Friendliness (album)

Infobox Album | Name = Friendliness
Type = Album
Artist = Stackridge


Released = November 1972 (U.K.)
Recorded = August 1972
Genre = Rock
Length = 41:30
Label = MCA Records,
Demon Records,
(CD re-issue)
Angel Air,
(CD re-issue)
Producer = Stackridge, Victor Gamm
Chronology = Stackridge
Last album = "Stackridge"
(1971)
This album = "Friendliness"
(1972)
Next album = "The Man In The Bowler Hat"
(1974)

"Friendliness" is the second album by the British rock group Stackridge. The album was produced by Stackridge and Victor Gamm at Sound Techniques, London. This was the only Stackridge album to be released on the MCA Records label both in the U.K. and the U.S.

The album has a wide variety of songs. "Lummy Days" is a galloping instrumental with strong English folk and classical music influences. "Syracuse The Elephant" is progressive rock similar to early Genesis. "Keep On Clucking" is in a modified blues form and is the heaviest rock tune recorded by Stackridge. "Amazingly Agnes", which the group claims to be a song about a cow, is possibly the first reggae style song ever recorded by an English rock group. "Anyone For Tennis" is in the English music-hall style, similar to The Beatles' song "Honey Pie".

Track listing

#Lummy Days (Davis) 3:22
#Friendliness (Part 1) (Warren) 2:29
#Anyone For Tennis (Warren) 2:32
#There Is No Refugee (Warren) 3:24
#Syracuse The Elephant (Walter, Davis) 8:46
#Amazingly Agnes (Warren) 3:30
#Father Frankenstein Is Behind Your Pillow (Warren) 3:35
#Keep On Clucking (Walter, Davis) 4:03
#Story Of My Heart (Slater) 2:03
#Friendliness (Part 2) (Warren) 1:55
#Teatime (Walter, Davis) 5:51

Bonus Tracks from the 2006 re-issue on Angel Air.

#Everyman (Davis, Warren) 4:27 (b-side)
#Purple Spaceships Over Yatton (Walter, Davis) 6:39 (b-side)
#C'est La Vie (Warren, Davis) 3:21 (b-side)
#Do The Stanley (Wabadaw, Sleeve) 2:54 (single)

Personnel

*Andy Cresswell-Davis - guitar/keyboards/vocals
*James Warren - guitar/vocals
*Michael Evans - violin/vocals
*Michael "Mutter" Slater - flute/vocals
*James "Crun" Walter - bass
*Billy Bent aka Billy Sparkle - drums