Patrik Fitzgerald - Safety Pins, Secret Lives And The Paranoid Ward (The Best Of 1977-1986)

Original Release Date

2014

Release Information

UK 2xCD 2014 (Cherry Red - CDBRED644)

Disc One
1 Safety Pin Stuck In My Heart 2:41
2 Banging And Shouting 1:31
3 Work, Rest, Play, Reggae 1:41
4 Set We Free 2:50
5 Optimism/Reject 1:12
6 Buy Me Sell Me 1:05
7 The Little Dippers 2:04
8 Trendy 1:10
9 Backstreet Boys 3:49
10 Babysitter 1:11
11 Irrelevant Battles 1:56
12 Cruellest Crime 3:19
13 The Paranoid Ward 0:48
14 The Bingo Crowd (Instrumental) 0:46
15 Life At The Top 4:05
16 Ragged Generation (For Real) 2:58
17 Live Out My Stars 3:32
18 George 1:46
19 All Sewn Up (New Version) 2:27
20 Improve Myself (New Version) 2:11
21 The Bingo Crowd 1:42
22 As Ugly As You 2:05
23 All My Friends Are Dead Now 1:40
24 Adopted Girl 1:41
25 When I Get Famous 1:24
26 Little Fishes 1:32
27 All The Years Of Trying 3:49
28 My Secret Life 2:02
29 Conventions Of Life 1:20
Disc Two
1 Mrs. And Mrs. 1:36
2 Animal Mentality 3:40
3 Tonight 4:20
4 Pop Star Pop Star 2:45
5 One Little Soldier 4:12
6 Personal Loss 2:53
7 Straight Boy 2:30
8 World Is Getting Better 3:12
9 Solve 3:36
10 Gifts And Telegrams 3:43
11 Punch 5:23
12 Island Of Lost Souls 2:45
13 Smile 2:46
14 Family Outing 1:36
15 Domestication 1:50
16 My Perfect World 2:26
17 A Life Sentence 3:21
18 Down 2:49
19 Drifting Towards Violence 5:06
20 One By One 3:55
21 Putting Wings On Aeroplanes 2:31
22 Down Mexico Way 4:10
23 Poor John 4:37

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Credits

Disc 1 tracks 1-5 taken from the 'Safety Pin Stuck In My Heart' single (Small Wonder Records, 1977)
Disc 1 tracks 6-9 taken from the 'Backstreet Boys' single (Small Wonder Records, 1978)
Disc 1 tracks 10-18 taken from the 'The Paranoid Ward' EP (Small Wonder Records, 1978)
Disc 1 tracks 20-21 taken from the 'Improve Myself' single (Polydor, 1979) [Punky Gibbon: not true, see below]
Disc 1 tracks 22-29 taken from the 'Grubby Stories' LP (Small Wonder Records/Polydor, 1979) [Punky Gibbon: not true, see below]
Disc 2 tracks 1-3 taken from the Patrik Fitzgerald Group's 'Tonight' EP (Final Solution, 1980)
Disc 2 track 4 taken from Josef Garret's 'Without Sex' single (Ellie Jay Records, 1981) [Punky Gibbon: not true, see below]
Disc 2 tracks 5, 6 and 8-12 taken from the 'Gifts And Telegrams' LP (Red Flame, 1983)
Disc 2 track 7 taken from the 'Personal Loss' single (Red Flame, 1983)
Disc 2 tracks 13-19 taken from the 'Drifting Towards Violence' LP (Red Flame, 1983)
Disc 2 track 20 taken from 'Treasures From The Wax Museum' (Red Flame compilation, 1993)
Disc 2 tracks 21-23 taken from the 'Tunisian Twist' LP (Red Flame, 1986)

Master tape transfers by Nick Robbins.
Mastered by Alan Wilson

Additional Credits

Disc 1 tracks 20-29 and Disc 2 track 4 are actually demo versions, originally issued on Safety Pin Stuck In My Heart: The Very Best Of...

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