Egg (album)

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Egg
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Studio album by
Egg
Released1970
Studio Lansdowne Studios, Trident Studios London
Genre Progressive rock, experimental rock
Length40:30
Label Deram
Producer Egg
Egg chronology
Egg
(1970)
The Polite Force
(1971)
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Egg is the 1970 debut album by British progressive rock band Egg.

Contents

Track listing

The album was originally released on vinyl by Deram.

All songs by Clive Brooks, Mont Campbell and Dave Stewart, except where noted.

Side one

  1. "Bulb" (Peter Gallen) – 0:09
  2. "While Growing My Hair" – 3:53
  3. "I Will Be Absorbed" – 5:10
  4. "Fugue in D Minor" (Johann Sebastian Bach) – 2:46
  5. "They Laughed When I Sat Down at the Piano…" – 1:17
  6. "The Song of McGillicudie the Pusillanimous (Or Don't Worry James, Your Socks Are Hanging in the Coal Cellar with Thomas)" – 5:07
  7. "Boilk" – 1:00

Side two

  1. "Symphony No. 2" – 20:43
    • Movement 1
    • Movement 2
    • Blane
    • Movement 4

2004 re-issue

The album was re-issued on CD in February 2004 by Eclectic Discs. Remastered from the original tapes, the re-issue has three bonus tracks, including both sides of the band's first and only single ("Seven Is a Jolly Good Time/You Are All Princes") and "Movement 3" from "Symphony No. 2", which was omitted from the original LP due to copyright difficulties because its tune bears a similarity to part of Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring . There are also similarities to the final Neptune movement of Gustav Holst's orchestral suite The Planets .

The track listing is as follows:

  1. "Bulb" – 0:09
  2. "While Growing My Hair" – 4:02
  3. "I Will Be Absorbed" – 5:11
  4. "Fugue in D Minor" – 2:49
  5. "They Laughed When I Sat Down at the Piano…" – 1:21
  6. "The Song of McGillicudie the Pusillanimous (or don't worry James, your socks are hanging in the coal cellar with Thomas)" – 5:07
  7. "Boilk" – 1:04
  8. "Symphony No. 2" – 23:54
    • Movement 1 – 5:47
    • Movement 2 – 6:18
    • Blane – 5:28
    • Movement 3 – 3:11 *
    • Movement 4 – 3:10
  9. "Seven Is a Jolly Good Time" – 2:47 *
  10. "You Are All Princes" – 3:45 *

Personnel

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References

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  2. Henderson, Paul (February 2005). "Egg 'Egg'". Classic Rock . Vol. 76. London, UK: Future Publishing Ltd. p. 102.