Tracks

1. You're No Good
2. The Room Nobody Lives In
3. Point of No Return
4. The Ugly Things
5. Veronica (demo)
6. Couldn't Call It Unexpected (live)
7. Hurry Down Doomsday (live)
8. Idiophone
9. A Drunken Man's Praise of Sobriety
10. Puppet Girl
11. Basement Kiss
12. We Despise You
13. Step Inside Love
14. You've Got to Hide Your Love Away
15. Sticks and Stones
16. Life Shrinks
17. Brilliant Disguise
18. Almost Ideal Eyes
19. I Hope You're Happy Now (demo)
20. My Resistance is Low
21. Congratulations
22. Do You Know What I'm Saying?
23. London's Brilliant Parade (alternate version) [sic?]
24. Night Time
25. Really Mystified

 

 

Release Information:

     Date  | Media| Catalogue number (comments)
     ______|    CD| Tendolar

Comments:

 
A pretty straightforward compilation of the WB era b-sides.  Should be a welcome addition to the collection of people  who missed 'em the first time around. However, a large number of tracks from this era remain for new fans to search out since it  looks like this compilation ignored his many guest appearances from these years.  There's easily enough material out there to justify a second volume.

Sound should be pretty good as most of the tracks were undoubted dumped straight from CD to CD.  I hope they used a CD source for "Do You Know What I'm Saying?", tho, instead of the (slightly) more common vinyl.

I have to assume that the "alternate version" of LBP is, in fact, the demo for "London's Brilliant" from the LBP 12".

"Night Time" and "Really Mystified" are presumably culled from the IB reissue. Why?

"I Hope You're Happy Now" may be a bit out of place chronologically, but given it's rarity, it's a welcome inclusion.

The "cashbox version" of "Complicated Shadows" is conspicous in it's absence.  Too bad the rarest b-side from this era is the one that didn't make the cut....
T.J. Young [tjyoung@acadia.net]

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