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    I Wanna Go Backwards (Bonus Tracks)

    11/13/2007 | Yep Roc Records 

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    All Music Guide Review

    Robyn Hitchcock's large armory of material is tailor-made for the reissue circuit -- his entire post-Soft Boys, pre-A&M output was remastered and re-released in the early '90s by Rhino with bonus cuts and extended liner notes for ingestion by the newly enlightened college radio demographic -- so it comes as no surprise that amidst a career resurgence in 2007 due to the well received Spooked and Olé! Tarantula, as well as the Sundance Channel documentary Sex, Food, Death & Insects. comes another set of reissues, this time from the Yep Roc label. The first boxed installment, I Wanna Go Backwards (each disc is available separately as well) collects his solo debut Black Snake Diamond Role, I Often Dream of Trains, Eye, and a grab bag of singles both rare (and not so rare) called While Thatcher Mauled Britain: Demos '81-'90. The bonus tracks on each disc differ from the early-'90s reissues in that they are spread about (among new rarities) between the four albums. Also, the inclusion of album tracks like "A Skull, A Suitcase & A Long Red Bottle of Wine" and "Mystic Trip" from 1986's Invisible Hitchcock (one of his finest releases) on the Black Snake Diamond Role disc is a bit confusing, as one would hope for a quality remastering of that album, as well. Elsewhere, While Thatcher Mauled Britain's first half is populated by almost all of the key tracks from 1995's You & Oblivion, where Eye's "College of Ice" instrumental has been sent as well. Each disc comes with original Hitchcock artwork, comics, and stories, and the remastering, especially on BSDR is exceptional. With more reissues to come (though no word on the elusive A&M years), this is just the tip of the iceberg, and while the construction of I Wanna Go Backwards may be a bit schizophrenic, it's all in there; every snake, lizard, pad of cheese, boring little creep, furry leg, and nostril with a bean in it. [A bonus tracks version was also released.] ~ James Christopher Monger, All Music Guide

