What is the other name for the bird sometimes known as a 'stormcock'?
Stormcock (album) Fleet Foxes second album "Helplessness Blues". The album's title, "Stormcock", is an old English name for the Mistle thrush ("Turdus viscivorus"). The male of this species "is most vocal in the early morning" and has a "tendency to sing after, and sometimes during, wet and windy weather" which "led to the name "Stormcock"". It is also, perhaps, a metaphor for Harper himself. Harper has an appreciation of birdlife and has made reference to many birds within songs on his albums. The album was digitally remastered in 2007. The package included in a 20-page case-bound booklet with new pictures, prose and
Stormcock (album) "Stormcock" would remain a favourite album of critics and Harper's fans. In October 2013 NME placed "Stormcock" at 377 in their list of "The 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time" Although Jimmy Page performs on the album, he was credited as "S. Flavius Mercurius" for contractual reasons. In 2006, 35 years after its initial release, fellow Mancunian Johnny Marr of English alternative rock band The Smiths said: Joanna Newsom cited "Stormcock" as an influence upon her 2006 release "Ys" and in 2011, Robin Pecknold of Seattle, Washington-based folk band Fleet Foxes stated that he took inspiration from "Stormcock" when recording