Cranium Pie were responsible for one of the finest progessive rock albums of 2011, 'Mechanisms Part 1' - PROG magazine's Geoff Barton called it, "bonkers prog album of the year", plaudits rolled in,the album sold out instantly and copies are already fetching up to £100 on ebay. They've been responsible for brilliant tracks on Fruits de Mer's 'Roqueting Through Space' and 'Keep Off The Grass' compilations and they are currently working on their follow-up to 'Mechanisms Part 1' (bet you can't guess what it's called). In a break between drug, alcohol and menthol cigarette-fuelled sessions, The Pie off-shoot 'The Baking Research Station' have sneaked off into their underground bunker to deconstruct the track from Egg's 2nd album, 'Polite Force', released back in 1972 (I think) on Deram and a superb example of truly progressive prog rock........(when I bought Egg's 1st album over 40 years ago, I can't think of many things that would have been further from my mind than to be involved in releasing a cover of one of the band's tracks four decades later - but I am!!! Wonderful track, wonderful band - do I mean Egg or Cranium Pie? Both, of course) The b-side is just as wonderfully and wilfully obscure, it's all of Cranium Pie with 'Queen St Gang', taken from Arzachel's only album, so more more Eggy connections as Dave Stewart played keyboards for both bands, although the track was actually written by Keith Mansfield a couple of years earlier. (There's also a great version by a band called Standarte).