The Bluetones: Superior Quality Recordings 1994-2002 (Signed Edition)
The Bluetones
The Bluetones: Superior Quality Recordings 1994-2002 (Signed Edition)
The Bluetones

Release information
Release information
Label: Edsel • Format: CD • Date: 06/08/2021 Cat#: EDSL0080X • Barcode: 5014797904682 • Genre: Alternative, Indie Sub Genre: BritpopTrack Listing
- Talking To Clarry
- Bluetonic
- Cut Some Rug
- Things Change
- The Fountainhead
- Carnt Be Trusted
- Slight Return
- Putting Out Fires
- Vampire
- A Parting Gesture
- Time & Again
- Are You Blue Or Are You Blind?
- String Along
- Driftwood
- Colorado Beetle
- Glad To See Y’Back Again
- Don’t Stand Me Down
- Nae Hair On’t
- Castle Rock
- The Devil Behind My Smile
- Marblehead Johnson
- The Simple Things
- Nifkin’s Bridge
- Time & Again [4-track demo]
- Cut Some Rug [4-track demo]
- Putting Out Fires [4-track demo]
- Are You Blue Or Are You Blind? [demo]
- Talking To Clarry [demo]
- Carnt Be Trusted [demo]
- Slight Return [limited edition UK/Japan 7" single]
- No. 11 (Bluetonic) [from the Fierce Panda "Return To Splendour" EP]
- The Fountainhead [demo]
- Time & Again [demo
- Cut Some Rug [homemade 4-track recording]
- Talking To Clarry [homemade 8-track recording]
- Are You Blue Or Are You Blind? [homemade 8-track recording]
- Tone Blooze
- Unpainted Arizona
- Solomon Bites The Worm
- U.T.A.
- 4-Day Weekend
- Sleazy Bed Track
- If...
- The Jub-Jub Bird
- Sky Will Fall
- Ames
- Down At The Reservoir
- Heard You Were Dead
- Broken Starr
- I Was A Teenage Jesus
- I Walked All Night
- Blue Shadows
- The Watchman
- The Ballad Of Muldoon
- Blue
- Mr. Soul
- Pretty Ballerina
- Woman Done Gone Left Me
- Zorrro
- The Last Of The Great Navigators
- Tiger Lily
- Mudslide
- One Speed Gearbox
- Blood Bubble
- Autophilia Or "How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love My Car"
- Keep The Home Fires Burning
- The Basement Song
- Slack Jaw
- Emily's Pine
- Armageddon (Outta Here)
- The Favourite Son
- Be Careful What You Dream
- Please Stop Talking
- Keep The Home Fires Burning [Radio Version]
- Thought You’d Be Taller
- It’s A Boy
- Soup Du Jour
- Vostok Of Love
- Mudslide [Radio Edit]
- Keep The Home Fires Burning [US Version]
- Zero Tolerance
- Fock Da Brain-Hole
- Mudslide [Shandy Weather Version]
- After Hours
- Groovy Roussos
- Sail On Sailor
- Reverse Cow Girl
- Woman In Love
- Ingimarsson
- Freeze Dried Pop (Dumb It Up)
- Persuasion
- The Bluetones Big Score
- That’s Life
About this release
EXCLUSIVE EDITION – contains print signed by all four band members, and five badges
Hailing from Heston in West London, The Bluetones (Scott Morriss – bass, Eds Chesters – drums, Adam Devlin – guitars, and Mark Morriss – vocals) arrived on the scene in 1995 with their debut single “Are You Blue Or Are You Blind?”. They followed this up with “Bluetonic” and then “Slight Return”, which reached # 2 on the UK singles chart. The debut album “Expecting To Fly” was released in February 1996, and went straight to # 1. Many more hit singles followed, along with two more hit albums, “Return To The Last Chance Saloon” (# 10) and “Science And Nature” (# 7).
This first ever comprehensive box set of The Bluetones’ first period of recordings – from 1994 to 2002 – contains 93 tracks across six CDs. It includes the first three albums – “Expecting To Fly” (1996), “Return To The Last Chance Saloon” (1998) and “Science And Nature” (2000) – as well as the collection of pre-fame demos “The Early Garage Years”, forty-five non-album A- and B-sides and rarities, and three previously unreleased demos (mastered for this compilation by Nigel Clark of Dodgy).
The six CDs are presented in facsimile wallets, and the booklet features all the credits, along with memorabilia and ephemera from the band members’ own collections. Box Set # 2 will follow later this year…..