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[Kettle of fish (disambiguation) [!] Kettle of fish] [date=April 2022]
[date=June 2019] {{Infobox album | name = Kettle of Fish | type = Compilation
album | artist = Fish | cover = FishKettle.jpg | caption = Cover art by Mark
Wilkinson | released = 9 November 1998 | recorded = | venue = | studio = |
genre = Progressive rock | length = 70:51 | label = Roadrunner | producer =
Jon Kelly, Chris Kimsey, James Cassidy, Steven Wilson, Elliot Ness |
prev_title = Sunsets on Empire | prev_year = 1997 | next_title = Raingods with
Zippos | next_year = 1999 }}
_KETTLE OF FISH (88-98)_ is the title of a compilation album by Fish released
in 1998, providing a retrospective on his solo career plus two new songs.
Unlike the previous best-of _Yin and Yang_ (1995), this is a single disc and
does not include any Marillion material. _Kettle of Fish_ was Fish's first
release under a new contract with Roadrunner Records, who signed Fish after
the financially catastrophic _Sunsets on Empire_ album and tour of 1997 had
forced him to dissolve his own label Dick Brothers Record Company. (The Dick
Bros. logo still appears on the back, but this appears to be strictly
symbolic.) Roadrunner also re-released Fish's entire backcatalogue; _Kettle of
Fish_ was intended to draw attention to these titles, which explains the
publication of another "best-of" compilation with just one studio album
between this and the last one. The album was accompanied by an eponymous
collection of video clips with slightly different tracks (see below). In
Europe, the limited first edition of the album included a bonus CD-ROM with
three videos and additional material.
** Tracks
The album contains thirteen tracks, most of which have been singles, in
non-chronological order. There are three songs each from the first two solo
albums, _Vigil in a Wilderness of Mirrors_ (1990) and _Internal Exile_ (1991);
"Just Good Friends" from _Internal Exile_ appears in its 1995 re-recorded
version featuring Sam Brown. The other two solo albums – _Suits_ (1994) and
_Sunsets on Empire_ (1997) - are represented by two songs each. The 1993
studio album with cover versions, _Songs from the Mirror_, is not represented.
Also not included are the singles "The Company" (1990) and "Change of Heart"
(1997), which had only been released in Germany and the UK, respectively.
Instead, two songs that were planned as singles but never released, are
included – "Lucky" (1991) and "Goldfish and Clowns" (1997). All tracks appear
in their original album versions, except for "Goldfish and Clowns" and "Lady
Let It Lie", of which the single edits are used. Additionally, the album
contains two new tracks. Both are products of Fish's participation in a
songwriters retreat organised by Miles Copeland III at his castle Marouatte in
France (incidentally the same place where Marillion had recorded _Brave_) in
the spring of 1998. "Mr. Buttons" was co-written with Maia Sharp and Andy
Gardiner; "Chasing Miss Pretty", a pure pop song, with Chris Braide and
American guitarist Dave Bassett. (Another three songs from these sessions
would end up on the forthcoming album _Raingods with Zippos_.) "Chasing Miss
Pretty" was planned as a single, but never materialised.
** Cover art
The cover is, by Fish's standards, simplistic; it shows a goldfish in an
undersized, kettle-shaped aquarium on a black background. The illustration
was created by web designer Mo Warden, who also runs his official site.
Regular Fish album designer Mark Wilkinson is credited for "sleeve design",
although it is not clear what for; it could be in reference to the
thumbnail-sized covers of the singles that are included in the lyrics booklet.
** Video version
In December 1998, a video compilation with the same title was released, which
has a different running order and a different selection of eleven tracks. It
contains the promotional videos for ten Fish singles released to that point.
Again, the singles "The Company" and "Change of Heart", for which no videos
were made, are missing, as are the four new/non-single tracks found the album
version. Instead, there are videos for two songs not on the album: Fish's
version of the 1972 Argent hit "Hold Your Head Up", which had been the A-side
of the only single from the 1993 cover album _Songs from the Mirror_. The
second non-album video is of Tony Banks's single "Shortcut to Somewhere"
(1986) from his album _Soundtracks_, which featured Fish on lead vocals. This
had been Fish's first ever recording outside Marillion.
** Track listing
*** CD
Note: "Dick" is Fish's surname.
1. "Big Wedge" – 05:19 (Dick/ Simmonds ) — from _Vigil in a Wilderness of Mirrors_ , 1990
2. "Just Good Friends" (with Sam Brown ) – 05:48 (Dick/Usher/Boult/Simmonds) — originally from _Internal Exile_ , 1991, this version from _Yin_ , 1995
3. "Brother 52" – 06:06 (Dick/ Wilson ) — from _Sunsets on Empire_ , 1997
4. "Chasing Miss Pretty" – 4.53 (Dick/ Braide /Bassett) — new track
5. "Credo" – 06:41 (Dick/Simmonds/Boult/ Usher ) — from _Internal Exile_ , 1991
6. "A Gentleman's Excuse Me" – 04:19 (Dick/Simmonds) — from _Vigil in a Wilderness of Mirrors_ , 1990
7. "Goldfish and Clowns" – 06:38 (Dick/Wilson) — from _Sunsets on Empire_ , 1997
8. "Lady Let It Lie" – 04:12 (Dick/ Paton /Cassidy) — edited version taken from _Suits_ , 1994
9. "Lucky" (1995 Re-recording) – 04:58 (Dick/Boult/Simmonds) — originally from _Internal Exile_ , 1991, this version from _Yang_ , 1995
10. "State Of Mind" – 04:46 (Dick/Simmonds/ Lindes ) — from _Vigil in a Wilderness of Mirrors_ , 1990
11. "Mr. Buttons" – 4.36 (Dick/Gardiner/Sharp) — new track
12. "Fortunes Of War" – 07:54 (Dick/Cassidy/Boult) — from _Suits_ , 1994
13. "Internal Exile" – 04:41 (Dick/Boult/Simmonds) — from _Internal Exile_ , 1991
Total Time 70:51
*** DVD
Albums and credits as above except where noted.
1. "State Of Mind" - directed by Michael Geoghegan
2. "Big Wedge" - directed by Michael Geoghegan
3. "A Gentleman's Excuse Me" - directed by Julian Doyle 1990
4. "Internal Exile" - directed by Brian Ward, produced by Iain Brown 1991
5. "Credo" - directed by Tony Van Den Ende, produced by Kathy Hood 1991
6. "Hold Your Head Up" ( Argent / White ), from _Songs from the Mirror_ (1992/1993) - directed by David Barnard, produced by Perry Asincomo 1992
7. "Lady Let It Lie" - directed by Dave Miller, produced by Ed Booth 1994
8. "Fortunes Of War" - directed by Hamish Barbour, produced by Ed Booth 1994
9. "Just Good Friends" (with Sam Brown) - directed by Hamish Barbour 1995
10. "Brother 52" - directed by Steve Flack 1997, produced by Jane Rigby and Jim Leishman, with the co-operation of the students of Dundee University's Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design
11. "Shortcut to Somewhere" (with Tony Banks ) (Dick, Banks), from the soundtrack of Quicksilver , featured on the Tony Banks album _Soundtracks_
The videos for "Fortunes of War", "Brother 52" and "Just Good Friends" were
also on a CD-ROM included with the first 30,000 copies of the audio version.
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