Beggars Archive Tellin’ Charlatans’ “Stories” Once More
The enduring alt-rock band – who made humorous headlines earlier this year when a joking tweet from frontman Jim Burgess turned into a limited-edition cereal in England – suffered major tragedy during the recording of Stories, with the death of keyboardist Rob Collins in a car crash midway through production. The band pressed on, though, and the results were bountiful: Tellin’ Stories was the band’s third U.K. chart-topping album, and spun off the band’s highest charting singles, Top 5 hits “One to Another” and “North Country Boy” and Top 10 hit “How High.”
As the band preps a series of live dates in June to commemorate the album, and with Burgess having named his recent autobiography after the record, Beggars Archive will release limited double-vinyl and double-CD sets (limted to 1,000 and 2,000 copies, respectively), featuring the remastered album with a bonus disc of B-sides, including an unreleased outtake, “Rainbow Chasing.” (It would morph into B-side “Don’t Need a Gun.”)
This set is available May 28, and is yours to preview after the jump.
The Charlatans, Tellin’ Stories: Deluxe Edition (Beggars Archive (U.K.), 2012)
Disc 1: Original LP (released as Beggars Banquet BBQLP/CD 190, 1997)
- With No Shoes
- North Country Boy
- Tellin’ Stories
- One to Another
- You’re a Big Girl Now
- How Can You Leave Us
- Area 51
- How High
- Only Teethin’
- Get on It
- Rob’s Theme
Disc 2: B-sides
- Two of Us
- Reputation
- Don’t Need a Gun
- Down with the Mook
- Title Fight
- Keep It to Yourself
- Rainbow Chasing
- Clean Up Kids
- Thank You (Live @ Phoenix Festival – 7/18/1997)
Disc 2, Tracks 1-3 released as B-sides to “One to Another” (Beggars Banquet BBQ 301CD, 1996)
Disc 2, Tracks 4-5 released as B-sides to “How High” (Beggars Banquet BBQ 312CD, 1997)
Disc 2, Tracks 6 and 8-9 released as B-sides to “Tellin’ Stories” (Beggars Banquet BBQ 318CD, 1997)
Disc 2, Track 7 previously unreleased – later became “Don’t Need a Gun”
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“(known in America with the redundant appellation “The Charlatans UK)”
Redundant, maybe, but necessary perhaps to avoid confusion with the Sixties S.F. band, the Charlatans.