Description
DESCRIPTION
Contains The Original "Eligible Bachelors" Album, The Live Album "Fin" (Aka The Good Life), Singles And B-Sides, Rarities And BBC Sessions, Plus A Number Of Lead Singer And Songwriter Bid's Solo Tracks. The Monochrome Set were widely recognised as one of the best post-punk bands of the late '70s and '80s, with the album "Eligible Bachelors" regarded as one of their finest pieces of work. AllMusic named it as "one of the classic undiscovered albums of the early '80s. Eligible Bachelors is a tour de force of wit and musical imagination" as well as "an age-defining record", with Trouser Press praising the band for their "witty intelligence" and declaring that 'Eligible Bachelors' "strips the music down to essential elements". Cherry Red have paid "Eligible Bachelors" the respect it deserves by carefully packaging the album alongside The Monochrome Set's fine live album "Fin" (AKA The Good Life), and a whole host of singles, B-sides and rarities, including many hard to find BBC sessions of the band in their absolute prime. All this has been remastered and beautifully packaged for the album's re-issue, and is something sure to please long-term Monochrome Set fans and brand-new followers alike.
TracksCredits
- Disc 1 -
1 The Jet Set Junta
2 I'll Cry Instead
3 On the 13th Day
4 Cloud 10
5 The Mating Game
6 March of the Eligible
7 Bachelors
8 The Devil Rides Out
9 Fun for All the Family
10 The Midas Touch
11 The Ruling Class
12 The Great Barrier Riff
13 He's Frank
14 Alphaville
15 Eine Symphonie Des Grauens
16 Lester Leaps in
17 The Monochrome Set
18 Mr. Bizarro
19 He's Frank (Slight Return)
20 Silicon Carne
21 Fallout
22 Ten Don'ts for Honeymooners
23 Straits of Malacca
24 J.D.H.A.N.E.Y
25 Cast a Long Shadow
26 The Bridge
27 The Jet Set Junta
- Disc 2 -
1 Love Goes Down the Drain
2 Noise (Eine Kleine Symphonie)
3 Espresso
4 Fat Fun
5 Ici Les Enfants
6 Martians Go Home
7 Fallout
8 Goodbye Joe
9 Strange Boutique
10 Viva Death Row
11 405 Lines
12 Love Zombies
13 The Man with the Black Moustache
14 Fun for All the Family
15 The Ruling Class
16 Avanti
17 Yo, Ho, Ho and Three Bottles of Wine
18 Andiamo
19 Cowboy Country
20 Jacob's Ladder
21 Inside Your Heart
22 White Noise
23 We Are Zarbie
24 I Don't Know
25 Flesh/Trash/Heat
26 Private Dick
27 It's More Than Just Love
- Disc 3 -
1 He's Frank
2 Martians Go Home
3 Straits of Malacca
4 Sugar Plum
5 B-I-D Spells Bid
6 Alphaville
7 Heaven Can Wait
8 Goodbye Joe
9 The Strange Boutique
10 The Strange Boutique (Reprise)
11 Jacob's Ladder
12 Wallflower
13 Apocalypso
14 Mr. Bizarro
15 I'll Scry Instead
16 Espresso
17 405 Lines
18 Eine Symphonie Des Grauens
19 The Monochrome Set
20 Up (1986 Demo)
21 Reach for Your Gun -Bid
22 Love - Bid
23 Sweet Chariots - Bid
