3LP - Limited Edition Opaque White Vinyl (31 Tracks)
THE CHARLATANS proudly announced their (Covid) delayed release of their 30th Anniversary tour and a career spanning best of entitled “A Head Full of Ideas’ Released on Then Recordings through Republic Of Music. ‘A Head Full of Ideas’ sums up their remarkable progress from 1990 Manchester scene hopefuls to one of the UK’s most enduring and best-loved bands.
The band have notched up 13 Top 40 studio albums – three of them number ones – alongside 22 hit singles, four of them top 10. The rollercoaster highs have been accompanied by some shattering lows, any which one of them could have felled a less resilient band, from nervous breakdowns to near bankruptcy and the deaths of two founder members.
Somehow, they have not just carried on but adapted and transformed. The classic Charlatans sound – driving Hammond organ, Northern Soul and house-influenced rhythms, swaggering guitars and Tim Burgess’s sunny yet somehow yearning vocal – is instantly recognisable. And in spite of everything they have been through their music is now more relevant than ever, The Guardian described their last album, Different Days as “one of their best ever”.
A HEAD FULL OF IDEAS TRACKLIST:
Side A
1. The Only One I Know
2. Weirdo
3. Can’t Get Out of Bed
4. Jesus Hairdo
5. Just When You’re Thinking Things Over
6. North Country Boy
Side B
1. Tellin’ Stories
2. One to Another
3. How High
4. Forever
5. Impossible
Side C
1. Love Is the Key
2. A Man Needs to Be Told
3. Up at The Lake
4. Blackened Blue Eyes
5. Oh Vanity
Side D
1. My Foolish Pride
2. Come Home Baby
3. Let the Good Times Be Never Ending
4. Plastic Machinery
5. Totally Eclipsing
TRUST IS FOR BELIEVERS (LIVE) TRACKLIST:
Side A
1. Polar Bear – Blackburn Kings Hall 1990
2. Indian Rope – Reading Festival 1992
3. Can’t Even Be Bothered- Reading Festival 1992
4. Can’t Get Out Of Bed- Glasgow Tramway, Sound City 1994
5. I Never Want an Easy Life (If Me & Him Were Ever To Get There) – Glasgow Tramway Sound City 1994
6. Then – Glastonbury Festival 1995
Side B
1. Here Comes Soul Saver- Hultsfred Festival , Sweden 1997
2. Just Lookin’- Hultsfred Fest Sweden 1997
3. My Beautiful Friend- Delamare Forest, Cheshire 2007
4. The Blind Stagger – Delamare Forest, Cheshire 2007
5. Sproston Green– Reading Festival 1999