1993 was a big year for the Boo Radleys, with 'Giant Steps' topping Select magazine's album of the year, and coming second to Bjork's 'Debut' in the NME, and the band also recorded a cover of The La's 'There She Goes' for the soundtrack to the 1993 film 'So I Married An Axe Murderer'. Despite this widespread critical acclaim and a cult fanbase, the Boo Radleys were still largely unknown to the general public by the time the Britpop phenomenon broke into the mainstream in 1995. This changed when the band released the upbeat single 'Wake Up Boo!' in the spring of that year, crashing into the UK Top 10 Singles Chart, and remaining on the chart for two months. Their fourth album 'Wake Up!' was issued in 1995, and was the band's commercial peak, and although they openly hated media-generated movements within music, they did gift 'Oh Brother' to the 'Help' charity album, aimed at raising funds for War Child.
Track listing
01 As Bound As Tomorrow (b-side of 'I Hang Suspended' 1993)
02 I Will Always Ask You Where You've Been...... (b-side of 'I Hang Suspended' 1993)
03 There She Goes (from the soundtrack of the film 'So I Married An Axe Murderer' 1993)
04 Tortoiseshell (b-side of 'Barney (...And Me)' 1994)
05 Zoom (b-side of 'Barney (...And Me)' 1994)
06 Cracked (Lips, Homesick) (b-side of 'Barney (...And Me)' 1994)
07 I Wanna Be (Touchdown Jesus) (b-side of 'Lazarus' 1994)
08 Oh Brother (from 'Help' charity album 1995)
09 Don't Take Your Gun To Town (b-side of 'Find The Answer Within' 1995)
10 Wallpaper (b-side of 'Find The Answer Within' 1995)
11 Very Together (b-side of 'Find The Answer Within' 1995)
12 The Only Word I Can Find (b-side of 'Find The Answer Within' 1995)
The cover uses a photo by Elena Jo Melanson
PJ here's a small but irritating thing. The tagging of this album has =Almost Nearly There and that albums has the converse tagging. Sorry to be picky.
ReplyDeleteI did make a bit of a cock-up when posting these but thought that I'd fixed it. They are both now correctly tagged.
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