Expletive Delighted!


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
  1. "The Rutland Reel/Sack the Juggler" - 3:20
  2. "The Cat on the Mixer/Three Left Feet" - 3:37
  3. "Bankruptured" - 3:04
  4. "Portmeirion" - 5:21
  5. "Jams O'Donnell's Jigs" - 2:48
;Side two
  1. "Expletive Delighted" - 1:55
  2. "Sigh Beg Sigh Mor" - 7:18
  3. "Innstuck" - 2:08
  4. "The Gas Almost Works" 1:58
  5. "Hanks for the Memory" - 4:38
  6. #"Shazam!"
  7. #"Pipeline"
  8. #"Apache"
  9. #"Peter Gunn"

Release history

Personnel

;Fairport Convention
;Additional musicians on "Hanks for the Memory"
;Technical