Compilation 2xCD Shinkansen Recordings 1998
"Although revered in certain indie circles, for far too long the Field Mice appeared in danger of languishing as the great lost pop band of the early '90s, with their records out of print and fetching obscene prices on the collector's market. A lavish two-disc retrospective worthy of their growing legacy, the extraordinary Where'd You Learn to Kiss That Way? finally restores the group to their rightful prominence, assembling all of the key tracks they released on the legendary Sarah label between 1988 and 1991. With their shimmering guitars, indelible melodies, lush arrangements, and Bobby Wratten's heartbreaking songs, in retrospect the Field Mice now seem like the missing link between the Smiths and Belle & Sebastian - at their best (Emma's House, This Love Is Not Wrong, Coach Station Reunion, and countless others), they achieve the same kind of pop transcendence, spinning tales of love and loss with an elegance and grandeur that are often breathtaking. And while it's a shame Shinkansen didn't opt to include a third disc and release the band's complete recorded output, each of the 36 tracks which did make the cut sparkles. No longer lost, the Field Mice were simply a great pop band, and with Where'd You Learn to Kiss That Way?, their music might finally reach the wide audience it so richly deserves".
(Jason Ankeny, All-Music Guide)
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If You Need Someone
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Tracklist:
CD1
01 Five Moments
02 If You Need Someone
03 Sensitive
04 Couldn't Feel Safer
05 Below the Stars
06 Coach Station Reunion
07 Everything About You
08 Isn't Forever
09 Between Hello and Goodbye
10 And Before the First Kiss
11 Tilting at Windmills
12 Missing the Moon
13 Let's Kiss and Make Up
14 Triangle
15 Canada
16 Anyone Else Isn't You
17 September's Not So Far Away
CD2
01 Emma's House
02 Landmark
03 Willow
04 Holland Street
05 Clearer
06 Quicksilver
07 Star of David
08 When Morning Comes To Town
09 The Last Letter
10 Indian Ocean
11 This Love Is Not Wrong
12 Fabulous Friend
13 White
14 When You Sleep
15 An Earlier Autumn
16 End of the Affair
17 This Is Not Here
18 A Wrong Turn and Raindrops
19 So Said Kay
that's really great!!!!thanks a lot, though i would like to see some hard to find sarah cds also.
Can you be more specific? One never knows, I've got a pretty good selection...
:D
Yeah, you can say that again!
But concerning The Field Mice, is it only me that could never come around the fact they sounded SO MUCH like The Wake. At the beginning I thought it was The Wake recording under a different name!
i don't wanna be rude and unthankfull, but even a SARAH compilation that fur sure were realeased on cd, would be more than
enough.
thanks again for every single post you make, if it's not something that
we were searching then it's something that we might have listened a long time ago.
I think I've got every single Sarah compilation released (although some were ripped from vinyl at lower bitrates). You can take your pick, and I'll try to squeeze it in later this week...
whatever you please(high bitrate), i trust your taste.
I wonder if you have the last album of this enigmatic band, a compilation can be nice too.
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