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Track Listings
| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 1. Burn Baby Burn | |||
| 2. Envy | |||
| 3. Girl From Mars | |||
| 4. Shining Light | |||
| 5. A Life Less Ordinary | |||
| 6. Goldfinger | |||
| 7. Jesus Says | |||
| 8. Oh Yeah | |||
| 9. Jack Names the Planets | |||
| 10. Sometimes | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. No Place To Hide | |||
| 2. Warmer Than Fire | |||
| 3. Where Is Our Love Going? | |||
| 4. Taken Out | |||
| 5. 13th Floor | |||
| 6. Stormy Waters | |||
| 7. Message From Oscar Wilder and Patrick The Brewer | |||
| 8. Who You Drivin Now? | |||
| 9. Stay In Love Forever | |||
| 10. The Sweetness of Death by the Obsidian Knife | |||
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Intergalactic Sonic 7"s, which arrives hot on the heels of their blistering "Burn Baby Burn" success, confirms what everyone knew already--Ash are a great singles band. It's amazing how often they pull off a perfect three minutes--even though just teenagers at the time of their debut. Witness the bittersweet memories of "Girl From Mars", the rain-lashed, drunken teenage love of "Goldfinger" through the glorious adolescence of "Oh Yeah" (and who hasn't experienced that hormonal surging as "her hair came undone in my hands"?). Compiling a standard tracklisting would always be a hideous undertaking, hence the proud emergence of this 19 track beast instead.
The Free All Angels singles continue this remarkable tradition, best demonstrated in "Sometimes", a song as close to perfection as possible that--along with "Shining Light", "Burn Baby Burn" and "Walking Barefoot" (not actually a single, but one that should have been)--show the maturity in Wheeler's songwriting and musicianship that resurrected his band from the edge of disaster after the fallout from the non-conforming Nu-Clear Sounds. Token new track "Envy" seems pale in comparison, largely due to the quality of Free All Angels material, but at least the grimy New York gutter riffage of the swaggering "Jesus Says" and summertime exuberance of "Wildsurf" are given the air they need here. Also present is the much-underrated but indispensable "A Life Less Ordinary", finally in a place that it deserves along with some earlier efforts ("Petrol") that perhaps are not. Ash are what teenagers with guitars should sound like, because teenage boys care about girls and getting wasted, not becoming victims of conformity. --Ben Johncock