Bob Mould

Release Date: 10/30/2020
Format: 8 X LP
Label: Demon Records – DEMRECBOX48, Granary Music
Release type: Indie Exclusive Signed Clear Splattered Colored 8LP Vinyl Box Set

Each album is presented with brand new artwork designed by illustrator Simon Marchner and pressed on 140g clear vinyl with unique splatter effects. Featuring an array of bonus tracks including Sugar's 1995 collection of B-sides and non-album tracks Besides, along with Distortion Plus: 1989-1995 a new and exclusive collection of rarities and collaborations (pressed on clear vinyl). Demon Records presents Distortion: 1989-1995, the first in a series of four expansive vinyl box sets chronicling the solo career of legendary American musician Bob Mould. Volume One in this new series covers 1989 to 1995, beginning with Mould's first post Hüsker Dü album Workbook and continuing through to Sugar's final studio album File Under: Easy Listening. Includes a 28-page companion booklet featuring: liner notes by journalist Keith Cameron; a foreword by writer and actor Fred Armisen; a tribute from Richard Thompson; lyrics and memorabilia. Mastered by Jeff Lipton and Maria Rice at Peerless Mastering in Boston.

Workbook

1. Sunspots
2. Wishing Well
3. Heartbreak a Stranger
4. See a Little Light
5. Poison Years
6. Sinners and Their Repentances
7. Brasilia Crossed with Trenton
8. Compositions for the Young and Old
9. Lonely Afternoon
10. Dreaming, I Am
11. Whichever Way the Wind Blows

Black Sheets Of Rain

1. Black Sheets of Rain
2. Stand Guard
3. It's Too Late
4. One Good Reason
5. Stop Your Crying
6. Hanging Tree
7. The Last Night
8. Hear Me Calling
9. Out of Your Life
10. Disappointed
11. Sacrifice / Let There Be Peace

Copper Blue

1. The Act We Act
2. A Good Idea
3. Changes
4. Helpless
5. Hoover Dam
6. The Slim
7. If I Can't Change Your Mind
8. Fortune Teller
9. Slick
10. Man on the Moon

Beaster

1. Come Around
2. Tilted
3. Judas Cradle
4. JC Auto
5. Feeling Better
6. Walking Away

File Under: Easy Listening

1. Gift
2. Company Book
3. Your Favorite Thing
4. What You Want It to Be
5. Gee Angel
6. Panama City Motel
7. Can't Help You Anymore
8. Granny Cool
9. Believe What You're Saying
10. Explode and Make Up

Besides

1. Needle Hits E
2. If I Can't Change Your Mind (Solo Mix)
3. Try Again
4. Where Diamonds Are Halos (Live at the Cabaret Metro, 22nd July 1992)
5. Armenia City in the Sky (Live at the Cabaret Metro, 22nd July 1992)
6. Clownmaster
7. Anyone (Live at the Cabaret Metro, 22nd July 1992)
8. JC Auto (Live at the Cabaret Metro, 22nd July 1992)
9. Believe What You're Saying (Campfire Mix)
10. Mind Is An Island
11. Frustration
12. Going Home
13. In the Eyes of My Friends
14. And You Tell Me
15. If I Can't Change Your Mind (BBC Radio Session)
16. Hoover Dam (BBC Radio Session)
17. The Slim (BBC Radio Session)
18. Where Diamonds Are Halos (BBC Radio Session)

Distortion Plus: 1989-1995

1. All Those People Know
2. No Water in Hell
3. Dying from the Inside Out
4. Dio
5. Hickory Wind
6. Can't Fight It
7. Turning of the Tide