fao: mark grout - re: boo radleys reissues and etc

Hi, Doomie, BTW!

No, it's actually quite good, had a good CDR burn of this for some years now.

they'll end up ruining it.

That's for damn sure.

My understanding was that McGee ripped into Carr a few years back and was complaining about him vociferously, so I was wondering if anything would come of such reissues. My homemade rarities collection alone is 4 CDRs worth of B-sides, oddities and remixes, so there's definitely a lot out there!

Yeah I was gonna say - he complained that they lost him money, basically, IIRC. Prick. I don't think there's much love lost between them so it is quite surprising

So, what happen(s) soon, doomie?

Here it is! Out in May.

Ah well, those "Kingsize" b-sides stay unreleased apart from "Tomorrow"

I love(d) The Boo Radleys - especially Giant Steps - but I've got Everything's Alright Forever, Giant Steps. Wake Up!, C'mon Kids and Kingsize: is there enough stuff on here that I haven't already got to really make this worth buying?

Yours sincerely,

i'm so happy that this is coming out and that the boos' back catalogue is being treated with nothing but respect. this is a brilliant cross section of their work and i'm very happy that they've included non-obvious gems like "I've Lost The Reason", "Buffallo Bill", the full version of "Wake Up Boo!", "Four Saints", "Blues For George Michael", not to mention the Ichabod stuff! Actually there's very little on here to complain about other than I'd have replaced "Comb Your Hair" with "The Old Newsstand..." but this is nitpicking.

I asked Doomie, about two years ago, about a Boo's comp that had been mentioned in one of the Creation story books, if he knew what tracks were on it. At the time, he said nothing, but then I found this thread w/my name on it, 6 months later.

The story was that Sony were going to issue "Wake Up" - The Boo Radleys greatest hits compilation, last year. But that got stopped by Martin Carr as his contract gave him veto over any Boos compilations.

This one is compiled by Martin.

I've got Ichabod on vinyl - although the hole in the centre is too big and there's no label on the front. The sleeve looks right though. Is this a bootleg or the real deal. It was about £13 when I bought it.

CD 1 (1990 - 1993)

1. Vegas
2. Feels Like Tomorrow
3. Whiplashed
4. Sunfly
5. Buffalo Bill
6. Boo! Forever
7. Sunfly II: Walking With The Kings
8. One Of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later)
9. At The Sound Of Speed
10. Let Me Be Your Faith
11. Petroleum
12. As Bound As Tomorrow
13. I Will Always Ask You Where You've Been, Even Though I Know The Answer
14. (I Wanna Be) Touchdown Jesus
15. Peachy Keen
16. FUrthur
17. Crow Eye
18. Tortoiseshell
19. Zoom
20. Cracked Lips, Homesick

CD 2 (1994 - 1995)

1. Janus
2. Blues For George Michael
3. Friendship Song
4. And Tomorrow The World
5. I Want A Rainbow Nation
6. Don't Take Your Gun To Town
7. Wallpaper
8. Very Together
9. The Only Word I Can Find
10. XFM Is Ace
11. This Is Not About Me
12. Tambo
13. Donkey
14. Oh, Brother
15. From the Bench At Belvidere
16. Hi Falutin
17. Crushed
18. Almost Nearly There
19. The Queen Is Dead
20. The History of Creation Parts 17 & 36

CD 3 (1996 - 1999)

1. Bloke In A Dress
2. Flakes
3. Atlantic
4. The Absent Boy
5. Annie and Marnie
6. There She Goes
7. Spion Kop
8. To Beautiful
9. Nothing To Do But Scare Myself
10. Vote You
11. A Part I Know So Well
12. Roadie
13. Safe At Home
14. Spanish Lizards
15. Everything Falls Away
16. In A Galaxy Far, Far Away
17. Last Night I Dreamt Of God
18. Superintendent
19. Tomorrow (from West Side Story)
20. Put Your Arms Around Me and Tell Me Everything's Going To Be Okay

Bonus:
21. Blues For George Michael (Demo)
22. Reaching Out From Here (Demo)
23. Peachy Keen (Acoustic)
24. Hip Clown Rag (Demo)
25. Lazarus (Acoustic)
26. Smile Fades Fast (Live)

Please, please don't let me have made any omissions!

This one...

Rats! I@ve got them too. What a spanner

there's a track on the new Quinoline Yellow cd called Spion Kop. i'm guessing it's a football thing rather than a Boer War thing.

I've got a disc full of remixes (mostly Wake Up/C'mon era) I took off my CD singles yearzz ago, gimme a shout if you need anything in tops quality

I was about to say, D.L.! I did all this already!

Er, yes. Please to refer to the Liverpool Kop.

er, yes. but the Spion bit?

there was a discog i found the other day which had all the limited things on it (split with spiritualized, the mail order only thing, the xfm track. can't find it now)

This one? (French. With an english version)

Pretty complete, apart from the "Kingsize" single.

It's nothing like Everything's Alright Forever but not in a bad way at all.

Actually, there might not be. I think I did 'translate' via google...

Enough to find out "Same pants different day" was just "Donkey" under its working title.

Got to say that the Boos' version of Tomorrow from West Side Story is brilliant and Sice pisses all over Thom Yorke on that track. I haven't heard the original. I was expecting "Tomorrow, tomorrow, I love ya, tomorrow" etc... Is that not the same thing?

BTW, officially it’s called "Put Your Arms Around Me and Tell Me Everything’s Going To Be OK."

http://s47.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1YX7UQX4LPCV83TCWMVXPZ9XL6

1. Rodney KIng (St. Etienne Mix)
2. Joel (Justin Warfield Mix)
3. C'Mon KIds (Mekon Mix)
4. Lazarus (Secret Knowledge Mix)
5. Martin Doom! It's Seven O'Clock (Stereolab Mix)
6. Find The Answer Within (High Llamas Mix)
7. Lazarus (Ultramarine Mix)
8. What's In The Box (Kris Need's Erupting Cricket Box Mix)
9. Wake Up Boo! (Music For Astronauts)
10. Bullfrog Green (Ultra Living Mix)
11. Lazarus (Augustus Pablo Mix)
12. Free Huey (Environmental Science Remix)
13. Reaching Out From Here (High Llamas Mix)

Can I get proper hosting for this anywhere please?

Artist: Various Artists
Label: Melody Maker
Release date: 12th October 1996
Catalogue numbers: MM MMC 1096

1. [03:34] Coasting (demo) (by Ash)
2. [04:40] Ride The Tiger (demo) (by the Boo Radleys)
3. [03:34] Pantyhose And Roses (demo) (by Echobelly)
4. [03:30] For The Dead (demo) (by Gene)
5. [04:18] Silently Screaming (demo) (by My Life Story)
6. [04:01] An Open Letter (demo) (by Mansun)
7. [04:27] Departure Lounge

Now, that tape rings a bell...

OTM

I have finally found this after a few tries. I'm going to geek out with my review of this but want to hear a few more time before I start a new thread on this, so in about a weeks time I will give you my thoughts.