Cleaners From Venus: Volume 2, 4xLP Vinyl Box Set + more, Captured Tracks, Rare
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Description
Second volume of Cleaners From Venus reissues from Captured Tracks. Includes: In The Golden Autumn (1983), Under Wartime Conditions (1984), Songs For A Fallow Land (1985) and a rarities LP entitled 'A Dawn Chorus: Early Cleaners And Beyond 1967-1985'. Box set also includes a poster and a button. Each album includes a download code.
This is Volume Two of the enthusiastically-received Captured Tracks repackaging of The Cleaners from Venus. This part of the collection covers a 3-year period between 1983 and 1985 for the Brit Lo-fi combo, now being described as ‘D.I.Y Beatles.’ While the rest of the 1980s rock world had immersed itself in epic and often empty gestures, the Cleaners concentrated on neat little lo-fi pop songs of a quality and standard which, as one critic later noted: “Pop music elsewhere had pretty much forgotten.” By now, one of the band’s founder members, Lawrence Elliott had left the band. Its chief songwriter, Martin Newell, like the captain of a strange pirate ship took charge, and Cleaners from Venus went sailing…
Here within this second fractured pop feast, are three remastered albums by The Cleaners – as well as a fourth one, containing not only the usual ‘rarities’ but also previously unreleased tracks and a few genuine treasures. The Cleaners had a back story, too. Included here are some of its fragments.Even today the chief question asked about the Cleaners from Venus is why they weren’t huge at the time. The answer to that is that Martin Newell believed that if they involved the music business in their work, the music might be spoiled. They therefore never bothered approaching a record company. For most of their existence, in fact, they didn’t even have a telephone. The Cleaners weren’t so much independent, as genuinely feral. You won’t have heard pop music like this for quite some time.
Cleaners From Venus ?– Box Set, Vol. 2
Label: Captured Tracks ?– none
Format:
Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue
Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue
Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue
Vinyl, LP, Compilation
Box Set, Compilation, Remastered
Country: US
Released: 14 May 2013
Genre: Rock
Style: Psychedelic Rock, Lo-Fi
Tracklist
In The Golden Autumn - Wayside
A1
Renée (Who's Driving Your Car?)
A2
A Holloway Person
A3
Ghosts In Doorway
A4
The Autumn Cornfield
A5
Please Don't Step On My Rainbow
A6
Balloon Drop Shadow
In The Golden Autumn - Seaside
B1
Krugerrand Gladiators
B2
Golden Age Saturday
B3
Marliyn On A Train
B4
Sandstorm In Paradise
B5
Victorian Society
B6
A Fool Like You
Under Wartime Conditions - Homicide
C1
Summer In A Small Town
C2
Johnny The Moondog Is Dead
C3
Hand Of Stone
C4
Drowning Butterflies
C5
Radio Seven
Under Wartime Conditions - Suicide
D1
Fracas On West Street
D2
Lukewarm Lovesong
D3
A Blue Wave
D4
A Song For Syd Barrett
D5
The Winter Palace
Songs For A Fallow Land - Mountainside
E1
Sun Comes To The Wood
E2
Julie Profumo
E3
Soul Monday
E4
Gamma Ray Blue
E5
Heroin Clones
Songs For A Fallow Land - Riverside
F1
Winter Palace 2
F2
Golden Lane
F3
Stars Are Cold
F4
Late Night
F5
Beyond (...And Beyond)
A Dawn Chorus: Early Cleaners And Beyond 1967-1985 - Topside
G1
Roots And Beginnings
G2
Russian Picture
G3
Bon Temp Roulez
G4
Mrs. Killer
5
Sylvie In Toytown
G6
Young Jobless
G7
The Secret Dreams Of A Kitchen Porter
A Dawn Chorus: Early Cleaners And Beyond 1967-1985 - Silverside
H1
It's Been So Long
H2
Something In My Eye
H3
When Fire Burns Dreams
H4
Amateur Paranoiac
H5
Drowning Butterflies (Big Expensive Version)
H6
Beyond The Blue Horizon
New. Box itself is not sealed. This is how it came to us from the distributor. It shows some minor wear, particularly around the lower right hand corner. Each individual LP is sealed and in perfect condition. Button and poster also in great condition. See pictures.
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