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, their fifteenth studio album since their debut in 1968. It is the band's only album consisting solely of instrumental tracks, despite the claim "Lyric sheet enclosed" on the album cover.

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, who had played on some tracks on the previous album ''

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, This new lineup would last for the next eleven years, the most stable of all of Fairport's configurations to that point.

Reception

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's reviewer described Expletive Delighted! as "alternately enjoyable and maddening", criticising the prominence of

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's drums in the mix, while praising "Portmeirion" and the title track as "delicate and beautiful as any work that this version of the band has done".

Track listing

;Side one # "The Rutland Reel/Sack the Juggler" (

) - 3:20 # "The Cat on the Mixer/Three Left Feet" (

) - 3:37 # "Bankruptured" (

) - 3:04 # "

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" (Ric Sanders) - 5:21 # "Jams O'Donnell's Jigs" (Dave Pegg) - 2:48 ;Side two # "Expletive Delighted" (Ric Sanders) - 1:55 # "Sigh Beg Sigh Mor" ( O' Carolan) - 7:18 # "Innstuck" (Maartin Allcock) - 2:08 # "The Gas Almost Works" ( John Kirkpatrick) 1:58 # "Hanks for the Memory" (various, arrangement by

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Release history

*1986, August : Woodworm Records WR009, UK LP; WRC004 UK

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*1986 : Varrick Records VR029, US LP *1986, December : Sandstock SSM019, Australia LP *1987, August : Entente 12-3074 (833 074-928), Germany, LP (different cover, gatefold sleeve) *1990 :Varrick CD-VR-029, US CD *1990 : Folkprint FP002CD, UK CD, reissue with

Personnel

;Fairport Convention *

- guitars,

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- drums, percussion, keyboards *

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- guitars *

- acoustic & bass guitars,

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- violin ;Additional musicians on "Hanks for the Memory" *

- guitar * Richard Thompson - guitar ;Technical * Tim Matyear - engineer

References

External links

{{Authority control 1986 albums Fairport Convention albums Instrumental rock albums