Connoisseur

[Brett]

Okay, here’s the deal. Doubtless you’ve had similar threads many times before but…

Let’s imagine NONE of the CT’s tracks have ever been released before. You’ve got the rights to them but you can only put out one album. Let’s say 18 tracks and no more. I’d like to know what you’d include please. In particular how would you start and end the album? (Cos I have a ‘thing’ about opening and closing tracks being 'right', especially closing tracks)

I reckon it’ll be hard to hit upon a smooth running order with so many changes in style throughout their career.

A ‘best of’ then….but YOUR selection. Some very tough choices to make.

Oh, you can pick one of the existing sleeves too. Album, single, EP, whatever. :)

“Nobody said it was easy
No one ever said it would be so hard
I'm going back to the start”

[mmmender]

in no particular order here are my 18......


those eyes, that mouth
melonella
watchlar
ella megalast burls forever
alice
blue bell knoll
love's easy tears
wax and wane
carolyn's fingers
touch upon touch
pandora (black sessions version)
crushed
orange appled
oomingmak (instrumental)
treasure hiding
heaven or las vegas
summerhead
cico buff

[E-Lo]

Dials
Kookaburra
Watchlar
Feathers Oar-Blades (BBC mix)
Whales Tails
Orange Appled
Pitch the Baby
Athol Brose
Ivo
Pandora
Blue Bell Knoll
Sugar Hiccup (Sunburst and Snowblind mix)
Crushed
Primitive Heart
Rococo
Carolyn's Fingers
The Thinner The Air
Ooze Out And Away, One How

[mattadore]

Wax And Wane
Garlands
Alas Dies Laughing
In Our Angelhood
Musette And Drums
Sugar Hiccup (12" Version)
The Spangle Maker
Pepper-Tree
Persephone
Great Spangled Fritillary
Sultitan Itan
Throughout The Dark Months Of April And May
The Thinner The Air
Love's Easy Tears
Blue Bell Knoll
Frou-Frou Foxes In Midsummer Fires
Bluebeard
Calfskin Smack

[Brett]

Risking ridicule, marginalisation and out and out banishment...erm, (cough) what's a Black Session?
(Yeah yeah, bring out the dunces hat)


I know the Lowlife 'Black session' album but not CT's???

[mmmender]

black sessions were live radio recordings done in paris france.....many bands have done black sessions recordings. the black sessions version of pandora is by far the BEST live version of that song i've ever heard - i know many fans agree!

[mattadore]

New to me as well. Kinda like Peel sessions then? Are any of these widely available, and what other bands have done them?

[Brett]

I have Prince's 'Black' Album.

The Lowlife 'Black Sessions' Album were the original versions of the songs that made up Godhead. They were having contractual trouble at the time. I prefer them to Godhead myself. Not radio versions though.

Are these commercially available? I can check in europe too? I'm in Brussels this weekend.

The best version of Pandora.....! Bloody Hell! How much better can that song get?

Thanks for the info :)

[watchlar]

the Black Sessions are amazing!!!!!!!

[Brett]

Originally posted by watchlar
the Black Sessions are amazing!!!!!!!

Ha ha, okay the message is getting through. Never saw this before obviously. Are we talking an eBay job here? (Gulp. Another early hours snipe! Just what I need for my insomnia!)