Abandoned Shopping Trolley Hotline

by Gomez

Abandoned Shopping Trolley Hotline cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 25 September 2000
  • Label: Hut
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 49:34
  • Community rating: 3.3/5 from 1 rating

Artists on this release: Ian Ball, Olly Peacock, Lennon-McCartney, Ben Ottewell, Tom Gray, Dave Dade, Matt Turner, Blue Source, Paul Blackburn, Dajon Everett

Album Notes & Community Reviews

This Gomez compilation assembles twenty tracks from B-sides, studio outtakes and BBC Radio 1 sessions into an archival view of the band's alternative rock and neo-psychedelia. Self-produced, it pairs sampling, blues inflections and loose rhythmic structures with a closing cover of The Beatles' 'Getting Better'.

Genres

Descriptors: sampling, rhythmic, genre-blending, bluesy, retro

Tracklist

  1. Shitbag 9 (0:30)
  2. Bring Your Lovin' Back Here (3:36)
  3. Emergency Surgery (Remix) (3:05)
  4. Hit On The Head (1:24)
  5. Flavors (3:12)
  6. 78 Stone Shuffle (BBC Live Session) (3:27)
  7. We Haven't Turned Around (X-Ray Version) (3:17)
  8. Buena Vista (8:59)
  9. Shitbag (1:03)
  10. Steve McCroski (BBC Live Session) (4:33)
  11. Wharf Me (3:21)
  12. High On Liquid Skin (2:23)
  13. Rosemary (BBC Live Session) (5:50)
  14. The Cowboy Song (1:16)
  15. Getting Better (3:38)

Credits

  • Reggie Pedro - artwork [art]
  • Matt Turner - written-by, acoustic guitar
  • Steve Fellows - instruments [mayhem in the right channel]
  • Skavi Rankar - other [resident scouser]
  • Miti Adhikari - recorded by [re-recorded using a loop of the original], producer [completed by], recorded by [uncredited]
  • Blue Source - art direction
  • Jasper James - photography by [band photo]
  • Dave Hadley - recorded by [caught and bowled by]
  • Ben Ottewell - written-by
  • Ian Ball - written-by
  • Olly Peacock - written-by
  • Paul Blackburn - written-by
  • Tom Gray - written-by
  • Alex Scannell - recorded by [re-recorded for unspecified reasons]
  • Paul Hicks - recorded by [re-recorded for unspecified reasons]
  • Graham Wakefield - remix [doctored by]
  • Dave Dade - recorded by
  • Ken Nelson - producer [done at britannia row with]
  • Lennon-McCartney - written-by

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