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Cool As [CD/DVD]

Inspiral Carpets
1 disc

1. Keep the Circle Around
2. Butterfly
3. Joe
4. Find Out Why
5. Move
6. This Is How It Feels
7. She Comes in the Fall
8. Biggest Mountain
9. Weakness
10. Caravan
11. Please Be Cruel
12. Dragging Me Down
13. Two Worlds Collide
14. Generations
15. Bitches Brew
16. How It Should Be
17. Saturn 5
18. I Want You
19. Uniform
20. Come Back Tomorrow
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Additional Info

Manufacturer Part Number (MPN): 32
Credits

Producer
Engineer
Inspiral Carpets: Tom Hingley, Stephen Holt (vocals); Graham Lambert (guitar); Clint Boon (Farfisa organ, keyboards, background vocals); Martyn Walsh, David Swift (bass); Craig "Noddy" Gill (drums).
Producers include: Inspiral Carpets, Dave Fielding, Nick Garside, 808 State, Gareth Jones.
Recorded between 1988 & 1994.
This greatest hits album from 1990's psychedelic indie-rock band The Inspirational Carpets features 20 of their most popular tunes.
In May 2003, Mute issued a definitive three-disc Inspiral Carpets retrospective to coincide with the band's round of U.K. club and festival dates. In addition to a greatest-hits disc, the set featured a second disc with rarities and exclusive tracks, as well as a DVD of videos and live footage. Cool As was certainly quite the complete package, but it didn't see a release date outside of the U.K. Mute has remedied that oversight by releasing its Greatest Hits portion as an abbreviated Carpets retrospective. The album is perfect for fans who rest somewhere between Madchester reminiscence and completist fanaticism. Every great single is here, including "Joe," "She Comes in the Fall," "Dragging Me Down," and the Mark E. Smith duet version of "I Want You." The 1995 Mute release Singles included all of this, too. But Greatest Hits ups the ante with "Come Back Tomorrow," a great lost track built around a Tommy James-styled organ hook and a robust classic pop chorus, and switches out Singles' "Sackville" and "Commercial Rain" for "Keep the Circle Around" and "Butterfly," two early cuts that feature original vocalist Stephen Holt. Greatest Hits also pays better attention to Inspiral Carpets' time line -- it's sequenced in order of release. ~ Johnny Loftus