Optimism

Tracklist

• 1
  Exactly the Way You Want It
  3:12
• 2
  Why Be Lonely
  1:17
• 3
  Everyday Is a Better Day
  2:14
• 4
  The Receiver and the Fountain Pen
  2:50
• 5
  Welcome Home, Mr Kane
  4:26
• 6
  This Is True
  1:27
• 7
  Greeting a New Day
  1:49
• 8
  The Breath in My Father’s Saxaphone
  2:10
• 9
  Our Lady of Apparitions
  2:22
• 10
  The Whole City Between Us
  3:30
• 11
  Deva Dance
  1:34
• 12
  Always Looking Forward to Tomorrow
  2:19
• 13
  World Thru’ Fast Car Window
  1:36
• 14
  Profiles, Hearts, Stars
  5:19
• 15
  Daughter of Dream Come True
  1:55
• 16
  Alchemia
  5:29
• 17
  Um, Ah Good Evening
  2:53
• 18
  Kut Up in Cartoonsville
  3:49
• 19
  Short Wave
  3:26

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Release credits

• Bill Nelson
  performer [1, 17]

Issues

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  O
  (Combined release view)
• 

  O
  Optimism

  CD
  September 1988
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  O
  Optimism

  CD
  1988
• O
  Optimism

  12" Vinyl
  1988