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Track List
01) The Rutland Reel / Sack the Juggler
02) The Cat on the Mixer / Three Left Feet
03) Bankruptured
04) Portmeirion
05) Jams O'Donnell's Jig
06) Expletive Delighted
07) Sigh Beg Sigh Mór
08) Innstück
09) The Gas Almost Works
10) Hanks for the Memory: Shazam / Pipeline / Ap
01) The Rutland Reel / Sack the Juggler
02) The Cat on the Mixer / Three Left Feet
03) Bankruptured
04) Portmeirion
05) Jams O'Donnell's Jig
06) Expletive Delighted
07) Sigh Beg Sigh Mór
08) Innstück
09) The Gas Almost Works
10) Hanks for the Memory: Shazam / Pipeline / Ap
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First Released
1986
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"Expletive Delighted!" is a 1986 album by folk rock band Fairport Convention. It is the band's only album consisting solely of instrumental tracks, despite the claim "Lyric sheet enclosed" on the album cover.
Ric Sanders, who had played on some tracks on the previous album Gladys' Leap, was invited to join Fairport full-time, as was Maartin Allcock; the result, according to Dave Pegg,
"Ric and Maart were both writing stuff, composing these great instrumental pieces. I thought we should do something immediately, catch the moment. So we put out an all instrumental album, Expletive Delighted. I really wanted to show everyone just what these new chaps could do, how brilliantly they could play. ... The line-up meant we could tour again, it meant we had new material for Cropredy, it meant there was a Fairport again. So from 1986 on, Cropredy wasn't just a reunion festival any more. We had a band."
This new lineup would last for the next eleven years, the most stable of all of Fairport's configurations to that point.
Allmusic's reviewer described Expletive Delighted! as "alternately enjoyable and maddening", criticising the prominence of Dave Mattacks's drums in the mix, while praising "Portmeirion" and the title track as "delicate and beautiful as any work that this version of the band has done".
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"Expletive Delighted!" is a 1986 album by folk rock band Fairport Convention. It is the band's only album consisting solely of instrumental tracks, despite the claim "Lyric sheet enclosed" on the album cover.
Ric Sanders, who had played on some tracks on the previous album Gladys' Leap, was invited to join Fairport full-time, as was Maartin Allcock; the result, according to Dave Pegg,
"Ric and Maart were both writing stuff, composing these great instrumental pieces. I thought we should do something immediately, catch the moment. So we put out an all instrumental album, Expletive Delighted. I really wanted to show everyone just what these new chaps could do, how brilliantly they could play. ... The line-up meant we could tour again, it meant we had new material for Cropredy, it meant there was a Fairport again. So from 1986 on, Cropredy wasn't just a reunion festival any more. We had a band."
This new lineup would last for the next eleven years, the most stable of all of Fairport's configurations to that point.
Allmusic's reviewer described Expletive Delighted! as "alternately enjoyable and maddening", criticising the prominence of Dave Mattacks's drums in the mix, while praising "Portmeirion" and the title track as "delicate and beautiful as any work that this version of the band has done".
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