The first volume was really easy to make. It consisted entirely of BBC performances taken from album bonus tracks. This album has a lot of that. Specifically, six of the eleven songs are BBC performances from more album bonus tracks. But I felt those weren't enough to give an adequate picture, because the band only did one BBC session in the 1982/1983 time frame. So I've added in some live songs that I feel are important songs for the band. Most of these also come from album bonus tracks. There were a few more I could have included, but I didn't do that to avoid duplication of some songs.
The only song here that isn't sourced from a bonus track is the last one, "Ackee 1 2 3." Personally, that's my favorite deep cut of theirs. Between this BBC volume and the first one, you basically get an excellent double album greatest hits collection. I wanted to make sure that song was included too. But since I couldn't find a bonus track version, I ended up using a version from a rare but officially released album of the band playing at the US Festival in 1983. However, with this and the other live songs here, it's hard to tell they're live versions, except sometimes for some applause at the end.
This album is 38 minutes long.
01 Doors of Your Heart (English Beat)
02 I Confess (English Beat)
03 Spar Wid Me (English Beat)
04 She's Going (English Beat)
05 Save It for Later (English Beat)
06 Sole Salvation (English Beat)
07 Pato and Roger a Go Talk (English Beat)
08 End of the Party (English Beat)
09 Best Friend (English Beat)
10 Get-a-Job - Stand Down Margaret (English Beat)
11 Ackee 1 2 3 (English Beat)
https://www.upload.ee/files/15112200/TEnglishB_1982b-1983_BBSessionsVolume2_atse.zip.html
The album cover photo is a promotional photo of the band, I think from 1983.
I was just looking through your list of albums and artists and I couldnt see any XTC is there a reason for that or is it a fact they are not to your taste ?great blog by the way and its really grown
ReplyDeleteI certainly like XTC, but not so much that I think all of their rare stuff is worth collecting (just some of it). And they don't have much live stuff to speak of, since they stopped doing live shows early on (and before they really hit their stride, in my opinion). Someday I'd like to post a single album "best of" of Andy Partridge's Fuzzy Warbles, but I'm not familiar with that enough to make the picks. Maybe someone else would have some good advice there.
ReplyDeleteJL over at Albums I Wish Existed posted a lot of XTC rare tracks although I think he didn't use the XTC version of Ella Guru but the orignal by Captain Beefheart...
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