The final track-listing for the version of
Metamatic that's due for release next month can be found in the
News News section.
This is (in all but name) the
definitive version - there are
NO plans to follow it with a
complete version at some point in the future.
Originally posted by Birdsong:
For what it's worth, I think the track listing issued is spot on for the definitive issue of Metamatic.
Yeah, I reckon so as well...
I'm confident that everyone will like what's been done with the album. And it's never sounded better.
Regarding the other tracks which have been identified by
GlamourZero as
possible additions.
Miles Away,
A Long Time and
Swimmer II are not appropriate to the
Metamatic album. Instead, they've already been ear-marked to appear on a new version of
The Garden which - all things being equal - could come out in the new year. Also, it'll probably be the extended version of
Swimmer II, as it appeared on the
Twelve Inch Single of
Dancing Like a Gun , that'll be released as the version from the
Seven Inch Single was edited.
Piano Piece,
Echo Piece,
Jamie's Theme,
He's a Liquid (Alternate Dub Version),
He's a Liquid (Alternate Instrumental Version),
Touch & Go (Strings Version),
Touch & Go (Dub Version),
Bed Flight,
Red Collar,
Drums 1 and
Drums 2 are from an abandoned project entitled
The Bed. These tracks made their way into the public domain on a bootleg that
did the rounds back in the early eighties entitled
Metamatic Demos. Anyone who's managed to track down a copy of that tape will know that the sound quality has never been that good - and some of the tracks are little more than extended experiments - especially
Drums 1 and
Drums 2. In saying that, some of them are of interest and could be formally released providing (of course) that we're able to locate versions of a sufficiently high enough quality.
TBC : This stands for
To Be Confirmed and (oddly enough) isn't a track title!
Musique D'Ameublement and
A Jingle (1+2+3 Versions) are different titles for the same thing. Two of these
Jingles appeared on the recently released
From Brussels With Love CD. I believe that there are five different
Jingles in all spread out over the whole series. There are no plans (that I'm aware of) for the ones that didn't make the recently released
From Brussels With Love CD to be formally re-released.
Quiet Man (Alternative Version 3) and
Quiet Man (Alternative Version 4) : These are
NOT alternative versions of the track
Quiet Men, instead they are instrumentals (out of broadly the same mould as
Glimmer) and (due to their original release date) are currently ear-marked to appear on a new version of
The Garden mentioned above. They originally appeared on the
Touch Meridians tapes and are correctly titled
The Quiet Man 4 and
The Quiet Man 3 .
Fusion Fission (1979 Version) : This appeared on a bootleg a while ago and is an early version of the track that would eventually appear on
The Garden . There's no sign of this particular version in John's archive, and the sound quality of this bootleg recording is nowhere near good enough for it to be formally released. In the meantime, we'll keep searching for a better quality version.
A New Kind Of Man (Alternative Version 1) and
A New Kind Of Man (Alternative Version 2) : These two tracks appeared on the
Metamatic Demos tape mentioned above. One of them is the standard album version, while the other is the version which originally appeared on
VS 303 - both of these have been included on the forthcoming
Metamatic CD.
Like a Miracle (1979 Version) : The existence of this track reached almost mythical proportions when it was first mentioned in
Record Collector back in the early eighties - well BEFORE the release of
The Golden Section. It was finally confirmed as being something that could eventually
see the light of day when it was referenced in an article in
Extreme Voice magazine. This track is on the forthcoming version of
Metamatic where it has been listed as
Like a Miracle (Alternative Version).
No-One Driving (demo) : There is an early version of
No-One Driving whose quality is such that it could be formally released at some point. However, it was removed from the running order from the second disc of the forthcoming edition of
Metamatic as it was felt that that disc already featured enough
versions of tracks (
He's a Liquid and
A New Kind of Man) that would also appear on the basic album.
The other tracks listed (
Film One,
This City,
Glimmer,
Mr No,
20th Century,
Young Love,
My Face,
Cinemascope and
To Be With You) have all been included.
Phew - I hope that that's covered everything...
Rob
