1979–1985: Complete Recordings

Tracklist

• CD 1: Strange Boutique
• 1
  The Monochrome Set (I Presume)
• 2
  The Lighter Side of Dating
• 3
  Expresso
• 4
  The Puerto Rican Fence Climber
• 5
  Tomorrow Will Be Too Long
• 6
  Martians Go Home
• 7
  Love Goes Down the Drain
• 8
  Ici les enfants
• 9
  The Etcetera Stroll
• 10
  Goodbye Joe
• 11
  The Strange Boutique
• CD 2: Love Zombies
• 1
  Love Zombies
• 2
  Adeste Fideles
• 3
  405 Lines
• 4
  B‐I‐D Spells Bid
• 5
  R.S.V.P.
• 6
  Apocalypso
• 7
  Karma Suture
• 8
  The Man With the Black Moustache
• 9
  The Weird, Wild and Wonderful World of Tony Potts
• 10
  “In Love, Cancer?”
• CD 3: Eligible Bachelors
• 1
  The Jet Set Junta
  4.0 ★
• 2
  I’ll Scry Instead
• 3
  On the 13th Day
• 4
  Cloud 10
• 5
  The Mating Game
• 6
  March of the Eligible Bachelors
• 7
  The Devil Rides Out
• 8
  Fun for All the Family
• 9
  The Midas Touch
• 10
  The Ruling Class
• 11
  The Great Barrier Riff
• CD 4: The Lost Weekend
• 1
  Jacob’s Ladder
• 2
  Sugarplum
• 3
  Cargo
• 4
  Take Foz
• 5
  Letter From Viola
• 6
  Don’t Touch
• 7
  The Twitch
• 8
  Wallflower
• 9
  Starry Nowhere
• 10
  Boom Boom
• 11
  Cowboy Country
• CD 5: Singles (I)
• 1
  He’s Frank
• 2
  Alphaville
• 3
  Eine symphonie des grauens
• 4
  Lester Leaps In
• 5
  The Monochrome Set
• 6
  Mr. Bizarro
• 7
  He’s Frank (slight return)
  5.0 ★
• 8
  Silicon Carne
• 9
  Fallout
• 10
  Surfing S.W. 12
• 11
  405 Lines
• 12
  Fiasco Bongo
• CD 6: Singles (II)
• 1
  Ten Don’ts for Honeymooners
  5.0 ★
• 2
  Straits of Malacca
• 3
  J.D.H.A.N.E.Y.
• 4
  Cast a Long Shadow
• 5
  The Bridge
• 6
  The Jet Set Junta
• 7
  Love Goes Down the Drain
• 8
  Noise (Eine kleine symphonie)
• 9
  Andiamo
• 10
  Le Boom Boom
• 11
  Yo Ho Ho (and Three Bottles of Rum)
• 12
  Big Ben Bongo
• 13
  Wallflower (Saloon Bar mix)

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Love Zombies

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Allhallowtide

Allhallowtide 2022

Fabula Mendax

Fabula Mendax 2019

Release credits

• Alvin Clark
  engineer [1-10], keyboard [1-10], producer [1-10]
• Andy Warren
  electric bass guitar [1-10], other instruments [1-10]
• Ben Rogan
  mix [1-2, 7-8, 11]
• Bob Sargeant
  producer [1]
• Ganesh Seshadri
  electric guitar [1-10], lead vocals [1-2, 4-9], other instruments [1-10]
• John David Haney
  drums (drum set) [1-10], other instruments [1-10]
• Lester Square
  electric guitar [1-10], other instruments [1-10], synthesizer [1-10]
• The Monochrome Set
  engineer [1-10], producer [1-10]
• Tony Potts
  other instruments [1-10]

Issues

• 1
  1979–1985: Complete Recordings

  6x CD
  9 February 2018