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Songs For Insane Times: An Anthology 1969-1980 [Box set]

~ Kevin Ayers
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Product details

  • Audio CD (8 Sep 2008)
  • Number of Discs: 4
  • Format: Box set
  • Label: EMI/Harvest
  • ASIN: B0018BWTVI
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 27,591 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Disc 1:

Samples
Song TitleArtist Time Price
Listen  1. Town Feeling (2003 Digital Remaster)Kevin Ayers 4:54£0.69
Listen  2. Song For Insane Times (2003 Digital Remaster)Kevin Ayers 4:03£0.69
Listen  3. Girl On A Swing (2003 Digital Remaster)Kevin Ayers 2:52£0.69
Listen  4. The Lady Rachel (2003 Digital Remaster)Kevin Ayers 5:20£0.69
Listen  5. Stop This Train (Again Doing It) (2003 Digital Remaster)Kevin Ayers 6:08£0.69
Listen  6. Eleanor's Cake (Which Ate Her) (2003 Digital Remaster)Kevin Ayers 2:56£0.69
Listen  7. Religious Experience (Singing A Song In The Morning)Kevin Ayers Featuring Syd Barrett 4:45£0.69
Listen  8. Soon Soon Soon (2003 Digital Remaster)Kevin Ayers 3:23£0.69
Listen  9. Rheinhardt And Geraldine / Colores Para Dolores (2003 Digital Remaster)Kevin Ayers 5:41£0.69
Listen10. May I? (2003 Digital Remaster)Kevin Ayers 4:02£0.69
Listen11. Clarence In Wonderland (2003 Digital Remaster)Kevin Ayers 2:08£0.69
Listen12. The Oyster And The Flying Fish (2003 Digital Remaster)Kevin Ayers 2:40£0.69
Listen13. Shooting At The Moon (2003 Digital Remaster)Kevin Ayers 5:49£0.69
Listen14. Butterfly Dance (2003 Digital Remaster)Kevin Ayers 3:45£0.69
Listen15. Gemini Child (2003 Digital Remaster)Kevin Ayers 3:17£0.69
Listen16. Stars (2003 Digital Remaster)Kevin Ayers 3:33£0.69
Listen17. There Is Loving/Among Us/There is Loving (2003 Digital Remaster)Kevin Ayers 7:21£1.89


Disc 2:

Samples
Song TitleArtist Time Price
Listen  1. Stranger In Blue Suede Shoes (Early Mix)Kevin Ayers 3:21£0.69
Listen  2. Song From The Bottom Of A Well (2003 Digital Remaster)Kevin Ayers 4:36£0.69
Listen  3. Oh My (2003 Digital Remaster)Kevin Ayers 3:00£0.69
Listen  4. Margaret (2003 Digital Remaster)Kevin Ayers 3:19£0.69
Listen  5. Whatevershebringswesing (2003 Digital Remaster)Kevin Ayers 8:13£1.89
Listen  6. Decadence (2003 Digital Remaster)Kevin Ayers 8:06£1.89
Listen  7. Oh! Wot A Dream (2003 Digital Remaster)Kevin Ayers 2:50£0.69
Listen  8. Don't Let It Get You Down (2003 Digital Remaster)Kevin Ayers 3:59£0.69
Listen  9. Interview (2003 Digital Remaster)Kevin Ayers 4:45£0.69
Listen10. Caribbean Moon (2003 Digital Remaster)Kevin Ayers 3:03£0.69
Listen11. The Up Song (2008 Digital Remaster)Kevin Ayers 3:18£0.69
Listen12. The Confessions Of Doctor Dream: Irreversible Neural Damage (2008 Digital Remaster)Kevin Ayers 6:46£0.69
Listen13. It Begins With A Blessing/Once I Awakened/But It Ends With A Curse (2008 Digital Remaster)Kevin Ayers 8:19£1.89
Listen14. See You Later/Didn't Feel Lonely 'til I Thought Of You (Medley) (2008 Digital Remaster)Kevin Ayers 4:41£0.69
Listen15. Ballbearing Blues (2008 Digital Remaster)Kevin Ayers0:56£0.69


Disc 3:

Samples
Song TitleArtist Time Price
Listen  1. After The Show (2005 Digital Remaster)Kevin Ayers 2:38£0.69
Listen  2. Thank You Very Much (2005 Digital Remaster)Kevin Ayers 3:03£0.69
Listen  3. Observations (2005 Digital Remaster)Kevin Ayers 4:23£0.69
Listen  4. Toujours La Voyage (2005 Digital Remaster)Kevin Ayers 7:58£1.89
Listen  5. Diminished But Not Finished (2005 Digital Remaster)Kevin Ayers 1:57£0.69
Listen  6. Farewell Again (Another Dawn) (2005 Digital Remaster)Kevin Ayers 3:14£0.69
Listen  7. Yes I Do (2008 Digital Remaster)Kevin Ayers 3:15£0.69
Listen  8. Love's Gonna Turn You Round (2008 Digital Remaster)Kevin Ayers 4:54£0.69
Listen  9. Ballad Of Mr Snake (2008 Digital Remaster)Kevin Ayers 2:09£0.69
Listen10. Blue (2008 Digital Remaster)Kevin Ayers 6:27£0.69
Listen11. Ballad Of A Salesman Who Sold Himself (2008 Digital Remaster)Kevin Ayers 4:31£0.69
Listen12. A View From The Mountain (2008 Digital Remaster)Kevin Ayers 6:18£0.69
Listen13. Beware Of The Dog II (2008 Digital Remaster)Kevin Ayers 6:00£0.69
Listen14. Hat Song (2008 Digital Remaster)Kevin Ayers 1:17£0.69
Listen15. Money, Money, Money (2008 Digital Remaster)Kevin Ayers 3:14£0.69
Listen16. Super Salesman (2008 Digital Remaster)Kevin Ayers 5:03£0.69
Listen17. Where Do The Stars End? (2008 Digital Remaster)Kevin Ayers 3:01£0.69


