Product Description

2CD expanded & remastered original 1989 album w/bonus disc of rare B-Sides & unreleased tracks all curated by Gerard Langley

In 1989, the band signed a new deal with Ensign, and gained a new audience by touring the UK with long-time admirers REM. Those who witnessed the fourteen-guitar finale at the Hammersmith Odeon - where Stipe, Buck, Berry, Mills, half the road crew, and an assortment of music journalists joined the band on-stage for Breaking in My Heart - still speak in hushed tones. Fresh from this live triumph, the band headed for the studio, and began work on the superlative Swagger LP. Swagger became the band's biggest critical and commercial success to date, bolstered by their new-found success and recognition, the band headed for LA to record the follow up to Swagger, entitled Beatsongs. The best album to bear a UK postmark in a long, long time (Select) This second album on the major label was their highest charting, reaching no. 33 in the UK album charts, this expanded version of the record, combines the album with a bonus disc of rare B-Sides and unreleased tracks all curated by Gerard Langley. Lovingly packaged in the classic Blue Aeroplanes style, this great record can only enforce the legacy of the band that still tour and release albums to this day.


Track Listing

Disc: 1
1. Huh
2. Yr Own World
3. Angelwords
4. Fun
5. Cardboard Box
6. My Hurricane
7. Aeroplane Blue
8. Jack Leaves And Back Spring
9. Colour Me
10. Streamers
11. The Boy In The Bubble
12. Sixth Continent

Disc: 2
1. Pony Boy
2. Aeroplane Blues
3. Buoy
4. Stranger
5. Trouble, Tell Me I'm Alive
6. Misfiring
7. Mean Time
8. Autumn Journal XV
9. Talkin' On The Otherphone
10. Disney Head

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I have this. The original CD sounds pretty good, but this is a nice upgrade, soundwise. Haven't spent a lot of time with the second CD yet, but there is some nice material on it.

I love this album, and I think it's an overlooked classic. This is now the definitive version, very nicely done.

More detail on the songs on the bonus disc:

1. Pony Boy (b-side of "Yr Own World")
2. Aeroplane Blues (LA Mix)
3. Buoy (previously unreleased)
4. Stranger (Beatsongs out-take, Gig flexi - also appeared on compilation Friendloverplane 2)
5. Trouble, Tell Me I'm Alive (Beatsongs out-take, Gig flexi - also appeared on compilation Friendloverplane 2)
6. Misfiring (b-side of "Yr Own World")
7. Mean Time (previously unreleased)
8. Autumn Journal XV (appeared on compilation Friendloverplane 2)
9. Talkin' On The Otherphone (b-side of "The Boy in the Bubble")
10. Disney Head (b-side of "The Boy in the Bubble")