Aztec Camera: Backwards and Forwards – The WEA Recordings 1984–1995

Compilation by Aztec Camera

Released 2021

rock indie pop indie rock

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CD 1: Knife
1
Still on Fire
3:59
4.0 ★
2
Just Like the USA
4:01
3
Head Is Happy (Heart’s Insane)
4:15
4
The Back Door to Heaven
5:22
5
All I Need Is Everything
5:49
6
Backwards and Forwards
4:12
7
The Birth of the True
2:43
8
Knife
9:05
9
All I Need Is Everything (7″ edit)
3:48
10
Jump
2:51
11
All I Need Is Everything (Latin mix)
6:03
12
Jump (Loaded version)
5:32
CD 2: In Concert 1984
1
Walk Out to Winter
3:50
2
The Bugle Sounds Again
3:49
3
We Could Send Letters
7:18
4
Backwards and Forwards
4:39
5
Oblivious
3:50
6
All I Need Is Everything
6:03
7
The Boy Wonders
3:28
8
Mattress of Wire
3:16
9
The Bugle Sounds Again
3:19
10
The Birth of the True
2:32
11
Backwards and Forwards
4:14
12
Walk Out to Winter
3:17
CD 3: Love
1
Deep & Wide & Tall
4:07
2
How Men Are
3:42
3
Everybody Is a Number One
3:28
4
More Than a Law
4:41
5
Somewhere in My Heart
4:01
3.6 ★
6
Working in a Goldmine
5:43
7
One and One
4:14
8
Paradise
4:32
9
Killermont Street
3:19
10
Bad Education
2:50
11
The Red Flag
2:52
CD 4: Remixes, B‐Sides & Live 1986–1988
1
Somewhere in My Heart (12″ remix)
7:08
2
Somewhere in My Heart (Eric Calvi remix)
3:55
3
Somewhere in My Heart (the alternate mix)
6:30
4
Deep & Wide & Tall (Breakdown mix)
7:20
5
Deep & Wide & Tall (LP edit)
4:47
6
Everybody Is a Number One (Boston ’86 version)
3:17
7
Working in a Goldmine (sax version)
5:31
8
Working in a Goldmine (live at Pinewood)
5:42
9
Somewhere in My Heart (live at Pinewood)
3:56
10
Killermont Street (live in L.A.)
3:11
11
Pillar to Post (live in L.A.)
3:49
12
How Men Are (Night Network live)
3:21
13
Down the Dip (live in Glasgow)
2:59
14
Jump (live in Glasgow)
3:15
15
I Threw It All Away (live in Bristol)
2:07
16
Interview
4:28
CD 5: Stray
1
Stray
5:36
2
The Crying Scene
3:37
3
Get Outta London
3:42
4
Over My Head
5:55
5
Good Morning Britain
4:03
6
How It Is
4:01
7
The Gentle Kind
5:34
8
Notting Hill Blues
6:43
9
Song for a Friend
2:30
10
Salvation
5:14
11
True Colours
4:32
CD 6: Remixes, Rarities & Live 1990
1
Do I Love You?
4:41
2
Good Morning Britain (7″ mix)
4:14
3
Good Morning Britain (Laylow Posse Hypno mix / Kitsch ’n’ Sync mix)
7:28
4
Good Morning Britain (Laylow Posse Hypnomental / instrumental mix)
4:18
5
Good Morning Britain (Laylow Posse Hypno edit / vocal remix)
4:23
6
Good Morning Britain (Mendelsohn single mix)
4:08
7
Good Morning Britain (Morning Acid mix)
3:27
8
Consolation Prize (live at Glasgow Barrowlands, August 4th, 1990)
3:05
9
Good Morning Britain (live at Glasgow Barrowlands, August 4th, 1990)
4:35
CD 7: Live at Ronnie Scott’s
1
Birth of the True
4:39
2
Song for a Friend
2:36
3
Killermont Street
4:04
4
Spanish Horses
5:16
5
Stray
6:31
6
The Bugle Sounds Again
3:42
7
Dolphins
4:35
8
How Men Are
3:37
9
Sister Ann
4:46
10
Good Morning Britain
5:31
11
Mattress of Wire
3:42
12
Let Your Love Decide
4:17
13
Orchid Girl
2:55
CD 8: Dreamland
1
Birds
4:56
2
Safe in Sorrow
4:56
3
Black Lucia
4:02
4
Let Your Love Decide
5:05
5
Spanish Horses
4:38
6
Dream Sweet Dreams
3:30
7
Pianos and Clocks
4:54
8
Sister Ann
5:14
9
Vertigo
4:54
10
Valium Summer
5:54
11
The Belle of the Ball
3:27
12
(If Paradise Is) Half as Nice
5:20
13
Just Like the USA (live in Barcelona)
2:40
14
Let Your Love Decide (edit)
3:51
CD 9: Frestonia / Live at the Phoenix Festival
1
Rainy Season
5:41
2
Sun
4:28
3
Crazy
5:19
4
On the Avenue
3:44
5
Imperfectly
4:21
6
Debutante
7:11
7
Beautiful Girl
4:50
8
Phenomenal World
4:10
9
Method of Love
4:23
10
Sunset
4:23
11
The Crying Scene (live at the Phoenix Festival, 1995)
3:42
12
Black Lucia (live at the Phoenix Festival, 1995)
4:06
13
We Could Send Letters (live at the Phoenix Festival, 1995)
6:57
14
Rainy Season (live at the Phoenix Festival, 1995)
6:05

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Release credits

Alan Winstanley
producer [1-10]
Andy Fairweather‐Low
performer [12]
Aztec Camera
producer [12]
Cameron Jenkins
assistant [1-9], engineer [10-11]
Campbell Owens
bass [1-8]
Clive Langer
producer [1-10]
Dave Ruffy
drums (drum set) [1-8]
David Frank
producer [2, 8]
Eddie Kulak
piano [11]
Edwyn Collins
performer [8]
Eric Calvi
engineer [1-9], producer [1-9], remixer [1-3]
Gary Sanctuary
piano [1-13], saxophone [1-13]
Jeremy Stacey
drums (drum set) [1-6, 9-10]
Julian Mendelsohn
remixer [6]
Lora Findlay
artwork, graphic design
Malcolm Ross
guitar [1-8]
Mark Edwards
keyboard [1-6, 9-10]
Mark Knopfler
producer [1-8, 11]
Michael Jonzun
producer [5]
Mick Jones
performer [6.2-7, 5.1-9]
Norman Cook
remixer [7]
Rob Mounsey
producer [6-7, 9]
Roddy Frame
guitar [1.1-8, 9.1-6, 9.9-10], producer [5.1-11, 6.2-7, 3.4, 3.6-7, 3.9-11, 8.1-11, 4.7], vocal [1.1-8, 9.1-6, 9.9-10]
Russ Titelman
producer [3]
Simon Dawson
engineer [1-9]
The Laylow Posse
remixer [3-5]
The Rak Mobile
recording [12]
Tim Barr
liner notes
Tim Hunt
mix [1-13], recording [1-13]
Tom Lord‐Alge
remixer [4]
Tommy Barlow
saxophone [7]
Tommy LiPuma
producer [2, 8]
Walter Samuel
engineer [3.11, 4.10-11]
Yolanda Charles
bass [1-6, 9-10]
坂本龍一
producer [1-11]

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Aztec Camera: Backwards and Forwards – The WEA Recordings 1984–1995
9x CD
2021