Name: Singles 1989-1991
Brand: Manifesto Records
SKU: 1016177
Availability: OutOfStock

Singles 1989-1991

By The Wedding Present

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Format

CD (1 Disc); Stereo

Release Date

9 March 1999

Album: Singles 1989-1991
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Kennedy
2)	One Day This Will All Be Yours
3)	Unfaithful
4)	It's Not Unusual
5)	Brassneck
6)	Don't Talk, Just Kiss
7)	Gone
8)	Box Elder
9)	Make Me Smile (Come up and See Me)
10)	Crawl
11)	Corduroy
12)	Dalliance
13)	She's My Best Friend
14)	Niagara
15)	Love Nest - (edit)
16)	Mothers
17)	Dan Dare
18)	Fleshworld
1)	I'm Not Always So Stupid
2)	Don't Dictate
3)	Crushed
4)	Cumberland Gap
5)	Blue Eyes - (Radio Remix, radio remix)
6)	Signal
7)	Everyone Thinks He Looks Daft - (live)
8)	Don't Talk, Just Kiss - (previously unreleased, live)
9)	I'm Not Always So Stupid - (previously unreleased, live)
10)	Bewitched - (previously unreleased, live)
11)	Granadaland - (previously unreleased, live)
12)	Give My Love to Kevin - (previously unreleased, live)
13)	Brassneck - (previously unreleased, live)
14)	What Have I Said Now? - (previously unreleased, live)
15)	Take Me! - (live)

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Album: Singles 1989-1991
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Kennedy
2)	One Day This Will All Be Yours
3)	Unfaithful
4)	It's Not Unusual
5)	Brassneck
6)	Don't Talk, Just Kiss
7)	Gone
8)	Box Elder
9)	Make Me Smile (Come up and See Me)
10)	Crawl
11)	Corduroy
12)	Dalliance
13)	She's My Best Friend
14)	Niagara
15)	Love Nest - (edit)
16)	Mothers
17)	Dan Dare
18)	Fleshworld
1)	I'm Not Always So Stupid
2)	Don't Dictate
3)	Crushed
4)	Cumberland Gap
5)	Blue Eyes - (Radio Remix, radio remix)
6)	Signal
7)	Everyone Thinks He Looks Daft - (live)
8)	Don't Talk, Just Kiss - (previously unreleased, live)
9)	I'm Not Always So Stupid - (previously unreleased, live)
10)	Bewitched - (previously unreleased, live)
11)	Granadaland - (previously unreleased, live)
12)	Give My Love to Kevin - (previously unreleased, live)
13)	Brassneck - (previously unreleased, live)
14)	What Have I Said Now? - (previously unreleased, live)
15)	Take Me! - (live)

EAN

0767004030524

Writer

The Wedding Present

Country

USA

Studio/Live

Studio

Label

Manifesto Records

Dimensions

13.3 x 14.6 x 1.3 centimetres (0.21 kg)

Performer Notes

The Wedding Present: David Lewis Gedge (vocals, guitar); Peter Solowka (guitar); Keith Gregory (bass); Simon Smith (drums).
Producers include: Chris Allison, Chris Nagle, Brian Paulson.
Recording information: 1989-1992.
Since pre-Watusi Wedding Present LPs were hardly studies in breadth, the mostly minimalist, but always proud, energetic, and sensitive Weddoes are better represented by this double CD -- a feast for fans, completists, or the curious. CD one is the first five singles the group coughed up after leaving U.K. indie Reception for BMG following the success of George Best, plus all 13 of those singles' B-sides. CD two then throws together the myriad non-LP compilation tracks, six in all, plus two previously issued concert tracks and seven newly unearthed live versions. While that sounds like an aural avalanche, the results are superior to the two LPs the group threshed out back then (Bizarro and Seamonsters), before taking the bizarre, amusing, but silly detour into 1992's Hit Parade new-single-a-month series. Momentarily freed from the daunting expectations of being post-Smiths U.K. indie rock standard-bearers, David Gedge and co. loosened up on their generous B-sides. The surprising shimmer of "One Day This Will All Be Yours" contrasts neatly with the sinister smack of "Fleshworld" and the heavy controlled pounding found in their cover of Pavement's "Box Elder." Since the primo LP singles such as Bizarro's artistic breakthrough single, "Kennedy" (a one-song distillation of four years of rushed releases), and Seamonsters' underrated "Corduroy" also appear, Singles 1989-1991 further retains the band's more usual adrenaline guitar strumming and harried rhythm section, while spotlighting the more developed melodies. It also boasts eight pre-Hit Parade covers, ranging from an ineffective "It's Not Unusual" (Tom Jones' number ten 1965 hit was better done later by Belly and D.O.A.) to the big score (and superb taste!) of Penetration's punk anthem "Don't Dictate." (The others are by the disparate likes of Cockney Rebel, Lou Reed, Jean-Paul Sartre Experience, Pell Mell, and '50s skiffle star Lonnie Donegan.) This back-catalog look-see reminds why Gedge remains so cult-loved for his uncompromising, intense obsessions. ~ Jack Rabid