1. Fanfare for the Comic Muse - 1990
Tracks:
1. Ignorance Is Bliss / 2. Indian Rain 3. Bleak Landscape / 4. Tailspin / 5. The Rise and Fall / 6 . Logic vs Emotion / 7. Secret Garden
Rating :
2. Liberation - 1993
Tracks:
1. Festive Road / 2. Death of a Supernaturalist / 3. Bernice Bobs Her Hair / 4. I Was Born Yesterday / 5 . Your Daddy's Car / 6. Europop / 7. Timewatching / 8. The Pop Singer's Fear of the Pollen Count / 9. Queen of the South / 10. Victoria Falls / 11. Three Sisters / 12. Europe by Train / 13. Lucy
Rating : 8
3. La Cigale 6-11-93
Tracks:
1. Bernice Bobs Her Hair / 2. Three Sisters / 3. I Was Born Yesterday / 4. Your Daddy's Car / 5. Life's What You Make It / 6. Europe by Train / 7. Lucy / 8. Jackie
Rating :
4. Promenade - 1994
Tracks:
1. Bath / 2. Going Downhill Fast / 3. The Booklovers / 4. A Seafood Song / 5. Geronimo / 6. Don't Look Down / 7. When the Lights Go Out All Over Europe / 8. The Summerhouse / 9. Neptune's Daughter / 10. A Drinking Song / 11. Ten Seconds to Midnight / 12. Tonight We Fly
Rating : 7
5. Casanova - 1996
Tracks:
1. Something for the Weekend / 2. Becoming More Like Alfie / 3. Middle-Class Heroes / 4. In and Out in Paris and London / 5. Charge / 6. Songs of Love / 7. The Frog Princess / 8. A Woman of the World / 9. Through a Long and Sleepless Night / 10. Theme From Casanova / 11. The Dogs and the Horses
Rating : 7
6. A Short Album About Love - 1997
Tracks:
1. In Pursuit of Happiness / 2. Everybody Knows / 3. Someone / 4. If... / 5. If I Were You / 6. Timewatching / 7. I'm All You Need
Rating : 7
7. Fin de siècle - 1998
Tracks:
1. Generation Sex / 2. Thrillseeker / 3. Commuter Love / 4. Sweden / 5. Eric the Gardener´/ 6. National Express / 7. Life on Earth / 8. The Certainty of Chance / 9. Here Comes the Flood / 10. Sunrise
Rating : 6
8. Regeneration - 2001
Tracks:
1. Timestretched / 2. Bad Ambassador / 3. Perfect Lovesong / 4. Note to Self / 5. Lost Property / 6. Eye of the Needle / 7. Love What You Do / 8. Dumb It Down / 9. Mastermind / 10. Regeneration / 11. The Beauty Regime
Rating : 8
9. Absent Friends - 2004
Tracks:
1. Absent Friends / 2. Sticks & Stones / 3. Leaving Today / 4. Come Home Billy Bird / 5. My Imaginary Friend / 6. The Wreck of the Beautiful / 7. Our Mutual Friend / 8. The Happy Goth / 9. Freedom Road / 10. Laika's Theme / 11. Charmed Life
Rating : 8
10. Victory for the Comic Muse - 2006
Tracks:
1. To Die a Virgin / 2. Mother Dear / 3. Diva Lady / 4. A Lady of a Certain Age / 5. The Light of Day / 6. Threesome / 7. Party Fears Two / 8. Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World / 9. The Plough / 10. Count Grassi's Passage Over Piedmont / 11. Snowball in Negative
Rating : 8
11. The Duckworth Lewis Method - 2009
Tracks:
1. The Coin Toss / 2. The Age of Revolution / 3. Gentlemen and Players / 4. The Sweet Spot / 5. Jiggery Pokery / 6. Mason on the Boundary / 7. Rain Stops Play / 8. Meeting Mr Miandad / 9. The Nightwatchman / 10 / Flatten the Hay / 11. Test Match Special / 12. The End of the Over
Rating : 9
12. Bang Goes the Knighthood - 2010
Tracks:
