on are, that is; ° as philmh has intimated, it is a living label of the universal music group - though with, it would appear, none of the catalogue of recordings originally released by emi records/emi ltd/the gramophone co. ltd on lps, eps & singles on the harvest label (which this particular album wasn't).

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