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6CD boxset comprehensively showcasing Kevin Ayers’ 1974-1980 output.
Includes the classic Rupert Hine produced 1974 release The Confessions Of Doctor Dream (with guests Mike Oldfield, Mike Ratledge and Nico), the 1975 album Sweet Deceiver featuring Elton John, Yes, We Have No Mananas – So Get Your Mananas Today (1976), the reflective Rainbow Takeaway (1978) and That’s What You Get Babe (1980).
Remastered from the original master tapes, the collection also contains 35 bonus tracks drawn from singles, BBC Radio sessions and 13 previously unreleased live recordings from Paris in 1975 and Bremen in 1976, and a booklet with essay.
CD1
The Confessions Of Doctor Dream And Other Stories
Released in May 1974
1. Day By Day
2. See You Later
3. Didn’t Feel Lonely Till I Thought of You
4. Everybody’s Sometime And Some People’s All the Time Blues
5. It Begins With A Blessing / Once I Awakened / But It Ends With A Curse
6. Ballbearing Blues
7. The Confessions Of Doctor Dream – Part One: Irreversible Neural Damage
8. The Confessions Of Doctor Dream – Part Two: Invitation
9. The Confessions Of Doctor Dream – Part Three: The One Chance Dance
10. The Confessions Of Doctor Dream – Part Four: Dr. Dream Theme
11. Two Goes Into Four
Bonus tracks
12. The Up Song (A-side of single March 1974)
13. After The Show (A-side of single July 1974)
14. Thank You Very Much (B-side of single 1974)
CD2
Sweet Deceiver
Released in March 1975
1. Observations
2. Guru Banana
3. City Waltz
4. Toujours La Voyage
5. Sweet Deceiver
6. Diminished But Not Finished
7. Circular Letter
8. Once Upon An Ocean
9. Farewell Again (Another Dawn)
Bonus tracks
10. Stranger In Blue Suede Shoes (live in Paris 1975) (previously unreleased)
11. Hat Song (live in Paris 1975) (previously unreleased)
12. Interview (live in Paris 1975) (previously unreleased)
13. The Confessions Of Dr. Dream (live in Paris 1975) (previously unreleased)
i. Invitation
ii. The One Chance Dance
iii. The Dr. Dream Theme
14. Stop This Train (Again Doing It) (live in Paris 1975) (previously unreleased)
15. Farewell Again (Another Dawn) (live in Paris 1975) (previously unreleased)
CD3
BBC Sessions 1974 – 1975
1. Another Whimsical Song (BBC John Peel session July 1974)
2. Didn’t Feel Lonely Till I Thought of You (BBC John Peel session July 1974)
3. Lady Rachel (BBC John Peel session July 1974)
4. Stop This Train (BBC John Peel session July 1974)
5. Stranger In Blue Suede Shoes (BBC Rock On session July 1974)
6. Didn’t Feel Lonely Till I Thought of You (BBC Radio 1 In Concert March 1975)
7. Observations (BBC Radio 1 In Concert March 1975)
8. Stranger In Blue Suede Shoes (BBC Radio 1 In Concert March 1975)
9. Interview (BBC Radio 1 In Concert March 1975)
10. Farewell Again (BBC Radio 1 In Concert March 1975)
CD4
“Yes, We Have No Mananas – So Get Your Mananas Today"
Released in June 1976
1. Star
2. Mr. Cool
3. The Owl
4. Love’s Gonna Turn You Round
5. Falling In Love Again
6. Help Me
7. Ballad of Mr. Snake
8. Everyone Knows the Song
9. Yes I Do
10. Blue
Bonus tracks
11. Mr. Cool (BBC John Peel session July 1976)
12. Love’s Gonna Turn You Round (BBC John Peel session July 1976)
13. Star (BBC John Peel session July 1976)
14. Ballad Of Mr. Snake (BBC John Peel session July 1976)
CD5
Live Radio Concert Performances 1976
1. May I? (Radio Bremen Live August 1976) (previously unreleased)
2. Whatevershebringswesing (Radio Bremen Live August 1976) (previously unreleased)
3. Shouting In A Bucket Blues (Radio Bremen Live August 1976) (previously unreleased)
4. Observations (Radio Bremen Live August 1976) (previously unreleased)
5. Lady Rachel (Radio Bremen Live August 1976) (previously unreleased)
6. Blue (Radio Bremen Live August 1976) (previously unreleased)
7. Mr. Cool (Radio Bremen Live August 1976) (previously unreleased)
8. Shouting In A Bucket Blues (BBC Radio 1 In Concert September 1976)
9. Star (BBC Radio 1 In Concert September 1976)
10. Love’s Gonna Turn You Round (BBC Radio 1 In Concert September 1976)
11. Mr. Cool (BBC Radio 1 In Concert September 1976)
12. Ballad Of Mr. Snake (BBC Radio 1 In Concert September 1976)
13. Blue (BBC Radio 1 In Concert September 1976)
CD6
Rainbow Takeaway
Released in April 1978
1. Blaming It All On Love
2. Ballad Of A Salesman Who Sold Himself
3. A View from A Mountain
4. Rainbow Takeaway
5. Waltz For You
6. Beware Of the Dog II
7. Strange Song
8. Goodnight Goodnight
9. Hat Song
That’s What You Get Babe
Released in February 1980
10. That’s What You Get
11. Where Do I Go From Here
12. You Never Outrun Your Heart
13. Given And Taken
14. Idiots
15. Super Salesman
16. Money, Money, Money
17. Miss Hanaga
18. I’m So Tired
19. Where Do The Stars End
