I Have Always Been Here Before: The Roky Erickson Anthology

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  We Sell Soul

  The Spades
  3:20
• 2
  You’re Gonna Miss Me

  13th Floor Elevators
  2:29
  4.6 ★
• 3
  Reverberation (Doubt)

  13th Floor Elevators
  2:51
  3.9 ★
• 4
  Tried to Hide

  13th Floor Elevators
  2:49
  4.0 ★
• 5
  Fire Engine

  13th Floor Elevators
  3:22
• 6
  She Lives (In a Time of Her Own)

  13th Floor Elevators
  2:59
• 7
  Slip Inside This House

  13th Floor Elevators
  8:03
  4.3 ★
• 8
  Splash 1

  13th Floor Elevators
  3:57
• 9
  Dust

  13th Floor Elevators
  4:00
• 10
  I Had to Tell You

  13th Floor Elevators
  2:28
• 11
  Postures (Leave Your Body Behind)

  13th Floor Elevators
  6:31
• 12
  Right Track Now

  Roky Erickson & Clementine Hall
  3:02
• 13
  Red Temple Prayer (Two Headed Dog)

  Roky Erickson & Bleib Alien
  3:31
• 14
  Starry Eyes

  Roky Erickson & Bleib Alien
  3:34
• 15
  Bermuda
  3:17
• 16
  The Interpreter

  Roky Erickson and the Aliens
  2:43
• 17
  Mine Mine Mind

  Roky Erickson and the Aliens
  2:36
• 18
  I Have Always Been Here Before
  2:58
• 19
  Click Your Fingers Applauding the Play

  Roky Erickson and the Aliens
  3:18
• 20
  I Think of Demons

  Roky Erickson and the Aliens
  2:47
  4.0 ★
• 21
  Don’t Shake Me Lucifer

  Roky Erickson and the Aliens
  2:53
• 22
  White Faces

  Roky Erickson and the Aliens
  2:33
• CD 2
• 1
  It’s a Cold Night for Alligators

  Roky Erickson and the Aliens
  3:03
• 2
  Creature With the Atom Brain

  Roky Erickson and the Aliens
  4:13
  5.0 ★
• 3
  Stand for the Fire Demon

  Roky Erickson and the Aliens
  5:24
• 4
  Bloody Hammer

  Roky Erickson and the Aliens
  4:21
  4.0 ★
• 5
  The Wind and More

  Roky Erickson and the Aliens
  4:00
• 6
  If You Have Ghosts

  Roky Erickson and the Aliens
  3:11
• 7
  Song to Abe Lincoln (live)

  Roky Erickson and the Aliens
  2:25
• 8
  Anthem (I Promise)
  4:24
• 9
  Warning (Social and Social‐Political Injustices)
  2:10
• 10
  The Beast

  Roky Erickson & Evil Hook Wildlife E.T.
  5:46
• 11
  You Don’t Love Me Yet
  4:23
• 12
  Clear Night for Love
  2:47
• 13
  Don’t Slander Me
  3:27
• 14
  Nothing in Return
  2:50
  5.0 ★
• 15
  Burn the Flames
  6:08
• 16
  When You Get Delighted
  3:07
• 17
  True Love Cast Out All Evil
  3:35
• 18
  For You (I’d Do Anything)
  2:17
• 19
  Please Judge
  4:28
• 20
  We Are Never Talking
  3:48
• 21
  I’m Gonna Free Her
  3:03

More by Roky Erickson

The 1966–1967 Unreleased Masters Collection

The 1966–1967 Unreleased Masters Collection 1994

Don’t Slander Me

Don’t Slander Me 1986

Live At The Whisky 1981

Live At The Whisky 1981 2022

Thank God For Civilization

Thank God For Civilization 2014

Outtakes From "All That My Do My Rhyme" & Live

Outtakes From "All That My Do My Rhyme" & Live 2012

True Love Cast Out All Evil

True Love Cast Out All Evil 2010

Release credits

• Andre Lewis
  keyboard [1.20, 2.1, 2.3, 2.14-15]
• Bill Miller
  autoharp [1.17, 1.20-22, 2.1-5, 2.15]
• Brian Marnell
  background vocals [2]
• Craig Luckin
  producer [8]
• Derek Tracy
  engineer [8]
• Duane Aslaksen
  engineer [8, 14-15], guitar [1.17, 1.20-22, 2.1-5, 2.14-15], producer [14-15]
• Fuzzy Furioso
  drums (drum set) [1.17, 1.20-21, 2.1-3, 2.5]
• Gordon Bynum
  producer [2]
• Jack Casady
  bass guitar [14-15]
• Jack Johnson
  guitar [8]
• Jeff Sutton
  drums (drum set) [4]
• John Reed
  guitar [8]
• John Whitelaw
  engineer [14-15]
• Karl Derfler
  engineer [8], producer [8]
• Lelan Rogers
  producer [3-4, 7, 9]
• Paul Zahl
  drums (drum set) [14-15]
• Roky Erickson
  guitar [1.17, 1.20-22, 2.1-5, 2.8, 2.14-15], lead vocals [14-15], vocal [2.1-5, 2.8, 1.17, 1.20-22]
• Scott Mathews
  drums (drum set) [22]
• Steven Morgan Burgess
  electric bass guitar [2.1-3, 2.5, 1.17, 1.20-22]
• Stu Cook
  electric bass guitar [4], producer [2.1-5, 1.17, 1.20-22]
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  I Have Always Been Here Before: The Roky Erickson Anthology

  2x CD
  1 March 2005