John Martyn / Best of the Island Years: full track listing
Last week we revealed that Universal Music would be releasing a four-CD ‘highlights’ set of last year’s mammoth John Martyn Island Years box set and today we can reveal the track listing.
This 56-track digest is taken entirely from the outtakes and like the big set runs in chronological order and this new set comes packaged as a hardcover ‘book set’.
The Best of the Island Years is released on 3 November 2014.
The Best of the Island Years / Full track listing
DISC ONE
- 01: Go Easy – Alt Take # 2 ( 4:34 )
- 02: Bless The Weather – Alt Take ( 4:51 )
- 03: Just Now – Alt Take #2 ( 3:37 )
- 04: Head and Heart – Alt Take ( 4:59 )
- 05: Glistening Glyndebourne ( 7:47 )
- 06: May You Never – Live at The Hanging Lamp ( 4:18 )
- 07: Head and Heart – Live at The Hanging Lamp ( 3:57 )
- 08: I’d Rather Be The Devil – Live at The Hanging Lamp ( 7:50 )
- 09: Solid Air – Alt Take ( 4:30 )
- 10: Over The Hill – Alt Take ( 3:17 )
- 11: I’d Rather Be The Devil – Alt Take #2 ( 6:02 )
- 12: Go Down Easy – Alt Take #3 ( 5:11 )
- 13: Dreams By The Sea – Alt Take ( 3:22 )
- 14: May You Never – Alt Take ( 3:46 )
- 15: Fine Lines – Alt Take ( 3:55 )
DISC TWO
- 01: The Glory of Love – Alt Take ( 2:40 )
- 02: Make No Mistake – Alt Take ( 6:45 )
- 03: Sunday’s Child – Alt Take ( 6:30 )
- 04: Spencer The Rover – BBC Sight and Sound ( 3:53 )
- 05: Eight More Miles – Alt Take ( 2:44 )
- 06: Outside In – Liver at Leeds ( 18:56 )
- 07: Solid Air – Live at Leeds ( 7:10 )
- 08: The Man At The Station – Live at Leeds ( 2:42 )
- 09: Dealer – Alt Take ( 5:16 )
- 10: One World – Alt Take ( 4:19 )
- 11: Smiling Stranger – Alt Take ( 3:35)
- 12: Certain Surprise – Alt Take #2 ( 4:00 )
DISC THREE
- 01: Couldn’t Love You More – Alt Take ( 3:14 )
- 02: Big Muff – Take 1 ( 7:11 )
- 03: Dancing – Alt Take #2 ( 3:54 )
- 04: Small Hours – Alt Take ( 9:50 )
- 05: Black Man At Your Shoulders ( 8:30 )
- 06: Some People Are Crazy – Alt Take ( 4:12 )
- 07: Grace and Danger – Alt Take ( 7:37 )
- 08: Johnny Too Bad – Alt Take ( 7:18 )
- 09: Hi Heel Sneakers – Unreleased Song ( 3:17 )
- 10: Running Up The Harbour – Alt Take ( 4:38 )
- 11: Sweet Little Mystery – Old Grey Whistle Test – 10/1/1981 ( 4:58 )
- 12: Our Love – Alt Take ( 5:54 )
- 13: After Tomorrow Night – Alt Take ( 4:36 )
DISC FOUR
- 01: Sapphire – Andy Lydon mix ( 4:49 )
- 02: Over The Rainbow – Andy Lydon mix ( 3:47 )
- 03: Fisherman’s Dream – Andy Lydon mix ( 4:33 )
- 04: Mad Dog Days – Andy Lydon mix ( 5:21 )
- 05: Love In Your Life – Previously Unreleased song ( 3:26 )
- 06: Solid Air – Live at Glastonbury ( 5:42 )
- 07: Bless The Weather – Live at Glastonbury ( 4:10 )
- 08: Lonely Love – Alt Take ( 3:22 )
- 09: Angeline – Alt Take ( 5:03 )
- 10: Piece by Piece – Take 1 ( 3:58 )
- 11: The River ( 4:17 )
- 12: Send Me One Line ( 5:12 )
- 13: The Apprentice ( 4:16 )
- 14: Lifeline ( 3:52 )
- 15: Patterns In The Rain ( 3:26 )
- 16: John Wayne – Live at The London Palladium ( 8:03 )
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Just now glancing at this Best Of Set. Does anyone have a quick reference point of the albums covered in this set? I know it’s the Island Years, but he has so many albums to look through, and I’m interested in the point that Steven made above.
While I like the idea of a box set totally focused on the outtakes, which I’m guessing would be highly attractive to those who own the albums (I only own a few and it’s attractive to me!), but it feels strange that it’s called ‘The Best of the Island Years’. A subtitle explaining that it’s meant to complement his otherwise available recordings might have been in order?
This is a fair point.