Kevin Ayers - Bananamour
(Harvest SHVL 807)
Released 1973, Harvest/EMI label, manufactured in Great Britian.
Single album with gatefold sleeve.
 
Track Listing
Side 1
Track 1: Don't Let It Get You Down - 4:02
Track 2: Shouting In A Bucket Blues - 3:44
Track 3: When Your Parents Go To Sleep - 5:46
Track 4: Interview - 4:45
Track 5: Internotional Anthem - 0:41
Side 2
Track 6: Decadence - 8:04
Track 7: Oh! Wot A Dream - 2:48
Track 8: Hymn - 4:34
Track 9: Beware Of The Dog - 1:20
 
Description
Bananamour is the fourth studio album by Kevin Ayers (of Soft Machine) and it featured some of his most accessible recordings, including "Shouting in a Bucket Blues" and his whimsical tribute to Syd Barrett, "Oh! Wot A Dream" After Whatevershebringswesing, Ayers assembled a new band anchored by drummer Eddie Sparrow and bassist Archie Legget and employed a more direct lyricism. The centrepiece of the album is 'Decadence', his withering portrait of Nico: "Watch her out there on display / Dancing in her sleepy way / While all her visions start to play / On the icicles of our decay / And all along the desert shore / She wanders further evermore / The only thing that's left to try / She says to live I have to die." The song was later covered by the Australian psychedelic rock band The Church on their 1999 album A Box of Birds.
The album marked the end of Ayers' first Harvest Records series.
 
(information sourced from wikipedia)
Internet Location
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bananamour