Digitally remastered and expanded two CD edition of the British band's sadly overlooked second album. Originally released in 1984 this album was the band's follow up to the hugely popular debut Pelican West. Nick Heyward had left the band to pursue a solo career and the band had moved record label signing to Polydor Records amid court cases with their old label to retain the band name. Disc One features the 11 original album tracks plus four related bonus tracks - the 7" Remix of 'Too Up Two Down', the 12" mix of 'Prime Time' (Late Night Shopping Version) and two b-sides 'Evil Smokestacking Baby' and 'After It's All Been Said And Done'. Disc Two opens with two tracks taken from the 12" version of 'So Tired' (Long Slumber Mix) and it's b-side 'Fish In A Bowl' (Deeper Version). The next nine tracks were supplied by the band from their own archives. They feature working mixes taken straight from the mixing desk during the recording sessions for the band to listen to at home and work on additional arrangements and brass parts. They offer a unique insight as to how the tracks took shape. Six of the tracks made the final album and the other three are heard for the first time on this release. Lastly we've included four tracks recorded at the BBC for a session on the David Jensen show. They were aired on his show on 13th May 1984. All the tracks have been sourced from the original production master tapes except for the development mixes that were supplied from the band's own archives. The 20 page full color CD booklet features an expanded design of the original artwork. It incorporates memorabilia supplied by the band plus extensive sleeve notes written by band members Les Nemes, Graham Jones, Marc Fox and Phil Smith reflecting on their memories and reflections of the album.
1. Fish in a Bowl 2. Immaterial 3. So Tired 4. The Hidden Years 5. 40-40 Home 6. High Noon 7. Too Up Two Down 8. Benefit of the Doubt 9. Prime Time 10. Where Do You Run to Now? 11. Infatuation 12. Bonus Tracks 13. Too Up Two Down (7" Remix) 14. Evil Smokestacking Baby 15. After It's All Been Said and Done 16. Prime Time (Late Night Shopping Version) 17. So Tired (Extended Version - Long Slumber) 18. Fish in a Bowl (Deeper Version) 19. Hidden Years Extra (Development Mix) 20. Fish in a Bowl (No Vocal-Developmentmix) 21. High Noon (No Vocal-Development Mix) 22. Infatuation (No Vocal-Development Mix) 23. One Word (Development Mix) 24. Prime Time (No Vocal-Development Mix) 25. Puppet Man (Development Mix) 26. Ted and Harry (Development Mix) 27. Too Up Two Down (Development Mix) * 28. BBC: David Jensen Session Tracks 29. 40-40 Home 30. Immaterial 31. High Noon 32. The Hidden Years
