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Superior Quality Recordings (6CD) (Signed Exclusive)

The Bluetones

Superior Quality Recordings (6CD) (Signed Exclusive)

The Bluetones

Superior Quality Recordings (6CD) (Signed Exclusive)

Release information

Release information

Label: Superior Quality Recordings (6CD) (Signed Exclusive) • Format: CD • Date: 11/06/2021 Cat#: EDSL0080X • Barcode: 5014797904682 • Genre: Alternative, Indie Sub Genre: Britpop

Track Listing

  1. Talking To Clarry
  2. Bluetonic
  3. Cut Some Rug
  4. Things Change
  5. The Fountainhead
  6. Carnt Be Trusted
  7. Slight Return
  8. Putting Out Fires
  9. Vampire
  10. A Parting Gesture
  11. Time & Again
  1. Are You Blue Or Are You Blind?
  2. String Along
  3. Driftwood
  4. Colorado Beetle
  5. Glad To See Y’Back Again
  6. Don’t Stand Me Down
  7. Nae Hair On’t
  8. Castle Rock
  9. The Devil Behind My Smile
  10. Marblehead Johnson
  11. The Simple Things
  12. Nifkin’s Bridge
  13. Time & Again [4-track demo]
  14. Cut Some Rug [4-track demo]
  15. Putting Out Fires [4-track demo]
  1. Are You Blue Or Are You Blind? [demo]
  2. Talking To Clarry [demo]
  3. Carnt Be Trusted [demo]
  4. Slight Return [limited edition UK/Japan 7" single]
  5. No. 11 (Bluetonic) [from the Fierce Panda "Return To Splendour" EP]
  6. The Fountainhead [demo]
  7. Time & Again [demo
  8. Cut Some Rug [homemade 4-track recording]
  9. Talking To Clarry [homemade 8-track recording]
  10. Are You Blue Or Are You Blind? [homemade 8-track recording]
  1. Tone Blooze
  2. Unpainted Arizona
  3. Solomon Bites The Worm
  4. U.T.A.
  5. 4-Day Weekend
  6. Sleazy Bed Track
  7. If...
  8. The Jub-Jub Bird
  9. Sky Will Fall
  10. Ames
  11. Down At The Reservoir
  12. Heard You Were Dead
  13. Broken Starr
  14. I Was A Teenage Jesus
  15. I Walked All Night
  16. Blue Shadows
  17. The Watchman
  18. The Ballad Of Muldoon
  19. Blue
  20. Mr. Soul
  21. Pretty Ballerina
  22. Woman Done Gone Left Me
  1. Zorrro
  2. The Last Of The Great Navigators
  3. Tiger Lily
  4. Mudslide
  5. One Speed Gearbox
  6. Blood Bubble
  7. Autophilia Or "How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love My Car"
  8. Keep The Home Fires Burning
  9. The Basement Song
  10. Slack Jaw
  11. Emily's Pine
  1. Armageddon (Outta Here)
  2. The Favourite Son
  3. Be Careful What You Dream
  4. Please Stop Talking
  5. Keep The Home Fires Burning [Radio Version]
  6. Thought You’d Be Taller
  7. It’s A Boy
  8. Soup Du Jour
  9. Vostok Of Love
  10. Mudslide [Radio Edit]
  11. Keep The Home Fires Burning [US Version]
  12. Zero Tolerance
  13. Fock Da Brain-Hole
  14. Mudslide [Shandy Weather Version]
  15. After Hours
  16. Groovy Roussos
  17. Sail On Sailor
  18. Reverse Cow Girl
  19. Woman In Love
  20. Ingimarsson
  21. Freeze Dried Pop (Dumb It Up)
  22. Persuasion
  23. The Bluetones Big Score
  24. That’s Life
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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…..