Songs for Ships and Irons

Songs for Ships and Irons
Songs for Ships and Irons
Compilation album by Cardiacs
Released	1991, 1995
Genre	Art rock, progressive rock
Length	45:49
Label	Alphabet Business Concern
Producer	Tim Smith; Cover Photography Robin Fransella
Cardiacs chronology

Songs for Ships and Irons is a compilation album by the band Cardiacs.

Source material[]

Songs for Ships and Irons combines the whole of the Big Ship mini-album, the whole of the "There's Too Many Irons In The Fire" 12-inch single and the B-sides of the "Susannah's Still Alive" 12-inch single. It also includes a bonus song called "Everything is Easy," a longstanding live favorite not previously released as a studio recording. Some of the quiet talking in between tracks from the original Big Ship mini-album differs from the original release in having been edited/lowered in volume.

The album was out of print, but is available from the Cardiacs website.

Track listing[]

All songs written by Tim Smith unless otherwise indicated.

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Big Ship"		5:47
2.	"Tarred and Feathered"	William D. Drake, Smith	3:31
3.	"Burn Your House Brown"		2:37
4.	"Stoneage Dinosaurs"		5:22
5.	"Plane Plane Against the Grain"		1:21
6.	"Everything Is Easy!"		3:49
7.	"There's Too Many Irons in the Fire"		3:17
8.	"All Spectacular"		2:35
9.	"Blind in Safety and Leafy in Love"	Drake, Smith	2:46
10.	"Loosefish Scapegrace"		7:46
11.	"All His Geese Are Swans!"		6:58
Total length:			45:49

Personnel[]

Tim Smith - guitar, vocals
Jim Smith - bass
Sarah Smith - saxophone
William D. Drake - keyboards
Dominic Luckman - drums
Tim Quy - percussion

References[]

External links[]

Cardiacs website