I Wanna Go Backwards
8x 12" Vinyl

I Wanna Go Backwards

Compilation by Robyn Hitchcock

Released 13 November 2007
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Tracklist

  • 12" Vinyl 1: Black Snake Dîamonḑ Röle
  • 1
    The Man Who Invented Himself
    2:53
    4.0 ★
  • 2
    Brenda’s Iron Sledge
    2:52
    4.5 ★
  • 3
    Do Policemen Sing?
    3:32
    4.0 ★
  • 4
    The Lizard
    4:58
    4.0 ★
  • 5
    Meat
    2:58
    3.0 ★
  • 6
    Acid Bird
    4:36
    4.0 ★
  • 7
    I Watch the Cars
    2:19
    4.0 ★
  • 8
    Out of the Picture
    3:37
    4.0 ★
  • 9
    City of Shame
    3:14
    4.0 ★
  • 10
    Love
    4:27
  • 12" Vinyl 2: I Often Dream of Trains
  • 1
    Nocturne (Prelude)
    1:36
    5.0 ★
  • 2
    Sometimes I Wish I Was a Pretty Girl
    1:56
    4.0 ★
  • 3
    Cathedral
    3:40
    4.0 ★
  • 4
    Uncorrected Personality Traits
    1:43
    3.0 ★
  • 5
    Sounds Great When You’re Dead
    3:20
    4.0 ★
  • 6
    Flavour of Night
    2:55
    4.0 ★
  • 7
    Ye Sleeping Knights of Jesus
    3:59
    3.0 ★
  • 8
    This Could Be the Day
    2:44
    4.0 ★
  • 9
    Trams of Old London
    3:27
    3.0 ★
  • 10
    Furry Green Atom Bowl
    3:15
    3.0 ★
  • 11
    Heart Full of Leaves
    2:28
    4.0 ★
  • 12
    Autumn Is Your Last Chance
    3:29
    4.0 ★
  • 13
    I Often Dream of Trains
    2:25
    4.0 ★
  • 14
    Nocturne (Demise)
    1:52
    5.0 ★
  • 12" Vinyl 3: Eye
  • 1
    Cynthia Mask
    4:37
    4.0 ★
  • 2
    Certainly Clickot
    2:14
    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
    3:44
    5.0 ★
  • 7
    Linctus House
    5:15
    4.0 ★
  • 8
    Beautiful Girl
    2:14
    4.0 ★
  • 9
    Clean Steve
    3:52
    4.0 ★
  • 10
    Raining Twilight Coast
    4:39
  • 11
    Agony of Pleasure
    2:26
    3.0 ★
  • 12
    Glass Hotel
    3:28
    4.0 ★
  • 13
    Satellite
    1:45
    4.0 ★
  • 14
    Aquarium
    4:22
    4.0 ★
  • 12" Vinyl 4: While Thatcher Mauled Britain: Demos ’81–’90 (disc 1)
  • 1
    All I Wanna Do Is Fall in Love
    3:45
    4.0 ★
  • 2
    A Skull, a Suitcase & A Long Red Bottle of Wine
    4:57
    4.0 ★
  • 3
    It Was the Night
    3:33
  • 4
    I Watch the Cars No. 2
    4:22
    5.0 ★
  • 5
    Give Me a Spanner Ralph
    2:34
    3.0 ★
  • 6
    It’s a Mystic Trip
    2:55
    4.0 ★
  • 7
    Grooving on a Inner Plane
    4:10
    4.0 ★
  • 8
    Happy the Golden Prince
    6:40
    3.0 ★
  • 9
    Winter Love
    2:37
  • 10
    The Bones in the Ground
    3:06
  • 11
    My Favourite Buildings
    2:46
    3.0 ★
  • 12" Vinyl 5: While Thatcher Mauled Britain: Demos ’81–’90 (disc 2)
  • 1
    I Used to Say I Love You
    4:30
  • 2
    Chant / Aether
    5:24
  • 3
    Heart Full of Leaves
    2:26
  • 4
    I Often Dream of Trains
    2:39
  • 5
    Not Even a Nurse
    2:29
  • 6
    Slow Chant / That’s Fantastic Mother Church
    2:10
  • 7
    Traveller’s Fare
    1:48
  • 8
    Sweet Ghost of Light
    3:07
    4.0 ★
  • 9
    Transparent Lover
    3:33
  • 10
    Queen Elvis II
    4:22
  • 11
    Century
    2:16
  • 12
    Shimmering Distant Love
    3:18
  • 13
    Lovers Turn to Skulls
    1:39
  • 14
    The Beauty of Earl’s Court
    3:59
  • 12" Vinyl 6: While Thatcher Mauled Britain: Demos ’81–’90 (disc 3)
  • 1
    She Reached for a Light
    2:36
  • 2
    August Hair
    3:53
  • 3
    Take Your Knife out of My Back
    3:00
  • 4
    Fiend Before the Shrine
    2:00
  • 5
    Raymond Chandler Evening
    1:53
  • 6
    Birdshead
    2:50
  • 7
    Victorian Squid
    2:26
  • 8
    You’ve Got
    4:04
  • 9
    Captain Dry
    2:47
  • 10
    Raining Twilight Coast
    4:35
  • 11
    Point It at Gran
    1:58
  • 12
    Vegetable Friend
    2:10
  • 13
    Flesh Number 1
    2:39
  • 14
    Surgery
    2:38
  • 12" Vinyl 7: While Thatcher Mauled Britain: Demos ’81–’90 (disc 4)
  • 1
    I Got a Message for You
    3:05
    4.0 ★
  • 2
    If I Could Look
    1:09
  • 3
    Parachutes & Jellyfish
    3:03
  • 4
    Queen Elvis
    4:36
  • 5
    September Cones
    5:20
  • 6
    Nothing
    2:44
  • 7
    Stranded in the Future
    3:21
  • 8
    Melting Arthur
    3:12
  • 9
    The Abandoned Brain
    3:28
  • 10
    You’re So Repulsive
    3:29
  • 11
    Insect Mother
    1:43
  • 12
    Opiatrescence
    3:54
  • 12" Vinyl 8: While Thatcher Mauled Britain: Demos ’81–’90 (disc 5)
  • 1
    Lovely Golden Villains
    3:05
  • 2
    Dr. Sticky (live)
    3:09
  • 3
    Toadboy
    3:48
  • 4
    Trash
    2:48
  • 5
    Pit of Souls (country version)
    5:55
  • 6
    Mr. Deadly
    4:12
  • 7
    Let There Be More Darkness
    2:55
    4.0 ★
  • 8
    Listening to the Higsons
    2:43
  • 9
    College of Ice
    3:40
  • 10
    My Favourite Buildings
    3:10
    3.0 ★
  • 11
    Lightplug
    1:38
  • 12
    Sleeping Knights of Jesus
    4:12
  • 13
    I Wanna Go Backwards
    3:44

