Original Album Series

Tracklist

• CD 1: Spike
• 1
  … This Town…
  4:32
  4.0 ★
• 2
  Let Him Dangle
  4:45
  3.5 ★
• 3
  Deep Dark Truthful Mirror
  4:06
  4.0 ★
• 4
  Veronica
  3:10
  4.6 ★
• 5
  God’s Comic
  5:31
  3.0 ★
• 6
  Chewing Gum
  3:47
  3.0 ★
• 7
  Tramp the Dirt Down
  5:41
  3.0 ★
• 8
  Stalin Malone
  4:09
  3.0 ★
• 9
  Satellite
  5:45
  3.5 ★
• 10
  Pads, Paws and Claws
  2:56
  4.0 ★
• 11
  Baby Plays Around
  2:47
  3.0 ★
• 12
  Miss Macbeth
  4:24
  3.0 ★
• 13
  Any King’s Shilling
  6:06
  2.5 ★
• 14
  Coal‐Train Robberies
  3:18
  3.0 ★
• 15
  Last Boat Leaving
  3:31
  3.5 ★
• CD 2: Mighty Like a Rose
• 1
  The Other Side of Summer
  3:56
  4.5 ★
• 2
  Hurry Down Doomsday (The Bugs Are Taking Over)
  4:05
  3.5 ★
• 3
  How to Be Dumb
  5:14
  4.5 ★
• 4
  All Grown Up
  4:16
  4.0 ★
• 5
  Invasion Hit Parade
  5:34
  3.5 ★
• 6
  Harpies Bizarre
  3:44
  3.5 ★
• 7
  After the Fall
  4:38
  2.5 ★
• 8
  Georgie and Her Rival
  3:38
  3.5 ★
• 9
  So Like Candy
  4:36
  3.0 ★
• 10
  Interlude: Couldn’t Call It Unexpected No. 2
  0:22
  1.5 ★
• 11
  Playboy to a Man
  3:20
  3.5 ★
• 12
  Sweet Pear
  3:37
  3.0 ★
• 13
  Broken
  3:37
  3.0 ★
• 14
  Couldn’t Call It Unexpected No. 4
  3:50
  3.5 ★
• CD 3: Brutal Youth
• 1
  Pony St.
  3:25
  3.5 ★
• 2
  Kinder Murder
  3:26
  3.5 ★
• 3
  13 Steps Lead Down
  3:20
  4.6 ★
• 4
  This Is Hell
  4:28
  3.0 ★
• 5
  Clown Strike
  4:06
  3.5 ★
• 6
  You Tripped at Every Step
  4:13
  3.5 ★
• 7
  Still Too Soon to Know
  2:24
  2.5 ★
• 8
  20, Amnesia
  3:26
  3.5 ★
• 9
  Sulky Girl
  5:07
  3.5 ★
• 10
  London’s Brilliant Parade
  4:23
  3.5 ★
• 11
  My Science Fiction Twin
  4:11
  3.0 ★
• 12
  Rocking Horse Road
  4:05
  3.5 ★
• 13
  Just About Glad
  3:17
  3.5 ★
• 14
  All the Rage
  4:02
  3.0 ★
• 15
  Favourite Hour
  3:31
  3.0 ★
• CD 4: Kojak Variety
• 1
  Strange
  2:43
  3.5 ★
• 2
  Hidden Charms
  3:34
  4.0 ★
• 3
  Remove This Doubt
  3:55
  3.5 ★
• 4
  I Threw It All Away
  3:27
  3.5 ★
• 5
  Leave My Kitten Alone
  3:14
  3.5 ★
• 6
  Everybody’s Crying Mercy
  4:08
  2.6 ★
• 7
  I’ve Been Wrong Before
  3:03
  3.0 ★
• 8
  Bama Lama Bama Loo
  2:48
  3.5 ★
• 9
  Must You Throw Dirt in My Face
  3:51
  3.5 ★
• 10
  Pouring Water on a Drowning Man
  3:40
  4.0 ★
• 11
  The Very Thought of You
  3:44
  3.0 ★
• 12
  Payday
  3:00
  4.0 ★
• 13
  Please Stay
  4:51
  3.5 ★
• 14
  Running Out of Fools
  3:04
  3.5 ★
• 15
  Days
  4:57
  3.5 ★
• CD 5: All This Useless Beauty
• 1
  The Other End of the Telescope
  4:06
  3.0 ★
• 2
  Little Atoms
  3:58
  4.0 ★
• 3
  All This Useless Beauty
  4:40
  3.0 ★
• 4
  Complicated Shadows
  4:44
  4.0 ★
• 5
  Why Can’t a Man Stand Alone
  3:15
  2.0 ★
• 6
  Distorted Angel
  4:31
  3.0 ★
• 7
  Shallow Grave
  2:07
  3.0 ★
• 8
  Poor Fractured Atlas
  4:03
  2.0 ★
• 9
  Starting to Come to Me
  2:44
  3.0 ★
• 10
  You Bowed Down
  4:56
  3.0 ★
• 11
  It’s Time
  6:00
  3.0 ★
• 12
  I Want to Vanish
  3:16
  2.0 ★

