Needles & Grooves

Isn’t their self titled debut kinda their ‘Best Of..’? No jokes, they only released two proper albums, correct?

No Fools Gold yo. Unless you get the US release and I don't think that's available on vinyl anymore. Also to a lesser degree no Love Spreads or Ten Storey Love Song...

Legitimately one of the best comps ever. Perfect snapshot of a zeitgeist band

Agreed, except I wish it had the full CD tracklist. There's only one vinyl release of that track list and it's a zillion dollars.

There were non album singles released around the debut @TenderLovingKiller® as was the way then. They’re nearly all gold. Also Second Coming is a much better album than it’s given credit for.

@Mather most of it was recorded mid 80s to mid 90s? I’d guess most was recorded to tape. Second Coming was perhaps brickwalled in the mix.

Good to know it’s decent, it’s on my list!

What’s missing from the vinyl pressing you have? Both on cogs have the same 15 tracks as the CD I bought back when it was first released?

This was the CD I had, it's got six more songs with stuff like "So Young" and "Tell Me" and "Standing Here" and "Mersey Paradise". Not vital stuff but I like them.

Oh that’s a completely different best of lol! It came out a few years beforehand but I never liked it because it had the edit of I Am The Resurection and cutting the jam at the end of that off is an act of vandalism!

I think most of the missing songs are on the Turns into Stone compilation that Silvertone did of early non album singles and b sides after they jumped ship to Geffen.

I have the Lita press of both it and the debut and they’re really great presses!

It's gotta couple of the tracks but still missing about half of the extras. Also LITA? I think you mean MOV or Modern Classics?

These are the ones I have. Looks like Modern Classics manufactured them for LITA who had the exclusive right to sell them.

also looking where it’s pressed I’m now quite shocked at how good it is…