Almost was first released on OMD's debut single
Electricity in May 1979. The version featured here is the original unreleased
version and is unique to this release.
I Betray My Friends originally appeared on the single Red Frame/White Light.
Waiting For The Man was originally performed by The Velvet Underground and
appears on their debut album The Velvet Underground And Nico. OMD's version of
the song is taken from the 10" release of the single Messages.
Annex was a throwback to Andy and Paul's musical experiments outside of The
Id when they first started writing songs together. The song first appeared on
the single Enola Gay.
Sacred Heart featured on the single Souvenir.
The Romance Of The Telescope was the B-Side to Joan Of Arc and takes its title
from a chapter heading in an astronomy book. The version featured on this album
is the original vinyl version.
Navigation featured on the single Maid Of Orleans.
4-Neu is a tribute to 70's German band Neu! - a band, like Kraftwerk, that
were a big influence on Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys prior to OMD.
66 And Fading originally appeared as the B-side on Telegraph. The version featured
here is edited down from the original 6 minute version.
Gravity Never Failed featured on 12" releases of the 1988 single Dreaming,
but originally dated from the 1981 Architecture And Morality sessions. The song
had been titled Georgia and was even briefly considered as a possible single.
However, the track lost favour with the band during the recording sessions. It
was subsequently shelved and the title Georgia given to a new song.
Her Body In My Soul featured on the single Locomotion.
The Avenue featured on 12" releases of Locomotion. The track was the first
song to come out of the Montserrat Junk Culture sessions.
Garden City originally featured on 12" releases of Tesla Girls.
Concrete Hands featured on the single So In Love. The song refers back to when
Andy first met his girlfriend. While on tour he sent her regular postcards which
she kept. Andy subsequently used the lines written on the cards to compose the
lyrics of the song.
Firegun was purely an image Andy dreamt up while the lyrics detail the over
the top things that happen within a family. Firegun was written, recorded and
mixed in one day while in New York. The track first appeared on the single La
Femme Accident.
This Town originally featured on the single (Forever) Live And Die.
Sugar Tax was originally scheduled to be the title track for the album of the
same name. Andy had been working on the track during the same week that he had
been working on the track Pandora's Box. Realising that Pandora's Box was potentially
a single, he concentrated solely on that track. This meant that Sugar Tax was
incomplete at the time of the album's release. Sugar Tax was subsequently released
on the first CD release of the single Sailing In The Seven Seas. It also appeared
as the B-side to the single Then You Turn Away.
(The Angels Keep Turning) The Wheels Of The Universe was originally issued
as a 1-sided 7" single with initial copies of the album Junk Culture.
The CD booklet features recording details for each track and sleeve notes. There are also details on OMD's CD back catalogue. |