1. Down in the Street Below / 2. The Complete Banker / 3. Neapolitan Girl / 4. Bang Goes the Knighthood / 5. At the Indie Disco / 6. Have You Ever Been in Love / 7. Assume the Perpendicular / 8. The Lost Art of Conversation / 9. Island Life / 10. When a Man Cries / 11. Can You Stand Upon One Leg / 12. I Like
Rating : 9
13. Sticky Wickets (The Duckworth Lewis Method) - 2013
Tracks:
1. Sticky wickets / 2. Boom Boom Afridi / 3. It’s Just Not Cricket / 4. The Umpire / 5. Third Man / 6. Chin Music / 7. Out In The Middle / 8. Line And Length / 9. The Laughing Cavaliers / 10. Judd’s Paradox / 11. Mystery Man / 12. Nudging And Nurdling
Rating : 7
14. Foreverland - 2016
Tracks:
1. Napoleon Complex / 2. Foreverland / 3. Catherine the Great / 4. Funny Peculiar / 5. The Pact / 6. To the Rescue / 7. How Can You Leave Me On My Own / 8. I Joined the Foreign Legion / 9. My Happy Place / 10. A Desperate Man / 11. Other People / 12. The One Who Loves You
Rating : 7
15. Office Politics - 2019
Tracks:
1. Queuejumper / 2. Office Politics / 3. Norman And Norma / 4. Absolutely Obsolete / 5. Infernal Machines / 6. You'll Never Work In This Town Again / 7. Psychological Evaluation / 8. The Synthesiser Service Centre Super Summer Sale / 9. The Life And Soul Of The Party / 10. A Feather In Your Cap / 11. I'm A Stanger Here / 12. Dark Days Are Here Again / 13. Philip And Steve's Furniture Removal Company / 14. Opportunity' Knox / 15. After The Lord Mayor's Show / 16. When The Working Day Is Done // 1. Whistle For A Wind / 2. The Swallow / 3. The Conquering Heroes / 4. Fighting Swallow / 5. The Amazon Pirates / 6. The Parley / 7. Better Drowned Than Duffers / 8. Let's Make The Best Of It / 9. Navy Stroke / 10. Like Robinson Crusoe / 11. Titty's Dream / 12. The Conquering Heroes, Victory Chorus / 13. The Black Spot / 14. The Parley - Flint's Apology / 15. Swallows And Amazons Forever
Rating :
16. Charmed Life (new album + comp.) - 2022
Tracks:
1. Charmed Life / 2. National Express / 3. Norman And Norma / 4. Something For The Weekend / 5. Songs Of Love / 6. The Best Mistakes / 8. The Indie Disco / 9. Ambassador / 10. Lady Of A Certain Age / 11. Becoming More Like Alfie / 12. Come Home Billy Bird / 13. Have You Ever Been In Love // 1. Our Mutual Friend / 2. Generation Sex / 3. How Can You Leave Me On My Own / 4. Perfect Lovesong / 5. Daddy’s Car / 6. You’ll Never Work In This Town Again / 7. Absent Friends / 8. Everybody Knows (Except You) / 9. The Certainty of Chance / 10. Sunrise / 11. To The Rescue / 12. Tonight We Fly // 1. I’ll Take What I Can Get / 2. Don’t Make Me Go Outside / 3. Who Do You Think You Are / 4. The Adventurous Type / 5. When When When / 6. Home For The Holidays / 7. Amo España / 8. Perfect Lovesong 2021 / 9. Simple Pleasures / 10. Those Pesky Kids
Rating : 9
My Suggestion For a 2 CD 160 minutes (app.) Best Of Compilation:
1. At the Indie Disco ( Hannon ) Bang Goes the Knighthood
2. Come Home Billy Bird ( Hannon ) Absent Friends
3. Gentlemen and Players ( Hannon/Walsh ) The Duckworth Lewis Method
4. Meeting Mr Miandad ( Hannon/Walsh ) The Duckworth Lewis Method
