Back to the Story explained

Back to the Story
Type:Compilation
Artist:The Idle Race
Cover:Back to the Story.jpg
Released:1996
Re-released 2007 & 2013
Recorded:1968–1971
Genre:Psychedelic rock, rock music
Label:EMI
Producer:Eddie Offord & Gerald Chevin
Jeff Lynne
Noel Walker
The Idle Race & Kenneth Young
Prev Title:Time Is
Prev Year:1971

Back to the Story is a 2CD compilation set by Sixties/Seventies band The Idle Race released in 1996 on EMI's short-lived "Premier" series. It contains all three official studio albums, non-album singles and B-sides. The original edition's 2nd CD included the earliest known tracks featuring Jeff Lynne in The Nightriders. In 2007, the set was re-released on EMI's newly reconstituted "Zonophone" label minus the Nightriders tracks. In 2013 the compilation was once again re-released - this time on Warner Music Group's "Parlophone" label, also without the Nightriders tracks

Tracks

(The Birthday Party)

  1. The Skeleton And The Roundabout
  2. Happy Birthday
  3. The Birthday
  4. I Like My Toys
  5. Morning Sunshine
  6. Follow Me Follow
  7. Sitting In My Tree (mono)
  8. On With The Show
  9. Lucky Man
  10. (Don't Put Your Boys In The Army) Mrs. Ward
  11. Pie In The Sky
  12. The Lady who Said She Could Fly
  13. End Of The Road

(Idle Race)

  1. Come With Me (rechanneled to simulate stereo)
  2. Sea Of Dreams
  3. Going Home
  4. Reminds Me Of You
  5. Mr. Crow and Sir Norman
  6. Please No More Sad Songs
  7. Girl At The Window
  8. Big Chief Woolley Bosher
  9. Someone Knocking
  10. A Better Life (The Weather Man Knows)
  11. Hurry Up John

Alternative Versions

  1. Lucky Man (mono)
  2. Follow Me Follow (mono)
  3. Days Of Broken Arrows (mono)

(Non-album Tracks)

  1. (Here We Go 'Round) The Lemon Tree (mono)
  2. My Father's Son (mono)
  3. Imposters Of Life's Magazine (mono)
  4. Knocking Nails Into My House (mono)
  5. Days Of The Broken Arrows (mono)
  6. Worn Red Carpet (mono)
  7. In The Summertime
  8. Told You Twice
  9. Neanderthal Man (rechanneled to simulate stereo)
  10. Victim Of Circumstance (rechanneled to simulate stereo)

(Time Is)

  1. Dancing Flower
  2. Sad O'Sad
  3. The Clock
  4. I Will See You
  5. By The Sun
  6. Alcatraz
  7. And The Rain
  8. She Sang Hymns Out Of Tune
  9. Bitter Green
  10. We Want It All

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