Robyn Hitchcock
I Wanna Go Backwards
2007

CD 1: Black Snake Dîamond Röle
#    Title    Time    Info  
1 The Man Who Invented Himself 2:60
2 Brenda’s Iron Sledge 2:57
3 Do Policemen Sing? 3:37
4 The Lizard 5:03
5 Meat 3:05
6 Acid Bird 4:43
7 I Watch the Cars 2:26
8 Out of the Picture 3:42
9 City of Shame 3:23
10 Love 4:46
11 All I Wanna Do Is Fall in Love 3:48
12 A Skull, a Suitcase, and a Long Red Bottle of Wine 4:59
13 It Was the Night 3:36
14 I Watch the Cars No. 2 4:26
15 Give Me a Spanner Ralph 2:38
16 It’s a Mystic Trip 2:59
17 Grooving on a Inner Plane 4:12
18 Happy the Golden Prince 6:40
Total time 70:01
CD 2: I Often Dream of Trains
#    Title    Time    Info  
1 Nocturne (Prelude) 1:39
2 Sometimes I Wish I Was a Pretty Girl 1:58
3 Cathedral 3:43
4 Uncorrected Personality Traits 1:45
5 Sounds Great When You’re Dead 3:23
6 Flavour of Night 2:59
7 Ye Sleeping Knights of Jesus 4:01
8 This Could Be the Day 2:46
9 Trams of Old London 3:29
10 Furry Green Atom Bowl 3:16
11 Heart Full of Leaves 2:30
12 Autumn Is Your Last Chance 3:31
13 I Often Dream of Trains 2:23
14 Nocturne (Demise) 2:06
15 Winter Love 2:39
16 The Bones in the Ground 3:08
17 My Favourite Buildings 2:48
18 I Used to Say I Love You 4:32
19 Chant / Aether 5:25
20 Heart Full of Leaves (alternate version) 2:28
21 I Often Dream of Trains (demo) 2:41
22 Not Even a Nurse 2:31
23 Slow Chant / That’s Fantastic Mother Church 2:15
24 Traveller’s Fare 1:48
Total time 69:44
CD 3: Eye
#    Title    Time    Info  
1 Cynthia Mask 4:38
2 Certainly Cliquot 2:15
3 Queen Elvis 4:23
4 Flesh Cartoons 4:22
5 Chinese Water Python 2:12
6 Executioner 3:45
7 Linctus House 5:15
8 Sweet Ghost of Light 3:09
9 Transparent Lover 3:35
10 Beautiful Girl 2:13
11 Clean Steve 3:52
12 Raining Twilight Coast 4:38
13 Agony of Pleasure 2:25
14 Glass Hotel 3:28
15 Satellite 1:45
16 Aquarium 4:20
17 Queen Elvis II 4:37
18 Century 2:18
19 Shimmering Distant Love 3:20
20 Lovers Turn to Skulls 1:40
21 The Beauty of Earl’s Court 3:59
Total time 72:09
CD 4: While Thatcher Mauled Britain: Demos ’81–’90 (disc 1)
#    Title    Time    Info  
1 She Reached for a Light 2:38
2 August Hair 3:56
3 Take Your Knife Out of My Back 3:03
4 Fiend Before the Shrine 2:03
5 Raymond Chandler Evening 1:56
6 Birdshead 2:52
7 Victorian Squid 2:29
8 You’ve Got 4:06
9 Captain Dry 2:50
10 Raining Twilight Coast 4:36
11 Point It at Gran 2:00
12 Vegetable Friend 2:13
13 Flesh Number 1 2:42
14 Surgery 2:40
15 I Got a Message for You 3:06
16 If I Could Look 1:12
17 Parachutes & Jellyfish 3:05
18 Queen Elvis 4:39
19 Nothing 2:47
20 Stranded in the Future 3:22
21 Melting Arthur 3:13
22 The Abandoned Brain 3:30
23 You’re So Repulsive 3:32
24 Opiatrescence 3:54
Total time 72:24
CD 5: While Thatcher Mauled Britain: Demos ’81–’90 (disc 2)
#    Title    Time    Info  
1 September Cones 5:22
2 Lovely Golden Villains 3:03
3 Dr Sticky (live) 3:11
4 Toadboy 3:50
5 Trash 2:51
6 Pit of Souls (country version) 5:58
7 Mr Deadly 4:13
8 Let There Be More Darkness 2:56
9 Listening to the Higsons 2:45
10 College of Ice 3:42
11 My Favourite Buildings 3:13
12 Lightplug 1:43
13 Sleeping Knights of Jesus 4:14
14 Insect Mother 1:44
15 I Wanna Go Backwards 3:36
Total time 52:21



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