Nantucket Sleighride (album)

Nantucket Sleighride (album)
Nantucket Sleighride
Studio album by Mountain
Released January 1971
Recorded late 1970
Genre Hard rock
Length 35:12
Label Sony
Windfall
Producer Bud Prager, Felix Pappalardi
Mountain chronology
Climbing! (1970) Nantucket Sleighride
(1971)
Flowers of Evil
(1971)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 3/5 stars[1]

Nantucket Sleighride is the second album by hard rock band Mountain.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Don't Look Around" (West/Palmer/Pappalardi/Collins) - 3:42
  2. "Taunta (Sammy's Tune)" (Pappalardi) - 1:00
  3. "Nantucket Sleighride (To Owen Coffin)" (Pappalardi/Collins) - 5:49
  4. "You Can't Get Away" (West/Collins/Laing) - 3:23
  5. "Tired Angels (To J.M.H.)" (Pappalardi/Collins) - 4:39
  6. "The Animal Trainer And The Toad" (West/Palmer) - 3:24
  7. "My Lady" (Laing/Pappalardi/Collins) - 4:31
  8. "Travellin' In The Dark (To E.M.P.)" (Pappalardi/Collins) - 4:21
  9. "The Great Train Robbery" (West/Laing/Pappalardi/Collins) - 5:43
  10. "Travellin' In The Dark (To E.M.P.) [Live Bonus Track not included on original vinyl album]" (Pappalardi/Collins) - 5:14

Personnel

Title track

The song and album title is a reference to the experience of being towed along in a small boat by a harpooned whale (see Nantucket Sleighride.) The person to whom the song is dedicated, Owen Coffin, was a young seaman on the Nantucket whaleship Essex, which was rammed and sunk by a sperm whale in 1820. In the aftermath of the wreck, Coffin was shot and eaten by his shipmates. The Essex's story was recorded by its First Mate, Owen Chase, one of eight survivors, in his 1821 Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex.[2]

"Nantucket Sleighride" was used as the theme to the long-running British political television show Weekend World.

A cover version was recorded by British heavy metal band Quartz in 1980.

References


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