Although this sounds suspiciously like a song by Pink Floyd, the only similarity between the two is in the title. If we had become more famous than Pink Floyd, we would, of course, have apologised.

Wanna hear it? I would tread carefully!(4 Mbytes)

This has been scraped off a 30-year old reel using a barely functioning reel-to-reel (you should try finding a mate with a reel-to-reel these days!). This version of Train Blues is performed live at the Assembly Halls, Warminster, sometime around Christmas 1974.

It deserves to be here, simply because it is iconic. It is the definitive WA song, existing from WA's inception until its demise. Usually reserved for the encore at later gigs, at earlier gigs it was the traditional WA ending number.

On this recording, a voice can be heard shouting "Get off" at the beginning - the audience had previously been subjected to House on the Hill; so the sentiment is unsurprising. [hide]

A song, about signing-on, that John deemed "pretentious", given that Steve was 16, at college, and had never needed to sign on. As it contained the couplet "Wednesday morning, unemployed shame/young man joins the dole queue again", I believe John had a point.

Frome Grammar School. Meteorites. Need one say more? Oh, except that the couplet, with the unfortunate line break, should be noted:

Dolorelei you suck my..../
Lyrics dry...

Another song written under the heady influence of T.S Eliot ('Webster was much possessed by death').

A free-form inprovisatory freakout. No record of this song exists. Which is both a good and bad thing. If a recording did exist, it would be on this Web site!

One of the long time standards of the band, nonetheless, in three years, nobody could be bothered to think of a sensible title for the song. Gigs echoed with "This one's called Oh Hell! Think of Title Quick". Very Canterbury.

The second set of lyrics for Winter Song. This version also gained a new tune. In fact, nothing of the orginal Winter Song remained in the new version. Except the title. This version seems to be about lovers and love, whereas the original was about ... winter ... I suppose the title musts have remained as some kind of ... metaphor ... or something ... In fact - breaking news - I have it from the author that:

"... it was attempting to tie into the Jungian chaos that was around us at that time; an attempt to submerge into the most destructive tides of the age and see whether we'd survive. Or a Proustian recherche into a former, idealised and simpler time à la A E Houseman."

Wanna hear it? Be afraid, be very afraid! (approx 6.5 Mb)

Note: This was recorded a long time ago (1976!) on a poxy Philips cassette tape recorder. One of the first. In a leatherette case! It couldn't easily handle the noise, so the sound clips badly. WA were on their way to becoming the Pantera (are you talking to me?) of West Wiltshire. The hiss was so bad on the original tape that Steve had to denoise it quite severely, which appears to have led to some other evil artefacts.

WA's erstwhile manager has recently rediscovered the lyrics to this epic - anybody would think he wrote them, or something.