The Charlatans
A Head Full of Ideas (Deluxe Edition 5LP Box Set) (Indie Exclusive Blue)
Release Date: 11/12/2021
Format: 5 X LP + 7" Vinyl
Label: Then Records – then1LP XX
Release type: Deluxe Edition Numbered Blue Translucent 5LP Vinyl Box Set
THE CHARLATANS proudly announce their (Covid) delayed release of their 30th Anniversary tour and a career spanning best of entitled “A Head Full of Ideas’ Released on Then Recordings through Republic Of Music. ‘A Head Full of Ideas’ sums up their remarkable progress from 1990 Manchester scene hopefuls to one of the UK’s most enduring and best-loved bands. The accompanying tour begins at Belfast, Limelight 22/11/21 and finishes in Aberdeen on 20/12/21.
The band have notched up 13 Top 40 studio albums - three of them number ones - alongside 22 hit singles, four of them top 10. The rollercoaster highs have been accompanied by some shattering lows, any which one of them could have felled a less resilient band, from nervous breakdowns to near bankruptcy and the deaths of two founder members.
Somehow, they have not just carried on but adapted and transformed. The classic Charlatans sound - driving Hammond organ, Northern Soul and house-influenced rhythms, swaggering guitars and Tim Burgess’s sunny yet somehow yearning vocal - is instantly recognisable. And in spite of everything they have been through their music is now more relevant than ever, The Guardian described their last album, Different Days as “one of their best ever”.
A Head Full Of Ideas
- The Only One I Know
- Weirdo
- Can’t Get Out Of Bed
- Jesus Hairdo
- Just When You’re Thinking Things Over
- North Country Boy
- Tellin’ Stories
- One To Another
- How High
- Forever
- Impossible
- Love Is The Key
- A Man Needs To Be Told
- Up At The Lake
- Blackened Blue Eyes
- Oh Vanity
- My Foolish Pride
- Come Home Baby
- Let The Good Times Be Never Ending
- Plastic Machinery
- Totally Eclipsing
Trust Is For Believers (Live)
- Polar Bear
- Indian Rope
- Can’t Even Be Bothered
- Can’t Get Out Of Bed
- I Never Want An Easy Life (If Me And Him Were Ever To Get There)
- Then
- Here Comes A Soul Saver
- My Beautiful Friend
- The Blind Stagger
- Sproston Green
Pleased To Meet You (Demos)
- C'mon C'mon
- Sleepy Little Sunshine Boy
- Dardanella
- So Oh
- Always On My Mind
- Nature #1
- Everybody Ha Ha
- Commuter Computer
- Crystal Eyes
- White Shirt
- I Need You To Know
One To Another (Remix)
- Plastic Machinery (Sleaford Mods Remix)
- Nine Acre Dust (Chemical Brothers Remix)
- So Oh (Brian Jonestown Massacre Remix)
- Tellin' Stories (The Go! Team Remix)
- Trouble Understanding (Norman Cook Remix)
- My Beautiful Friend (Jagz Kooner Remix)
- Hey Sunrise (The Orb Remix)
- You're So Pretty, We're So Pretty (Lo Fidelity Allstars Remix)
Bonus 7"
- Indian Rope (1989 Demo)
- The Only One I Know (1989 Demo)
