1. Fairport Convention - Polydor 1968
Tracks:
1. Time Will Show the Wiser / 2. I Don't Know Where I Stand / 3. If (Stomp) / 4. Decameron / 5. Jack O'Diamonds / 6. Portfolio / 7. Chelsea Morning / 8. Sun Shade / 9. Lobster / 10. It's Alright Ma, It's Only Witchcraft / 11. One Sure Thing / 12. M.1 Breakdown / 13. Suzanne [*] / 14. If I Had a Ribbon Bow [*] / 15. Morning Glory [*] / 16. Reno, Nevada [*]
Rating : 8
2. What We Did In Our Holidays - Island 1969
Tracks:
1. Fotheringay / 2. Mr. Lacey / 3. Book Song / 4. Lord Is in This Place...How Dreadful Is This Place / 5. No Man's Land / 6. I'll Keep It With Mine / 7. Eastern Rain / 8. Nottamun Town / 9. Tale in Hard Time / 10. She Moves Through the Fair / 11. Meet on the Ledge / 12. End of a Holiday / 13. Throwaway Street Puzzle [*] / 14. You're Gonna Need My Help [*] / 15. Some Sweet Day [*]
Rating : 8
3. Unhalfbricking - Island 1969
Tracks:
1. Genesis Hall / 2. Si Tu Dois Partir / 3. Autopsy / 4. Sailor's Life / 5. Cajun Woman / 6. Who Knows Where the Time Goes? / 7. Percy's Song / 8. Million Dollar Bash / 9. Dear Landlord [*] / 10. Ballad of Easy Rider [*]
Rating : 8
4. Liege and Lief - Island 1969
Tracks:
1. Come All Ye / 2. Reynardine / 3. Matty Groves / 4. Farewell, Farewell / 5. Deserter / 6. Medley: The Lark in the Morning/Rakish Paddy/Foxhunters' Jig/Toss the F / 7. Tam Lin / 8. Crazy Man Michael / 9. Sir Patrick Spens [#] / 10. Quiet Joys of Brotherhood [#]
Rating : 9
5. Full House - Island 1970
Tracks:
1. Walk Awhile / 2. Doctor of Physick / 3. Dirty Linen / 4. Sloth / 5. Sir Patrick Spens / 6. Flatback Caper / 7. Poor Will and the Jolly Hangman / 8. Flowers of the Forest / 9. Now Be Thankful [Mono Version] [*]
/ 10. Sir B. McKenzie's Daughter's Lament for the 77th Mounted Lancers Retrea [*] / 11. Bonny Bunch of Roses [*] / 12. Now Be Thankful [New Stereo Mix] [*]
Rating : 10
6. Henry the Human Fly - Island Records 1972
Tracks:
1. Roll Over Vaughn Williams / 2. Nobody’s Wedding / 3. The Poor Ditching Boy / 4. Shaky Nancy / 5. Angels Took My Racehorse Away / 6. Wheely Down / 7. The New St. George / 8. Painted Ladies / 9. Cold Feet / 10. Mary and Joseph / 11. The Old Changing Way / 12. Twisted
Rating : 9
7. I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight - Island 1974
Tracks:
1. When I Get To The Border / 2. The Calvary Cross / 3. Withered And Died / 4. I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight / 5. Down Where The Drunkards Roll / 6. We Sing Hallelujah / 7. Has He Got A Friend For Me? / 8. The Little Beggar Girl / 9. The End Of The Rainbow / 10. The Great Valerio / 11. I Want To See The Bright Lights (Live) / 12. Together Again (Live) / 13. Calvary Cross (Live)
Rating : 9
8. Hokey Pokey - Island 1975
Tracks:
