Futurama

by Be-Bop Deluxe

Futurama cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: May 1975
  • Label: Harvest
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 2:15:08
  • Community rating: 3.66/5 from 2 ratings

Artists on this release: Charles Tumahai, Bill Nelson, Simon Fox, Roy Thomas Baker

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Co-produced by Roy Thomas Baker, 'Futurama' sees Bill Nelson significantly expanding Be-Bop Deluxe's sonic architecture past their initial glam-rock foundations. Nelson's fluid, hyper-technical guitar playing drives a suite of complex art-rock compositions heavily inspired by surrealism and science fiction.

Genres

Descriptors: complex, fantasy, melodic

Tracklist

  1. Stage Whispers (3:04)
  2. Love With The Madman (3:12)
  3. Maid In Heaven (2:26)
  4. Sister Seagull (3:35)
  5. Sound Track (6:18)
  6. Music In Dreamland (4:45)
  7. Jean Cocteau (2:52)
  8. Between The Worlds (3:19)
  9. Swan Song (6:09)
  10. Between The Worlds Single Version (3:19)
  11. Lights (2:42)
  12. Stage Whispers (3:04)
  13. Love With The Madman (3:17)
  14. Maid In Heaven (2:25)
  15. Sister Seagull (3:34)
  16. Sound Track (6:21)
  17. Music In Dreamland (4:44)
  18. Jean Cocteau (2:52)
  19. Between The Worlds (3:16)
  20. Swan Song (6:11)
  21. Between The Worlds Single Version (3:39)
  22. Lights (2:45)
  23. Music in Dreamland - Phonogram Studios Version (4:59)
  24. Between the Worlds - Alternate Single Version (3:32)
  25. Stage Whispers - BBC Radio 1 "John Peel Show", 11 March 1975 (3:23)
  26. Sister Seagull - BBC Radio 1 "John Peel Show", 11 March 1975 (3:35)
  27. Maid In Heaven - BBC Radio 1 "John Peel Show", 11 March 1975 (2:20)
  28. Lights - BBC Radio 1 "John Peel Show", 11 March 1975 (2:46)
  29. Stage Whispers - BBC Radio 1 "In Concert", 23 May 1975 (3:47)
  30. Third Floor Heaven - BBC Radio 1 "In Concert", 23 May 1975 (3:16)
  31. Adventures In A Yorkshire Landscape - BBC Radio 1 "In Concert", 23 May 1975 (5:57)
  32. Sister Seagull - BBC Radio 1 "In Concert", 23 May 1975 (4:19)
  33. Piece Of Mine - BBC Radio 1 "In Concert", 23 May 1975 (5:20)
  34. Maid In Heaven - BBC Radio 1 "In Concert", 23 May 1975 (2:36)
  35. Axe Victim - BBC Radio 1 "In Concert", 23 May 1975 (5:15)

Credits

  • Simon Fox - membranophone percussion
  • Bill Nelson - guitar family keyboard percussion, lead vocals vocal
  • Charles Tumahai - bass guitar percussion, vocal
  • Be Bop Deluxe - Primary Artist
  • Peter Oxendale - Arranged By [Brass Band]
  • The Grimethorpe Colliery Band - Brass Band
  • John Berryman - Conductor [Brass Band]
  • Andy Evans - Double Bass [String Bass]

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