Vinyl Album - Various Artists - El Pea - Island

Vinyl Album

Artist:	Various Artists
Title:	El Pea
Label:	Island
Country:	UK
Catalogue:	IDLP 1
Date:	Apr 1971
Format:	Double LP
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	24 Own, 1 Wants
Price Guide:	$17
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PRICE GUIDE

$17

Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A1	Traffic	Empty Pages	Capaldi, Winwood	7.8 Rate
A2	Sandy Denny	Late November	Denny	7.2 Rate
A3	Alan Bown	Thru The Night	Bown, Bannister	6.0 Rate
A4	Heads Hands And Feet	Song For Suzie	Lee, Smith, Colton	6.6 Rate
A5	Fairport Convention	Lord Marlborough	Trad.	6.0 Rate
B1	Jethro Tull	Mother Goose	Anderson	7.0 Rate
B2	Quintessence	Dive Deep	Quintessence	6.6 Rate
B3	Amazing Blondel	Spring Season	Gladwin	6.0 Rate
B4	McDonald And Giles	Extract From Tomorrow's People - The Children Of Today	Giles	5.0 Rate
B5	Tír na nÓg	Our Love Will Not Decay	Condell	5.3 Rate
B6	Mountain	Don't Look Around	Pappalardi, Collins, West, Palmer	7.7 Rate
C1	Free	Highway Song	Fraser, Kossoff	7.4 Rate
C2	Incredible String Band	Waiting For You	Williamson	7.0 Rate
C3	Cat Stevens	Wild World	Stevens	8.5 Rate
C4	Bronco	Sudden Street	Roden	6.3 Rate
C5	Mike Heron	Feast Of Stephen	Heron	5.0 Rate
D1	Emerson, Lake And Palmer	Knife Edge	Emerson, Lake, Fraser	6.8 Rate
D2	Nick Drake	One Of These Things First	Drake	7.3 Rate
D3	Mott The Hoople	Original Mixed-Up Kid	Hunter	7.5 Rate
D4	Jimmy Cliff	Can't Stop Worrying, Can't Stop Loving	Mason	4.0 Rate
D5	Mick Abrahams	Greyhound Bus	Abrahams	5.8 Rate

Notes

Two-disc Sampler LP

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Comments and Reviews


Burton LeB SUBS 2nd Dec 2020		Unless my ears deceive me, the Jimmy Cliff track is the same version as appeared on his 1973 album Struggling Man, so quite a gap between the recording used here and the eventual release if so. Slightly odd that a track from Another Cycle hadn't been included on El Pea instead. Bronco's track "Sudden Street" is a different - possibly earlier or demo? - take to that which appeared on their Ace Of Sunlight LP. Also, Sandy Denny's contribution was actually a Fotheringay recording and different to that which came out on The North Star Grassman And The Ravens.



Lovinda 9th Sep 2020		With a nod to raowood, added bigger cover front image (with price sticker intact).Also added cover back and gatefold image.



Exile99 16th Mar 2019		Most important album of my life. Was 16 when it was released and thought the packaging was cool (what did I know, I was 16 and just beginning my musical journey). Had just started listening to rock music, had discovered late night radio 1, john peel, bob harris, alan black etc. But this album was the big explosion for me - it was like a switch was flicked. Became obsessed, didn't worry about genres - Sandy Denny and Mountain - loved each and still do. Hard to understate how important these sampler albums were at the time.



Steve Kelly1st 14th Mar 2017		Yep - you're quite right about the packaging ..... it was a terrible idea using hard sponge strips - presumably designed to 'clean' the records as you removed them from the plastic sleeves.



ppint. 14th Mar 2017		digs deep into the archaeologically-stratified lower reaches of the memories. . . the last of the island samplers yr hmbl srppnt. bought and i think it was "el pea", was a double lp that housed the vinyl not in paper inners within the doubled thicknesses of a proper gatefold card sleeve, but in totally colourless, transparent bendy, *creaseable* thin plastic (almost like celluloid, but not that) - hard enough to damage the recordings' grooves pressed into the vinyl if one caught a side on a tear in the plastic - and somehow affixed (?glued?) into the inside of the card sleeve spine, and with a specially hard narrow sponge plastic strip that also damaged the included lps unless one was *incredibly* careful - and lucky, besides! this packaging was straaange, and mayn't've been retained for any subsequent pressings of "el pea"... (?) - i don't remember parting with "el pea", so i may still have it somewhere, but i don't remember the music on it as being anywhere near as inspiring, as that on island (nor cbs's) earlier samplers - which is odd, because there's a lot of very good music on it - maybe, none that the then ppint. wasn't already expecting struck a chord - ?



Steve Kelly1st 14th Mar 2017		Inner covers added



Focus B 15th Apr 2016		Used to have a copy of this. I seem to recall D2 was listed as, "One of These Things First" on both label and sleeve yet played, "Northern Sky". Don't know if this was corrected on later copies.



Magic Marmalade 29th Nov 2015		Just came to this through Fokeman's list of Island Comps. They were pretty good compilations looking a the track listings... and I still enjoy listening to Nice Enough... (The cover for this one seems like a parody of Beck-Ola album) Did Island release any more of these not currently on site?

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