Songs for Ships and Irons

Songs for Ships and Irons is a 1991 collection of non-album singles and B-sides by Cardiacs. It combines the whole of the Big Ship extended play, 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.[3] 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.

Songs for Ships and Irons
Compilation album by
Cardiacs
Released16 September 1991[1][lower-alpha 1]
Length45:49
LabelAlphabet Business Concern
ProducerTim Smith
Cover Photography Robin Fransella
Cardiacs chronology
Archive Cardiacs
(1989)		 Songs for Ships and Irons
(1991)		 Heaven Born and Ever Bright
(1992)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[2]

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

Track listing

All songs written by Tim Smith unless otherwise indicated.

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Big Ship" (EP, 1987) 5:47
2."Tarred and Feathered" (from Big Ship, 1987)William D. Drake, Smith3:31
3."Burn Your House Brown" (from Big Ship, 1987) 2:37
4."Stoneage Dinosaurs" (from Big Ship, 1987) 5:22
5."Plane Plane Against the Grain" (from Big Ship, 1987) 1:21
Total length:18:38
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
6."Everything Is Easy!" 3:49
7."There's Too Many Irons in the Fire" (non-album single, 1987) 3:17
8."All Spectacular" (non-album single; double A-side with "Too Many Irons", 1987) 2:35
9."Blind in Safety and Leafy in Love" (B-side, 1988)Drake, Smith2:46
10."Loosefish Scapegrace" (B-side, 1987) 7:46
11."All His Geese Are Swans!" (B-side, 1988) 6:58
Total length:27:11

Personnel

Notes
  1. The Encyclopedia of Popular Music indicates a release year of 1990.[2]

References
  1. Cardiacs Museum Yousletter 1 (Newsletter). Archived from the original on 1 July 2009. Retrieved 26 March 2023 – via cardiacs.org.
  2. Larkin, Collin (2006). "Cardiacs". The Encyclopedia of Popular Music: Brown, Marion - Dilated Peoples. Muze. p. 182. Note: Search "Alphabet 1990" (with quotation marks).
  3. "Cardiacs – Songs For Ships And Irons (1991, Vinyl)". Discogs. Retrieved 17 September 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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