Description
- Missing the boat (Burns)
- Smash It Up (Pt.4) (Burns)
- Toys Take Over (Burns / Newell)
- S.2 (Burns)
- A Riot on Eastbourne Pier (Burns)
- Wake Up (You’re only Dreaming) (Burns)
- Green Light (Burns / Newell)
- LIB 2/3 (Burns)
- Revolution Now (Burns / Newell)
- Phone In (Burns / Newell)
- I Get So Excited (Gordon / Grant)
- Vosene (Sensible / Stupid)
- Kamikaze Millionaire (Burns / Newell)
- Exploding Heads and Teapots (Past Their prime) (Burns)
- The Coward of Treason’s Cove (Burns / Badowski)
Classic Cpt Double LP on CD again for the first time in 15 years includes summer tunes such as A Riot on Eastbourne Pier…the wonderful Exploding Heads & Teapots…pop classic Missing the Boat… and the epic The Coward of Treason Cove.
This album, possibly more than any other, shows off The Captain’s talents not only as a musician but as a great songwriter.
In gatefold card sleeve redesigned by Captain Sensible & realised by Les Clark
lee way (verified owner) –
An album for any mood to make you feel good and inspired.
So many cracking tunes, such as missing the boat (great pop hit that never was), toys take over, riot on eastbourne pier, lib 2/3(why does this make me think of enter the dragon??), revolution now, i get so excited(try not to be put in a good mood when this is playing!), kamikaze millionaire, exploding heads and saving the best til very last, the last five minutes of coward of treason cove is probaly the grooviest song ever (perfect for an austin powers girl dance routine in my head ha).
wish lyrics was with the flimsy booklet but the tunes stand as his finest!
antony may (verified owner) –
Amazingly, it has taken me until 2015 to catch up with this classic album from the Captain. Better with every listen, it is chock full of memorable tunes, challenging, emotive, thought provoking and political lyrics and surely would have been a massive seller had it come a few years earlier when the Captain’s star was shining bright.
Tracks like the opener, ‘Missing The Boat’, the title track and ‘Toys Take Over’ all sound as if they might have been written around the time of the Captain’s association with producer, Tony Mansfield. As a HUGE Mansfield fan I can’t help wishing that it had indeed been the great man at the controls production wise but fair play to our hero he does his best… The album has rather a ‘top end’ sound to it in general actually production wise and though great care obviously went into creating this work its obvious that the budget for such an impressive/ambitious project was limited.
Still, with AWESOME songs like the poignant (and never more relevant) ‘The Kamikaze Millionaire’, the horridly catchy, ‘A Riot On Eastbourne Pier’ and passionate, relentless ‘Wake Up (Your’e Only Dreaming) – which really rams home his political views – it would be unfair to give this album anything less than the full five stars.
Likewise, I’m not wildly keen on the epic, ‘The Coward of Treason’s Cove’ (on any other album I would probably take off a star and label it meandering, over-long and a tad self indulgent) but I’m not sure I have quite mastered/got the message behind it so far so am prepared to give the Captain the benefit of the doubt. How punchy, chart-friendly songs like the single, ‘I Get So Excited’ and ‘Green Light’ (criminally overlooked as a single release) did not grab a major labels ear is anyone’s guess but the fact they did not and this great album slipped through the net for most is about par for the course in the music business.
pg sterling (verified owner) –
Well, first of all I’m a big Damned fan, and therefore have a soft spot for Sensible, who over the years has provided some great material for the band.
I’ve dipped in and out of his solo stuff and generally enjoy it. This album is no different and I bought it primarily for ‘The Kamikaze Millionaire’ and ‘Exploding Heads & Teapots’ both of which showcase Sensible at his best, whilst ‘A Riot on Eastbourne Pier’ has a bit more edge.
I’d not heard ‘The Coward of Treason’s Cove’ before and it’s a bit of an epic, (Pete Townsend without the pretence?), and as noted by others does appear to ‘reference’ The Teardrop Explodes.
Would have been 5 stars but suffers from that ’80s-light production. I think some of this material would benefit from a revisit in the studio.
Try ‘Live at the Milky Way’ which has the added bonus of Sensible’s unique approach to audience engagement!