1. Hokey Pokey / 2. I'll Regret It All in the Morning / 3. Smiffy's Glass Eye / 4. Egypt Room / 5. Never Again / 6. Georgie on a Spree / 7. Old Man Inside a Young Man / 8. Sun Never Shines on the Poor / 9. Heart Needs a Home / 10. Mole in a Hole / 11. Wishing [*] / 12. I'm Turning Off a Memory [*] / 13. Heart Needs a Home [*] / 14. Hokey Pokey [Live][*] / 15. It'll Be Me [Live][*]
Rating : 6
9. Pour Down Like Silver - Island 1975
Tracks:
1. Streets of Paradise / 2. For Shame of Doing Wrong / 3. Poor Boy Is Taken Away / 4. Night Comes In / 5. Jet Plane in a Rocking Chair / 6. Beat the Retreat / 7. Hard Luck Stories / 8. Dimming of the Day/Dargai / 9. Streets of Paradise [Live] [*] / 10. Night Comes In [Live][*] / 11. Dark End of the Street [Live][*] / 12. Beat the Retreat [Live] [*]
Rating : 8
10. First Light - Hannibal 1978
Tracks:
1. Restless Highway / 2. Sweet Surrender / 3. Don't Let A Thief Steal Into Your Heart / 4. The Choice Wife / 5. Dief For Love / 6. Strange Affair / 7. Layla / 8. Pavanne / 9. House Of Cards / 10. First Light
Rating : 5
11. Sunnyvista - Hannibal 1979
Tracks:
1. Civilization / 2. Borrowed Time / 3. Saturday Rolling Around / 4. You're Going To Need Somebody / 5. Why Do You Turn Your Back / 6. Sunnyvista / 7. Lonely Heart / 8. Sisters / 9. Justice In The Streets / 10. Traces Of My Love
Rating : 5
12. Shoot Out the Lights - Hannibal 1982
Tracks:
1. Don't Renege On Our Love / 2. Walking On A Wire / 3. Man In Need / 4. Just The Motion / 5. Shoot Out The Lights / 6. Back Street Slide / 7. Did She Jump Or Was She Pushed / 8. Wall Of Death / 9. Living in Luxury [*]
Rating : 7
13. Hand of Kindness - Hannibal 1983
Tracks:
1. Tear-Stained Letter / 2. How I Wanted To / 3. Both Ends Burning / 4. A Poisoned Heart and a Twisted Memory" / 5. Where the Wind Don't Whine / 6. The Wrong Heartbeat / 7. Hand of Kindness / 8. Devonside / 9. Two Left Feet
Rating : 7
14. Across a Crowded Room - Polydor 1985
Tracks:
1. When the Spell Is Broken / 2. You Don't Say / 3. I Ain't Going to Drag My Feet No More / 4. Love in a Faithless Country / 5. Fire in the Engine Room / 6. Walking Through a Wasted Land / 7. Little Blue Number / 8. She Twists the Knife Again / 9. Ghosts in the Wind
Rating :
15. Daring Adventures - Polydor 1986
Tracks:
1. A Bone Through Her Nose / 2. Valerie / 3. Missie How You Let Me Down / 4. Dead Man's Handle / 5. Long Dead Love / 6. Lover's Lane / 7. Nearly In Love / 8. Jennie / 9. Baby Talk / 10. Cash Down, Never Never / 11. How Will I Ever Be Simple Again / 12. Al Bowlly's in Heaven
Rating : 7
16. Amnesia - Capitol 1988
Tracks:
1. Turning of the Tide / 2. Gypsy Love Songs / 3. Reckless Kind / 4. Jerusalem on the Jukebox / 5. I Still Dream / 6. Don't Tempt Me / 7. Yankee, Go Home / 8. Can't Win / 9. Waltzing's for Dreamers / 10. Pharaoh
Rating :
17. Sweet Talker ( soundtrack) - Capitol 1991
Tracks:
1. Put Your Trust In Me / 2. Persuasion / 3. Roll Up / 4. The Dune Ship / 5. Conviction / 6. Boomtown / 7. Harry's Theme / 8. Sweet Talker / 9. To Hang A Dream On / 10. Beachport / 11. False Or True
Rating :
18. Rumor and Sigh - Capitol 1991
Tracks:
