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| The three-CD box set ‘What Can I Say? no regrets... Out of the Grey + Live, Demos & Outtakes’ is out January 14th. |
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Newly signed to Fire Records, The Dream Syndicate announce a special edition reissue of their 1986 album ‘Out of the Grey’. Available on CD for the first time in 24 years, this collection called ‘What Can I Say? no regrets... Out of the Grey + Live, Demos & Outtakes’ (out January 14) is deliciously remastered over a limited deluxe three disc box set. Featuring 34 unheard recordings, it includes a previously unreleased live 1985 album alongside many unreleased demos and outtakes with rare photos, interviews and new liner notes from Pat Thomas.
‘The Days of Wine and Roses’ era of The Dream Syndicate was so short-lived it’s become mythological. However, some nerds have grown so attached to it that they’ve never been able to accept the Paul B. Cutler and Mark Walton years, partly because the ‘Out of the Grey’ album wasn’t mastered correctly. It didn’t have enough low-end, for example. But for anyone who caught the band live between 1985 and ’87, they saw devastatingly wicked live shows.
Hidden inside of ‘Out of the Grey’ are some of Wynn’s strongest songs. “Slide Away” is delightful pop, “Now I Ride Alone” is moody and intense “like the hardboiled typewriting of novelists Jim Thompson, Ross MacDonald, and James Cain” that Steve Wynn told Pat Thomas that he dug when they chatted in a Rochester, New York hotel room back in July ‘85. (The day after Pat recorded the previously unreleased live album included in this box set). There’s also the epic “Boston,” which imagines the era in which Van Morrison was holed-up in that city circa 1967-68 writing the songs that comprised Astral Weeks.
It's discs 2 & 3 that have the real magic! All unreleased material – including a never-before-heard July 1985 live album which has the ‘balls to the wall’ energy hard not captured in the studio. The songs were so damn fresh on that July night -they had not been recorded in the studio yet. On Disc 3, you’ll hear alternate versions of several ‘Out of the Grey’ songs recorded as ‘demos’ before the album versions. These studio versions also have the raw energy of the live show, plus the band plays rare cover versions by Pink Floyd, Cream, Santana, Green on Red, Alice Cooper, Temptations, and Dolly Parton!
Pre-order 'What can I say? no regrets... Out of the Grey + Live, Demos & Outtakes' right here. Check the complete track list following the vintage video for "Out of the Grey" and the audio clips for their 1985 recordings of "It Hits You Again" and "Here On Earth As Well" below.
Disc One - Out Of The Grey
1. Out of the Grey
2. Forest for the Trees
3. 50 in a 25 Zone
4. Boston
5. Blood Money
6. Slide Away
7. Dying Embers
8. Now I Ride Alone
9. Drinking Problem
10. Dancing Blind
11. You Can't Forget
12. Let it Rain
13. Cinnamon Girl
14. Ballad of Dwight Frye
15. Shake Your Hips
16. I Won't Forget
17. The Lonely Bull
Disc Two - Live At Scorgies NY, 1985
1. Out of the Grey (Live At Scorgies NY, 1985)
2. 50 in a 25 Zone (Live At Scorgies NY, 1985)
3. That's what You Always Say (Live At Scorgies NY, 1985)
4. Slide Away (Live At Scorgies NY, 1985)
5. Dancing Blind (Live At Scorgies NY, 1985)
6. Blood Money (Live At Scorgies NY, 1985)
7. Dying Embers (Live At Scorgies NY, 1985)
8. It Hits You Again (Live At Scorgies NY, 1985)
9. Now I Ride Alone (Live At Scorgies NY, 1985)
10. John Coltrane Stereo Blues (Live At Scorgies NY, 1985)
11. Still Holding onto You (Live At Scorgies NY, 1985)
12. When You Smile (Live At Scorgies NY, 1985)
13. The Days of Wine and Roses (Live At Scorgies NY, 1985)
Disc Three – Odds & Sods
1. Here on Earth As Well (Demo, 1985)
2. Dancing Blind (Demo, 1985)
3. Blood Money (Demo, 1985)
4. Dying Embers (Demo, 1985)
5. Slide Away (Demo, 1985)
6. It Hits You Again (Demo, 1985)
7. Now I Ride Alone (Demo, 1985)
8. Eighteen
9. Another Brick in the Wall
10. Brain Damage
11. Out of the Grey Waltz
12. The Munster's Theme Song
13. Sixteen Ways
14. Papa was a Rolling Stone
15. Low Rider
16. Papa Jam
17. I Ain't Got Nobody
18. Jeannie's Afraid of the Dark
19. Badge
20. Dancing Blind (Live At The Stone SF, 1984)
21. Blood Money (Live At The Stone SF, 1984)
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