Kleptomania

Artists

Album Info

Release Date: 2004-09-27

Label: Parlophone

Made in EU. Marketed and Distributed by EMI.

Digipak cased in a clear plastic sheath.

Sticker on sheath: Mansun - Kleptomania - 3-CD collection of 37 tracks - Includes The 'Lost' 4th Album Sessions. - plus non-album singles, EP-only tracks, B-Sides, rarities and previously unreleased material from 1995 - 2003.

Tracks 1-2b, 1-11c and 3-11g are credited in the liner notes. 3-11c and 3-11e are not credited.
1-2b is an untitled instrumental track from 'The Parrot Sessions' (total 1-2 duration 4:51)
1-11 contains a hidden track, 1-11c. 1-11a lasts for 4:30 before 17:12 of silence (total 1-11 duration 26:12)
3-11 contains three hidden tracks, 3-11c, 3-11e, 3-11g. 3-11a lasts 6:55 before 4:53 of silence, 3-11c lasts 3:15 before 1:47 of silence, 3-11e lasts 3:22 before 1:47 of silence, 3-11g lasts 2:12 (total 3-11 duration 24:21)

Disc 1 is unfinished rough mixes of tracks that were being worked on for Mansun's aborted fourth album 'Kleptomania'.
1-2 to 1-8, 1-11 mixed at Drape-o-Studios, England.

Disc 2 is a "Best of the EPs" from the band's non-album output; an online poll was run up to help compile the tracklist.
2-1 originally on Skin Up Pin Up / Flourella, and later on Two EP
2-2, 2-15 taken from Closed For Business (CD2)
2-3 taken from Closed For Business
2-4 taken from One EP
2-5, 2-12 taken from Legacy EP (CD1)
2-6 taken from Being A Girl (Part One) EP (CD1)
2-7 is the version from Skin Up Pin Up / Flourella. A different mix was later released on She Makes My Nose Bleed (CD1)
2-8 taken from I Can Only Disappoint U (CD1)
2-9, 2-14 taken from Being A Girl (Part One) EP (CD2)
2-10 taken from I Can Only Disappoint U (CD2)
2-11 taken from Negative (CD1)
2-13 originally on Skin Up Pin Up / Flourella, and later on Wide Open Space

Disc 3 is previously unreleased material, demos, and other rarities.
3-1, 3-7, 3-8 previously unreleased from Little Kix sessions
3-2, 3-3, 3-6, 3-9 previously unreleased from the 4th album sessions
3-4, 3-5 previously unreleased
3-10 Shot By Both Sides (Live John Peel Session) was recorded live at BBC Maida Vale studio, for Radio 1 - John Peel's Festive Fifty 25th Anniversary Special (first broadcast 19th Dec 2000).
3-11a Taxlo$$ (Live) was previously released on the fan club 7" Tax Loss (Live).
3-11c Witness to an Opera is a version of the Six interlude track Witness to a Murder (Part Two), without Tom Baker's spoken part.
3-11e Thief is an alternate version than that which appears on One EP.
3-11g Stupid Open Space is an instrumental jazz-funk version of Wide Open Space.

Publishing credits:
1-1 to 1-11, 3-1 to 3-9 Universal Music Publishing Ltd. ℗ 2004
2-1, 2-4, 2-13 Universal Music Publishing Ltd. ℗ 1996
2-2 Universal Music Publishing Ltd/Copyright Control ℗ 1997
2-3, 2-7, 2-15 Universal Music Publishing Ltd. ℗ 1997
2-5, 2-9, 2-11, 2-12, 2-14, 3-11 Universal Music Publishing Ltd. ℗ 1998
2-6 Copyright Control ℗ 1998
2-8, 2-10 Universal Music Publishing Ltd. ℗ 2000
3-10 Complete Music Ltd/Mute Song