1. Read About Love / 2. I Feel So Good / 3. I Misunderstood / 4. Grey Walls / 5. You Dream Too Much / 6. Why Must I Plead / 7. 1952 Vincent Black Lightning / 8. Backlash Love Affair / 9. Mystery Wind / 10. Don't Sit On My Jimmy Shands / 11. Keep Your Distance / 12. Mother Knows Best / 13. God Loves A Drunk / 14. Psycho Street
Rating : 7
19. Mirror Blue - Capitol 1994
Tracks:
1. For The Sake Of Mary / 2. I Can’t Wake Up To Save My Life / 3. MGB-GT / 4. The Way That It Shows / 5. Easy There, Steady Now / 6. King Of Bohemia / 7. Shane And Dixie/ 8. Mingus Eyes / 9. I Ride In Your Slipstream / 10. Beeswing / 11. Fast Food / 12. Mascara Tears / 13. Taking My Business Elsewhere
Rating : 6
20. You? Me? Us? - Capitol 1996
Tracks:
1. Razor Dance / 2. She Steers By Lightning / 3. Dark Hand Over My Heart / 4. Hide It Away / 5. Put It There Pal / 6. Business On You / 7. No's Not A Word / 8. Am I Wasting My Love On You? / 9. Bank Vault In Heaven / 10. The Ghost Of You Walks // 1. Baby Don't Know What To Do With Herself / 2. She Cut Off Her Long Silken Hair / 3. Hide It Away / 4. Burns Supper / 5. Train Don't Leave / 6. Cold Kisses / 7. Sam Jones / 8. Razor Dance / 9. Woods Of Darney
Rating : 7
21. Mock Tudor - Capitol 1999
Tracks:
1. Cooksferry Queen / 2. Sibella / 3. Bathsheba Smiles / 4. Two-Faced Love / 5. Hard On Me / 6. Crawl Back (Under My Stone) / 7. Uninhabited Man / 8. Dry My Tears And Move On / 9. Walking The Long Miles Home / 10. Sights And Sounds Of London Town / 11. That's All, Amen, Close The Door / 12. Hope You Like The New Me / 13. Fully Qualified To Be Your Man* / 14. Mr. Rebound*
Rating :
22. The Old Kit Bag - Beeswing 2003
Tracks:
1. Gethsemane / 2. Jealous Words / 3. I'll Tag Along / 4. A Love You Can't Survive / 5. One Door Opens / 6. First Breath / 7. She Said It Was Destiny / 8. I've Got No Right To Have It All / 9. Pearly Jim / 10. Word Unspoken, Sight Unseen / 11. Outside Of The Inside / 12. Happy Days And Auld Lang Syne
Rating : 7
23. Front Parlour Ballads - Cooking Vinyl 2005
Tracks:
1. Let It Blow / 2. For Whose Sake? / 3. Miss Patsy / 4. Old Thames Side / 5. How Does Your Garden Grow? / 6. My Soul, My Soul / 7. Cressida / 8. Row, Boys Row / 9. The Boys Of Mutton Street / 10. Precious One / 11. A Solitary Life / 12. Should I Betray? / 13. When We Were Boys At School
Rating :
24. Grizzly Man - Cooking Vinyl 2005
Tracks:
1. Tim & The Bears / 2. Main Title / 3. Foxes / 4. Ghosts In The Maze / 5. Glencoe / 6. Parents / 7. Bear Swim / 8. Twilight Cowboy / 9. The Kibosh / 10. Treadwell No More / 11. Teddy Bear / 12. Small Racket / 13. Streamwalk / 14. That's My Story / 15. Bear Fight / 16. Big Racket / 17. Corona For Mr. Chocolate / 18. Main Title Revisited / 19. Coyotes
Rating :
25. Sweet Warrior - Proper Records 2007
Tracks:
