TAPES
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Two
track reel-to-reel: Crystal Injection / Black Trans-Am
Recorded August 1988 with Paul Sampson. I haven't heard this
because I don't know anyone with the equipment to play it! Presumably
the version of 'Crystal ...' is the version which appeared on
the Kamikaze Kids bootleg. 'Black Trans-Am' remains unknown,
although it could be an early name for another track.
DAT
cassette: Shoot You Down / Hassells (sic) / White / Gotta
Gettaway / Shoot You Down / Everybody Needs Somebody / She Belongs
To Me / Johnny Got Rich (x2) / Rollacoastor (sic) / Don't Hang
On / Wake Up Dreaming / Love I A Fever (sic)
Labelled as "Album 1st version" this recording was
made with Paul Sampson at Cabin Studios in Coventry in March
1990.
A
contract issued on 24 March lists the running order of the album
as follows, and includes an unknown title: Shoot Your Lover
/ Everybody Needs Somebody / She Belongs To Me / Rollacoaster
/ Wake Up Dreaming / Hassles / Shoot You Down / Johnny Got Rich
/ Don't Hang On / Love Is A Fever.
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TEST
PRESSINGS, PROMOS, ODDITIES, etc
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There
are, in theory, promos and/or test pressings for all the official
releases. Those marked with a * I don't own, but have seen listed
for sale.
LAZY
13 7"
white label.*
LAZY
13T 12"
white label. Have seen a copy advertised with a proof sleeve.
LAZY
14 7" white label.
LAZY14T 12" 1000 copies of the 12" were 'mispressed'
with a fourth track, an early version of 'Stay'.
LAZY
17T 12" test pressing. My copy, on a Mayking label
comes with a black-and-white proof of the front sleeve. I also
have an 'ordinary' white label copy.
LAZY
20 12" single-sided white label promo, stamped with
the catalogue number and release date (Sept. 10th). Although
this 12" version suggests that an official version to complement
the 7" was considered, I think these were pressed up solely
for DJs.
LAZY
24 I have a copy of this 7" with a promo sticker courtesy
of the band's publicity people. Not very exciting.
LAZY
24T 12" one-sided white label. Only
one track is featured, so it's not a test-pressing of the eventual
12".
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NON-DOMESTIC
ITEMS
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Birdland
Japanese CD (Inside Out TOCP-6473)
Hollow
Heart / White / Paradise / Wanted / Sleep With Me / Rock 'N'
Roll Nigger.
A
nicely put together package with an illustrated booklet and
a slipcase.
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Birdland
Japanese promo CD (Inside Out SPCD-1146)
Promo
CD for above.
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Shoot
You Down
Japanese CD (Inside Out TOCP-6573)
Shoot
You Down / Rage / Sugar Blood
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Birdland
Japanese promo CD (Inside Out SPCD-1163)
Full
promo for the debut album with alternate sleeve. My copy has
been rather strangely trimmed along the top and side of the
sleeve so I can't tell if it's a complete item.
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My
copy in a box somewhere.
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Birdland
Japanese
CD (Inside Out TOCP-6613)
Slightly
different cover shot.
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The
Rare Tracks Japanese CD (Inside Out TOCP-6886)
Stay
/ All Over Me / Protection / Rollercoaster / Fun Fun Fun / Twin
Sons / Shoot You Down (acoustic)
Another
really nice set gathering together b-sides previously unavailable
in Japan. This was released towards the end of 1991, after the
album.
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Official
Bootleg Live
Japanese CD (TOCP-7229)
Paradise
/ White / See No Evil / Hollow Heart / Crystal Injection / Gotta
Getaway / Sugar Blood / Rock 'N' Roll Nigger
As
with some of the other Japanese releases, this is the only place
you can get these particular tracks on CD. A straightforward
re-release for the live LP.
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Don't
have this ...
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Sleep
With Me Japanese 3 track 3" CD in long sleeve (TOCP-2218) |
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Birdland
- London > Tokyo Japanese
promo VHS tape
Issued to promote the release of the TOCP-6473 mini-CD. Includes
the promo films for Paradise, Sleep With Me and Hollow Heart.
