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New Rough Trade comp due: Singer Songwriter 01

Elliott Smith emo-band

This looks a little bit better than decent...

Another Rough Trade Shops compilation is due to hit store shelves pretty soon. Rough Trade Shops: Singer Songwriter 01 will be released via Mute on July 3rd.

The double-disc compilation features the likes of Elliott Smith, Polly Jean Harvey, Cat Power and Nick Cave... and that's just the first CD! Track listing as follows...

Disc One
1 Micah P. Hinson - 'Beneath The Rose'
2 Bright Eyes - 'The Calendar Hung Itself'
3 Plush - 'I've Changed My Number'
4 Franklin Bruno - 'The Irony Engine'
5 Adrian Crowley - 'The Girl From The Estuary'
6 Cat Power - 'Metal Heart'
7 James William Hindle - 'Come Down Slowly'
8 Mark Eitzel - 'Take Courage'
9 Tracey Thorn - Plain Sailing'
10 The Bevis Frond - 'Waving'
11 Richard Thompson - 'Vincent Black Lightning 1952'
12 PJ Harvey - 'Dress' (demo)
13 Elvis Costello - 'I Want You'
14 Tom Waits - 'Little Boy Blue'
15 Barbara Manning - 'Scissors'
16 Elliott Smith - 'Needle In The Hay'
17 Simon Joyner - 'Alabaster'
18 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - 'Where Do We Go Now But Nowhere'
19 James Yorkston - 'Someplace Simple'
20 Julie Doiron - 'When The Snow Falls This November'

Disc Two
1 Victoria Williams - 'Summer Of Drugs'
2 Richard Hawley - 'Hotel Room'
3 Diane Cluck - 'Easy To Be Around'
4 Vic Chesnutt - 'Danny Carlisle'
5 Mark Mulcahy - 'The Way That She Really Is'
6 Matthew Hattie Hein - 'Number One'
7 Jane Weaver - 'Is Everybody Happy?'
8 Lou Barlow & His Sentridoh - 'Forever Instant'
9 Robert Wyatt - 'Blues In Bob Minor'
10 Jeffrey Lewis - 'Don't Let The Record Label Take You Out To Lunch'
11 Kristin Hersh - 'Sundrops'
12 King Creosote - 'Just After 11 She Left'
13 Charlie Parr - 'To A Scrapyard Bustop'
14 Mary Margaret O'Hara - 'Dear Darling'
15 Antony and The Johnsons - 'Cripple and The Starfish'
16 The Mountain Goats - 'Masher'
17 Nick Lowe - 'Endless Sleep'
18 Daniel Johnston - 'Speeding Motorcycle'



  • Metal Heart = my favourite Cat Power song

    True.

  • :O

    this is top banana! proberbly my least favourite elliott smith track, but still a great song. well done rough trade

  • the miserable sod in me

    wants this.

    • miserable sod.

      haha. looks good.

      • i am.

        and now - screw the beautiful warm day, i'm going to listen to fevers & mirrors :D

  • that

    julie doiron song is lovely.

  • no blunt ? no jack johnson ?

    bah, and they call this a singer/songwriter compilation

  • that elliott song

    Really is one of the least likeable of all of his stuff, I have to say that almost anything from his 6 albums would probably be better suited to this comp. (but that would make me sound like an obsessed fan.

    Also, the Rough Trdae compilations are always good and I have a lot to thank them for for turning me on to some great bands and music, so this looks definitely worth a buy.

    • what are you guys talking about??!!??!

      needle in the hay is an ammaazzinggggg song.

      it's beautiful and makes your heart crack just a little every time you hear it.

      it would probably be my favourite track of his if it weren't for between the bars.

      • meh.....

        i dont like his vocal in the chorus. the guitar seems a bit less well structured and lazy.

        • Mountain Goats!!!!!!

          Needle in the Hay is great

          but not his best

          • i didn't like

            Needle In The Hay until i saw The Royal Tenenbaums. it really fits in there.

      • Needle in the hay is amazing

        One of my faviroutes!

  • i love that

    Mark Mulcahy song

  • I think

    I shall be having a slice of THAT action, yes.

    • What is King Creosote doing on that album?

      How can a man whos songs bore me to tears, whose instrumentation is tepid and lyrics insipid get so much critical acclaim?!?! I've tried to like him I really have but its just so very very dull.

  • Two discs of non-stop yawning here, surely?

    • why?

      Is one of your anecdotes on there?

      I can't stay mad at Bamos...

  • A singer songwriter album...

    ... without Stephen Merrit / Magnetic Fields... HELLO!!

  • What no...

    Sufjan Stevens?

    Genius. And on this label. Will blatantly still buy it though, looks ace.

    • The comps

      are released on Mute - it's Rough Trade the shop rather than the label.

      Sufjan's still great though.

      • yep..

        where is the compulsory magnetic fields track/tracks ? heck, save your money and buy 69 love songs..

  • Where are the

    tracks by Joanna Newsom & Dylan?