1. Needle and Thread / 2. I'll Never Give It Up / 3. Take Care the Road You Choose / 4. Mr. Stupid / 5. Dad's Gonna Kill Me /n 6. Poppy-Red / 7. Bad Monkey / 8. Francesca / 9. Too Late to Come Fishing / 10. Sneaky Boy / 11. She Sang Angels to Rest / 12. Johnny's Far Away / 13. Guns Are the Tongues / 14. Sunset Song / 15. Any Old Body* / 16. Dust and Wine*
Rating : 7
26. Dream Attic - Proper Records 2010
Tracks:
1. The Money Shuffle / 2. Among The Gorse, Among The Grey / 3. Haul Me Up / 4. Burning Man / 5. Here Comes Geordie / 6. Demons In Her Dancing Shoes / 7. Crimescene / 8. Big Sun Falling In The River / 9. Stumble On / 10. Sidney Wells / 11. A Brother Slips Away / 12. Bad Again / 13. If Love Whispers Your Name
Rating :
27. Cabaret of Souls - Beeswing 2012
Tracks:
1. Prelude / 2. Overture / 3. Song Of The Keepers / 4. Whipping On / 5. The Linnet / 6. I Really Do Love A Waltz / 7. I Must Lie Down / 8. Gluttony Considered / 9. Clive Smythe / 10. The Critic Critiqued / 11. I Get Younger / 12. The Parchment Grows Thin / 13. Auldie Riggs / 14. Auldie Riggs' Dance / 15. Mr. Riggs Appreciated / 16. Her Eyes not Mine / 17. From The Inside Out / 18. Breaking Down The Walls / 19. Will You Wash Away The Blood / 20. My Dave / 21. The Gangster's Moll / 22. Run Judas Run / 23. It Came With A Whisper / 24. I Want The World / 25. She Had It All / 26. Bosom Of The Lord / 27. Hot Place For Hypocrites / 28. One More Breath / 29. The Keeper Regrets And Reflects / 30. Whipping Off
Rating :
28. Electric - Proper Records 2013
Tracks:
1. Stony Ground / 2. Salford Sunday / 3. Sally B / 4. Stuck On The Treadmill / 5. My Enemy / 6. Good Things Happen To Bad People / 7. Where's Home / 8. Another Small Thing In Her Favour / 9. Straight And Narrow / 10. The Snow Goose / 11. Saving The Good Stuff For You // 1. Will You Dance, Charlie Boy*/ 2. I Found A Stray* / 3. The Rival*/ 4. The Tic-Tac Man* / 5. Auldie Riggs* / 6. Auldie Riggs Dance* / 7. So Ben Mi Ch'a Bon Tempo*
Rating :
29. Still - Fantasy Records 2015
Tracks:
1. She Never Could Resist A Winding Road / 2. Beatnik Walking / 3. Patty Don't You Put Me Down / 4. Broken Doll / 5. All Buttoned Up / 6. Josephine / 7. Long John Silver / 8. Pony In The Stable / 9. Where's Your Heart / 10. No Peace, No End / 11. Dungeons For Eyes / 12. Guitar Heroes // 1. Fork In The Road / 2. Wounding Myself / 3. The May Queen / 4. Don't Take It Laying Down / 5. Fergus Laing
Rating :
30. 13 Rivers - New West 2018
Tracks:
1. The Storm Won't Come / 2. The Rattle Within / 3. Her Love Was Meant for Me / 4. Bones of Gilead / 5. The Dog in You / 6. Trying / 7. Do All These Tears Belong to You / 8. My Rock, My Rope / 9. You Can't Reach Me / 10. O Cinderella / 11. Pride / 12. Shaking the Gates
Rating :
30. Ship to Shore - New West 2024
Tracks:
1. Freeze / 2. The Fear Never Leaves You / 3. Singapore Sadie 4. Trust / 5. The Day That I Give In / 6. The Old Pack Mule / 7. Turnstile Casanova / 8. Lost in the Crowd / 9. Maybe / 10. Life’s a Bloody Show / 11. What’s Left to Lose / 12. We Rolls
Rating :
Essential Albums!
