Details
- Release date: 13 March 2006
- Label: Family Recordings
- Formats: Double CD
- Catalogue number: 9832862
Credits
- Curated by: Jarvis Cocker and Steve Mackey
Sleeve notes
Are you sitting comfortably? Then we'll begin...
The record you have in your hands has been a long time coming - a lifetime in fact. The bits & pieces that have stuck with us whilst the rest fell away. Why these songs? Why in this order? I dunno - it just kind of felt right to us this way. Is it an accident that we start with the "boys & girls come out to play" romp of Carl Orff & finish up nearly 2 hours later with the mid-life angst of Neil Sedaka "Going Nowhere"? Probably... but then Ronald Binge comes to the rescue & takes us on a sea cruise - so what does that mean? It means nothing & it means everything. The music on this compilation has been chosen to make you laugh, cry, dance & sire children - sometimes all within the course of a single song. Some of the artists you may never have heard of, others may be familiar but they might not sound the way you expect them to. They're a disparate bunch... but they've all got one thing in common: we love them.
And if you give them a chance we think you could come to love them too.
Thanks for your attention, Jarvis & Steve.
Tracklisting
Disc 1
- Carl Orff - Gassenhauer
- The Birthday Party - Release the Bats
- Porter Wagoner - Rubber Room
- Psychic TV - Just Drifting
- Dory Previn - Lady With the Braid
- Bob Lind - Cool Summer
- Gene Pitney - 24, Sycamore
- The Animated Egg - Sock It My Way
- The Beach Boys - Feel Flows
- Bonnie Dobson - Winter's Going
- Arlo Guthrie - I'm Going Home
- Bobby Bare - Don't Think Twice
- Alan Vega - Jukebox Babe
- OMD - Waiting for the Man
- Human League - Rock 'n' Roll
- Lieutenant Pigeon - The Villian
- Add N to (X) - King Wasp
- The Fall - Lost in Music
- Moondog - Pastoral
Disc 2
- Elton Motello - Jet Boy, Jet Girl
- The Polecats - John, I'm Only Dancing
- Electronicat - Wop Do Wop
- Johnny Wakelin - In Zaire
- Quix*o*tic - Anonymous Face
- Jonathan Richman - Egyptian Reggae
- Lee Hazlewood - Pour Man
- Screaming Lord Sutch - Flashing Lights
- John Cooper Clarke - Beasley Street
- David Essex - Rock On
- George DeLaRue - Les Visiteurs
- Sonny Bono - Pammies on a Bummer
- The Everly Brothers - I Wonder If I Care As Much
- Dion - Purple Haze
- Neil Sedaka - Going Nowhere
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Ronald Binge - Sailing By
Buckethead - Pure Imagination (hidden)