NO-MAN - Housekeeping – The OLI Years 1990-1994 - 5CD - Deluxe Bookset

5CD - Limited Edition Deluxe 'Bookset' (Box Set)

‘Housekeeping’ is a comprehensive remastered collection of No-Man’s output for the OLI label between 1990-1994.

Somewhere (somehow) between the feverish grooves of Madchester and the anthemic charge of the Britpop brigade, musically eclectic mavericks No-Man made a small mark on the early 1990s UK Independent music scene.

The band released two albums and series of singles on the influential OLI label (Björk, The Shamen etc), which generated rave reviews (Singles Of The Week in Melody Maker, Sounds, and Hot Press) and radio/TV play aplenty (BBC Radio One sessions/playlist, appearances on MTV, Channel Four and ITV1).

”Housekeeping” features the band's first two albums ‘Loveblows & Lovecries’ (1993) and ‘Flowermouth’ (1994), along with the singles compilation ‘Lovesighs’ (1992), the deluxe 5CD bookset also contains outtakes, alternate versions and the band’s sessions for BBC Radio from the period (which reveal a very different, more visceral, side to the band).

Formed by Tim Bowness and Steven Wilson, the band also included violinist Ben Coleman and the albums featured notable appearances by Mick Karn and Steve Jansen (Japan), Robert Fripp, Ian Carr, Lisa Gerard (Dead Can Dance), and soon to be Porcupine Tree members Richard Barbieri, Chris Maitland and Colin Edwin.

Tracklist: 

CD1 - Lovesighs - An Entertainment

1. Heartcheat Pop (3.53)
2. Days in the Trees - US remix (7.11)
3. Drink Judas (3.43)
4. Heartcheat Motel (4.39)
5. Kiss Me Stupid (4.43)
6. Colours (4.10)
7. Iris Murdoch Cut Me Up (5.20)
8. Days in the Trees - Reich (2.34)

Additional tracks

9. Days in the Trees - Ives (3.16)
10. Days in the Trees - Bartok (6.16)
11. Walker (3.24)
12. Road (3.15)

CD2 - Loveblows and Lovecries - A Confession

1. Loveblow (1.24)
2. Only Baby (3.46)
3. Housekeeping (5.29)
4. Sweetheart Raw (6.06)
5. Lovecry 94.52)
6. Tulip (4.05)
7. Break Heaven (4.55)
8. Beautiful and Cruel (4.50)
9. Painting Paradise (7.31)
10. Heaven’s Break (4.00)

Additional tracks

11.Taking It Like a Man (7.41)
12. Babyship Blue (4.59)
13. Tulip - unedited master (6.51)

CD3 - Singles

1. Ocean Song (3.13)
2. Back to the Burning Shed (2.47)
3. Swirl (8.32)
4. Sweetheart Raw - full length version (9.16)
5. Bleed (6.53)
6. Only Baby - Breathe for Me (4.32)
7. Only Baby - Be for Me (3.49)
8. Long Day Fall (5.21)
9. Painting Paradise - single re-recording (3.55)
10. Heaven Taste (22.30)

CD4 - Flowermouth

1. Angel Gets Caught in the Beauty Trap (10.31)
2. You Grow More Beautiful (5.25)
3. Animal Ghost (6;09)
4. Soft Shoulders (3.53)
5. Shell of a Fighter (7.50)
6. Teardrop Fall (4.37)
7. Watching Over Me (4.44)
8. Simple (7.02)
9. Things Change (7.31)

CD5 - Radio Sessions 1992-94

1. Break Heaven
2. Heartcheat Pop
3. Housekeeping

Nicky Campbell BBC Radio One Session

4. Ocean Song
5. Days In The Trees
6. Taking It Like A Man

Hit The North BBC Radio Five Session

7. Lovecry
8. Days In The Trees

BBC GLR Acoustic Session

9. Sweetheart Raw

The Way Out BBC Radio Five Session

10. Teardrop Fall
11. Watching Over Me
12. Shell Of A Fighter
13. You Grow More Beautiful

Independent Radio Syndicated Acoustic Session