词条 | Black Snake Diamond Röle |
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| name = Black Snake Dîamond Röle | type = Album | artist = Robyn Hitchcock | cover = RHBlackSnake.jpg | alt = | released = May 1981 | recorded = 1980-81, the Barge, Alaska, Music Works | venue = | studio = | genre = Neo-psychedelia | length = 57:49 | label = Armageddon | producer = Pat Collier Matthew Seligman Jim Neill (reissue) | prev_title = | prev_year = | next_title = Groovy Decay | next_year = 1982 }}{{Album ratings | rev1 = Allmusic | rev1Score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}[1] }} Black Snake Dîamond Röle is the debut solo album by former Soft Boys frontman Robyn Hitchcock. Backed on various tracks by his former Soft Boy mates Kimberley Rew, Matthew Seligman and Morris Windsor, Hitchcock confessed satisfaction at being able to record an album with only his own artistic goals to cater to, whereas previously he had been compelled to write for the band. Vince Ely of the Psychedelic Furs, Knox and Pat Collier of the Vibrators, Gary Barnacle and Thomas Dolby also make guest backing appearances. The sessions were recorded from June 1980 to January 1981 at the Barge, Alaska Studios in Waterloo, London, and Music Works with Pat Collier producing ("with a little help from Matthew Seligman"). The ensuing set falls somewhere between the harder edged style of The Soft Boys and Hitchcock's more reflective and melodic work with The Egyptians a few years later. Released in May 1981, the album included ten original Hitchcock compositions. Key tracks include concert favourites "Acid Bird" and the rocker "Brenda's Iron Sledge", plus some of Hitchcock's patent comedy in "Do Policemen Sing?" and "The Man Who Invented Himself". The album's working title "Zinc Pear" is retained in the cover art, although the title eventually settled on refers instead to the early Soft Boys recording "Black Snake Diamond Rock". (Another working title had it listed as "The Perfumed Corpse".) The cover art and calligraphy are Hitchcock's work (credited as "R.R.H."), and the inner sleeve of the LP featured an original, cosmic Hitchcock pen-and-ink comic titled The Enchanted Sewer. The album has subsequently re-emerged on CD three times, with a mixture of bonus titles, pulled from B sides and outtakes. The 2nd and 3rd CD issues include a different mix of "The Man Who Invented Himself" sans horns, the original master having been lost in the intervening fourteen years. In 2017, Hitchcock sporadically performed the album in-full live alongside Yo La Tengo. Track listingAll songs written by Robyn Hitchcock. Side one
Side two
1st CD issue bonus tracks (Aftermath Records 1987)
2nd CD issue (Rhino Records 1995)
2nd CD issue bonus tracks (Rhino Records 1995)
3rd CD issue bonus tracks (Yep Roc Records 2007)
"Dancing on Gods Thumb" is dropped. The other bonus tracks previously available on the Rhino version have their stereo fields reversed compared to that release. Album tracks are same as Rhino version, i.e. still Zinc Pear mix of "The Man Who Invented himself". Personnel
References1. ^{{cite web|author=Mark Deming |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/black-snake-diamond-role-rhino-mw0000650254 |title=Black Snake Diamond Role [Rhino] - Robyn Hitchcock | Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards |publisher=AllMusic |date= |accessdate=2014-05-22}} {{Robyn Hitchcock}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Black Snake Diamond Role}} 2 : Robyn Hitchcock albums|1981 debut albums |
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