I Wanna Go Backwards

Tracklist

• Digital Media 1
• 1
  The Man Who Invented Himself
  2:59
  4.0 ★
• 2
  Brenda’s Iron Sledge
  2:56
  4.5 ★
• 3
  Do Policemen Sing?
  3:37
  4.0 ★
• 4
  The Lizard
  5:03
  4.0 ★
• 5
  Meat
  3:04
  3.0 ★
• 6
  Acid Bird
  4:42
  4.0 ★
• 7
  I Watch the Cars
  2:26
  4.0 ★
• 8
  Out of the Picture
  3:41
  4.0 ★
• 9
  City of Shame
  3:23
  4.0 ★
• 10
  Love
  4:45
  5.0 ★
• 11
  All I Wanna Do Is Fall in Love
  3:48
  4.0 ★
• 12
  A Skull, a Suitcase & A Long Red Bottle of Wine
  4:59
  4.0 ★
• 13
  It Was the Night
  3:36
• 14
  I Watch the Cars No. 2
  4:26
  5.0 ★
• 15
  Give Me a Spanner Ralph
  2:38
  3.0 ★
• 16
  It’s a Mystic Trip
  2:58
  4.0 ★
• 17
  Grooving on a Inner Plane
  4:12
  4.0 ★
• 18
  Happy the Golden Prince
  6:40
  3.0 ★
• Digital Media 2
• 1
  Nocturne (Prelude)
  1:39
  5.0 ★
• 2
  Sometimes I Wish I Was a Pretty Girl
  1:58
  4.0 ★
• 3
  Cathedral
  3:43
  4.0 ★
• 4
  Uncorrected Personality Traits
  1:45
  3.0 ★
• 5
  Sounds Great When You’re Dead
  3:23
  4.0 ★
• 6
  Flavour of Night
  2:59
  4.0 ★
• 7
  Ye Sleeping Nights of Jesus
  4:01
  3.0 ★
• 8
  This Could Be the Day
  2:46
  4.0 ★
• 9
  Trams of Old London
  3:29
  3.0 ★
• 10
  Furry Green Atom Bowl
  3:16
  3.0 ★
• 11
  Heart Full of Leaves
  2:30
  4.0 ★
• 12
  Autumn Is Your Last Chance
  3:31
  4.0 ★
• 13
  I Often Dream of Trains
  2:23
  4.0 ★
• 14
  Nocturne (Demise)
  2:06
• 15
  Winter Love
  2:39
• 16
  The Bones in the Ground
  3:08
• 17
  My Favourite Buildings
  2:48
  3.0 ★
• 18
  I Used to Say I Love You
  4:32
• 19
  Chant / Aether
  5:25
• 20
  Heart Full of Leaves (alternate)
  2:28
• 21
  I Often Dream of Trains (demo)
  2:41
• 22
  Not Even a Nurse
  2:31
• 23
  Slow Chant / That’s Fantastic Mother Church
  2:15
• 24
  Traveller’s Fare
  1:48
• Digital Media 3
• 1
  Cynthia Mask
  4:38
  4.0 ★
• 2
  Certainly Cliquot
  2:15
  4.0 ★
• 3
  Queen Elvis
  4:23
  5.0 ★
• 4
  Flesh Cartoons
  4:22
  5.0 ★
• 5
  Chinese Water Python
  2:12
  4.0 ★
• 6
  Executioner
  3:45
  5.0 ★
• 7
  Linctus House
  5:15
  4.0 ★
• 8
  Sweet Ghost of Light
  3:09
  4.0 ★
• 9
  Transparent Lover
  3:35
• 10
  Beautiful Girl
  2:13
  4.0 ★
• 11
  Clean Steve
  3:52
  4.0 ★
• 12
  Raining Twilight Coast
  4:38
• 13
  Agony of Pleasure
  2:25
  3.0 ★
• 14
  Glass Hotel
  3:28
  4.0 ★
• 15
  Satellite
  1:45
  4.0 ★
• 16
  Aquarium
  4:20
  4.0 ★
• 17
  Queen Elvis II
  4:37
• 18
  Century
  2:18
• 19
  Shimmering Distant Love
  3:20
• 20
  Lovers Turn to Skulls
  1:40
• 21
  The Beauty of Earl’s Court
  3:59
• Digital Media 4
• 1
  She Reached for a Light
  2:38
• 2
  August Hair
  3:55
• 3
  Take Your Knife Out of My Back
  3:02
• 4
  Fiend Before the Shrine
  2:02
• 5
  Raymond Chandler Evening
  1:56
• 6
  Birdshead
  2:51
• 7
  Victorian Squid
  2:29
• 8
  You’ve Got
  4:06
• 9
  Captain Dry
  2:50
• 10
  Raining Twilight Coast (demo)
  4:36
• 11
  Point It at Gran
  2:00
• 12
  Vegetable Friend
  2:12
• 13
  Flesh Number 1
  2:41
• 14
  Surgery
  2:39
• 15
  I Got a Message for You
  3:06
  4.0 ★
• 16
  If I Could Look
  1:12
• 17
  Parachutes & Jellyfish
  3:05
• 18
  Queen Elvis (demo)
  4:39
• 19
  Nothing
  2:46
• 20
  Stranded in the Future
  3:22
• 21
  Melting Arthur
  3:13
• 22
  The Abandoned Brain
  3:30
• 23
  You’re So Repulsive
  3:32
• 24
  Opiatrescence
  3:54
• Digital Media 5
• 1
  September Cones
  5:22
• 2
  Lovely Golden Villains
  3:03
• 3
  Dr Sticky (live)
  3:11
• 4
  Toadboy
  3:50
• 5
  Trash
  2:51
• 6
  Pit of Souls (Country version)
  5:58
• 7
  Mr Deadly
  4:13
• 8
  Let There Be More Darkness
  2:56
  4.0 ★
• 9
  Listening to the Higsons
  2:45
• 10
  College of Ice
  3:42
• 11
  My Favourite Buildings (demo)
  3:13
• 12
  Lightplug
  1:43
• 13
  Sleeping Knights of Jesus (demo)
  4:14
• 14
  Insect Mother
  1:44
• 15
  I Wanna Go Backwards
  3:36

