Filed under: 1992-1993 I've Seen Everything, Related | Tags: Music, Trashcan Sinatras
When Frank sang “Moscow’s in Ayrshire, what’s the problem?”, many people may have thought he’d lost the plot.
Here’s proof he’s not quite ready to be sectioned.
The lyrics, taken from the song ‘Hayfever’, refer to a small hamlet about four miles east of Kilmarnock.
Filed under: Related | Tags: CD, Hard-to-Find, Import, Music, Trashcan Sinatras
Not an official release. This is a later version of double CD ‘On A B Road’.
There are 42 tracks on this release, as opposed to 46 on the earlier 2001 version. I have no idea why. Most of the tracks are pretty much the same. The booklet has a brief description and history of each of the songs.
The paintings on the front and back cover are by John Douglas.
Nice!
Quick update: This version was a revision of the 46 track release with a couple of low quality live songs removed at the band’s request. Some live songs were also replaced with the original recorded versions. ‘Leave Me Alone’ was excluded as this was being re-recorded for the ‘Weightlifting’ album.
Although the BoBame releases are ‘unofficial’, the band were involved in all of them, from track listings to liner notes to artwork.
2003/2004 BoBame Recordings BOBAME004 (US)
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Not an official release. ‘On A B Road’ is a limited CD of b-sides and cover songs which was available from I think, the end of 2000 or around the beginning of 2001.
The double CD includes most of the songs that appeared on the single version of ‘On A B Road’, ‘On A B Road…Again’ and the ‘Aberrations’ compilations. Some of the original songs have been replaced with better or different versions from various sources.
The picture on the left at the very bottom of this post, is a still from the film ‘Spooktime’.
The CDs were titled ‘Heaven Av’ and Irvine St’ which are taken from the ‘Useless’ lyric ‘Some are born in heaven/Some are born in Irvine’.
Lucky old me was born in Irvine.
2000 BoBame Records International BOBAME002
Kevin Ayers is an English songwriter and was a founding member of the pioneering psychedelic band Soft Machine in the late 1960s.
His 2007 album ‘The Unfairground’ is performed by himself and the myriad talents of artists like:- Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub), Phil Manzanera (Roxy Music), Bill Wells (Bill Wells Trio), Jeff Baron and of course, Frank Reader.
The album – his first in fifteen years – brings new and old talent together for 10 tracks. One of those tracks – ‘Run, Run, Run’ – features Frank on backing vocals.
This is the gatefold digi-pak version which is still readily available, but before you splash your hard earned cash, don’t expect to hear Frank in all his glory as his voice is not the only one providing the harmonies – but he is in there somewhere.
It is a good album and has lead me to another artist I knew nothing of.
Decide for yourself.
2007 Lo-Max Records LO-MAX 024CD
The brainchild of Idlewild’s Roddy Woomble, ‘Ballads Of The Book’ began as a simple idea to bring together the literary talents of Scotland’s writing community with a diverse range of new and established recording artists.
This is the 18-track promo CD which includes the Trashcans’ interpretation of the Ali Smith poem ‘Half An Apple’ – a simple, bittersweet love song about keeping half an apple spare for a loved one who is gone.
This song was originally written for folk singer Kate Rusby, but eventually made its way into the hands of the Trashcans, who turned it into a melancholic ballad.
The slide guitar on this song is magic.
2007 Chemikal Underground Ltd PCHEM098CD
Five Hungry Joes - A pictorial archive of the Trashcan Sinatras. Legendary Scottish Band 