Track-by-Track: From Please to Nonetheless

[Pinhead44]

I wonder why the rough mix of you know where you went wrong is not on further listening for Actually?

I'm assuming the only place you can find it is on the flip of the It's a sin remix 12" ..?

Yes it can only be found on the remix 12".

The Rough mix was remixed solely by Shep Pettibone, so that's why it wasn't included, I suspect. Although if we take that at face value, then I don't think that the Extended Dance mix of Always on My Mind should be on there either, as that is marked as being remixed solely by Julian Mendelsohn.

I think it is a flaw in the further listening discs, that some of these great mixes are missed off on the basis of PSB not being credited on them, and it does mean that running order can be frustrating, with the same song repeated in close order. So for example, on the Actually FL, we have 3 versions of Always on My Mind in the last 6 tracks, when it would have been much better to have had the Rough Mix of YKWYWW included, or some of the other great mixes that were missed off (Ian Levine It's A Sin, Shep Pettibone Heart, Francois Kervokian Rent, Shep Pettibone What have I done to deserve this?)

[daveid]

I wonder why the rough mix of you know where you went wrong is not on further listening for Actually?

I'm assuming the only place you can find it is on the flip of the It's a sin remix 12" ..?

Yes it can only be found on the remix 12".

The Rough mix was remixed solely by Shep Pettibone, so that's why it wasn't included, I suspect. Although if we take that at face value, then I don't think that the Extended Dance mix of Always on My Mind should be on there either, as that is marked as being remixed solely by Julian Mendelsohn.

I think it is a flaw in the further listening discs, that some of these great mixes are missed off on the basis of PSB not being credited on them, and it does mean that running order can be frustrating, with the same song repeated in close order. So for example, on the Actually FL, we have 3 versions of Always on My Mind in the last 6 tracks, when it would have been much better to have had the Rough Mix of YKWYWW included, or some of the other great mixes that were missed off (Ian Levine It's A Sin, Shep Pettibone Heart, Francois Kervokian Rent, Shep Pettibone What have I done to deserve this?)

Yes I think it probably is a bit flawed. Looking a Geowayne's song credits, it's clear that some of the FL tracks didn't involved PSB. Additionally the running order is a bit suspect. Why is SEB at both ends of Disc 2 of Nightlife? Why put all three PSB mixes of Leaving consecutively? It makes for a weird listening experience.

[Pinhead44]

Track 29: Do I Have To ?

Chronology: Actually, Further listening Track 13

B-side to Always On My Mind, and after the highs of the lead track, I was never initially too bothered about this track, but I have subsequently grown to really enjoy it.

Really pleased when they played it on the Pandemonium tour, and there is a brilliant little synth melody they add on the live version (between 0.15 and 0.30 on the audio cd) that is really great. Not sure why they cut out Chris' solo keyboard part at the start on the same cd though.

[Too Many Shadows]

“Do I need to love you?” Crikey, they really nail it with songs about unclear relationships, don’t they?

In the survival of the fittest ideas, King's Cross won. I wonder which came first, King's Cross or Do I Have To?

[leesmapman]

I love this song. My music teacher played a tape I got with the Always on my mind 12" on it but she accidentially played this track. She thought it was boring. I still can't wrap my head around that.

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[Pinhead44]

I love this song. My music teacher played a tape I got with the Always on my mind 12" on it but she accidentially played this track. She thought it was boring. I still can't wrap my head around that.

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That's one cool music teacher you had there !

Mine just used to play hymns on the piano, and put me in detention for singing the wrong words to them !

[leesmapman]

Well, she wasn’t a fan. She was one of those boomer-woodstock people who hated electronic music.

I got another music teacher a year later and there we could bring our own favourite songs with us, every week we played some tracks of someone. I brought Opportunities and Rent and he thought it was mediocre. Those were the battles I had to face when I was young.

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[Patrick Bateman]

Yeah, love this track too. Remember playing it over and over again when I first got into them and thinking how incredible their b-sides were. Chris seems to have played more piano lines on tracks in the old days (like Jealousy and Later Tonight) and we saw how reluctant he was to play piano on the Imagine documentary. I wish he'd play it more.

[Pinhead44]

Track 30: Left to My Own Devices

Chronology: Introspective Track 1

That instantly recognisable start, and the exhilarating orchestral part after the second verse are still two of my all time favourite pieces of PSB music !

Horn and Lipson's production is just amazing.

One of the highlights of the Dreamworld show.

File under 'epic' ! (9/10)

[leesmapman]

Wait! Stop! Wait! You forgot I get excited

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[Too Many Shadows]

Oops, post edited as I didn't Wait! Stop! Wait!

[Pinhead44]

Wait! Stop! Wait! You forgot I get excited

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Stop getting excited !

I get excited is 1st track on Introspective further listening. p

[TallThinMan]

I wonder why the rough mix of you know where you went wrong is not on further listening for Actually?

I'm assuming the only place you can find it is on the flip of the It's a sin remix 12" ..?

I’ve wondered if it was something to do with clearance for the James Brown samples in the rough mix.

[Too Many Shadows]

Track 30: Left to My Own Devices

Chronology: Introspective Track 1

File under 'epic' ! (9/10)

Epic indeed. Another song about ambivelent relationships and shadowy figures leading lonely, vicarious lives.

Loving hugely that the song starts with him phoning the party animal and ends with the party animal phoning a friend. That’s what it was like. We talked on the phone, a lot! FOMO before FOMO had a name.

Bonus treat: when the lyric changes to I possibly would.

[Too Many Shadows]

Track 30: Left to My Own Devices

Chronology: Introspective Track 1

File under 'epic' ! (9/10)

Epic indeed. Another song about ambivelent relationships and shadowy figures leading lonely, vicarious lives.

Loving hugely that the song starts with him phoning the party animal and ends with the party animal phoning a friend. That’s what it was like. We talked on the phone, a lot! FOMO before FOMO had a name.

Bonus treat: when the lyric changes to I possibly would.

Bonus, bonus treat: the collection of devices on the 7” and 12” artwork. I liked that a lot.