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Artist:Idle Race
Title:Idle Race
Label:  Liberty
Country:UK
Catalogue:LBS 83221
Date:Nov 1969
Format:LP
Collection:  I Own It     I Want It 
Community: 9 Own, 4 Want
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TrackArtistTitleComposerRating
A1Idle RaceCome With MeJeff Lynne8.0  Rate
A2Idle RaceSea Of DreamsJeff Lynne8.7  Rate
A3Idle RaceGoing HomeJeff Lynne9.0  Rate
A4Idle RaceReminds Me Of YouDave Pritchard7.3  Rate
A5Idle RaceMr Crow And Sir NormanJeff Lynne8.5  Rate
A6Idle RacePlease No More Sad SongsJeff Lynne10.0  Rate
B1Idle RaceGirl At The WindowJeff Lynne9.0  Rate
B2Idle RaceBig Chief Woolly BosherJeff Lynne10.0  Rate
B3Idle RaceSomeone KnockingDave Pritchard3.0  Rate
B4Idle RaceA Better Life (The Weather Man Knows)Jeff Lynne8.0  Rate
B5Idle RaceHurry Up JohnJeff Lynne10.0  Rate


Notes

Produced and arranged by Jeff Lynne
Cy Payne – strings arrangement (going home)
Greg Masters – bass
Jeff Lynne – vocals, guitar
Dave Prichard – rhythm guitar
Roger Spencer – drums

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Juke Jules SUBS
21st Aug 2019
 quod erat...
 

 
ppint.
20th Aug 2019
 and they /are/ the lp, "idle race", by the group, "idle race"
 

 
Juke Jules SUBS
19th Aug 2019
 there /are/ 'linked releases'
 

 
ppint.
19th Aug 2019
 yuk-of-gb'n'ni, xxxxia and the matto grosso - ? did liberty/ua release (or licence) this nowhere else ?

- or is it just lpcatters bought this in no other country anywhere in the world ?
 

 
VinylSid
8th Oct 2015
 
 

 
Magic Marmalade
25th Apr 2015
 Just popped up as a random... another for the wants list I think!

(great tune in the vid)
 

 
Juke Jules SUBS
19th Jan 2015
 Yes, Yes - I so loved this entire album
Good ol' Sid has made a video, and it's had a lot of views!

 

 
ppint.
17th Jan 2015
 Review
track 2.5, "hurry up john", should've been a heavily-played, major hit single a-side: it's strongly rhythmic, reasonably melodic, and is unlike any other band's music in the manner of its truly weird lyrics and insanely catchy killer guitar riff. the only comparator i've been able to come up with is the jimi hendrix experience's rendition of dylan's "all along the watchtower" - the bands' styles of music differ, greatly, but both are true rock tours-de-force.

three or four more of jeff lynne's songs on the album would've made (or made) passably-commercial single a-sides, and even the more manneredly-sung tracks are interesting and fun: but "hurry up john" was the killer a-side - that never was. . .

for two years or so, the idle race seemed permanently on the brink of making the big time - so much so, that jeff lynne turned down roy wood's first invitation to him to join birmingham's other, poppier and prosperous great rock band, the move; but when it hadn't happened for the "race" and wood repeated the offer a year or so later, with talk of the two of them co-operating on an additional and musically more exciting project (the electric light orchestra), jeff lynne listened - and this time, jumped.

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Linked Releases

Australia - Liberty - 1969 [Mono]

Brazil - Liberty - 1970

UK - Parlophone - 2016


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Producer: Jeff Lynne - 36 Vinyl Albums - List by Mr. Blaze

Tags:  Arranger: Cy PayneArranger: Jeff LynneCover Photography: Michael HastedDrums: Roger SpencerEngineer: Robin CableProducer: Jeff Lynne

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