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Shoot
You Down
US promo CD (Radioactive CD45-1418 )
One
track promo disc.
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Sleep
With Me
US promo CD (Radioactive CD45-1601)
One
track promo disc. This version was (very slightly) re-mixed
by Chris Lord-Alge.
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Birdland
US maxi-single (Radioactive RARDS-54181)
Sleep
With Me / Don't Hang On / Wanted / White / Protection / Sleep
With Me (acoustic)
'Sleep
With Me' is the same re-mixed version as the promo.
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Birdland
US CD (Radioactive RARD-10214)
Shoot
You Down / Sleep With Me / Don't Look Back / Paradise / Wake
Up Dreaming / Rock 'N' Roll Nigger / Everybody Needs Somebody
/ Letter You Know / Beat Me Like A Star / She Belongs To Me
/ Hollow Heart / Exit
For
some reason the CD insert opens out into a repro Japanese tour
poster.
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Radioactive:
Music Most People Wouldn't Touch US promo CD (Radioactive
CD33-1547)
inc.
Sleep With Me / Everybody Needs Somebody
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BOOTLEGS
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Kamikaze
Kids LP (BLEACH 04)
A: Shoot You Down / Crystal (demo 1988) / Paradise / Wanted
/ Rock 'N' Roll Nigger (all live in Germany 1990) / Radio Bristol
interview with Lee and Kyle
B: Paradise (new version) / Hysterical (out-take) / Rehearsals
(Coventry Cabin Studios) / Hassles (out-take) / hotel room jam
/ Juke Box Jury appearance.
Birdland's only proper bootleg and one that some believed the
band had a hand in. In typical boot fashion, 'Kamikaze Kids'
is a motley collection of interesting and throwaway material.
The fact that a few tracks come from the March 1990 album demo
tape detailed above does indeed suggest the band leaked some
of the songs, at least. The 'hotel room' tape has the band mess
around with a Rolling Stones track and contend with neighbouring
guests complaining about the noise.
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ZODIAC
MOTEL
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The
Story of Roland Flagg 7"
One-sided
white label promo issued to promote the "classic debut
album". 200 copies only.
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can't
scan
LPs...
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The
Story of Roland Flagg
LP (Swordfish SWFLP001)
A:
The Story of Roland Flagg / Jupiter Saturday / Magic Boat /
God 2, Cromwell 0
B: (Anything You Want) Mr. Watchtower / Headfull Of Speed /
Robby Walks The Table / Lovecraft's Body
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...or
12"s
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Sunshine
Miner
12" (Swordfish ZOMO1)
A:
Sunshine Miner / Crescendo
B: Inside My Mine / Sugar Blood
1000
copies only.
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Ditto
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Crystal
Injection
12" (Swordfish ZOMO2)
A:
Crystal Injection / I Can Only Give You Everything
B: Destiny Ranch / Stephanie Blue
1000
copies only.
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TORN
BLOODY POETRY
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Hard:Boiled:Wonderland
CD (Ochre Europa Euro 001)
Song
For Natalie Portman / Pushing Me Down / Hole In The Heart /
Laura Kelly Vampire Girl / Endgame For Kramer / Surgeon General
/ Ratman's Notebook / Embalmed In Honey / Viper's Car / Cool
Robots Part 1 / Cool Robots Part 2 / Back To The Womb
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Voyage
To The Cosmic Underworld Volume 2 mini-LP (Ochre Records
OCH010)
A:
Torn Bloody Poetry "Stories of UFO's" ; Frequency
Police "Victim of Fashion" ; Positive Boredom "Mikey's
Gotta Gun", "Bullet Ship", "Punk Girl"
B: Reverb "Mr Soundman" ; The Marshmallow Overcoat
"Song For Steven" ; Penguin Happy "Over and Down"
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Black
Cat Magic 7"
(Ochre Records OCH009)
A:
Black Cat Magic
B: Mr. Fox / Porn Stars
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