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Cunning Stunts | ||||
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Released | 25 July 1975 | |||
Recorded | September 1974 – May 1975 | |||
Studio | Tollington Park Studios, London | |||
Genre | Progressive rock, Canterbury scene | |||
Length | 41:47 | |||
Label | Decca | |||
Producer | David Hitchcock | |||
Caravan chronology | ||||
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Cunning Stunts is the sixth studio album by the progressive rock band Caravan, released in 1975. It was their first album with the bass guitarist, vocalist and songwriter Mike Wedgwood. The title of the album is a spoonerism for "Stunning Cunts", which is typical of their cheeky use of language. Three previous Caravan albums with titles that are also sexual plays on words[ citation needed ] are If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You (1970), In the Land of Grey and Pink (1971) and For Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night (1973).
For a stretch of several days David Hitchcock was simultaneously producing Cunning Stunts and Renaissance's Scheherazade and Other Stories , so that he would have to work on Cunning Stunts at Tollington Park Studios during the day and on Scheherazade and Other Stories at Abbey Road Studios at night, an arrangement which Hitchcock felt negatively impacted both albums. [1]
Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [2] |
AllMusic described it as "a solid, varied, and interesting album with plenty of character." [2]
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "The Show of Our Lives" | John Murphy, Dave Sinclair | 5:47 |
2. | "Stuck in a Hole" | Pye Hastings | 3:09 |
3. | "Lover" | Mike Wedgwood | 5:06 |
4. | "No Backstage Pass" | Pye Hastings | 4:34 |
5. | "Welcome the Day" | Mike Wedgwood | 4:01 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "The Dabsong Conshirtoe"
| John Murphy, Dave Sinclair | 18:00 |
2. | "Fear and Loathing in Tollington Park Rag" | Geoffrey Richardson | 1:10 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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8. | "Stuck in a Hole" (single version) | Pye Hastings | 3:10 |
9. | "Keeping Back My Love" | Pye Hastings | 5:14 |
10. | "For Richard" (Live at the Fairfield Halls, 1974) | Richard Coughlan, Hastings, Sinclair, Richard Sinclair | 18:34 |
Chart (1975) | Peak position |
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UK Albums (OCC) [4] | 50 |
US Billboard 200 [5] | 124 |
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