Songs for Ships and Irons

Songs For Ships and Irons
Compilation album by Cardiacs
Released	1991, 1995
Genre	Art rock, post-punk
Label	Alphabet Business Concern
Producer	Tim Smith Cover Photography Robin Fransella
Cardiacs chronology
The Seaside (1990) Songs For Ships and Irons (1991) Heaven Born and Ever Bright (1992)

Songs for Ships and Irons is a compilation album by the band Cardiacs.

Source material

Songs for Ships and Irons combines the whole of the Big Ship mini-album, the whole of the "There's Too Many Irons In The Fire" 12-inch single and the B-sides of the "Susannah's Still Alive" 12-inch single. It also includes a bonus song called "Everything is Easy," a longstanding live favorite not previously released as a studio recording. Some of the quiet talking in between tracks from the original Big Ship mini-album differs from the original release in having been edited/lowered in volume.

The album was out of print, but is now available again from the Cardiacs website.

Track listing

1. "Big Ship"
2. "Tarred and Feathered"
3. "Burn Your House Brown"
4. "Stoneage Dinosaurs"
5. "Plane Plane Against the Grain"
6. "Everything Is Easy!"
7. "There's Too Many Irons in the Fire"
8. "All Spectacular"
9. "Blind in Safety and Leafy in Love"
10. "Loosefish Scapegrace"
11. "All His Geese Are Swans!"

Personnel

• Tim Smith - guitar, vocals
• Jim Smith - bass
• Sarah Smith - saxophone
• William D. Drake - keyboards
• Dominic Luckman - drums
• Tim Quy - percussion

External links

• Cardiacs website