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Release Date: 2001-02

Label: Cog Sinister

Track 1 re-recorded version for Kamera Records 7", never given a proper release through approx. 800 copies eventually appeared Nov 83, was due to a year earlier.
Tracks 2 & 3 on free 7" with first pressing of The Frenz Experiment LP (1988). Tracks were not on the CD, though "Bremen ..." was on the cassette.
Track 4 Alternative version on Melody Maker 7" EP, Vinyl Conflict free in September 1986.
Track 5 Original version on Sounds Showcase 1, free in Feb. 1987.
Track 6 From Bugs On The Wire LP (1987). Recorded live in NYC, April 1985.
Track 7 From Fruitcakes And Furry Collars mail order only LP (1986) from Record Mirror. Recorded live at The Albany Empire, Deptford.
Track 8 From Head Over Ears LP (1987). Recorded live in Bremen, Germany, Feb. 1987.
Track 9 From 7" EP free with issue 9 of "Sniffin Rock" magazine (1989). Recorded live in Vienna.
Track 10 From Peel Session #9 7/10/85 and Bang Zoom tapezine number 7, 1986.
Track 11 From In A Hole Encores 12" on Flying Nun Records of New Zealand (1983).
Track 12 "Unreleased" 1977 rehearsal. (Total Eclipse DRD1)
Track 13 From Peel Session #16, 13/3/1993.
Track 14 A Gene Vincent song, only performed once as a special request for John Peel at his 50th birthday party, Subterranea, London, August 29th 1989.
Track 15 Unreleased, recorded live at The Venue, London on 21st March 1983.
Track 16 Uncredited piece of MES talking about the release of 'How I Wrote Elastic Man / City Hobgoblins'.

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