Head Like a Rock

by Ian McNabb

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  • Type: Album
  • Released: July 1994
  • Label: This Way Up
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 1:45:05
  • Community rating: 3.83/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Former Icicle Works frontman Ian McNabb secured a Mercury Music Prize nomination with this expansive sophomore solo effort. 'Head Like a Rock' notably features backing instrumentation from Neil Young's legendary band Crazy Horse, lending a gritty, hard rock edge to McNabb's folk rock songwriting.

Genres

Descriptors: guitar-driven, bombastic, soaring, majestic, jangly

Tracklist

  1. Fire Inside My Soul (8:34)
  2. You Must Be Prepared To Dream (6:57)
  3. Child Inside A Father (9:01)
  4. Still Got The Fever (7:28)
  5. Potency (4:37)
  6. Go Into The Light (4:08)
  7. As A Life Goes By (4:42)
  8. Sad Strange Solitary Catholic Mystic (4:44)
  9. This Time Is Forever (7:35)
  10. May You Always (8:50)
  11. That's Why The Darkness Exists (3:23)
  12. Sometimes I Think About You (4:20)
  13. Woo Yer (3:20)
  14. Love Is A Wonderful Colour (4:17)
  15. When It All Comes Down (4:27)
  16. Time You Were In Love (4:25)
  17. Go Into The Light - Celestial Dub Mix (7:21)
  18. Rock (3:00)
  19. I Stood Before St.Peter (3:47)

Credits

  • Billy Talbot - backing vocals, bass
  • Maxi Anderson - backing vocals
  • Mike 'Tone' Hamilton - backing vocals, rhythm guitar
  • Mona Lisa Young - backing vocals
  • Ralph Molina - backing vocals, drums, lead vocals [dual lead vocal]
  • Terry Young - backing vocals
  • James "Hutch" Hutchinson - bass
  • Martin Tillman - cello

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