Expletive Delighted! is a 1986 album by British folk rock band Fairport Convention, their fifteenth studio album since their debut in 1968. It is the band's only album consisting solely of instrumental tracks, despite the claim "Lyric sheet enclosed" on the album cover.
Ric Sanders, who had played on some tracks on the previous album Gladys' Leap, was invited to join Fairport full-time, as was Maartin Allcock; the result, according to Dave Pegg, This new lineup would last for the next eleven years, the most stable of all of Fairport's configurations to that point.
Reception Allmusic's reviewer described Expletive Delighted! as "alternately enjoyable and maddening", criticising the prominence of Dave Mattacks's drums in the mix, while praising "Portmeirion" and the title track as "delicate and beautiful as any work that this version of the band has done".
Track listing
Side one "The Rutland Reel/Sack the Juggler" (Ric Sanders) - 3:20 "The Cat on the Mixer/Three Left Feet" (Maartin Allcock) - 3:37 "Bankruptured" (Dave Pegg) - 3:04A reworking of the track that appeared on Tipplers Tales in 1978 "Portmeirion" (Ric Sanders) - 5:21 "Jams O'Donnell's Jigs" (Dave Pegg) - 2:48A reworking of the track that appeared on The Bonny Bunch of Roses in 1977
Side two "Expletive Delighted" (Ric Sanders) - 1:55 "Sigh Beg Sigh Mor" (O' Carolan) - 7:18the original is titled "Sí Bheag, Sí Mhór" "Innstuck" (Maartin Allcock) - 2:08 "The Gas Almost Works" (John Kirkpatrick) 1:58 "Hanks for the Memory" (various, arrangement by Jerry Donahue) - 4:38Recorded in August 1985 and Ric Sanders violin overdubbed 1986 "Shazam!" (Duane Eddy, Lee Hazlewood) "Pipeline" (Bob Spickard, Brian Carmen) "Apache" (Jerry Lordan) "Peter Gunn" (Henry Mancini)
Release history 1986, August : Woodworm Records WR009, UK LP; WRC004 UK Cassette 1986 : Varrick Records VR029, US LP 1986, December : Sandstock SSM019, Australia LP 1987, August : Entente 12-3074 (833 074-928), Germany, LP (different cover, gatefold sleeve) 1990 :Varrick CD-VR-029, US CD 1990 : Folkprint FP002CD, UK CD, reissue with Gladys' Leap
Personnel Fairport Convention Maartin Allcock - guitars, bouzouki, mandolin Dave Mattacks - drums, percussion, keyboards Simon Nicol - guitars Dave Pegg - acoustic & bass guitars, mandola Ric Sanders - violin
Additional musicians on "Hanks for the Memory" Jerry Donahue - guitar Richard Thompson - guitar
Technical Tim Matyear - engineer
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