I Often Dream of Trains

by Robyn Hitchcock

I Often Dream of Trains cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: September 1984
  • Label: Midnight Music
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 39:34
  • Community rating: 3.92/5 from 7 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Robyn Hitchcock's stripped-down acoustic album marks a deeply intimate, surreal departure from his full-band psychedelic pop output. Driven by his eccentric, highly literate songwriting and delicate piano and guitar work, the record explores themes of autumn, nostalgia, and peculiar English landscapes. It remains a highly melodic, melancholic, and deeply idiosyncratic masterpiece of alternative folk.

Genres

Descriptors: a-cappella, acoustic, melodic, minimalistic, literate, bizarre, witty, fuzz, literary

Tracklist

  1. Nocturne (Prelude) (1:39)
  2. Sometimes I Wish I Was a Pretty Girl (1:58)
  3. Cathedral (3:43)
  4. Uncorrected Personality Traits (1:45)
  5. Sounds Great When You're Dead (3:23)
  6. Flavour of Night (2:59)
  7. Ye Sleeping Nights of Jesus (4:01)
  8. This Could Be The Day (2:46)
  9. Trams of Old London (3:29)
  10. Furry Green Atom Bowl (3:16)
  11. Heart Full of Leaves (2:30)
  12. Autumn Is Your Last Chance (3:31)
  13. I Often Dream of Trains (2:23)
  14. Nocturne (Demise) (2:06)

Credits

  • Robyn Hitchcock - primary artist, written-by
  • Iain O'Higgins - engineer
  • Pascal Gabriel - engineer
  • Pat Collier - engineer
  • John Dent - lacquer cut by
  • James Fletcher - saxophone
  • Chris Cox - bass

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