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Album Savings: £23.36 compared to buying all songs
- Original Release Date: 17 July 2001
- Format - Music: MP3
- Compatible with MP3 Players (including with iPod®), iTunes, Windows Media Player
- Also available in CD Format
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| Play | 1. If The Stars Shine Tonight | 3:40 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 2. Fields | 5:30 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 3. The Lost Girl In The Midnight Sun | 3:59 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 4. Love Becomes A Savage | 3:51 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 5. Trumpets From Montparnasse | 3:46 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 6. Black Velvet | 3:22 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 7. Return To Yesterday | 3:43 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 8. The Laundry | 3:34 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 9. The Girl Who Waves At Trains | 3:59 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 10. Shepherd's Plaid | 1:58 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 11. Paper Boat | 2:53 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 12. I Went To The Dance | 3:57 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 13. All For Love And Love For All | 3:22 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 14. Night Mail Dirty Amour | 2:26 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 15. She Still Loves You | 3:21 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 16. Trinity | 3:00 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 17. American Eyes | 2:28 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 18. Wait And See | 3:59 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 19. Honest To God | 1:22 | £0.59 | ||
| Play | 20. Spin A Cavalu | 4:33 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 21. The Road To Happiness | 3:59 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 22. It'll End In Tears (I Won't Cry) | 4:27 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 23. Fields (Acoustic Version) | 1:01 | £0.69 | ||
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| Song Title | Time | Price | |||
| Play | 1. Julie Written On The Fence | 4:28 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 2. Cover | 5:49 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 3. Hurricaned Rice | 2:42 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 4. The World In Her Arms | 4:46 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 5. Bed Of Roses | 3:12 | £0.59 | ||
| Play | 6. Tiger Tea | 2:55 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 7. The Rollercoaster Song | 3:09 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 8. Gone For A Burton | 3:41 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 9. Rooftrees | 2:53 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 10. The Queen Of Heartless | 2:55 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 11. Only Passing Through | 2:46 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 12. Crossing The Line | 3:38 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 13. Streetcorner | 4:09 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 14. Ounce Of Nails | 2:08 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 15. You've Got To Love | 5:36 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 16. Paradise Circus | 0:49 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 17. Reunion Ball | 3:34 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 18. Rubovia | 2:43 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 19. Black Dawn | 2:06 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 20. Night Soil | 2:02 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 21. If The Stars Shine Tonight (Acoustic Version) | 4:18 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 22. Oeil Biques A Bacs | 3:17 | £0.69 | ||
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
A lot of the reviews have used the word 'under-rated' to describe the Lilac Time. Well, I'm going to go one better. To me, main man Stephen Duffy is the best songwriter of the last 20 years or more. This collection comprises songs from their three Fontana albums 'The Lilac Time', 'Paradise Circus' and 'And Love for All' (which themselves are all sadly now unavailable) plus B-sides and bonus tracks. It's quite a collection! I only discovered them relatively recently when my Dad played me some of the songs from their best studio album Paradise Circus (sadly deleted) and I fell in love with them. The melodies and musical arrangements are so wonderful that it's hard not to appreciate the songs purely on that level. But then when you start to listen to the lyrics properly... Well, they're just mind-blowing! The songs grab you and won't let you go. The first CD concentrates on single A-sides and original album tracks. On songs like 'Love Becomes a Savage' and 'If the Stars Shine Tonight', Duffy describes love and sex in such a very intimate and personal way that it's hard not to be drawn in. You feel like you're an observer looking in on someone else's relationship. And his vocals are wonderful too with an aching quality that superbly conveys a sense of weariness and resignation like no other singer I've ever heard. Not all of the songs have that depth, though. Songs like 'Fields' and 'All for Love and Love For All' from 'And Love for All' are more commercial and do sadly suffer slightly for being produced by XTC's Andy Partridge (he made them sound like XTC!). There are some notable omissions ('And on We Go', 'Together', 'Too Sooner Later Better' and 'The Last to Know') but you're never going to please everybody. It's difficult to pick out highlights when there are so many great songs on offer, but the hauntingly beautiful 'She Still Loves You' is a sheer masterpiece of songwriting. Elsewhere 'American Eyes', a tale of unrequited love harking back to childhood is remarkably touching for such a commercially sounding song. The second CD consists of B-sides and also Instrumentals, of which there are maybe too many. If you made an album of the best B-sides it would still be a great album! 'Gone for a Burton', a tale of getting together with someone on the night Richard Burton died (it may sound daft, but it's very touching actually!) is particularly superb. So in conclusion, not every song on this 2-CD set may be a classic and some great tracks have been missed off, but as the only real introduction available for the work of this genius songwriter it's absolutely essential.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
A true musical genius, stephen duffy must be one of the most under rated artists this country has ever produced. The melodic quality of this collection is incomparable and the thought provoking lyrics a mix of romantic wistful and heart tugging.I have loved all of Stephens solo material (exept for the odd track on Music in colors) and all his collaborstive work with the rest of the Lilac Time. This has to be one of the best albums of 2001, and terrific value too considering it contains over 2 1/2 hours of music. Buy this today, you wont be dissapointed.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I'm in the U.S., and I have about $10 in my pocket until next payday, but I had no qualms whatsoever special ordering this two-CD set this week all the way from England where Stephen and The Lilac Time have recorded and continue to record beautiful songs.
I have some of the songs on this CD, but on well-worn cassettes collected over the years, so I'm very pleased that they're all now compiled in one place.
Julie Written on the Fence, Cover, and Bed of Roses were among the B-sides of the singles from the All for Love & Love for All album from 1990 - the album that made me a fan and started my journey of buying their back catalog and new releases. These somber, pensive songs, with scarcely more than Stephen's voice and his acosutic guitar, are to me alone worth the price of this two-disc set.
A new The Lilac Time album should be out this fall. Thank goodness that in 2001 Stephen and The Lilac Time are still making music!
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The Lilac Time - timeless talent
A great sampler of the work of The Lilac Time. Wonderfully inventive songs from Stephen and some truly synapse-stimulating instrumentations from Nick. Read more
Published 21 months ago by D. Eadsforth
Simply wonderful
I firstly want to apologise to Mr duffy for waiting so long to get into his music. As an early Duran Duran fan i naturally knew of stephen, but i never imagined that he would or... Read more
Published on 30 Nov 2008 by John Steven
Emergency! scratched CD having to buy it again
I tried to make do without being able to listen to the second half of CD1 which sadly is scratched beyond repair, but just can't manage any longer. Read more
Published on 18 Feb 2008 by Rachel Hart
A long-awaited and essential retrospective
The Lilac Time's albums from 1997-1991 were quite simply amongst the best melodic, pastoral records ever made. Read more
Published on 25 Sep 2001 by scott@gci.ac.uk
Not all support acts make up the numbers.
After watching the lilac time support the Barenaked Ladies in March and April I had to get this album. Read more
Published on 10 Aug 2001
Outstanding music and value
This double CD is crammed with atmospheric and lyrical tracks. The quality of output is consistently high - in terms of composition, performance and production. Read more
Published on 3 July 2001
Are you ready for the Country ?
On becoming disillusioned with the machinations of major label pop stardom Stephen Duffy formed The Lilac Time in 1988 . Read more
Published on 24 May 2001
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