5. Our Mutual Friend ( Hannon ) Absent Friends
6. Test Match Special ( Hannon/Walsh ) The Duckworth Lewis Method
7. Everybody Knows ( Hannon ) A Short Album About Love
8. Down in the Street Below ( Hannon ) Bang Goes the Knighthood
9. National Express ( Hannon ) Fin de Siecle
10. Have You Ever Been in Love ( Hannon ) Bang Goes the Knighthood
11. Absent Friends ( Hannon ) Absent Friends
12. Mason on the Boundary ( Hannon/Walsh ) The Duckworth Lewis Method
13. Neapolitan Girl ( Hannon ) Bang Goes the Knighthood
14. Songs of Love ( Hannon ) Casanova
15. The Happy Goth ( Hannon ) Absent Friends
16. The Age of Revolution ( Hannon/Walsh ) The Duckworth Lewis Method
17. I Like ( Hannon ) Bang Goes the Knighthood
18. The Summerhouse ( Hannon ) Promenade
19. The Complete Banker ( Hannon ) Bang Goes the Knighthood
20. Lady of a Certain Age ( Hannon ) Victory for the Comic Muse
21. The Plough ( Hannon ) Victory for the Comic Muse
22. Pefect Lovesong ( Hannon ) Regeneration
23. Something for the Weekend ( Hannon ) Casanova
24. The Certainty of Chance ( Hannon/Talbot ) Fin de Siecle
25. Generation Sex ( Hannon ) Fin de Siecle
25. Charmed Life ( Hannon ) Absent Friends
26. Mother Dear ( Hannon ) Victory for the Comic Muse
27. Arthur C. Clarke's Mysteriuos World ( Hannon ) Victory for the Comic Muse
28. To die a Virgin ( Hannon ) Victory for the Comic Muse
29. Love What You Do ( Hannon ) Regeneration
30. The Umpire ( Hannon/Walsh ) Sticky Wickets
31. Third Man ( Hannon/Walsh ) Sticky Wickets
32. One in the Middle ( Hannon/Walsh ) Sticky Wickets
33. The Pop Singer's Fear of the Pollen Count ( Hannon ) Liberation
34. If ( Hannon ) A Short Album About Love
35. Bernice Bobs her Hair ( Hannon ) Liberation
36. Sticky Wickets ( Hannon/Walsh ) Sticky Wickets
37. Europop ( Hannon ) Liberation
38. If I Were You ( Hannon ) A Short Album About Love
39. Death of a Supernaturalist ( Hannon ) Liberation
40. I'm All You Need ( Hannon ) A Short Album About Love
41. The Lights Go Out All Over Europe ( Hannon ) Promenade
42. Lucy ( Hannon ) Liberation
43. Tonight We Fly ( Hannon ) Promenade
44. Bath ( Hannon ) Promenade
45. The Rescue ( Hannon ) Foreverland
46. Geronimo ( Hannon ) Promenade
47. Napoleon Complex ( Hannon ) Foreverland
48. Catherine the Great ( Hannon ) Foreverland
49. Norman and Norma ( Hannon ) Office Politics
50. You'll Never Work in This Town Again ( Hannon ) Office Politics
51. After the Lord Mayer's Show ( Hannon ) Office Politics
52. The Best Mistakes ( Hannon ) Charmed Life
53. I'll Take What I Can Get ( Hannon ) Charmed Life
54. Those Pesky Kids( Hannon ) Charmed Life
Essential Albums!
Original albums as listed and rated on “Rate Your Music” - August 25 - 2013
100 A Short Album About Love - 1997
117 Fin de siècle - 1998
132 Absent Friends - 2004
157 Casanova - 1996
159 Promenade - 1994
182 Liberation - 1993
217 Regeneration - 2001
364 Victory for the Comic Muse - 2006
418 Office Politics - 2019
592 The Duckworth Lewis Method - 2009
734 Bang Goes the Knighthood - 2010
738 Foreverland - 2016
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