page_title: The Scrap Iron Rhythm Revue
section_title: Musical style
hierarchical_section_title: The Scrap Iron Rhythm Revue / Musical style
caption_attribution_description: English: Business district of Slippery Rock, Butler County, Pennsylvania. Looking southward on South Main Street.
context_page_description: The Scrap Iron Rhythm Revue is a compilation album and the first album overall by English avant-pop band Stavely Makepeace, released in May 2004 by reissue label RPM Records. Compiled by journalist Bob Stanley, it contains a string of singles recorded between 1969 and 1984 that the band recorded in their home studio and released on various record labels. The band, primarily consisting of Rod Woodward and Nigel Fletcher, were influenced by Joe Meek, and started the band in order to explore experimental and disparate ideas within pop music, describing their musical style as the "scrap iron sound" in reference to their incorporation of unusual instruments. Their singles were commercially unsuccessful, though the band would find major success with "Mouldy Old Dough" under the extended line-up of Lieutenant Pigeon.
  Though Lieutenant Pigeon were subject to a "best of" compilation in 2001, The Scrap Iron Rhythm Revue marked the first time that Stavely Makepeace released a compilation of their material, following the appearance of their 1972 single "Slippery Rock '70s" on the compilation Velvet Tinmine, which compiled obscure glam rock singles.
context_section_description: In their reviews of The Scrap Iron Rhythm Revue, critics highlighted the unusual, disparate sound to the songs. Uncut felt that the band fused 1970s MOR music with DIY avant-garde, and wrote: "Speeding up and multi-tracking home recordings in their mum's front room, they concocted phased, clunking West Midlands exotica and spliced whole new genres: radiophonic cajun reggae, yodelling steam-punk, Joe Meek boogie." AllMusic made note that, as was the case with Lieutenant Pigeon's output, Stavely Makepeace's home productions focused on applying quirky, moderately lo-fi production to simplistic pop songs with strong echoes of both British novelty music and 1950s rock and roll, with songs boasting fiddle lines, horns, old-fashioned piano and "anachronistic" use of echo. Unlike the largely instrumental Lieutenant Pigeon, the music on The Scrap Iron Rhythm Revue is generally more focused on songs with vocals. Bob Stanley made note of the band's "Dada" sound.
  Their 1969 debut single "(I Wanna Love You Like a) Mad Dog" opens the compilation. According to Stanley, the song "sounds like a one-man oompah band" that has been phased to "simulate a psychedelic experience." It features tongue-in-cheek sexual lyrics that Stanley compared to the controversial lyrics of Marie Lloyd. "Edna" is a pop song with the high pitched refrain – sung by either Woodward or Fletcher – of "Ed-ed, Ed-ed, Ed-ed-ed-ed-Edna, let me sing my beautiful song." The BBC described the song's vocals as "quirky" yodelling. In comparing the band's eclectic array of styles, they also felt it contrasted with the rock and roll-styled "Runaround Sue".
  Their 1972 single "Slippery Rock '70s" was recorded as the "slightly rocky" backing to a track named "Fan It". When Woodward and Fletcher attempted to add vocals to the track, they agreed it would sound better without singing, thus erased the vocals and shelved the remaining track. A chance meeting with Spark Records' Bob Kingston, who heard the backing track by accident when listening to a tape of the band's material, believed it to be a completed instrumental and told the band it was impressive enough to release as a single, although a name was needed. Fletcher named it "Slippery Rock" after the borough in Pennsylvania where he had recently stayed. The "70s" suffix was added by Spark. Uncut felt the song "glimmered with authentic strangeness."
caption: "Slippery Rock '70s" is named after the borough in Pennsylvania.
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