Everything Is Easy!

Cardiacs - Songs For Ships And Irons

Ripped from a compact disc album originally released on The Alpha Business Concern (ALPH CD0014) in 1991 to high quality lossless flac audio. Classic long-deleted Cardiacs compiled for everybody's listening pleasure. We all love Stoneage Dinosaurs!

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!

Susannah's Still Alive

Cardiacs - Susannah's Still Alive

Ripped from a 7" vinyl single released on The Alphabet Business Concern (ALPH 009) in 1988 to high resolution 24-bit flac audio. Tim Smith and friends do The Kinks standard justice!
A Susannah's Still Alive
B Blind In Safety And Leafy In Love

Little Windows On The Whole World

Cardiacs - A Little Man And A House And The Whole World Window

Ripped from a 1995 reissue of an album originally released on The Alphabet Business Concern (ALPH007CD) in 1988 to high quality lossless flac audio. Silliness never ever sounded better than this, or maybe The Big Ship was better? Cardiacs invade the UK charts and threaten the sanctity of the mainstream. Just Dive on in!

1 A Little Man And A House
2 In A City Lining
3 I'm Eating In Bed
4 Is This The Life
5 Interlude
6 Dive
7 The Icing On The World
8 The Breakfast Line
9 Victory Egg
10 R.E.S.
11 The Whole World Window

Pronk'd

Cardiacs - The Seaside

Originally released as a cassette only album on Alphabet (ALPH 001) in 1983. Ripped here from a long deleted compact disc album released on The Alpha Business Concern (ALPH CD0013) in 1995 to high quality lossless flac audio. It's time to go off and things!

1 Jibber And Twitch
2 Gena Lollabrigida
3 Hello Mr. Sparrow
4 It's A Lovely Day
5 A Wooden Fish On Wheels
6 Hope Day
7 Ice A Spot And A Dot On The Dog
8 R.E.S.
9 To Go Off And Things

Cardiac Arrest

Cardiacs - Is This The Life

Time for another lossless re-rip. Here's what I said a few years back....
Is this possibly the greatest single of all time? This is the hit both Robert Smith and Ian Astbury wish they had written. Yes, it did break the mainstream UK charts, and yes a snippet of the video was shown on Top of the Pops. Cardiacs always looked like extras from a George A. Romero movie, their music is messy, twisted, jerky, powerful and progressive, defined by some as Pronk. This scribe was lucky enough to see them live in 1988. Silly string, foam and dry ice filled the air as the band just blew me away.

To bring things up-to-date, lead Cardiac Tim Smith suffered a combined stroke and heart attack in 2008. Most of The Cardiacs output has been unavailable since, but the very wonderful Genepool label have brought together a plethora of respectful artists on a Cardiacs tribute album to raise funds for Tim. You can get this here.
Ripped from a 7" vinyl single released on The Alphabet Business Concern (ALPH 008SP) in 1988 to high quality lossless FLAC audio.
A. Is This The Life
B. I'm eating In Bed