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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 Rob 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. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scr...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)