Secret Box: The Chills Rarities 1980 - 2000

by The Chills

Secret Box: The Chills Rarities 1980 - 2000 cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 2001-01-01
  • Label: Flying Nun Records
  • Country: New Zealand
  • Length: 3:40:13
  • Community rating: 3.63/5 from 1 rating

Artists on this release: James Dickson, Martin Phillipps

Album Notes & Community Reviews

A three-disc rarities box by the Dunedin band led by Martin Phillipps, issued by Flying Nun. 'Secret Box' gathers demos, outtakes and live material spanning 1980 to 2000 alongside their jangle pop studio catalogue.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic, atmospheric, jangly, lo-fi, acoustic

Tracklist

  1. Lost in Space (3:27)
  2. Learn to Try Again (2:32)
  3. Slime (1:46)
  4. Juicy Creaming Soda (4:09)
  5. After They Told Me She Was Gone (3:26)
  6. Jellyhead (4:23)
  7. Snuggle (2:17)
  8. Steinlager (3:39)
  9. Turn Around (3:39)
  10. (Don鈥檛 Melt Your) Sparkling Eyes (4:24)
  11. Dolphins (3:43)
  12. Watching Old Home Movies (3:13)
  13. Balancing (7:04)
  14. I Saw Your Silhouette (4:48)
  15. Endless Sleep (1:57)
  16. Such Self Pity (1:34)
  17. Special Time (1:41)
  18. And When You鈥檙e There (1:47)
  19. Bad Eggs (2:44)
  20. Shake Your Shoes for Scorpions (3:05)
  21. Smile From a Dead Dead Face (2:41)
  22. Badger (3:52)
  23. Always Time for Coca鈥怌ola (0:31)
  24. The Other (2:59)
  25. Red Sky Morning (3:18)
  26. Declaration (1:36)
  27. Edible Light (2:54)
  28. Frozen Fountain (2:44)
  29. Donald Duck in Chicago (1:17)
  30. If This World Were Made for Me (2:29)
  31. Jetty (3:05)
  32. Night of Chill Blue (3:06)
  33. Brave Words (1:37)
  34. Wet Blanket (2:36)
  35. Rolling Moon (3:30)
  36. Dan Destiny and the Silver Dawn (2:07)
  37. Living in a Jungle (1:22)
  38. Moonlight on Flesh (3:50)
  39. Rain (3:16)
  40. Part Past, Part Fiction (2:39)
  41. Dead Web (2:20)
  42. Christmas Chimes (2:54)
  43. Effloresce and Deliquesce (2:31)
  44. Oncoming Day (2:45)
  45. Martyn鈥檚 Doctor Told Me (0:43)
  46. Dream by Dream (original) (1:01)
  47. Dream by Dream (demo) (3:06)
  48. Glass鈥怌lock Doubletime (1:18)
  49. Vertigo Bird (2:18)
  50. Raw Shark (3:45)
  51. Jungle Law (3:37)
  52. I Love My Leather Jacket (funny mix) (2:52)
  53. There鈥檚 Only One Station (0:15)
  54. I'll Only See You Alone Again (3:35)
  55. Green鈥怑yed Owl (5:30)
  56. We鈥檙e Here and We鈥檒l Stay (0:15)
  57. Dan Destiny and the Silver Dawn (unplugged) (2:25)
  58. Turn to BFM (0:23)
  59. House With a Hundred Rooms (3:15)
  60. Party in My Heart (3:12)
  61. Living in a Jungle (1:21)
  62. I Think I鈥檇 Thought I鈥檇 Nothing Else to Think About (2:00)
  63. Drug Magicians (2:58)
  64. Wave鈥怶atching (2:11)
  65. Whole Lot of Non Going On (2:18)
  66. Water Wolves (3:38)
  67. Halo Fading (demo) (2:58)
  68. Sanctuary (demo) (2:21)
  69. Seven Years Old (0:46)
  70. I Wish I Could Do Without You (2:14)
  71. Big Dark Day (3:40)
  72. Here We Go (0:43)
  73. How Much This Place Has Changed (2:24)
  74. Lies, Lies, Lies (2:12)
  75. The Streets of Forgotten Cool (3:52)
  76. Helicopter (0:58)
  77. Friends Again (2:48)
  78. Stupid Way to Go (2:41)
  79. Yabba Dabba Doo (2:45)
  80. Draft Morning (2:38)
  81. A Message to Pretty (2:59)
  82. Tropical Loveland (2:32)
  83. Autumn Testament #20 (1:48)

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