Procol Harum - Exotic Birds and Fruit (Expanded Edition) (1974/2018)

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Title: Exotic Birds and Fruit (Expanded Edition)
Year Of Release: 1974/2018
Label: Esoteric Recordings
Genre: Progressive Rock, Classic Rock, Psychedelic Rock
Quality: 320 kbps | FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 02:52:27
Total Size: 400 mb | 1 gb
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Tracklist:

01. Procol Harum - Nothing but the Truth
02. Procol Harum - Beyond the Pale
03. Procol Harum - As Strong as Samson
04. Procol Harum - The Idol
05. Procol Harum - The Thin End of the Wedge
06. Procol Harum - Monsieur R Monde
07. Procol Harum - Fresh Fruit
08. Procol Harum - Butterfly Boys
09. Procol Harum - New Lamps for Old
10. Procol Harum - Drunk Again
11. Procol Harum - As Strong as Samson (2009 Mix in D-flat)
12. Procol Harum - Conquistador (BBC Radio One in Concert 1974)
13. Procol Harum - Whaling Stories
14. Procol Harum - Bringing Home the Bacon (BBC Radio One in Concert 1974)
15. Procol Harum - New Lamps for Old (BBC Radio One in Concert 1974)
16. Procol Harum - Beyond the Pale (BBC Radio One in Concert 1974)
17. Procol Harum - As Strong as Samson (BBC Radio in Concert 1974)
18. Procol Harum - Simple Sister
19. Procol Harum - The Idol (BBC Radio One in Concert 1974)
20. Procol Harum - Grand Hotel
21. Procol Harum - Butterfly Boys (BBC Radio One in Concert 1974)
22. Procol Harum - Nothing but the Truth (BBC Radio One in Concert 1974)
23. Procol Harum - Conquistador (Live at Dallas Sound Studio)
24. Procol Harum - Bringing Home the Bacon (Live at Dallas Sound Studio)
25. Procol Harum - Long Gone Geek
26. Procol Harum - Homburg
27. Procol Harum - Cerdes (Outside the Gates of)
28. Procol Harum - Beyond the Pale (Live at Dallas Sound Studio)
29. Procol Harum - Power Failure
30. Procol Harum - As Strong as Samson (Live at Dallas Sound Studio)
31. Procol Harum - The Idol (Alternate Take)
32. Procol Harum - Butterfly Boys (Live at Dallas Sound Studio)
33. Procol Harum - Mabel
34. Procol Harum - Nothing but the Truth (Live at Dallas Sound Studio)
35. Procol Harum - New Lamps for Old (Live at Dallas Sound Studio)

Procol Harum's seventh studio album, Exotic Birds and Fruit, was released in April 1974. In its original LP incarnation, four songs made up side one "Nothing But the Truth," "Beyond the Pale," "As Strong as Samson," and "The Idol" all of which featured some of the band's best later work. They had retreated somewhat from the orchestral hybrid of their previous album, Grand Hotel, although "Nothing But the Truth" still boasted a string arrangement. They replaced the sweetening with extra muscle in the remaining instruments, making this one of the group's harder rocking sets. And lyricist Keith Reid, having explored elegant decay in Grand Hotel, was unusually straightforward in his social prescriptions here. True, the words still dripped with literary references to everything from Shakespeare to ancient mythology, but, as Reid declared up front, this time he was interested in "Nothing But the Truth." He expressed that truth most eloquently in "As Strong as Samson," an outright political statement, if one spoken in general terms. The song was also downcast, and composer/singer/pianist Gary Brooker gave it a lovely, wistful melody. The disillusionment was completed with the final song on the first side and its tagline, "Just another idol turned to clay." In contrast to the masterpiece that was side one, side two of the LP was uneven, containing second-echelon songs, the best of them perhaps being the most lighthearted, "Fresh Fruit," a tune that gave Brooker a chance to exercise his barrelhouse piano talents. In this CD reissue, annotator Patrick Humphries suggests that the rocker "Butterfly Boys" might have been directed at the executives at the band's label, Chrysalis Records. If so, they must have been unhappy, as Brooker cried, "Give us a break! We got the crumbs...you got the cake." The reissue adds two bonus tracks, the first being the non-LP B-side "Drunk Again" (Reid writes so much about drinking, it makes you worry about his liver), a rocker that allows Brooker to bring out his inner Jerry Lee Lewis. The second is an alternate mix of "As Strong as Samson" that is in a lower key than the master take. Since it seems to be the same take, just a bit slower (and 17 seconds longer), that may account for its being in D flat.


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Many thanks for lossless.