The Tall Ships is the fourth studio album by British progressive rock

Progressive rock

Progressive rock is a subgenre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of a "mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility." John Covach, in Contemporary Music Review, says that many thought it would not just "succeed the pop of...

 band It Bites

It Bites

It Bites are an English progressive rock and pop fusion band, formed in Egremont, Cumbria, England in 1982 and best known for their 1986 single "Calling All The Heroes", which gained them a Top 10 UK Singles Chart hit...

. It was released in 2008, nineteen years after the previous studio album, Eat Me In St. Louis, now with a new band line-up. The Japanese version of this features an extra track, These Words. In an interview, drummer Bob Dalton describes the tall ships as "what come to take your soul away after you die" .

Track listing

1. Oh My God (5:49)
2. Ghosts (4:47)
3. Playground (5:34)
4. Memory of Water (4:51)
5. The Tall Ships (6:19)
6. The Wind That Shakes The Barley (8:14)
7. Great Disasters (5:01)
8. Fahrenheit (5:18)
9. For Safekeeping (5:29)
10. Lights (4:56)
11. This is England (13:51)
12. These Words (6:03) (Japanese special edition track)

Personnel

• John Mitchell
  John Mitchell
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   - lead vocals, guitar, bass guitar
• John Beck
  John Beck (musician)
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   - keyboards, backing vocals, bass guitar
• Bob Dalton - drums

Additional personnel

• Tim Turan - Mastering
• Paul Tippett - Design, art direction, band photography

External links

• Official site discography