Smallcreep's Day (album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Smallcreep's Day
Type = Album
Artist = Mike Rutherford


Released = January 1980
Recorded = Autumn 1979
Genre = Progressive rock
Length = 51:28
Label = Charisma Records
Producer = David Hentschel
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|2.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:6mcyxd0bjolg link] |
Last album =
This album = "Smallcreep's Day" (1980)
Next album = "Acting Very Strange" (1982)

"Smallcreep's Day" is the first solo album by Genesis bassist and guitarist Mike Rutherford. The title suite (occupying side 1 of the original vinyl version) is based on the dark, surrealist novel of the same name by Peter Currell Brown. It was released in 1980. The album was produced by David Hentschel, who also produced the Genesis album "Duke" the same year. Anthony Phillips, Rutherford's original songwriting partner in Genesis, plays keyboards on the album.It was recorded at ABBA's Polar Studios in Stockholm, Sweden, for tax purposes, in the fall of 1979.

Track listing

All tracks written by Mike Rutherford.

ide one

# "Smallcreep's Day": I. "Between the Tick & the Tock" – 3:59: II. "Working In Line" – 3:07: III. "After Hours" – 1:45: IV. "Cats and Rats (In This Neighbourhood)" – 4:50: V. "Smallcreep Alone" – 1:33: VI. "Out Into the Daylight" – 3:49: VII. "At the End of the Day" – 5:35

ide two

# "Moonshine" – 6:23
# "Time and Time Again" – 4:52
# "Romani" – 5:25
# "Every Road" – 4:13
# "Overnight Job" – 5:43

*The US pressing of the original LP reversed the sides, so that the "Smallcreep's Day" suite was on side two. It was released there by Passport Records.

The ending of the concept portion of the album is considerably more optimistic than that of the novel.

There was also one track called "Compression" that was left off the album but appeared as a B-side. This track is perhaps one of the rarest Genesis-related tracks to find since it has never been released on CD (except on a very limited-edition German fan club CD, "It's Only Knock And Knowall", in 2002).

"Romani" can be construed either as the plural of Romans, or as the classical reference to the proper name of the gypsies.

Personnel

*Ant Phillips – keyboards
*Noel McCalla – vocals
*Simon Phillips – drums
*Morris Pert – percussion
*Mike Rutherford – guitars, basses

*Produced & Engineered by David Hentchel of Dukeslodge Enterprises, Assisted by David Bascombe
*Recorded at Polar Studios, Stockholm
*Mixed at Maison Rouge Studios, London