Mainstream (Quiet Sun album)

Mainstream
Studio album by Quiet Sun
Released	1975
Recorded	1975
Genre	Canterbury scene, progressive rock
Length	39:23
Label	Island
Producer	Quiet Sun

Mainstream (CD Release)
Studio album by Quiet Sun
Released	1997
Label	Expression Records

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Gnosis	(not rated) [1]
Stephen Yarwood	(favorable) [2]
Melody Maker	(favorable)[3]
Allmusic	[4]

Mainstream is the only album of the UK band Quiet Sun. The band split up in after the albumn in 1975 Manzanera to Roxy Music, MacCormick to Matching Mole, Hayward to This Heat and Jarrett began to teach mathematics.

In 1975, Manzanera booked a studio for 26 days to record his first solo album Diamond Head and got Quiet Sun together again to record a studio album from their previously composed material at the same time.^[5] The result Mainstream was critically acclaimed and became the New Musical Express' album of the month, apparently Island Records' fourth or fifth biggest seller at the time, close up to Bad Company and Cat Stevens.^[6]

Reworked versions of two tracks from Mainstream - "Mummy was an asteroid..." (merged with Manzanera's song from Diamond Head "East of Echo," and rechristened "East of Asteroid") and "Rongwrong" - were performed by Manzanera's 801 project during 1976 and featured on their acclaimed LP 801 Live.

A CD release of Mainstream was released in 1997 on Manzanera's label, Expression Records.

Track listing (Original version)

1. "Sol Caliente" (Phil Manzanera) – 8:02
2. "Trumpets with Motherhood" (Charles Hayward) – 1:30
3. "Bargain Classics" (Dave Jarrett) – 5:37
4. "R.F.D." (Jarrett) – 3:09
5. "Mummy was an Asteroid, Daddy was a Small Non-Stick Kitchen Utensil" (Bill MacCormick) – 6:09
6. "Trot" (Manzanera) – 5:00
7. "Rongwrong" (Hayward) – 9:39

Track listing (2011 Collector's Edition)

1. "Sol Caliente" (Phil Manzanera) – 8:02
2. "Trumpets With Motherhood" (Charles Hayward) – 1:30
3. "Bargain Classics" (Dave Jarrett) – 5:37
4. "R.F.D." (Jarrett) – 3:09
5. "Mummy was an Asteroid, Daddy was a Small Non-Stick Kitchen Utensil" (Bill MacCormick) – 6:09
6. "Trot" (Manzanera) – 5:00
7. "Rongwrong" (Hayward) – 9:39
8. "Years of the Quiet Son (Original Demo)"
9. "Trot (Original Demo)"
10. "R.F.D. (Warner Bros Demo)"
11. "R.F.D., Pt. 1 (Mainstream Session)"
12. "Talking History"

Personnel

• Phil Manzanera - electric and treated 6 and 12 string guitars, Fender Rhodes piano
• Dave Jarrett - Fender Rhodes and Steinway grand pianos, Farfisa and Hammond organs, VCS3
• Bill MacCormick - electric and treated basses, backing vocals
• Charles Hayward - drums, lead vocals, percussion, keyboards

with

• Brian Eno - synthesizer, treatments & Oblique Strategies
• Ian MacCormick - backing vocals

References

1. Oellers, Sjef. "Gnosis2000.net - Quiet Sun". gnosis2000.net. Retrieved 9 September 2011.
2. Yarwood, Stephen. "Quiet Sun". btinternet.com. Archived from the original on 2012-06-30. Retrieved 9 September 2011.
3. MacKinnon, Angus. "Quiet Sun Album Reviews". web.archive.org. Archived from the original on 2000-03-02. Retrieved 9 September 2011.
4. Mills, Ted. "Mainstream - Quiet Sun | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 9 September 2011.
5. Quiet Sun Press Pack at the Wayback Machine (archived May 21, 2008)
6. Quiet Sun Album Reviews at the Wayback Machine (archived September 27, 2007)

• Quiet Sun Main Page at the Wayback Machine (archived April 16, 2008) from www.manzanera.com with pictures, interviews and more
• Quiet Sun Catalogue Details at the Wayback Machine (archived April 21, 2008) from manzanera.com
• Phil Manzanera - Recordings at the Wayback Machine (archived May 14, 2008) from manzanera.com