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'The Singles & Some More'

	Disc 1: The Singles
Track:	Name:	Time:
1.	Silicon Dream	3:59
2.	Home Planet	5:01
3.	Never Trust A Klingon Satellite Version	4:14
4.	I Am An Android	3:43
5.	In Space No One Can Hear You Scream	4:05
6.	Strange Dimensions Warp Speed Edit	5:29
7.	Beam Me Up	5:27
8.	Never Trust A Klingon A Version	4:24
9.	Astro Girl	4:07
10.	All E.T:s Aren't Nice	4:33
11.	Search The Sky	4:11
	Total Disc 1: The Singles	49:13

	Disc 2: The Rest
Track:	Name:	Time:
1.	Astro Girl Redmix	3:13
2.	All E.T:s Aren't Nice ARM Mix	5:36
3.	Neutral Version Jupiter Version	4:57
4.	Mr. Spock's Brain Unplugged	4:24
5.	Stormtrooper	5:46
6.	Astro Girl Paradise Mix	4:42
7.	Last Man On Earth SMPJ Version	4:06
8.	Never Trust A Klingon Captain's Log	6:12
9.	All E.T:s Aren't Nice The Open Hatch	4:21
10.	White Christmas	3:52
	Total Disc 2: The Rest	47:09

Total Time: 96:22

Comments:

The subtitle to this normal priced double album is 'The Singles & Some More', which pretty accurately descibes its content. I have most of this stuff on singles already, be it A- or B-sides. However, the songs or remixes I didn't have made this album well worth buying. After all. it was priced as if it was a normal album. All the tracks have some short comments; here they are with a few of my own:

Track 1: "The very first 7" ever!" and track 2: "The vinyl B-side". The only way to get hold of this now super-rare 7" is to look very hard and be ready to cough up about 1000 SEK if you do find it (which translates to approximately seven full-priced CD:s!) Very nice of them to put these songs on this album, since they're too darn hard to find. I do miss the short spacey Mr. Spock's Brain though, which was in between these two on the 7" (can't remember if it was last on the A-side or first on the B-side). Short, but sweet.

Track 3: "The original version on the first CD-single", track 4: "The so-called B-side" and track 5: "The other B-side". Sort of speak for themselves. True cult classics.

Track 6: "New shorter edit of a longer version from the third single". Clear as can be. Track 7: "the B-side". No oddities here. Pure and simple.

Track 8: "Refreshed recording on the fourth single". Refreshed, yes, but better...? Call me conservative if you like, but I still prefer the gravity version of the first single. I just love that intro, where the bass comes in and the goes out again for a short while. (Note: a certain way of offending me is to call me 'conservative' when discussing politics and such. When it comes to music it's all a matter of taste anyway.)

Track 9: "The original from the fifth singles (!)". There were two of them, remember?

Disc 1 ends with track 10: "The original version from the sixth single" and track 11: "And then the B-side". Sort of logical, I guess.

Disc 2 starts off with a "Previously unreleased remix by Øban of RedNex". I can easily see why this wasn't released earlier. It's not very good. Ok, so it's better than the usual RedNex, but that doesn't say very much now, does it? It's not up to the normal S.P.O.C.K standards IMHO. Boring cheap 'techno' disco.

Track 2: "From the sixth single, remixed by Barkland/Grönroos". I have absolutely no idea who these people are. They did a pretty good job, though.

Track 3: "Different version found on the 'We Came To Dance II' compilation". Never heard of that one before. Pretty good, but it lacks some of the blippy feel of the original.

Track 4: "The M/TV unplugged session from the limited Astro Girl single". Note that M/TV has nothing to do with MTV (even though S.P.O.C.K has appeared on MTV Europe once or twice), but is short for Mars TV. Naturally.

Track 5: "Wow, a completely new and previously unreleased song!". This has to be my absolute favourite of this double album. It's very synthy, dark, sad and slow. Spooky feeling. The lyrics are about an aging stormtrooper starting to question his choice to work for the dark side. Very, very good song IMHO. Some people on the S.P.O.C.K mailing list seemed to dislike it, though. I wonder why. Perhaps since it refers to Star Wars as opposed to Star Trek...?

Track 6: "From the limited Astro Girl single, remixed by Snaporaz". This is one of those disco mixes that doesn't really move me. Way too generic 'funky' house disco beat; sounds just like any other US disco crap. The rest of the tune is pretty ok in this version, though.

Track 7: "Remix found on the fourth single". I've said it before and I'm saying it again: disco beats have no place in this song about a post nuclear war world. All the 'spookiness' (is that a word?) is gone; left is just a pretty good synth pop tune. Pity.

Track 8: "Remix also found on the fourth single". I'm not too fond of this either. See my comments on that on the single review.

Track 9: "Previously unreleased remix made by Barkland/Grönroos". Apparently the same two guys again. Nice to hear that some remixers know what they're doing. Ok, so this track is very far from the original, but I like it anyway.

Track 10: "Yes! Cover from a ticket single for Virtual X-mas '92 festival". I can do nothing but agree wholeheartedly. This is probably the most hilarious christmas song ever recorded in the history of man. Do not, I repeat not, take this seriously in any way whatsoever. Apparently, it's from one of those much sought after Virtual X-mas singles that one would get for free when entering VX - provided one has paid one's ticket, of course. These singles are very rare, and can sometimes be found here and there for ridiculous prices, often signed as well since it can be quite easy to get hold of the 'celebrities' at these events. Or so I'm told.

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