Maybe It's Right to Be Nervous Now

by Magazine

Maybe It's Right to Be Nervous Now cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 25 September 2000
  • Label: Virgin
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 2:51:51
  • Community rating: 4.2/5 from 1 rating

Artists on this release: Laura Teresa, John Doyle, Andy Llewellyn, Robin Simon, John Wood, Tony Wilson, Dave Formula, Richard Manwaring, Ben Mandelson, Mick Glossop, Don Van Vliet, Ian Kay, John Leckie, Anthony Newley, Pete Shelley, Hills Archer Studios, 23, Martin Hannett, John Brand, Colin Thurston, John Barry, Martin Jackson, Sly Stone, John McGeoch, Barry Adamson

Album Notes & Community Reviews

A three-disc box set of Howard Devoto's Magazine, gathering studio and live material from 1978 to 1981 with rarities from the vaults. It documents the band Devoto formed on leaving the Buzzcocks, whose literate, synthesizer-flecked post-punk set a template for the genre.

Genres

Descriptors: synthesizers, guitars, male-vocals, theatrical, literary

Tracklist

  1. Shot By Both Sides (4:00)
  2. My Mind Ain't So Open (2:15)
  3. Touch And Go (2:56)
  4. Goldfinger (3:48)
  5. Give Me Everything (4:22)
  6. I Love You You Big Dummy (3:53)
  7. My Tulpa (4:47)
  8. Definitive Gaze (Live) (3:48)
  9. Parade (Live) (6:05)
  10. The Light Pours Out Of Me (Version) (3:25)
  11. Rhythm Of Cruelty (3:02)
  12. TV Baby (3:45)
  13. Back To Nature (6:40)
  14. Permafrost (Live) (4:59)
  15. Feed The Enemy (Live) (3:52)
  16. A Song From Under The Floorboards (Live) (4:15)
  17. Twenty Years Ago (3:01)
  18. Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) (Live) (3:49)
  19. The Book (2:20)
  20. Upside Down (3:42)
  21. Sweetheart Contract (3:18)
  22. Shot By Both Sides (Live) (4:39)
  23. Because You're Frightened (Live) (3:53)
  24. I Want To Burn Again (5:16)
  25. Model Worker (Live) (2:57)
  26. Vigilance (Alternative Mix) (5:23)
  27. In The Dark (2:40)
  28. The Operative (2:41)
  29. Come Alive (Alternative Mix) (3:42)
  30. The Thinking Flame (Alternative Mix) (2:38)
  31. Touch And Go (2:56)
  32. The Light Pours Out Of Me (4:20)
  33. Real Life ("Definitive Gaze") (4:02)
  34. My Mind Ain't So Open (2:05)
  35. Give Me Everything (4:16)
  36. Burst (4:27)
  37. I Love You You Big Dummy (3:43)
  38. Boredom (2:54)
  39. TV Baby (3:32)
  40. Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) (3:50)
  41. Permafrost (5:47)
  42. A Song From Under The Floorboards (4:11)
  43. Twenty Years Ago (3:07)
  44. Look What Fear's Done To My Body ("Because You're Frightened") (3:59)
  45. Model Worker (2:51)

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