Nice Enough to Eat

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Nice Enough to Eat
Nice Enough to Eat cover
Compilation album by Various Artists
Released November 1969
Genre Rock
Label Island IWPS 6
Producer Various
Series chronology
You Can All Join In
(1969)		 Nice Enough To Eat
(1969)		 Bumpers
(1970)

Nice Enough To Eat is a sampler album released by Island Records in 1969. Continuing the policy set by its predecessor You Can All Join In, the album presented tracks from the latest albums by established artists (Free, Traffic, Jethro Tull) and introduced tasters from newer signings to the label.

It was combined with You Can All Join In for a CD Re-release in August 1992 entitled "Nice Enough To Join In" (Island Records IMCD 150).

Contents

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Side one

  1. "Cajun Woman" (Thompson) – Fairport Convention – (from Unhalfbricking (ILPS 9102))
  2. "At the Crossroads" (Sahm) – Mott the Hoople – (from Mott the Hoople (ILPS 9108))
  3. "Better By You, Better Than Me" (Wright) – Spooky Tooth – (from Spooky Two (ILPS 9107))
  4. "We Used To Know" (Anderson) - Jethro Tull – (from Stand Up (ILPS 9103))
  5. "Woman" (Fraser/Rodgers) – Free – (from Free (ILPS 9104))8
  6. "I Keep Singing That Same Old Song" (Gibson)[1] – Heavy Jelly – from the Island 7" (b/w "Blue") (WIP 6049)

[edit] Side two

  1. "Sing Me A Song That I Know" (Abrahams) – Blodwyn Pig – (from A Head Rings Out (ILPS 9101))
  2. "(Roamin' Thro' The Gloamin' With) Forty Thousand Headmen" (Winwood/Capaldi) – Traffic – (from Traffic[2] (ILPS 9112))
  3. Time Has Told Me" (Drake) – Nick Drake – (from Five Leaves Left (ILPS 9106))
  4. "21st Century Schizoid Man" (Fripp/McDonald/Lake/Giles/Sinfield)– King Crimson – (from In the Court of the Crimson King[3] (ILPS 911))
  5. "Gungamai" (Rothfield/Shankar/Bhava) – Quintessence – (from In Blissful Company (ILPS 9113))
  6. "Strangely Strange But Oddly Normal" (Pawle) – Dr. Strangely Strange – (from Kip of the Serenes (ILPS 9105))

[edit] The Album Cover

The cover was designed by Mike Sida who had already provided the cover for Spooky Two, and went on to produce several further classic Island album covers including Free's Fire and Water and Traffic's "John Barleycorn Must Die". The front cover's simple motif of names of featured bands spelled out in what appear to be alphabet soup letters (in a combination of blue/biscuit colours alone) is subverted on the rear cover, where most of the letters have been dispersed and replaced by what seem to be brightly-coloured tablets. The presence of (at least parts of) medicine capsules (including the familiar light green and cream of Prozac) might make a suspicious observer suspect a reference to drugs.
The rear cover also features the track listing and thumbnail images of eight of the featured albums (1.1-4, 2.1, 2.3-4 & 2.6).

[edit] References

  1. ^ This was Colin Gibson of Skip Bifferty, who briefly recorded as Heavy Jelly[1][2]
  2. ^ The credit refers to "Best of Traffic" but no album of that title had been made as of that time
  3. ^ Subtitled "An Observation by King Crimson"