    Track Listing

  • Track#
  • Title
  • time
  • 1
  • The Man Who Invented Himself
  • 2:59

  • 2
  • Brenda's Iron Sledge
  • 2:56

  • 3
  • Do Policemen Sing?
  • 3:37

  • 4
  • The Lizard
  • 5:03

  • 5
  • Meat
  • 3:04

  • 6
  • Acid Bird
  • 4:42

  • 7
  • I Watch the Cars
  • 2:26

  • 8
  • Out of the Picture
  • 3:41

  • 9
  • City of Shame
  • 3:23

  • 10
  • Love
  • 4:45

  • 11
  • All I Wanna Do Is Fall in Love
  • 3:48

  • 12
  • A Skull, A Suitcase, And a Long Red Bottle of Wine
  • 4:59

  • 13
  • It Was the Night
  • 3:36

  • 14
  • I Watch the Cars No. 2
  • 4:26

  • 15
  • Give Me a Spanner Ralph
  • 2:38

  • 16
  • It's a Mystic Trip
  • 2:58

  • 17
  • Grooving on a Inner Plane
  • 4:12

  • 18
  • Happy the Golden Prince
  • 6:40

  • 19 (2)
  • Nocturne (Prelude)
  • 1:39

  • 20 (2)
  • Sometimes I Wish I Was a Pretty Girl
  • 1:58

  • 21 (2)
  • Cathedral
  • 3:43

  • 22 (2)
  • Uncorrected Personality Traits
  • 1:45

  • 23 (2)
  • Sounds Great When You're Dead
  • 3:23

  • 24 (2)
  • Flavour of Night
  • 2:59

  • 25 (2)
  • Ye Sleeping Knights of Jesus
  • 4:01

  • 26 (2)
  • This Could Be the Day
  • 2:46

  • 27 (2)
  • Trams of Old London
  • 3:29

  • 28 (2)
  • Furry Green Atom Bowl
  • 3:16

  • 29 (2)
  • Heart Full of Leaves
  • 2:30

  • 30 (2)
  • Autumn Is Your Last Chance
  • 3:31

  • 31 (2)
  • I Often Dream of Trains
  • 2:23

  • 32 (2)
  • Nocturne (Demise)
  • 2:06

  • 33 (2)
  • Winter Love
  • 2:39

  • 34 (2)
  • The Bones in the Ground
  • 3:08

  • 35 (2)
  • My Favourite Buildings
  • 2:48

  • 36 (2)
  • I Used to Say I Love You
  • 4:32

  • 37 (2)
  • Chant/Aether
  • 5:25

  • 38 (2)
  • Heart Full of Leaves
  • 2:28

  • 39 (2)
  • I Often Dream of Trains
  • 2:41

  • 40 (2)
  • Not Even a Nurse
  • 2:31

  • 41 (2)
  • Slow Chant/That's Fantastic Mother Church
  • 2:15

  • 42 (2)
  • Traveller's Fare
  • 1:48

  • 43 (3)
  • Cynthia Mask
  • 4:38

  • 44 (3)
  • Certainly Clickot
  • 2:15

  • 45 (3)
  • Queen Elvis
  • 4:23

  • 46 (3)
  • Flesh Cartoons
  • 4:22

  • 47 (3)
  • Chinese Water Python
  • 2:12

  • 48 (3)
  • Executioner
  • 3:45

  • 49 (3)
  • Linctus House
  • 5:15

  • 50 (3)
  • Sweet Ghost of Light
  • 3:09

  • 51 (3)
  • Transparent Lover
  • 3:35

  • 52 (3)
  • Beautiful Girl
  • 2:13

  • 53 (3)
  • Clean Steve
  • 3:52

  • 54 (3)
  • Raining Twilight Coast
  • 4:38

  • 55 (3)
  • Agony of Pleasure
  • 2:25

  • 56 (3)
  • Glass Hotel
  • 3:28

  • 57 (3)
  • Satellite
  • 1:45

  • 58 (3)
  • Aquarium
  • 4:20

  • 59 (3)
  • Queen Elvis II
  • 4:37

  • 60 (3)
  • Century
  • 2:18

  • 61 (3)
  • Shimmering Distant Love
  • 3:20

  • 62 (3)
  • Lovers Turn to Skulls
  • 1:40

  • 63 (3)
  • The Beauty of Earl's Court
  • 3:59

  • 64 (4)
  • She Reached for a Light
  • 2:38

  • 65 (4)
  • August Hair
  • 3:55

  • 66 (4)
  • Take Your Knife out of My Back
  • 3:02

  • 67 (4)
  • Fiend Before the Shrine
  • 2:02

  • 68 (4)
  • Raymond Chandler Evening
  • 1:56

  • 69 (4)
  • Birdshead
  • 2:51

  • 70 (4)
  • Victorian Squid
  • 2:29

  • 71 (4)
  • Captain Dry
  • 4:06

  • 72 (4)
  • You've Got
  • 2:50

  • 73 (4)
  • Rainung Twilight Coast
  • 4:36

  • 74 (4)
  • Point It at Gran
  • 2:00

  • 75 (4)
  • Vegetable Friend
  • 2:12

  • 76 (4)
  • Flesh Number 1
  • 2:41

  • 77 (4)
  • Surgery
  • 2:39

  • 78 (4)
  • I Got a Message for You
  • 3:06

  • 79 (4)
  • If I Could Look
  • 1:12

  • 80 (4)
  • Parachutes & Jellyfish
  • 3:05

  • 81 (4)
  • Queen Elvis
  • 4:39

  • 82 (4)
  • Nothing
  • 2:46

  • 83 (4)
  • Stranded in the Future
  • 3:22

  • 84 (4)
  • Melting Arthur
  • 3:13

  • 85 (4)
  • The Abandoned Brain
  • 3:30

  • 86 (4)
  • You're So Repulsive
  • 3:32

  • 87 (4)
  • Opiatrescence
  • 3:54

  • 88 (5)
  • September Cones
  • 5:22

  • 89 (5)
  • Lovely Golden Villains
  • 3:03

  • 90 (5)
  • Dr Sticky (Live)
  • 3:11

  • 91 (5)
  • Toadboy
  • 3:50

  • 92 (5)
  • Trash
  • 2:51

  • 93 (5)
  • Pit of Souls (Country Version)
  • 5:58

  • 94 (5)
  • Mr Deadly
  • 4:13

  • 95 (5)
  • Let There Be More Darkness
  • 2:56

  • 96 (5)
  • Listening to the Higsons
  • 2:45

  • 97 (5)
  • College of Ice
  • 3:42

  • 98 (5)
  • My Favourite Buildings
  • 3:13

  • 99 (5)
  • Lightplug
  • 1:43

  • 100 (5)
  • Sleeping Knights of Jesus
  • 4:14

  • 101 (5)
  • Insect Mother
  • 1:44

  • 102 (5)
  • I Wanna Go Backwards
  • 3:36

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    Credits

    • Chris Cox
    • Bass, Trumpet, Vocals (Background), Vocals, Harmony, String Bass, Engineer
    • Robyn Hitchcock
    • Bass, Guitar, Narrator, Vocals, Art Direction, Drawing, Instrumentation, Engineer, Keyboards, Piano, Harmonica


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