Disc 4:

Samples
Song TitleArtist Time Price
Listen  1. Banana Introduction (Live)Kevin Ayers 3:09£0.69
Listen  2. Stranger In Blue Suede Shoes (Live)Kevin Ayers 3:57£0.69
Listen  3. Interview (Live)Kevin Ayers 7:50£1.89
Listen  4. Whatevershebringswesing (Live)Kevin Ayers 7:23£1.89
Listen  5. Oh! Wot A Dream (Live)Kevin Ayers 3:47£0.69
Listen  6. Shouting In A Bucket Blues (Live)Kevin Ayers 5:16£0.69
Listen  7. Caribbean Moon (Live)Kevin Ayers 3:34£0.69
Listen  8. Don't Let It Get You Down (Live)Kevin Ayers 4:46£0.69
Listen  9. We Did It Again (Live)Kevin Ayers11:23£1.89
Listen10. Why Are We Sleeping? (Live)Kevin Ayers16:05£2.89
Listen11. After The Show (Live)Kevin Ayers 3:30£0.69

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars We did it Again - Another Kevin Ayers Compilation., 12 Sep 2008
By Fletch-a-sketch "Fletch" (Wiltshire, UK) - See all my reviews
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As a compilation of 'the best' of Kevin Ayers work it's not bad and a very good start point for the first 11 years what's missing is recordings from the other 28 years.
The pick of songs from the first 11 is wonderful, how can you go wrong the Syd Barrett version of 'singing a song' known as 'religious Experience' should attract Pink Floyd fans who have not already purchased the wonderful first album 'Joy of a Toy'. For the more serious Kevin Collectors the attraction of Live show from 1974 with radically different version of favourites 'we did it again' and 'why are we sleeping', missing some excellent songs always subjective but 'Lunatics Lament' from 'Shouting at the Moon' is a big favourite of mine with its massive Mike Oldfield Guitar solo.
Something for all, but where are those later Kevin Ayers albums on Harvest a proper re-master of 'Yes we have No Mananas' 'Rainbow takeaway' and 'That's what you get babe' would be most welcome.
A great but flawed box set of Kevin Ayers work.
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13 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Release the other albums!, 22 Aug 2008
By Alan Tully (England) - See all my reviews
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Any Kevin Ayers fan willing to spend £26 would already have these albums (I'm not that bothered about the live set). What EMI should be doing, is releasing the last three albums K.A. recorded for them, as they are now deleted & going for a lot of money on Amazon Marketplace. Anyone new to (the great) Kevin Ayers should buy EMIs first single disc compilation, it's very good, & under a fiver!
And could someone please release "Diamond Jack & The Queen Of Pain", it's far from Ayers best album, but I like it, & it's the only Kevin Ayers LP still not out on CD yet.
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5.0 out of 5 stars an essential collection from one of the all time greats, 19 Dec 2008
By John H (Leeds) - See all my reviews
This is an extremely well assembled collection of recordings from one of music's true unique greats. Ayers is a new discovery of mine brought about by his wonderful new album The Unfairground and his first from '69 the brilliantly skewed Joy Of A Toy. Ayers is being discovered by a new generation and this collection is certainly aimed at us as I am sure that most people who have been fans for a long time would have most of the original albums that this collection draws upon. But here's the thing..for us newbies this is a great way to get started and for established fans this is a great way for them to introduce their hero to others (and support the artist in a way that home made compilations do not, keeping in mind that supporting artists is important).
Songs for Insane Times no doubt omits some tracks that fans might have wanted to be included, but that is testimony to Ayers' genius rather than any failing on the part of the compiler. I have played through this entire collection many many times now and have not hit skip once.
The live concert is extremely good. I read an account of this particular concert somewhere which describes a point when a bright light was flashed at the audience who once their eyes had adjusted back were surprised to see the stage filled with dancing trees and all sorts. That sort of magic comes through on the recordings. The arrangement for 'why are we sleeping' must I am sure served as a template for the quiet,loud, quiet of the Pixies.
Kevin Ayers, like the true maverick he is, eschewed fame and publicity. If he had 'gone for it' I am certain he would be a household name as this collection clearly demonstrates.
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