[2022-02-25] The Left Banke "Strangers On A Train" expanded remaster (Omnivore)

Linda · **Posted:** Tue Dec 14, 2021 12:18 am

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09NDWVTHY/?tag=imwan-20

Description
1986 release from the Baroque Pop pioneers, available on CD for the first time.

The Left Banke arrived in 1966 with their hit singles “Walk Away Renee” (ranked #222 on Rolling Stone’s “500 Greatest Songs Of All Time” list in 2004) and “Pretty Ballerina,” with put them on the forefront of the genre now known as Baroque Pop. Founder Michael Brown left the band before their second album (The Left Banke Too—featuring “There’s Gonna Be A Storm,” the title of the long out-of-print and collectable anthology of their Smash Records repertoire), going on to involvement in other influential groups including Montage, Stories, and The Beckies.

In 1978, original members Steve Martin Caro, Tom Finn, and George Cameron reunited to record tracks for Finn’s new publishing deal. The tracks would emerge nearly a decade later in the U.S. as Strangers On A Train. (They also appeared in the U.K. under the title Voices Calling.) For the first time, that release is available again, on CD for the first time worldwide.

Flash forward to 2001. Brown (who was hardly inactive in his songwriting) invited Caro to lay down vocals on new material he had written. In hopes of sparking a Left Banke resurgence, the tracks were circulated to industry insiders, but were not heard by the public at large. Those six tracks augment the Strangers On A Train reissue—making it a cohesive document of not only the last Left Banke album, but what exists as what could have been another.

Produced for release by Daniel Coston, Scott Schinder, and Grammy®-winner Cheryl Pawelski, Strangers On A Train presents the culmination of this groundbreaking band, whose influence is not only still felt, but heard. Again.

Tracklist
1. Strangers On A Train
2. Heartbreaker
3. Lorraine
4. Yesterday’s Love
5. Hold On Tight
6. And One Day
7. You Say
8. I Can Fly
9. Only My Opinion
10. Queen Of Paradise
Bonus Tracks:
11. Airbonre
12. I Don’t Know (2002 Version)
13. Until The End
14. My Buddy Steve (Long Lost Friend)
15. Meet Me In The Moonlight
16. High Flyer

Tracks 11–16 previously unissued.

Linda · **Posted:** Wed Jan 05, 2022 12:43 pm

Here's the trailer:

To clarify, the digital EP mentioned in the trailer contains the same six tracks which appear as bonuses on the CD.

Linda · **Posted:** Fri Jan 07, 2022 5:13 pm

And here's one of those bonus tracks in full, "Until The End":

[2022-02-25] The Left Banke "Strangers On A Train" expanded remaster (Omnivore)

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