Feel a little like the boy who couldn't see the Emperor's new clothes but 'The Little Piecer' is certainly not on the vinyl 'Iron Muse' I have - was it re-issued on CD with more tracks and artists - don't have Dave Brooks either?
The album was tremendously influential in establishing industrial song on the map, though it certainly wasn't the first; MacColl had already made a start with 'Shuttle and Cage' and 'Second Shift' and both he and Bert had been taking up the cudgels on behalf of the genre with MacColl's (small) printed song collection, 'Shuttle and Cage' and Bert's 'Come All You Bold Miners.
Stirring times.
Jim Carroll