Camouflage Conviction Continued

Side 1 of a Manic Street Preachers mixtape, compiled 1st April 1999. 

This may well be the longest gap to date between two sides of a cassette compilation, a year and week since I posted Side 2 to commiserate the fact that I was unable to see the Manics live at The Forum in Bath. There was a happy ending to that sorry tale, in that fellow blogosphere traveller Mike was able to use my ticket and had a great time (note: and I finally got to see my first gig at The Forum last night, but that's another post for the weekend).

As before, this side gathers together album versions, live performances, remixes and B-sides from the relatively few Manic Street Preachers singles that I owned at the end of the last century. I was in the crowd for their live rendition of From Despair To Where, opening up a blistering set at the inaugural Phoenix Festival in Stratford-Upon-Avon in 1993. The remix of La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh) by The Dust Brothers (aka Ed Simons and Tom Rowlands, before they had to go all Chemical on us) is my favourite version of the song, whilst Too Cold Here is another example of the treasure that could be found tucked away on their singles and EPs.

 

Turn the volume up for this one.

1) Australia (Album Version) (1996)

2) She Is Suffering (7" Radio Edit) (1994)

3) The Everlasting (Deadly Avenger's Psalm 315) (1998)

4) From Despair To Where (Live @ Phoenix Festival, Stratford-Upon-Avon, 18th July 1993) *

5) Too Cold Here (1994)

6) La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh) (Vocal Mix By The Dust Brothers aka Ed Simons & Tom Rowlands) **

7) P.C.P. (Live @ Glastonbury Festival, 24th June 1994)

8) Kevin Carter (Stealth Sonic Orchestra Soundtrack) (Remix By Apollo 440) (1996)

9) If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next (Album Version) (1998)

10) You Love Us (Single Version aka Original Heavenly Version) (1991)

1991: You Love Us EP: 10

1993: Five Alive Take Three (Melody Maker promo cassette): 4 *

1994: Revol EP: 5, 10

1994: She Is Suffering EP: 2, 6

1994: Volume Eleven: 7

1996: Everything Must Go (1996) / Australia EP: 1

1996: Kevin Carter EP: 8

1998: The Everlasting EP: 3 

1998: This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours / If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next EP: 9

 

* This version also popped up on the various artists' compilation Phoenix The Album in 1997

** This is a similar but different version from the Sunday Social Mix that appeared on the M.S.P. Done & Dusted 12" single in 1994.

 

Side One (46:11)

Side Two here