Bananamour is the fourth studio album by Kevin Ayers

Kevin Ayers

Kevin Ayers is an English singer-songwriter and was a major influential force in the English psychedelic movement...

 and it featured some of his most accessible recordings, including "Shouting in a Bucket Blues" and his whimsical tribute to Syd Barrett

Syd Barrett

Syd Barrett , born Roger Keith Barrett, was an English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and painter, best remembered as a founding member of the band Pink Floyd. He was the lead vocalist, guitarist and primary songwriter during the band's psychedelic years, providing major musical and stylistic...

, "Oh! Wot A Dream

Oh! Wot a Dream

"Oh! Wot A Dream" was a Kevin Ayers single taken from his fourth solo album Bananamour. Ayers has stated in interviews that ‘Oh! Wot A Dream’ was about his friend and colleague Syd Barrett – “You are the most extraordinary person / You write the most peculiar kind of tunes / I met you floating as I...

". After Whatevershebringswesing

Whatevershebringswesing

Whatevershebringswesing is the third solo album by Kevin Ayers.In 1971, Kevin Ayers started recording what would become his most acclaimed album, Whatevershebringswesing accompanied by members of Gong and his previous backing band The Whole World...

, Ayers assembled a new band anchored by drummer Eddie Sparrow and bassist Archie Legget and employed a more direct lyricism. The centrepiece of the album is 'Decadence', his withering portrait of Nico

Nico

Nico was a German singer, lyricist, composer, musician, fashion model, and actress, who initially rose to fame as a Warhol Superstar in the 1960s...

: "Watch her out there on display / Dancing in her sleepy way / While all her visions start to play / On the icicles of our decay / And all along the desert shore / She wanders further evermore / The only thing that's left to try / She says to live i have to die." The album marked the end of Ayers' first Harvest Records

Harvest Records

-References:* Harvest Records collectors guide ISBN 978-5-9622-0021-7...

 series.

Track listing

Side 1

1. "Let It Get You Down (For Rachel)"
2. "Shouting in a Bucket Blues" (Ayers)
3. "When Your Parents Go to Sleep" (Ayers)
4. "Interview" (Ayers)
5. "Internotional Anthem" (Ayers)

Side 2

1. "Decadence" (Ayers)
2. "Oh! Wot A Dream
   Oh! Wot a Dream
   "Oh! Wot A Dream" was a Kevin Ayers single taken from his fourth solo album Bananamour. Ayers has stated in interviews that ‘Oh! Wot A Dream’ was about his friend and colleague Syd Barrett – “You are the most extraordinary person / You write the most peculiar kind of tunes / I met you floating as I...
   
   " (Ayers)
3. "Hymn" (Ayers)
4. "Beware of the Dog" (Ayers)

Track listing (2003 CD reissue)

1. "Don't Let It Get You Down" (4:04)
2. "Shouting In A Bucket Blues" (3:45)
3. "When Your Parents Go To Sleep" (5:47)
4. "Interview" (4:43)
5. "Internotional Anthem" (0:43)
6. "Decadence" (8:05)
7. "Oh! Wot A Dream" (2:48)
8. "Hymn" (4:35)
9. "Beware Of The Dog" (1:27)
10. "Connie On A Rubber Band" (2:56)
11. "Decadence (Early Mix)" (6:57)
12. "Take Me To Tahiti" (3:37)
13. "Caribbean Moon" (3:02)

Personnel

• Kevin Ayers
  Kevin Ayers
  Kevin Ayers is an English singer-songwriter and was a major influential force in the English psychedelic movement...
  
   / Guitar, Vocals
• Archie Legget / Bass, harmony vocals, lead vocal on track 3
• Eddie Sparrow / Drums
• Steve Hillage
  Steve Hillage
  Steve Hillage is an English musician, best known as a guitarist. He is associated with the Canterbury scene and has worked in experimental domains since the late 1960s...
  
   / Lead Guitar on track 2
• Mike Ratledge
  Mike Ratledge
  Michael Roland "Mike" Ratledge is a British musician. Ratledge was part of the Canterbury scene and a long-time member of Soft Machine.-Biography and career:...
  
   / Organ on track 4
• Robert Wyatt
  Robert Wyatt
  Robert Wyatt is an English musician, and founding member of the influential Canterbury scene band Soft Machine, with a long and distinguished solo career...
  
   / Harmony Vocal on track 8
• David Bedford
  David Bedford
  David Vickerman Bedford , was an English composer and musician. He wrote and played both popular and classical music....
  
   / Orchestral Arrangement on track 9
• Howie Casey
  Howie Casey
  Howard William "Howie" Casey is a British rhythm and blues and rock saxophonist. He first came to prominence in the early 1960s as a member of Derry and the Seniors, the first rock and roll band from Liverpool to play clubs in Germany, and later, as leader of the renamed Howie Casey and the...
  
   / Tenor Saxophone
• Dave Caswell / Trumpet
• Tristan Fry / Cymbal
• Lyle Jenkins / Baritone Saxophone
• Ronnie Price / Piano
• Barry St. John /Vocals
• Liza Strike / Vocals
• Doris Troy
  Doris Troy
  Doris Troy was an American R&B singer, known to her many fans as "Mama Soul".She was born as Doris Higginson in The Bronx, the daughter of a Barbadian Pentecostal minister. Her parents disapproved of "subversive" forms of music like rhythm & blues, so she cut her teeth singing in her father's choir...
  
  /Vocals