Original albums as listed and rated on “Rate Your Music” - May 10- 2014
12 I Want to See The Bright Lights Tonight - 1974
16 Shoot Out the Lights - 1982
24 Liege & Lief - 1969
29 Unhalfbricking - 1969
39 Mock Tudor - 1999
50 Rumor and Sigh - 1991
52 What We Did on Our Holidays - 1969
57 Pour Down Like Silver - 1975
79 Hand of Kindness - 1983
133 Hokey Pokey - 1975
137 Electric - 2013
147Full House - 1970
153Dream Attic - 2010
160Henry the Human Fly - 1972
164Amnesia - 1988
178Across a Crowded Room - 1985
182Mirror Blue - 1994
215 Fairport Convention - 1968
241The Old Kit Bag - 2003
368 First Light - 1978
371 Daring Adventures - 1986
410 Sweet Warrior - 2007
410 Still - 2015
445 You? Me? Us? - 1996
594 Sunnyvista - 1979
809 Front Parlour Ballads - 2005
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My Suggestion For a 80 minutes (app.) Best Of Compilation:
( Fairport Convention songs and songs with Linda Thompson are listed on their respective pages)
1. The Old Changing Way ( R. Thompson ) Henry the Human Fly
2. The Poor Ditching Boy ( R. Thompson ) Henry the Human Fly
3. Painted Ladies ( R. Thompson ) Henry the Human Fly
4. Devon Side ( R. Thompson ) Hand of Kindness
5. How I Wanted to ( R. Thompson ) Hand of Kindness
6. The Angels Took My Racehorse Away ( R. Thompson ) Henry the Human Fly
7. Nobody's Wedding ( R. Thompson ) Henry the Human Fly
8. The New St. George ( R. Thompson ) Henry the Human Fly
9. Cold Feet ( R. Thompson ) Henry the Human Fly
10. Poisioned Heart and a Twisted Memory ( R. Thompson ) Hand of Kindness
11. Where The Wind Don't Whine ( R. Thompson ) Hand of Kindness
12. Hand of Kindness ( R. Thompson ) Hand of Kindness
13. Walking Through a Wasted Life ( R. Thompson ) Across a Crowded Room
14. Missie How You Let Me Down ( R. Thompson ) Daring Adventures
15. How Will I Ever Be Simple Again ( R. Thompson ) Daring Adventures
16. Dead Man's Handle ( R. Thompson ) Daring Adventures
17. Nearly In Love ( R. Thompson ) Daring Adventures
18. Jeannie ( R. Thompson ) Daring Adventures
19. Keep Your Distance ( R. Thompson ) Rumor and Sigh
20. 1952 Vincent Black Lightning ( R. Thompson ) Rumor and Sigh
21. I Feel so Good ( R. Thompson ) Rumor and Sigh
22. Grey Walls ( R. Thompson ) Rumor and Sigh
23. You Dream Too Much ( R. Thompson ) Rumor and Sigh
24. Why Must I Plead ( R. Thompson ) Rumor and Sigh
25. Gethsemane ( R. Thompson ) The Old Kit Bag
26. Word Unspoken, Sight Unseen ( R. Thompson ) The Old Kit Bag
27. I'll Tag Along( R. Thompson ) The Old Kit Bag
28. She Said it was Destiny ( R. Thompson ) The Old Kit Bag
29. Beeswing ( R. Thompson ) Mirror Blue
30. Mascara Tears ( R. Thompson ) Mirror Blue
31. For the Sake of Mary ( R. Thompson ) Mirror Blue
32. Razor Blade ( R. Thompson ) You, Me, Us
33. She Steers by Lightning ( R. Thompson ) You, Me, Us
34. Hide it Away ( R. Thompson ) You, Me, Us
35. Put it There Pal ( R. Thompson ) You, Me, Us
36. The Ghost of You Walks ( R. Thompson ) You, Me, Us
37. Baby Don't Know What to do ( R. Thompson ) You, Me, Us
38. Woods of Darney ( R. Thompson ) You, Me, Us
39. Poppy Red ( R. Thompson ) Sweet Warrior
40. Take Care of the Road you Choose ( R. Thompson ) Sweet Warrior
41. Francesca ( R. Thompson ) Sweet Warrior
42. Guns are the Tongues ( R. Thompson ) Sweet Warrior
LINKS:
Henry the Human Fly
Official Richard Thompson
