Cleaning Out the Ashtrays: Collected B-sides & Rarities 1989-2006
Lloyd Cole
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Release Date: 02/02/2009
For singer/songwriter Cole, now then is the time for Cleaning Out the Ashtrays - for sorting through dusty boxes of cassettes, DAT tapes and CDs in his Easthampton hideaway, to take stock and try to make sense of all that forgotten music. All those lost songs; half remembered sessions, much-missed friends and fellow-musicians and gifted co-producers. A goldmine of music from 21 years as a solo artist. Here, then, are 59 - count em - nuggets from the Cole vaults. Four CDs bursting with alternate versions, rare b-sides, cover sessions (Lou Reed, Marc Bolan and Leonard Cohen songs among them), and a few tracks that the record companies - and on occasion, even Lloyd himself - just didnt get at the time. Tracklisting: CD1 1) The 'L' Word (b-side of the single Weeping Wine Polydor COLCD15)2) Mannish Girl (b-side of the single Morning Is Broken Fontana VIBES2)3) The Witching Hour (b-side of the single Dont Look Back Polydor COLCD12)4) Wild Orphan (b-side of the single No Blue Skies Polydor COLCD11)5) Don't Look Back (original mix) (previously unreleased)6) No Blue Skies (Skyline mix) (previously unreleased)7) Blame Mary Jane (b-side of the single Dont Look Back Polydor COLCD12)8) Everyone's Complaining (previously unreleased)9) Shelly I Do (b-side of the single No Blue Skies Polydor COLCD11)10) Somewhere Out In The East (b-side of the single Weeping Wine Polydor COLCD15)11) Chelsea Hotel #2 (from the album Im Your Fan: The Songs of Leonard Cohen)12) Pay For It (long version) (previously unreleased)13) Weeping Wine (original mix)(previously unreleased)14) Weird On Me (b-side of the single She's A Girl And I'm A Man Polydor COLCD14)15) Children Of The Revolution (b-side of the single She's A Girl And I'm A Man Polydor COLCD14)16) She's A Girl And I'm A Man (pre op) (previously unreleased)CD2 1) Butterfly (the Planet Ann Charlotte mix) (b-side of the single Butterfly Polydor COLCD16)2) 4 M.B. (b-side of the single So You'd Like To Save The World Fontana VIBED1)3) Love You So What.
Disc 1
1: The 'L' Word
2: Mannish Girl
3: The Witching Hour
4: Wild Orphan
5: Don't Look Back (Original Version)
6: No Blue Skies (Skyline Mix)
7: Blame Mary Jane
8: Everyone's Complaining
9: Shelly I Do
10: Somewhere Out in the East
11: Chelsea Hotel No. 2
12: Pay for It (Long Version)
13: Weeping Wine (Original Mix)
14: Weird On Me
15: Children of the Revolution
16: She's a Girl and I'm a Man (Pre-op)
Disc 2
1: Butterfly
2: 4 M.B.
3: Love You So What (Alternate Mix)
4: Morning Is Broken (Alternate Mix)
5: Too Much of a Good Thing (Alternate Mix)
6: For the Pleasure of Your Company
7: Radio City Music Hall
8: Eat Your Greens
9: Vicious
10: Mystic Lady
11: The Slider
Disc 3
1: I Will Not Leave You Alone
2: Most of the Time
3: Baby
4: Traffic (Long Version)
5: Millionaire
6: Happy for You (Stephen Street Mix)
7: Sentimental Fool (Stephen Street Mix)
8: Like Lovers (Stephen Street Mix)
9: Baby (Stephen Street Mix)
10: Sold
11: Brand New Baby Blues
12: Missing
13: Rain On the Parade
14: Millionaire (Acoustic Mix)
15: The Steady Slowing Down of the Heart
16: It'll Never Happen Again
Disc 4
1: ClaireFontaine
2: I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself (Feat. Robert Quine)
3: Artificial Tears
4: If You Gotta Go, Go Now
5: Tie Me Down
6: Fool You Are
7: Fool You Are (Langer and Winstanley Mix)
8: That Boy (Langer and Winstanley Mix)
9: Si Tu Dois Partir
10: Santa Cruz (Vocal Mix)
11: Late Night, Early Town (Guitar Version)
12: My Alibi (Piano Version)
13: For the Good Times (Feat. Jill Sobule)
14: Coattails
15: Romany Soup
16: ClaireFontaine (Long)