Lloyd Cole In New York - Collected Recordings 1988-1996

This looks interesting, from FB:

"Final mastering tweaks to the two previously unreleased albums on the forthcoming solo box this week. Sounding good when not embarrassing (yes there are a few 'what was I thinking?' moments). There was no autotune in 1989, that's for sure..."

 

This is just the best news I've had all year!

 

Cutting it close if this is to be out before Christmas as many of us hoped.

 

Nice! I hope he also decides to release lloyd cole & the negatives' only album on vinyl soon.

 

S/t came out in '90 and Love Story in '95, so it looks as though there's an unreleased album before and after the officially released albums. Anybody have any idea whether this material ever got released on any other albums? There were already lots of odds and ends on Cleaning the ashtrays, which scanned partly the same period.

 

Hope it sounds better than the distinctly muted Commotions box, and that they get the right tapes this time...

 

Almost entirely unrelated, but here's Lloyd with a friend of mine in one of the best pubs in Newcastle after a really good show at The Tyne Theatre (despite the necessary ejection of some over enthusiastic fans...)

FRIDAY NIGHT BOYS: Lloyd Cole, Pat Ffrench, Crown Posada, Newcastle, 12.02 am, Saturday 8 October »

 

Crown Posada, great bar!

 

Just showed up in an amazon preorder link for March 17, 2017.

 

Yeah, not much I don't have. What might attract me is the mastering.

 

TRACKLISTING:

Lloyd Cole

1. Don’t Look Back
2. What Do You Know About Love?
3. No Blue Skies
4. Loveless
5. Sweetheart
6. To The Church
7. Downtown
8. A Long Way Down
9. Ice Cream Girl
10. Undressed
11. I Hate To See You Baby Doing That Stuff
12. Waterline
13. Mercy Killing

Don’t get weird on me, babe
1. Butterfly
2. There For Her
3. Margo’s Waltz
4. Half Of Everything
5. Man Enough
06 What He Doesn’t Know
07 Tell Your Sister
08 Weeping Wine
09 To The Lions
10 Pay For It
11 The One You Never Had
12 She’s a Girl and I’m a Man

Bad Vibes
1. Morning Is Broken
2. So You’d Like To Save The World
3. Holier Than Thou
4. Love You So What
5. Wild Mushrooms
6. My Way To You
7. Too Much of a Good Thing
8. Fall Together
9. Mister Wrong
10. Seen The Future
11. Can’t Get Arrested

Love Story

1 Trigger Happy
2. Sentimental Fool
3. I Didn’t Know You Cared
4. Love Ruins Everything
5. Baby
6. Be There
7. Unhappy Song
8. Like Lovers Do
9. Happy For You
10. Traffic
11. Let’s Get Lost
12. For Crying Out Loud

Smile, if you want to

1. Old Enough To Know Better
2. Memphis
3. Love Like This Can’t Last
4. No More Love Songs
5. Man On The Verge*
6. Santa Cruz
7. Alright People
8. You’re A Big Girl Now
9. Another Lover
10. 39 Down
11. Went To Woodstock
12. I’m Gone

bonus tracks
13. Fool You Are (demo)
14. Weakness

*previously unreleased

Demos 88-94
(all previously unreleased)

1. A Long Way Down
2. Sweetheart 
3. Ice Cream Girl
4. Wild Orphan
5. Loveless
6. What Do You Know About Love? 
7. Know You Too Well
8. The Witching Hour
9. The English Weather
10. I Confess
11. To The Lions
12. The Ship Song
13. Pay For It
14. Weeping Wine
15. The One You Never Had
16. Weird On Me
17. Casanova Smith
18. Cold Empty Room
19. Everyday
20. She Loves You

 

I think some of this might have been on the prior box set (ashtrays)

 

My autographed copy of this set arrived yesterday.

Good to re-visit 3 albums (S/T, Don't Get Weird, and Bad Vibes) that were pretty much the soundtrack to my life between the ages of 24 and 27.

 

Great stuff, _Love Story_ is particularly underrated.

How are the demos? As much as I love Lloyd, I've never felt his demos were revelatory.

 

Comments on the sound ? I'm nervous of this as i didn't like the sound of the Commotions box, and the same guy has done the remastering.

 

+1

 

I'm far from a reliable source on sound issues. Of course, the original discs sounded terrific, so I can't imagine there's an upgrade here.

But I'll let others with high-end systems confirm that...

 

Don't be shy. You either like the sound or don't.....waiting for mine to arrive.

 

Where did you get the signed set from? LC.com? If so, what was the cost? Maybe I should cancel my amazon.uk order...

 

Lloyd is signing orders through his website. They are out at the moment but should get more at the end of March and will continue to sign orders.

 

Looks like a good set. I love 'Don't Get Weird On Me Babe'. Such a great album and the original cd and vinyl sound great. 'Mr Wrong' off 'Bad Vibes' is such a great song too.

 

Bad Vibes is the one that could use remastering most of all. An u derappreciated gem that got lost when Lloyd switched to Ryko briefly. Didn't get the promotional push it needed.

 

It is a patchy record with some really good material. and some not so good. I do remember reading it is the one record LLoyd himself really does not like (maybe i am wrong on that).

He was still signed to Polydor in the UK but i think they pretty much gave up on promoting him when the first solo album came out and flopped worse than 'Mainstream' They seemed to just let his contract ride out with no investment instead of dropping him. He did become a figure of ridicule in the UK music press by the time he was commencing his solo career so it was hard to get any traction in promoting his solo works. Don't Get Weird On Me got some good press which was deserved and there was some career momentum but Bad Vibes just went back to a standard Lloyd Cole sound and was a bit safe overall.

 

Ahh, thanks. Looks like it's kinda pricey at LC.com, compared to my amazon.uk pre-order. I have enough signed stuff from Lloyd - I'll stick with the cheaper price this time!

 

I didn't think $60 was bad for a signed copy--but I guess you could save $10 with Amazon UK...