THE WORKS

[seventieslord]

Play.com has the tracklist, some of you just dont look

Disc 1

1. Turning American (Terry Date mix)
2. Liberty Cap (TD mix)
3. Nothing Ever Changes But The Shoes (TD mix)
4. Crying Over Nothing (TD mix)
5. Splattermania
6. Dreaming In A
7. Weekend (Five Long Days)
8. Greetings From Shitsville
9. TV Tan
10. Everlone
11. Loveshit
12. Miles Away Girl
13. My Baby Is A Headfuck
14. News Of The World
15. Love You Till I Don't

Disc 2

1. Dangerlust
2. Show A Little Emotion
3. Caffeine Bomb
4. Girlfriend Clothes
5. And The Bullshit Goes On
6. Suckerpunch
7. 29 x The Pain (original version)
8. Beautiful Thing You
9. If Life Is Like A Lovebank I Want An Ovedraft
10. Geordie In Wonderland
11. Do The Channel Bop
12. I Wanna Go Where The People Go (single version)
13. Can't Do Right For Doing Wrong
14. V-Day
15. Just In Lust

Disc 3

1. Nita Nitro
2. Jonesing For Jones
3. Naivety Play
4. In LIlly's Garden
5. Getting It
6. Mindslide
7. Friend For Five Minutes
8. Sick Of Drugs
9. Bad Time To Be Having A Bad Time
10. Underkill
11. Red Light Green Light
12. All American Home Boy Crowd
13. Schizophonic
14. Sky Babies
15. Nite Songs

I shall be getting it for the b-sides im missing...

That's actually a pretty good tracklisting I reckon

Good tracklisting, but zero incentive for any of us to actually buy it.

That's probably a good thing. If this thing had even one track I couldn't get somewhere else, I'd probably buy it, but I would have a bad taste in my mouth over the whole thing. This one, I can just avoid and be done with it. All this is, is basically an extended version of the Japanese best-of, isn't it? Same tracks, bunch of b-sides, with an extra disc worth of stuff filling it out.

[nuno75]

This will be the first time ever that Nita Nitro has appeared on an album without Baby Strange hooked to the start of it. I find that peculiar and it makes me question the track list.

[Ean]

This will be the first time ever that Nita Nitro has appeared on an album without Baby Strange hooked to the start of it. I find that peculiar and it makes me question the track list.

I guess it's no more peculiar than 29 x and Beautiful Thing U being in the wrong order and missing the connecting track, or Weekend and Dreaming In A being backwards too.

Hmmm, no Inglorious, Caprice or Hate The World Day?

[nuno75]

Also, they have omitted some pretty major tracks, most notably Inglorious, which is easily one of the five most important songs that could have been included.

[Ean]

A bit of advanced maths reveals that they could easily have got everything from DBH, EVs, PHUQ, FFL and all the B-sides on 4 CDs.

Seems odd when they clearly had access to everything EastWest released.

[Rancidpunk_76]

If anyone already has the tracks then PLEASE don't bother buying this release.

1st. It's obviously got nowt to do with the band.

2nd. So they probably won't get paid sh*t for it.

3rd. Yup, piss poor outdated cover.

4th. Yet another piss poor compilation which includes questionable songs and omits the more obvious ones....

5th. Yet again, somone else is cashing in on YOUR favourate bands hard work.

Correct me/lambast me if i'm wrong, just my opinion is all.

[Ean]

3rd. Yup, piss poor outdated cover.

4th. Yet another piss poor compilation which includes questionable songs and omits the more obvious ones...

Outdated how exactly? Show me a cover photo featuring members from that era that isn't wrong at some point in time?

You're never gonna please the hardcore but, like every other best of, it's not for us and I wouldn't call a three CD set 'piss poor', especially when no-one's seen it yet to make any kind of judgement on the rest of the package. While in some respects it's not the greatest choice of songs. I can understand their thinking on some tracks - It might seem odd to me that Two-Way Idiot Mirror has been omitted, but their rationale will probably be that the other two tracks are frequently aired live favourites and deserve to be on there more.

[Master Bra'tac]

I have all the tracks, but will buy if it's remastered. I imagine it would be.

I would question the omission of Two-Way Idiot Mirror and Inglorious.

And cover = irrelevant

[spoon_of_grimbo]

my main beef is with the title - it's shite.

how about...


HEADPHUQ'D IN SHITSVILLE
A Schitzophonic Riffology of the Wildhearts

[Keith Richard]

Hmmmmm.....dissapointing that "Two Way..." , "Shandy Bang" and "S.I.N." are excluded but I'll fork out nonetheless. Is this a band endorsed release?

[vickyp]

3rd. Yup, piss poor outdated cover.

Outdated how exactly? Show me a cover photo featuring members from that era that isn't wrong at some point in time?
.

There's obviously only one way to make sure the cover picture isn't out of date. Get everyone who has ever been a Wildheart in one room and have a huge group shot. Good luck convincing Mark Keds.

[Rancidpunk_76]

As there's been so many different band members over the years, howsabout some original form of artwork instead of a group photo?

The above is null and void anyhoo as my main gripe is that it's yet another cobbled together compilation that the band won't see a cent from.......

[skychaserhigh]

As there's been so many different band members over the years, howsabout some original form of artwork instead of a group photo?

The above is null and void anyhoo as my main gripe is that it's yet another cobbled together compilation that the band won't see a cent from.......

A collage of the album covers could work well

Get your point about it being a quick buck for the record company, but as a starting point for a curious newbie they could do worse..

Agree its pretty poor form the band won't see anything from it, but maybe it will spawn some new fans who will then go out and buy the back catalouge thus creating income for the lads..

[vanrad]

It was bound to happen eventually - The Wildhearts still manage to tour and make great records, so the East West / WB years where bound for this little money making scheme.

I think it's great for newer or potential fans - just would have been better with more of their newer stuff on it and (presuming the band had nothing to do with it) they've missed a huge trick nor putting a DVD video package on it or involving the band.

I've been a collector of their music nor their formats, so I'll give it a miss for now. It should be a criminal offence that the Wildhearts receive no money from this, although they may gain from more people being interested in them.

[markE]

hey all publicity is good publicity right?