All That Glitters Is a Mares Nest

by Cardiacs

All That Glitters Is a Mares Nest cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 15 May 1995
  • Label: Alphabet Business Concern
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 1:18:37
  • Community rating: 4.12/5 from 3 ratings

Artists on this release: Tim Quy, Jim Smith, Dominic Luckman, Christian Hayes, Tim Smith, William D. Drake

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Documenting a dizzyingly complex 1990 performance, this live release perfectly showcases Tim Smith's incredibly demanding fusion of punk energy and avant-prog arrangements. The band seamlessly executes breakneck time-signature changes and bizarre, theatrical dissonance with a terrifying, cult-like precision.

Genres

Descriptors: progressive, uncommon-time-signatures, complex, eccentric, theatrical

Tracklist

  1. The Duck And Roger The Horse (6:42)
  2. There's Too Many Irons In The Fire (3:26)
  3. It's A Lovely Day (4:51)
  4. Everything Is Easy (3:57)
  5. Two Bites Of Cherry (4:50)
  6. I Hold My Love In My Arms (1:13)
  7. Arnald (2:44)
  8. Baby Heart Dirt (4:05)
  9. All Spectacular (2:41)
  10. To Go Off And Things (8:03)
  11. The Leader Of The Starry Skies (4:34)
  12. Tarred And Feathered (4:32)
  13. Fast Robert (3:33)
  14. Big Ship (7:04)
  15. Visiting Hours (1:49)
  16. R.E.S. (6:47)
  17. Is This The Life (7:46)

Credits

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