The Beginner's Guide to Throwing Shapes

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The Beginner's Guide to Throwing Shapes
Saga beginners guide.jpg
Studio album by
Saga
ReleasedDecember 1989 (1989-12) [1]
2003 incl. bonus track [2]
2015 [3]
Recorded1989
StudioPicture This Studios
Pilot Studios
Genre Progressive rock
Length44:34
Label SPV, Steamhammer, earMUSIC
Producer Saga
Saga chronology
Wildest Dreams
(1987)		The Beginner's Guide to Throwing Shapes
(1989)		 The Works
(1991)

The Beginner's Guide to Throwing Shapes is the eighth studio album by Saga, originally released in 1989. [4] It is also the second album recorded by the band without longtime drummer Steve Negus and keyboardist Jim Gilmour, who temporarily left the band over management concerns.

Contents

Track listing

All music is composed by Michael Sadler, Jim Crichton and Ian Crichton.

Side One
No.TitleLength
1."How Do I Look?"4:33
2."Starting All Over"4:01
3."Shape"5:10
4."Odd Man Out"4:54
5."The Nineties"4:16
Side Two
No.TitleLength
6."Scarecrow"4:20
7."As I Am"5:15
8."Waiting in the Wings"4:55
9."Giant"7:10
2003 Bonus Track
No.TitleLength
1."Framed" (Live)5:46
2015 Bonus Tracks
No.TitleLength
1."Wind Him Up" (Live)5:46
2."The Flyer" (Live)4:17

Personnel

Production

References

  1. ↑ AllMusic The Beginner's Guide to Throwing Shapes > Overview, Accessed 6 December 2009
  2. ↑ AllMusic The Beginner's Guide to Throwing Shapes > Bonus Track, Accessed 6 December 2009
  3. ↑ http://www.ear-music.net/en/artists/latest-news/details/saga/saga-reissue-series-the-beginners-guide-to-throwing-shapes/ [ dead link ]
  4. ↑ https://www.allmusic.com/album/r204542
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