Waifs & Strays (album)

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Waifs & Strays
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Compilation album by Ian McNabb
Released 1 October 2001 (2001-10-01)
Recorded 1993–2000
Genre Pop
Label Evangeline
Producer Robert Ian McNabb

Waifs & Strays is an Ian McNabb album of previously unreleased archival material recorded between 1993 and 2000. [1] [2] [3]

Ian McNabb British musician

Robert Ian McNabb is an English singer-songwriter and musician. Previously the frontman of The Icicle Works, McNabb has since embarked on a solo career and performed with Ringo Starr, Neil Young/Crazy Horse, Mike Scott, and Danny Thompson of folk band Pentangle.

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Critical response

Andrew Mueller gave a critical review stating that "the songs here, while occasionally affecting, are mostly a series of explanations for McNabb's relative obscurity." He also stated that "Waifs & Strays is the definitive cult item", but conceded that "Its release makes a certain amount of sense". [4]

Andrew Mueller is an Australian-born, London-based journalist and author. He is a contributing editor at Monocle, and also regularly writes for The Independent, The Independent on Sunday, The Financial Times, Esquire, The Guardian, Arena, The Times, Uncut, High Life, Harper's Bazaar, New Humanist, The Quietus, eMusic, and openDemocracy.net. He is the author of "Rock & Hard Places", "I Wouldn't Start From Here", "It's Too Late To Die Young Now", and was a contributing editor to the fifth edition of Robert Young Pelton's "The World's Most Dangerous Places". He was Reviews Editor for Melody Maker 1991 to 1993.

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Loveless Age"6:45
2."Camaderie"4:24
3."Fire Inside My Soul"6:15
4."Gak Mummy No. 1"2:11
5."I'm A Genius"4:54
6."Me And The Devil"9:33
7."Why are the beautiful so sad?"4:23
8."Misty Meadows"5:14
9."Not Lost Enough To Be Rescued"8:30
10."Time Of My Time"4:56
11."Great Dreams Of Heaven"4:57
12."Nobody Say Nothin' To No One"4:24
13."You Stone My Soul"4:56
14."The New Golden Age"7:34

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References

  1. ↑ "Ian McNabb - Waifs And Strays CD Album". Cduniverse.com. 2002-02-21. Retrieved 2012-10-18.
  2. ↑ Leslie Carl Seiler. "merseybeasts • ian mcnabb discography". Merseybeasts.com. Retrieved 2012-10-18.
  3. ↑ "Waifs and Strays - Ian McNabb : Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards". AllMusic. 2001-11-13. Retrieved 2012-10-18.
  4. ↑ "Product : Waifs and Strays by Ian McNabb". SWAPSHOP.co.uk. 2009-05-01. Retrieved 2012-10-18.
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