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Jewels for Sophia
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Jewels for Sophia 1999
Uncorrected Personality Traits: The Robyn Hitchcock Collection
Uncorrected Personality Traits: The Robyn Hitchcock Collection 1997
Mossy Liquor
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Release credits

  • bass [13], keyboard [13], producer [13]
  • background vocals [2.7, 4.11, 6.6, 8.10], double bass [8.10, 4.11, 2.7, 6.6, 6.9, 7.1], producer [6.11-12, 7.1], recording [6.1-2, 6.4, 6.6-9, 6.11-12, 7.1]
  • saxophone [1]
  • background vocals [13], guest [13]
  • background vocals [10]
  • saxophone [6]
  • drums (drum set) [4], guitar [5], other instruments [5], producer [5], recording [7]
  • producer [7.5, 7.7, 6.1-2, 6.4, 6.6-9]
  • congas [5], percussion [7]
  • guitar [3-4, 7, 9]
  • guitar [5, 8]
  • bass [1.2-5, 1.7-10, 4.1-2, 4.6], producer [8.6, 4.1]
  • background vocals [5-6], drums (drum set) [1.1, 1.5-6, 1.8-10, 6.13, 4.2, 4.6], producer [13]
  • producer [6.13, 4.2, 4.5-6]
  • 12 string guitar [13], guest [13]
  • producer [6.1-2, 6.4, 6.6-9, 7.5, 7.7]
  • background vocals [10], harmonica [2, 5]
  • Moog [6], bass [8.4-5, 8.7, 1.1, 1.5-6, 1.10, 2.14], guitar [2.2-3, 2.5, 2.7-9, 2.11-14, 8.4-7, 8.10, 7.1, 7.5, 7.7, 1.1-10, 4.1-2, 4.5-6, 4.11, 6.1-2, 6.4, 6.6-9, 6.11-13], harmonica [8], keyboard [5], lead vocals [1-10], other instruments [5], piano [1.1, 1.5, 1.10, 2.1, 2.3, 2.5-6, 2.8, 2.14], producer [6.1-2, 6.4, 6.6-9, 6.11-13, 7.1, 7.5, 7.7, 8.5], spoken vocals [7], vocal [6.1-2, 6.4, 6.6-9, 6.11-13, 7.1, 7.5, 7.7, 2.1-10, 2.12-13, 4.1-2, 4.5-6, 4.11, 8.4-6, 8.10]
  • guitar [7], other instruments [5, 7], producer [5], recording [5]
  • keyboard [2], synthesizer [10]
  • drums (drum set) [1.2-4, 1.7, 4.1]

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