The The ‎- 45 RPM: The Singles Of The The (2002)

Posted By: Rtax

Date: Sept. 11, 2023

Like Steely Dan, The The wasn't so much a band as a personal musical conceit/alter ego, this one for English writer-performer Matt Johnson. While Johnson's "band" came of age during the English synth pop boom of the early ‘80s, electricity was about the only common denominator between Johnson and his fashion slave contemporaries. Indeed, the sense of conscientious outrage that informs many of the two decades worth of singles collected here fostered a perception of Johnson as something of a prickly malcontent. But fashion was never an end in itself for Johnson, even on early pop fare like "Uncertain Smile" and "Perfect." Johnson's restless creative bent has led him to remix many of these tracks anew, ensuring that this set would never be seen as mere artistic obituary. Johnson's reputation as a socio-political crank reached its zenith on tracks like "Heartland" (which decries the reverse cultural colonization of Britain by America) and "Armageddon Days" (a shotgun blast at pan-religious hypocrisy, here introduced by a hilarious parody of the Sweet's "Ballroom Blitz": "Are you ready Jesus? Yeah! / Budda? Uh-huh."), but subsequent history has only proven him sagacious.

b]Tracklist
CD1 The Singles
01.Uncertain Smile (Original 7" Version) 4:55
02.Perfect (Original 7" Version) 4:00
03.Sweet Bird Of Truth 4:29
04.Infected 4:30
05.Heartland 4:36
06.Armageddon Days (Are Here Again) 5:28
07.The Beat(en) Generation 3:05
08.Dogs Of Lust 3:08
09.Slow Emotion Replay 3:54
10.Love Is Stronger Than Death 4:24
11.This Is The Day (Disinfected Version) 3:58
12.I Saw The Light 2:38
13.December Sunlight (Cried Out) 3:41
14.Pillar Box Red 4:00
15.Deep Down Truth 3:49

CD2 The Remixes

01.Uncertain Smile (12" Remix) 9:59
02.Perfect (12" Remix) 8:59
03.Sweet Bird Of Truth (12" Remix) 8:18
04.Infected (12" Remix) 6:16
05.Armageddon Days (Are Here Again) (12" Remix) 6:29
06.Violence Of Truth (12" Remix) 5:31
07.Gravitate To Me (12" Remix) 8:04
08.Dogs Of Lust (12" Remix) 5:55

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