Label: Esoteric Records (Europe), ECLEC 2013
Style: Rock, Progressive Rock
Country: Merthyr Tydfil, Wales
Time: 73:30
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 425 Mb
The album was recorded in August at Rockfield Studios in Monmouthshire, Wales. Sessions took place soon after the band's 'All Good Clean Fun' tour of Switzerland, although a brief break in their German tour schedule during the late spring had resulted in two tracks being written at a studio in Swansea. The album title is apparently a Swansea saying, usually directed at pub landlords of exceptionally long standing.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_You_Like_It_Here_Now,_Are_You_Settling_In%3F)
Long a fan favorite, Man's fourth studio album was recorded in 1971 during a harried one-week studio session that found the group having to write nearly the entire album, barring the tight and rocking "Angel Easy" and the group's multi-part masterwork "Many Are Called but Few Get Up." Frankly, the album sounds like a record that was largely jammed in the studio; the eight-minute-plus jams that close each side, "We're Only Children" and "Love Your Life," are particularly tiresome, good instrumental and lyrical ideas stretched well past their breaking points. However, besides the superior "Angel Easy" and "Many Are Called but Few Get Up," the album does include the rather wonderful "All Good Clean Fun," a showcase for pianist Clive John and lead guitarist Deke Leonard that has a delightful prog pop playfulness akin to some of Genesis' more lighthearted early moments or the daffiness of the later band Hatfield & the North. The album may be only half good, but that half is among Man's very best work.
(allmusic.com/album/do-you-like-it-here-are-you-settling-in-mw0000752809)
01. Angel Easy (05:02)
02. All Good Clean Fun (04:34)
03. We're Only Children (08:31)
04. Many Are Called, But Few Get Up (07:29)
05. Manillo (05:17)
06. Love Your Life (09:05)
07. Bonus Track - Many Are Called, But Few Get Up (Live at Gugenhalle, Essen, Germany) (09:31)
08. Bonus Track - Angel Easy (Live at Gugenhalle, Essen, Germany) (05:26)
09. Bonus Track - Romain (Live at Gugenhalle, Essen, Germany) (18:32)
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