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Release credits

• Allen Toussaint
  grand piano [3]
• Benmont Tench
  clavinet [6], organ [14], piano [2, 4, 9], piano spinet [4, 9, 14]
• Brodsky Quartet
  strings [12]
• Bruce Thomas
  bass guitar [3-4, 6, 9-10]
• Buell Neidlinger
  cello [5], double bass [5, 13]
• Cait O’Riordan
  bell [15], maracas [1]
• Charles Joseph
  trombone [8, 12]
• Chrissie Hynde
  vocal [9]
• Christy Moore
  bodhrán [13]
• Davy Spillane
  low whistle [7, 13], uilleann pipes [7, 12-13]
• Declan Patrick MacManus
  acoustic guitar [1], electric guitar [1], horn [3, 6, 8, 12], lead vocals [1], melodica [1], organ [1], piano [1], tambourine [1]
• Derek Bell
  Irish harp / clàrsach [13], hammered dulcimer [13]
• Dónal Lunny
  acoustic guitar [7], bodhrán [12], bouzouki [7, 12-13]
• Efrem Towns
  trumpet [3, 6, 8, 12]
• Elvis Costello
  acoustic guitar [10-15], additional [7], bass [7], bass guitar [1.5, 1.10, 3.2, 3.8], bass pedals [11], bell [11, 15], celesta [3], electric guitar [4.15, 1.4, 1.9, 1.12, 1.14], guitar [1.6, 1.10, 3.1-15], harmonica [3], keyboard [10], lead vocals [2-7, 9-15], mandolin [12, 15], organ [15], other vocals [3, 15], piano [1.9-10, 1.14-15, 3.15], producer [3.1-15, 1.1], vocal [1-15]
• Frankie Gavin
  fiddle [13]
• Geoff Emerick
  mix [1-12]
• Gregory Davis
  trumpet [3, 6, 8, 12]
• James Burton
  acoustic guitar [4, 9], electric guitar [5, 8-11, 14]
• Jenell Marshall
  snare drum [8]
• Jerry Marotta
  drums (drum set) [2, 4, 10, 14], snare drum [12]
• Jerry Scheff
  bass guitar [1.2, 1.10, 1.14, 4.1-15], double bass [7]
• Jim Keltner
  cymbal [3], drums (drum set) [4.1, 4.4-6, 4.8-11, 4.14, 1.15], snare drum [1, 3, 5, 9], tom-tom [9]
• John Paterno
  assistant [1-15]
• Jon Jacobs
  mix [1-12]
• Julie Gardner
  assistant [1, 3-7, 9-15]
• Justin Underhill
  assistant [2, 8]
• Kevin Harris
  tenor saxophone [3, 6, 8, 12]
• Kevin Killen
  editor [1-12], engineer [1-15], mix [1-15], producer [1], recording [2, 8]
• Kirk Joseph
  sousaphone [3, 6, 8, 12]
• Larry Knechtel
  Hammond organ [2, 4-6, 9-10, 13-15], Wurlitzer electric piano [11, 13, 15], piano [1, 3-5, 7-12, 14], prepared piano [3]
• Lionel Batiste
  bass drum [8]
• Marc Ribot
  banjo [1.5, 4.4], classical guitar [4.11, 4.13, 1.5], electric guitar [1.2, 1.10, 4.1-8, 4.12-13, 4.15], guitar [6, 10], performer [7], tenor horn / alto horn [11]
• Michael Blair
  bass drum [3], bell [1, 9, 12], glockenspiel [1, 4, 7, 9, 12], marimba [5, 9-10], percussion [2, 5-6, 12, 14], slapstick [14], snare drum [5, 12], tambourine [3, 7, 12, 14], timpani [4, 9, 14], vibraphone [9], xylophone [5]
• Mitchell Froom
  chamberlin [4-5, 9, 12], electric piano [4, 12], harmonium [5, 7], organ [9, 11-12], producer [1-15]
• Nick Lowe
  bass guitar [1, 5, 7, 11-14]
• Pascale Giovetto
  assistant [2, 8]
• Paul McCartney
  bass guitar [1, 4]
• Pete Thomas
  acoustic guitar [10], drums (drum set) [1.7, 1.12, 3.1-15, 4.2-3, 4.5, 4.7-8, 4.12-13, 4.15], percussion [1-15]
• Pete Whyman
  clarinet [3]
• Ralph Forbes
  electronic drum set [1, 9]
• Roger Lewis
  baritone saxophone [3, 6, 8, 12], soprano saxophone [6, 8]
• Roger McGuinn
  12 string guitar [1]
• Roy Babbington
  double bass [3]
• Steve Nieve
  harmonium [1-15], organ [1-15], piano [1-15]
• Steve Wickham
  fiddle [7, 12-13]
• Tchad Blake
  mix [1-15], recording [1, 3-7, 9-15]
• The Dirty Dozen Brass Band
  horn [3, 6, 8, 12]
• T‐Bone Burnett
  acoustic guitar [1, 4], bass guitar [10], producer [1], resonator guitar [14]
• T‐Bone Wolk
  accordion [15], bass guitar [9, 15]
• Willie Green III
  drums (drum set) [6]
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Issues

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  5x CD
  19 June 2012