Album · 1997
Then: The Earlier Years
Tracklist
Disc 1
1
Everything Right Is Wrong Again
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2:22
2
Put Your Hand Inside the Puppet Head
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2:15
3
Number Three
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1:30
4
Don’t Let’s Start
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2:38
5
Hide Away Folk Family
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3:23
6
32 Footsteps
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1:38
7
Toddler Hiway
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0:28
8
Rabid Child
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1:33
9
Nothing’s Gonna Change My Clothes
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2:01
10
(She Was a) Hotel Detective
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2:12
11
She’s an Angel
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2:39
12
Youth Culture Killed My Dog
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2:53
13
Boat of Car
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1:18
14
Absolutely Bill’s Mood
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2:40
15
Chess Piece Face
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1:23
16
Hope That I Get Old Before I Die
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2:01
17
Alienation’s for the Rich
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2:28
18
The Day
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1:29
19
Rhythm Section Want Ad
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2:25
20
We’re the Replacements
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1:52
21
When It Rains It Snows
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1:35
22
The Famous Polka
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1:35
23
[untitled]
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2:35
24
For Science
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1:21
25
The Biggest One
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1:25
26
Kiss Me, Son of God (alternate version)
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1:51
27
Mr. Klaw
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1:22
28
Critic Intro
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1:40
29
Now That I Have Everything
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2:23
30
Mainstream U.S.A.
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1:17
31
Fake Out in Buenos Aires
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1:50
32
Greek #3
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1:31
33
Hope That I Get Old Before I Die (original version)
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1:14
34
I’m Def
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1:10
35
Don’t Let’s Start (demo version)
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1:16
36
’85 Radio Special Thank You
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1:25
Disc 2
1
Ana Ng
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3:23
2
Cowtown
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2:21
3
Lie Still, Little Bottle
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2:06
4
Purple Toupee
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2:40
5
Cage & Aquarium
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1:10
6
Where Your Eyes Don’t Go
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3:06
7
Piece of Dirt
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2:01
8
Mr. Me
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1:52
9
Pencil Rain
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2:42
10
The World’s Address
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2:24
11
I’ve Got a Match
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2:37
12
Santa’s Beard
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1:56
13
You’ll Miss Me
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1:54
14
They’ll Need a Crane
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2:33
15
Shoehorn With Teeth
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1:13
16
Stand on Your Own Head
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1:16
17
Snowball in Hell
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2:32
18
Kiss Me, Son of God
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1:54
19
Hello Radio
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0:56
20
It’s Not My Birthday
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1:52
21
I’ll Sink Manhattan
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2:33
22
Nightgown of the Sullen Moon
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1:59
23
The World’s Address (Joshua Fried remix)
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5:43
24
Hey, Mr. DJ, I Thought You Said We Had a Deal
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3:48
25
Lady Is a Tramp
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1:21
26
Birds Fly
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1:26
27
Kitten Intro
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1:43
28
Weep Day
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1:51
29
The Big Big Whoredom
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1:39
30
I’m Gettin’ Sentimental Over You (adaptation)
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1:59
31
Become a Robot
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1:18
32
Which Describes How You’re Feeling
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1:25
33
Swing Is a Word
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0:53
34
Doris Cunningham
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0:12
35
Counterfeit Fake
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0:39
36
Schoolchildren Singing “Particle Man”
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2:06
In print
First pressed 1997, still pressed 2020 — 8 pressings across 3 countries.