England Screaming [LP]

Wreckless Eric - England Screaming [LP]

LP version. In 1985, Eric Goulden released an album entitled A Roomful Of Monkeys on the Go! Discs label under the name Captains Of Industry. It was a disaster -- most people didn't like it -- where it wasn't roundly ignored it was critically slated. Forty years later he decided to use these songs, written in the Medway Towns between 1982 and '84, as the basis for a new album: England Screaming. On the new recordings Eric played most of the instruments himself. Sam Shepherd played the drums, Amy Rigby and Marc Valentine sang backing vocals, and contributed piano along with Eric's art school friend, performance artist Graham (Graham) Beck. England Screaming is a sonically savage world apart from the insipid, half-arsed (Eric's words) original album. He has succeeded in marrying a young and unrealized vision to the wisdom and experience of his older years, incidentally posing the question: how far have we actually come as a society? As Wreckless Eric he needs little introduction -- he wrote and recorded the classic "Whole Wide World" and had a hit with it back in 1977. Since then it's been a hit for countless other artists including The Monkees, Cage The Elephant, and Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day. As Eric Goulden it's a little more complicated -- a musician, artist, writer, recording engineer and producer, he didn't like either the music business, the mechanics of fame, or the name he'd been given to hide behind, so he crawled out of the spotlight and disappeared into the underground. He went on to release twenty something albums in forty something years under various names -- The Len Bright Combo, Le Beat Group Electrique, The Donovan Of Trash, The Hitsville House Band, and with his wife as one half of Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby, finally realizing he was stuck with the name Wreckless Eric. 01. Lifeline_x000D_ 02. Home & Away_x000D_ 03. Playtime Is Over_x000D_ 04. Lady Of The Manor_x000D_ 05. Land Of The Faint At Heart_x000D_ 06. The Lucky Ones_x000D_ 07. Food Factory_x000D_ 08. Our Neck Of The Woods