- Glass Top Coffin - Lyrics 'The dreamer dreamed the dust rose up andwalked But when the dreamer woke did anyone tell the dust -and I fell-and stars like dust covered me'.
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Glass Top Coffin (Back) “The dreamer dreamed the dust rose up and walked But when the dreamer woke did anyone tell the dust -and I fell- and stars like dust covered me” Original LP released in 1975 on Vertigo 6360 115 Released on CD by (catalogue no. ECLEC2184) in March 2010 Rare: This album is quite rare and is worth a bit on the collector’s market, more so in fact than ‘Space Hymns’. — Leon Economides, January 1999 Australian CD: I bought a newly released Ramases “Space Hymns” CD on eBay – it has six bonus tracks from “Glass Top Coffin” which are tracks 2, 3, 6, 9, 10 and 11. CD is on Progressive Line a division of Dole Music – Made in Australia P 1971/75 C 2001. — Mike Sonnabend, 31 January 2002 Produced by Ramases and Barry Kirsch, recorded at Phonogram Studios, London All songs written by Ramases and his wife Sel Cover concept by Ramases, artwork by Dave Field/art direction: Jack Wood Album Cover: He was really upset by the cover of the album. I saw the first proofs and they weren’t at all what he envisaged.
The cut-out was meant to show a man falling backwards into space into the Horsehead nebula, which when you open up the album revealed that bird. Well, he didn’t like what they had done, but the artwork was completed and the record company said, that’s that!!
Glass Top Coffin is a music studio album recording by RAMASES (Prog Folk/Progressive Rock) released in 1975 on cd, lp / vinyl and/or cassette. This page includes Glass Top Coffin's: cover picture, songs / tracks list, members/musicians and line-up, different releases details, free MP3 download (stream), buy online links: ebay and amazon, ratings and detailled reviews by our experts, collaborators and members.
So Ram persuaded the record company to let him scratch (literally) the litho plates before the cover went to press. He sanded down that little circle that is lighter in the mans head that forms a part of that birds shoulder, and it did look marginally better.
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Three years had elapsed since Space Hymns mesmerized all who encountered it, a period during which Ramases' own career stood still, even as his former backing band went on to glory as 10cc. Indeed, it was the reflection of their fame that brought Glass Top Coffin the media attention it did receive, although few listeners lured in by the link would have been expecting this. A very different album from its predecessor (despite packaging in an equally captivating sleeve), Glass Top Coffin relies on orchestration for its punch, conjuring images of a downbeat Moody Blues as Ramases and Sel trade vocals across some almost heartstoppingly melancholic pastures - 'Long Long Time' and 'Only the Loneliest Feeling' paramount among them. But there are also moments of spellbinding joy - the duet between the Mona Lisa (yes, the painting) and an onlooker trying to solve the riddle of her expression ('Mona Lisa Now') is magnificent, while the mantric 'Stepping Stones' harks back to the proggier elements of Space Hymns, without losing sight of the distance between them. Balancing these jewels are a couple of songs that, in any other hands, could be construed as sure-fire commercial hits - the punchy 'Sweet Reason' and the flowing 'Saler Man,' while the title track seems to take every instinct that was bottled up elsewhere on the album and unleashed it in one breathtaking roar.
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It is this variety and versatility that still holds Glass Top Coffin in good stead today - unlike Space Hymns, it has scarcely dated, and the greatest regret is that there would never be a follow-up. Dave Thompson.