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Release credits

• Andy Metcalfe
  bass [13], keyboard [13], producer [13]
• Chris Cox
  background vocals [2.7, 2.17, 4.6], double bass [2.7, 2.17, 4.6, 4.9, 4.15], producer [11-12, 15], recording [1-2, 4, 6-9, 11-12, 15]
• Gary Barnacle
  saxophone [1]
• Glenn Tilbrook
  background vocals [13], guest [13]
• James Fletcher
  saxophone [6]
• James Smith
  drums (drum set) [5], guitar [6], other instruments [6], producer [6], recording [20]
• Jim Neill
  producer [4.1-2, 4.4, 4.6-9, 4.20, 5.1]
• Justin Grimaldi
  congas [6], percussion [8]
• Kimberley Rew
  guitar [3-4, 7, 9]
• Knox
  guitar [5, 8]
• Matthew Seligman
  bass [2-5, 7-9, 11-12, 16], producer [5.7, 1.11]
• Morris Windsor
  background vocals [5-6], drums (drum set) [1.1, 1.5-6, 1.8-9, 1.12, 1.16, 4.13], producer [13]
• Pat Collier
  producer [4.13, 1.12, 1.15-16]
• Peter Buck
  12 string guitar [13], guest [13]
• Rick Gershon
  producer [4.1-2, 4.4, 4.6-9, 4.20, 5.1]
• Robb Appleton
  harmonica [12, 15]
• Robyn Hitchcock
  Moog [7], bass [5.5-6, 5.8, 1.1, 1.5-6], guitar [2.2-3, 2.5, 2.7-9, 2.11-13, 2.17, 1.1-9, 1.11-12, 1.15-16, 4.1-2, 4.4, 4.6-9, 4.11-13, 4.15, 4.20, 5.1, 5.5-8], harmonica [8], keyboard [6], lead vocals [1-9], other instruments [6], piano [1.1, 1.5, 2.1, 2.3, 2.5-6, 2.8], producer [4.1-2, 4.4, 4.6-9, 4.11-13, 4.15, 4.20, 5.1, 5.6], spoken vocals [8], vocal [1.11-12, 1.15-16, 2.1-10, 2.12-13, 2.17, 4.1-2, 4.4, 4.6-9, 4.11-13, 4.15, 4.20, 5.1, 5.5-7]
• Simon Kunath
  guitar [8], other instruments [6, 8], producer [6], recording [1]
• Thomas Dolby
  keyboard [12]
• Vince Ely
  drums (drum set) [2-4, 7, 11]
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Issues

• 

  I
  I Wanna Go Backwards

  5x CD
  13 November 2007
• 

  I
  I Wanna Go Backwards

  5x Digital Media
  13 November 2007
• I
  I Wanna Go Backwards

  8x 12" Vinyl
  26 November 2007
• S
  Selections From the I Wanna Go Backwards Box Set

  CD
  2007