This song was left off St Etienne's debut Foxbase Alpha and is one of the bonus tracks on an upcoming twenty five year anniversary edition (triple vinyl, double cd, booklet, cigarette cards etc). It's a wonder it didn't make the cut first time around with its lazy house drums, reverb and echo, and Sarah's sunny day vox.
6 comments:
I love Fox Base Alpha, so it's great to hear another track from it for the first time. How on earth does anyone make decisions about what to cut, though - especially when it's quality like this?
This re-packaging and re-release is taking the piss. It has already been done twice 2009 and then remastered in 2011 and now again. I thought better of this mob and Heavenly. Looking up the track listing, it's the same as the 2009 version. Good track though.
I'm with drew. The anniversary reissue trend is worse than the multi-format singles in the 90s.
Agree with both of you. And you too C.
Swiss Adam
agree with all the above comments re the repackaging and reissuing nonsense. Great tune though.
Tune! I wonder if it was decided it was too muscular for the album at the time.
As for repackaging...it's a buyer beware kinda world. Growing up I despised greeatest hits albums. Even as a kid I was deep tracks kid. Once the boxed set genre took off I was careful to only get releases that might enhance my library...remastered cds of product I only owned on well worn, yet immaculately kept vinyl, for example. Or where a previously unreleased album or withdrawn album, like The Style Council's final opus - Modernism - A New Decade, was included.
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