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The Work of Pete
This is not meant to be a comprehensive discography of Pete, but rather an indication of both the breadth of Pete's work as a performer and writer, and of what recordings are out there.
Pete Brown
lifebackwards   Living Life Backwards - The Best of Pete Brown
Audio CD (January 30, 2006) Harvest

Living Life Backwards, is a compliation of Pete's work for EMI's Harvest label and features tracks from both Battered Ornaments and Piblokto!

1. Week Looked Good On Paper  
2. Morning Call  
3. Dark Lady
4. Station Song  
5. Can't Get Off The Planet  
6. Broken Magic  
7. Living Life Backwards  
8. Things May Come And Things May Go But The Art School Dance Goes On Forever  
9. High Flying Electric Bird
10. Country Morning
11. Golden Country Kingdom
12. My Last Band  
13. Aeroplane Head Woman
14. Station Song Platform Two  
15. Thousands On A Raft
16. My Love's Gone Far Away
17. Flying Hero Sandwich

Pete Brown & Piblokto!
things   Things May Come and Things May Go but the Art School Dance Goes on Forever/Thousands on a Raft
Audio CD (May 04, 2001) 2CD BGO

This 2CD set, also with extensive notes by Pete, covers the two Piblokto! releases.

1. Prophet
2. Country Morning
3. Living Life Backwards
4. Things May Come And Things May Go
5. High Flying Electric Bird  
6. Someone Like You  
7. Walk For Charity Run For Money
8. Then I Must Go And Can I Keep  
9. My Love's Gone Far Away  
10. Golden Country Kingdom
11. Firesong  
12. Country Morning  
13. High Sorrow  
14. Raining Pins And Needles
15. Aeroplane Head Woman  
16. Station Song Platform Two  
17. Highland Song
18. If They Could Only See Me Now  
19. Got A Letter From A Computer  
20. Thousands On A Raft
21. Broken Magic  
22. Can't Get Off The Planet  
23. Flying Hero Sandwich
24. My Last Band  
25. Dawn Of A Night Wasp  
26. Aeroplane Head Woman

Pete Brown & His Battered Ornaments/The Battered Ornaments
meal   A Meal You Can Shake Hands With In The Dark/Mantel-Piece
Audio CD (February 28, 2005) 2CD set BGO

This 2CD set features the two Battered Ornaments CDs, plus extra material. Pete also wrote extensive notes for this release. Pete first released the song The Week Looked Good On Paper as a single with his first band, which included at various times Danny Thompson, Davey Graham and John McLaughlin.

1. Dark Lady  
2. Old Man  
3. Station Song
4. Politician  
5. Rainy Taxi Girl  
6. Morning Call
7. Sandcastle  
8. Travelling Blues  
9. Sunshades
10. Late Into The Night
11. Then I Must Go
12. Crosswords And The Safety Pins
13. Staggered
14. Twisted Track
15. Smoke Rings
16. Take Me Now
17. My Love's Gone Far Away
18. Week Looked Good On Paper

Pete Brown & Phil Ryan
ardours   Ardours Of The Lost Rake
Audio CD (25 Nov 2002) Voiceprint

This is one of three albums Pete has released with long term music partner Phil Ryan, along with Coals To Jerusalem and The Land That Cream Forgot. Pete and Phil have been writing together and hopefully there will be a new CD released in 2007.

Pete Brown & Ian Lynn
party   Party In The Rain
Audio CD (2 Oct 2000) Mystic UK

Pete had withdrawn from the music biz for a while after Punk reared it's ugly head, but he was far from musically inactive as these demo recordings made alongside keyboard player Ian Lynn testify. As well as a fine reading of White Room, there is The Old Rock Singer  which resurfaced later as The Old Soul Singer  as well as I Read The Funky Times which features in Pete's stage set, and which can be found on the 1994 Live album.

1. Broken Windscreen
2. White Room
3. Big City Cowboy
4. Walk In The Sun
5. Comeback
6. Still Have The Love
7. I Read The Funky Times
8. Party In The Rain
9. Old Rock Singer
10. Later Days Of Time
11. Barbed Wire Nightdress
12. Summer Hills
13. Patterns

Pete Brown & The Interoceters
live   Live
Audio CD (15 Nov 2004) Mystic UK

This live album from Pete's regular touring band was recorded at the Borderline Club in London, December 2003.

1. Brain Money
2. Old Rock Singer
3. Hard To Say
4. Computer Generated Woman
5. Waiting For The Call
6. Do The Dispute
7. Dark City
8. I Read The Funky Times
9. Politician
10. Thousands On A Raft
11. White Room  
12. Theme For An Imaginary Western

Lyrics & Songwriting
Jack Bruce and the Cream Years
Pete's long running writing partnership with Jack began of course with Cream. Pete's lyrics were featured in all Cream's releases, including the recent 2CD set and DVD of their 2005 reunion at The Albert Hall in London. Amongst the songs Jack and Pete wrote for the band were Politician, I Feel Free, White Room & Sunshine Of Your Love.

Jack Bruce's Solo Work
Pete's songwriting partnership with Jack continued throughout much of Jack's solo career, although only some of the album's featuring their work are featured here.
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songstailor   somethingels   outofthestorm
Pete Brown and Dick Heckstall-Smith
Pete wrote for all four major Dick Heckstall-Smith albums, as well as co-producing three of them with Dave "Munch" Moore. (Jon Hiseman produced A Story Ended
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