Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Town Feeling
2. Song for Insane Times
3. Girl on a Swing
4. Lady Rachel
5. Stop This Train (Again Doing It)
6. Eleanor's Cake (Which Ate Her)
7. Religious Experience (Singing a Song in the Morning)
8. Soon Soon Soon
9. Rheinhardt and Geraldine/Colores Para Dolores
10. May I
11. Clarence in Wonderland
12. Oyster and Flying Fish
13. Shooting at the Moon
14. Butterfly Dance
15. Gemini Child
16. Stars
17. There Is Loving/Among Us/There Is Loving

Disc 2:

1. Stranger in Blue Suede Shoes
2. Song from the Bottom of a Well
3. Oh My
4. Margaret
5. Whatevershebringswesing
6. Decadence
7. Oh Wot a Dream
8. Don't Let It Get You Down
9. Interview
10. Caribbean Moon
11. Up Song
12. Confessions of Doctor Dream Irreversible Neural Damage
13. It Begins with a Blessing/Once I Awakened/But It Ends with a Curse
14. See You Later
15. Ballbearing Blues

Disc 3:

1. After the Show
2. Thank You Very Much
3. Observations
4. Toujours La Voyage
5. Diminished But Not Finished
6. Farewell Again (Another Dawn)
7. Yes I Do
8. Love's Gonna Turn You Round
9. Ballad of Mr Snake
10. Blue
11. Ballad of a Salesman Who Sold Himself
12. View from the Mountain
13. Beware of the Dog II
14. Hat Song
15. Money Money Money
16. Super Salesman
17. Where Do the Stars End

Disc 4:

1. Banana Introduction
2. Stranger in Blue Suede Shoes
3. Interview
4. Whatevershebringswesing
5. Oh Wot a Dream
6. Shouting in a Bucket Blues
7. Caribbean Moon
8. Don't Let It Get You Down
9. We Did It Again
10. Why Are We Sleeping
11. After the Show

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #52350 in Music
• Released on: 2008-07-22
• Number of discs: 4
• Formats: Box set, Import

Album Description
2008 four CD anthology that covers Ayers' musical career from 1969 to 1980; a period most fans and critics deem his best. Ayers remains one of Rock's oddest enigmas. He makes ordinary subjects extraordinary with his rich low vocals and inventive wordplay. He projects the image of a Prog-Rock beach bum writing about life's absurdities with a celebratory, relaxed detachment, yet he is also one of Prog- Rock's more important innovators, helping to launch the Soft Machine, and working with noted progressive musicians Mike Oldfield, Lol Coxhill, and Steve Hillage. Ayers' solo material reflected a Folksier, lazier, and gentler turn than Soft Machine. He was often compared to Syd Barrett, but without the madness and is never less than enjoyable and original, Discs One to Three contain 49 hits, album tracks and more while Disc Four was recorded at The Queen Elizabeth Hall, London on 25th May 1973. EMI.