Losing Our Virginity - The First Four Years: 1973 - 1977)
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Losing Our Virginity - The First Four Years: 1973 - 1977)
[ Virgin Records / 3 CD ]
Release Date: Friday 8 November 2013
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'Losing Our Virginity' pays tribute to the label's opening releases and stops off at all the important artists and tracks of its pre-punk years. These were the days when Virgin hosted much of the most pioneering progressive work of the 1970s and was also home to some other truly maverick talents. Starting with the album that began the amazing Virgin Records story, Mike Oldfield's 'Tubular Bells', the Grammy-winning album is still selling today and stands as a monument to the label's fearless creative ambition. The new collection also includes selections from the other albums in Virgin's initial quartet of releases in May 1973, by Krautrock collective Faust, progressive staples Gong, and an all-star jam session in the name of drummer Steve York. The album also notes the contributions of British acts such as Henry Cow, Slapp Happy, Egg, Hatfield & the North and Boxer, as well as highly influential, cutting-edge German band Can, France's Clearlight, Finland's Wigwam and the Virgin catalogue of avant garde forefather Captain Beefheart.The collection also features great British individuals nurtured by Virgin in these early years including Robert Wyatt, Kevin Coyne and Steve Hillage, not to mention the inimitable Scottish humourist Ivor Cutler.
Key tracks include: Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells; Kevin Coyne - Marlene; Faust - Giggy Smile; Gong - The Pot Head Pixies; Captain Beefheart - Upon The My-Oh-My.
Tracks:
Disc 1
1.Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells (Two sides excerpt)
2.Faust - Krautrock
3.Gong - The Pot Head Pixies
4.Steve York's Camelo Pardalis - I'll Be Home
5.Steve York's Camelo Pardalis - Woman's Lib Song
6.Kevin Coyne - Marlene
7.Henry Cow - Teenbeat (Reprise)
8.Faust - Giggy Smile (Alternative Version)
9.Kevin Coyne -
10.Link Wray - I'm So Glad, I'm So Proud
11.I Never Glid Before (2004 Digital Remaster)
12.Captain Beefheart - Upon The My-Oh-My
13.Klaus Schulze - Some Velvet Phasing
14.David Bedford - An extract from Stars End
Disc 2
1.Robert Wyatt - I'm A Believer
2.Comus - Down (Like A Movie Star)
3.Fred Frith - Glass c/w Steel
4.Hatfield And The North - Let's Eat (Real Soon)
5.Robert Wyatt - Yesterday Man
6.Egg - Wring Out The Ground (Loosely Now)
7.Ivor Cutler - I Believe In Bugs
8.Captain Beefheart - Mirror Man (Live)
9.Mallard - Road To Morocco
10.Tom Newman - Sad Sing
11.Clearlight - Extract from Clearlight Symphony Part One
12.Hatfield And The North - Fitter Stroke Has A Bath
13.Boxer - Hip Kiss
Disc 3
1.The Salmon Song (2006 Digital Remaster)
2.White Noise - An extract from White Noise II
3.Henry Cow/Slapp Happy - War
4.Wigwam - Freddie Are You Ready
5.Edgar Froese - Extract from Epsilon In Malaysian Pale
6.David Bedford - The Rio Grande
7.Tom Newman - Don't Treat Your Woman Bad
8.Ivor Cutler - The Dirty Dinner
9.Daevid Allen & Euterpe - Wise Man In Your Heart
10.Mike Oldfield - First Excursion
11.Steve Hillage - It's All Too Much
12.Can - Silent Night
13.Can - Don't Say No
