Coat of Many Cupboards

Tracklist

Disc 1

1. 1 Science Friction (CBS demo) 3:32
2. 2 Spinning Top (live) 3:00
3. 3 Traffic Light Rock (live) 2:06
4. 4 Radios in Motion (White Music version) 2:54
5. 5 Let’s Have Fun (White Music outtake) 1:19
6. 6 Fireball XL5 / Fireball Dub (White Music outtake) 3:24
7. 7 Heatwave MKII Deluxe (White Music outtake) 1:47
8. 8 This Is Pop? (single version) 2:42
9. 9 Are You Receiving Me? (Go 2 outtake) 3:23
10. 10 Things Fall to Bits (Go 2 outtake) 2:26
11. 11 Us Being Us (Go 2 outtake) 2:55
12. 12 Life Begins at the Hop (first rehearsal extract) 1:09
13. 13 Life Begins at the Hop (first recording, unused) 3:58
14. 14 Making Plans for Nigel (demo from Swindon Town Hall) 4:15
15. 15 Ten Feet Tall (Drums and Wires version) 3:14
16. 16 Sleepyheads (Drums and Wires outtake) 4:52

Disc 2

1. 1 Meccanik Dancing (Oh We Go!) (live) 2:34
2. 2 Atom Medley: Into the Atom Age / Hang On to the Night / Neon Shuffle (live) 6:52
3. 3 Life Begins at the Hop (unused U.S. single recording) 2:57
4. 4 Real by Reel (unused single recording) 3:44
5. 5 When You’re Near Me I Have Difficulty (unused single recording) 3:21
6. 6 Helicopter (unused single recording) 3:30
7. 7 Towers of London (rejected single recording) 6:07
8. 8 Generals and Majors (rehearsal tape) 5:02
9. 9 No Language in Our Lungs (Black Sea version) 4:51
10. 10 Sgt. Rock (Is Going to Help Me) (Black Sea version) 3:37
11. 11 Paper and Iron (Notes and Coins) (live) 4:08
12. 12 Crowded Room (live) 4:03
13. 13 Senses Working Overtime (early work tape) 3:31
14. 14 Snowman (live) 5:06
15. 15 Ball and Chain (unused single recording) 4:21

Disc 3

1. 1 Punch and Judy (unused single recording) 2:35
2. 2 Fly on the Wall (English Settlement version) 3:17
3. 3 Yacht Dance (live) 4:31
4. 4 Jason and the Argonauts (English Settlement version) 5:59
5. 5 Love on a Farmboy’s Wages (home demo) 3:47
6. 6 Wonderland (home demo) 4:23
7. 7 Ladybird (Mummer version) 4:36
8. 8 All You Pretty Girls (home demo) 4:13
9. 9 Wake Up (home demo) 4:12
10. 10 The Everyday Story of Smalltown (Big Express version) 4:13
11. 11 Grass (home demo) 2:55
12. 12 Let’s Make a Den (home demo) 2:25
13. 13 The Meeting Place (home demo) 3:51
14. 14 Dear God (band demo) 4:10

Disc 4

1. 1 Brainiac’s Daughter (Psonic Psunspot version) 4:03
2. 2 Vanishing Girl (Psonic Psunspot version) 2:44
3. 3 Terrorism (home demo) 3:20
4. 4 Find the Fox (home demo) 2:37
5. 5 Season Cycle (Skylarking version) 3:21
6. 6 The Troubles (home demo) 3:17
7. 7 Mayor of Simpleton (early work tape) 2:47
8. 8 King for a Day (home demo) 3:14
9. 9 Chalkhills and Children (Oranges & Lemons version) 5:06
10. 10 The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead (early home demo) 5:34
11. 11 Omnibus (Nonsuch version) 3:20
12. 12 The Disappointed (home demo) 3:20
13. 13 Bungalow (Nonsuch version) 2:49
14. 14 Didn’t Hurt a Bit (Nonsuch outtake) 3:54
15. 15 Books Are Burning (live) 4:48

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