The Greatest Living Englishman

by Martin Newell

The Greatest Living Englishman cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1 November 1993
  • Label: Humbug
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 46:30
  • Community rating: 3.8/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Produced by Andy Partridge of XTC, this solo release from the Cleaners from Venus frontman is a pristine, meticulously crafted homage to 1960s British psychedelic pop. The jangly, highly melodic arrangements expertly frame his wistful, deeply nostalgic narratives of English eccentricity and fading rural landscapes.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic, conscious, jangly, british, literate

Tracklist

  1. Goodbye Dreaming Fields (3:56)
  2. Before The Hurricane (3:03)
  3. We'll Build a House (2:34)
  4. Tribute to the Greatest Living Englishman (4:32)
  5. She Rings the Changes (3:58)
  6. Home Counties Boy (3:17)
  7. A Street Called Prospect (3:30)
  8. Christmas in Surburbia (3:30)
  9. Straight to You Boy (4:47)
  10. The Jangling Man (5:13)
  11. The Green-Gold Girl of Summer (5:58)
  12. An Englishmans Home (2:06)

Credits

  • Captain Sensible - guitar [solo]

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