Keepsakes (album) explained

Keepsakes - A Collection
Type:	Compilation
Artist:	All About Eve
Cover:	AAE Keepsakes cover.jpg
Released:	13 March 2006
Label:	Mercury, Universal
Producer:	Julian Fernandez
Prev Title:	Cinemasonic
Prev Year:	2003

Keepsakes - A Collection is an anthology by All About Eve released on 13 March 2006. It is available either as a double CD or as a limited edition double CD and DVD set (the DVD containing the band's videos and television performances).

Unlike Winter Words, this compilation had the support and involvement of the band. Lead singer Julianne Regan said of it "Compiling the album reminded me that we were actually a pretty good band about 70% of the time."

Track listing

First CD:

1. Flowers in Our Hair (extended version)
2. In the Clouds
3. Calling Your Name
4. Paradise (1989 remix)
5. Martha's Harbour
6. Every Angel (7" remix)
7. What Kind of Fool (Autumn Rhapsody)
8. Wild Flowers (1988 BBC session version)
9. Candy Tree (Live at the Hammersmith Odeon 1988)
10. Wild Hearted Woman (Live at the Hammersmith Odeon 1988)
11. Our Summer (Live)
12. In the Meadow (Live at the Hammersmith Odeon 1988)
13. Gold and Silver
14. Scarlet
15. Road to Your Soul
16. Drowning
17. December
18. What Kind of Fool 2006
19. The Empty Dancehall - Revisited

Second CD:

1. Farewell Mr Sorrow
2. Strange Way
3. Rhythm of Life
4. Wishing the Hours Away
5. The Dreamer (Tim Palmer Mix)
6. Touched by Jesus
7. Are You Lonely
8. See Emily Play (Demo Version)
9. Phased
10. Freeze
11. I Don't Know (Alternate Version)
12. Some Finer Day
13. Infrared
14. Outshine the Sun
15. Let Me Go Home
16. Keepsakes
17. Raindrops

DVD (only available on limited edition version):

1. Flowers in Our Hair (video)
2. In the Clouds (video)
3. Wild Hearted Woman (video)
4. Every Angel (video)
5. Martha's Harbour (video)
6. What Kind of Fool (video)
7. Road to Your Soul (video)
8. December (video)
9. Scarlet (video)
10. Farewell Mr Sorrow (video)
11. Strange Way (video)
12. The Dreamer (video)
13. Phased (video)
14. Some Finer Day (video)
15. Let Me Go Home (video)
16. Every Angel (performed for Going Live! in 1988)
17. Martha's Harbour (performed (live) for Top of the Pops in 1988)
18. What Kind of Fool (performed for Top of the Pops in 1988)
19. Scarlet (performed for Daytime Live in 1990)
20. More Than the Blues (performed for Daytime Live in 1990)
21. Farewell Mr Sorrow (performed for Top of the Pops in 1991)

The DVD also features two Easter Eggs:

1. Martha's Harbour (performed (mimed) for Top of the Pops in 1988 - the "infamous" version [see notes])
2. What Kind of Fool (an alternate version of the video deemed suitable for children as it does not feature tarot cards)

Notes

Despite this compilation being in the greatest hits vein, it does feature a large number of songs which have not appeared in any previously recorded format (including all of the live and demo tracks).

The compilation also contains four completely new or re-worked songs which are "What Kind of Fool 2006", "The Empty Dancehall Revisited", "Keepsakes" (which has also been released as a download single) and "Raindrops".

The sleeve-notes to this compilation are a no-holds barred history of the band which detail the failures and the mistakes as well as the triumphs.

The "infamous" version of "Martha's Harbour" was a Top of the Pops performance featuring just Julianne Regan and Tim Bricheno which - as was usual BBC policy at the time - was mimed. Unfortunately the backing tape wasn't played to the performers and which meant that they couldn't hear what they were supposed to be miming to - whereas the TV audience could hear the song with the two of them just sitting there. They pick the song up to much studio audience applause mid-way through the second verse, when someone realised the mistake.

"The Empty Dancehall Revisited" and "Raindrops" feature Bricheno playing on an All About Eve album for the first time since their second album Scarlet and Other Stories seventeen years beforehand.

Marty Willson-Piper wasn't available for the Top of the Pops performance of "Farewell Mr Sorrow" so his part in the mime was taken by a roadie called Adam Birch.