Of Queues and Cures | ||||
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Released | December 1978 | |||
Recorded | July 1978 at Ridge Farm Studio | |||
Genre | Jazz fusion, progressive rock, avant-garde jazz, psychedelic rock, art rock | |||
Length | 52:02 | |||
Label | Charly Records, Esoteric Recordings (reissue) | |||
Producer | Mike Dunne | |||
National Health chronology | ||||
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Of Queues and Cures (also identified as Of Queues & Cures) is the second album recorded by the progressive rock and jazz fusion group National Health, one of the last representatives of the artistically prolific Canterbury scene.
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The editors of AllMusic awarded the album 41⁄2 stars, and reviewer Dave Lynch praised the album's "complexity and quirkiness," writing: "Of Queues and Cures is one of the last and finest examples of the instrumental Canterbury sound on record during the 1970s." [1]
John Kelman of All About Jazz stated that "there's a strength about the new line-up that makes its short-lived duration all the more unfortunate," and praised "The Bryden Two-Step (For Amphibians), Pt. 1," noting: "Episodic in construction, with more things going for its nine minutes than most entire albums have, it's brighter, more committed and more powerfully played than... anything on the group's first effort." [2]
In his book 1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die , Tom Moon listed the album as a suggested follow-up to Robert Wyatt's Rock Bottom . [3]
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "The Bryden Two-Step (For Amphibians), Pt. 1" | Dave Stewart | 8:54 |
2. | "The Collapso" | Stewart | 6:19 |
3. | "Squarer for Maud" | John Greaves | 11:51 |
4. | "Dreams Wide Awake" | Phil Miller | 8:50 |
5. | "Binoculars" | Pip Pyle | 11:45 |
6. | "Phlâkatön" | Pyle | 0:09 |
7. | "The Bryden Two-Step (For Amphibians), Pt. 2" | Stewart | 5:31 |
8. | "Paracelsus (Excerpt)" (Bonus Track) | ||
9. | "The Apocalypso" (Bonus Track) |
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