Stack Waddy / So Who The Hell Is Stack Waddy? The Complete Works 1970-72 (3 x CD)

Description

Reissue – Compilation

Albums / Rarities / Out-takes + BBC Concert Recording.

• THE COMPLETE DANDELION RECORDINGS – JOHN PEEL’S LEGENDARY LABEL
• TWO ALBUMS – ‘STACK WADDY’ AND ‘BUGGER OFF!’ – IN REPLICA LP SLEEVE WALLETS + THIRD DISC OF OUTTAKES, ODDITIES AND A 1971 BBC ‘IN CONCERT’ RECORDING
• INCLUDES THE SINGLES – ‘ROADRUNNER’ AND A SUPERB TAKE ON THE KINKS’ ‘YOU REALLY GOT ME’
• REVEALING AND INFORMATIVE ESSAY FROM DANDELION EXPERT NIGEL CROSS
• PRODUCED IN CONJUNCTION WITH BAND FOUNDER STUART BANHAM

1970/72-UK

Format: 3 x CD

#Ref: CDTRED 713

Release date: 2017

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Release notes

John Peel favourites and Dandelion Records proto-metallers Stack Waddy burned brightly and briefly during a recording career that barely lasted two years in the early 1970s. Leaving behind two albums of pounding, blues and psych infused heavy rock, some BBC appearances and a handful of outtakes, the Manchester four-piece imprinted themselves firmly enough on the memories of anybody who saw them to remain cult favourites today.

Drawn together here are all of Stack Waddy’s Dandelion Records recordings – the ‘Stack Waddy’ and ‘Bugger Off!’ albums alongside a John Peel compered BBC In Concert performance and the aforementioned outtakes. Raw, bloody and never far from a beer or two, the band tear through Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, The Kinks, Zappa, Beefheart and even Sinatra, as well as their own excellent material.

Stack Waddy’s influence continues to reach out to new fans in search of something raw – Steve Albini, among others, is known to be a fan.

Rowdy, riotous and full of energy – love it or hate it, you’re sure to love it!

“Stack Waddy were the rough kids of John Peel’s Dandelion label, their gruff blues-rock sounding like a fart at a funeral” – The Independent

Tracklisting

DISC ONE:
STACK WADDY

1. ROAD RUNNER
2. BRING IT TO JEROME
3. MOTHBALLS
4. SURE ‘NUFF ‘N’ YES I DO
5. LOVE STORY
6. SUSIE Q
7. COUNTRY LINE SPECIAL
8. ROLLIN’ STONE
9. MYSTIC EYES
10. KENTUCKY

DISC TWO:
BUGGER OFF!

1. ROSALYN
2. WILLIE THE PIMP
3. I’M YOUR HOOCHIE COOCHIE MAN
4. IT’S ALL OVER NOW
5. SEVERAL YARDS (FOXTROT)
6. YOU REALLY GOT ME
7. I’M A LOVER NOT A FIGHTER
8. MEAT PIES ‘AVE COME BUT BAND’S NOT HERE YET
9. IT AIN’T EASY
10. LONG TALL SHORTY (MAINLY)
11. REPOSSESSION BOOGIE
12. THE GIRL FROM IPANEMA

DISC THREE:
HUNT THE STAG: OUTTAKES / LIVE & RARITIES

1. WITH ONE LEAP DAN WAS BY HER SIDE, ‘MURIEL’ HE BREATHED
2. GINNY JO
3. HUNT THE STAG
4. MYSTIC EYES (ALTERNATIVE VERSION)
5. (ALMOST) MILK COW BOOZE
6. LEAVIN’ HERE
7. I’M A LOVER NOT A FIGHTER
8. HERE COMES THE GLIMMER MAN
9. NADINE
10. MAMA KEEP YOUR BIG MOUTH SHUT (LIVE AT THE BBC, 1971)
11. REPOSSESSION BOOGIE (LIVE AT THE BBC, 1971)
12. LAWDY MISS CLAWDY… MEETS SOOTY ‘N SWEEP (LIVE AT THE BBC, 1971)
13. JACK & JILL MEET BLIND PUGH ON THE SPOT (LIVE AT THE BBC, 1971)
14. MAMA KEEP YOUR BIG MOUTH SHUT

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