Abandoned Shopping Trolley Hotline

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Abandoned Shopping Trolley Hotline
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Compilation album by
Released25 September 2000 (2000-09-25)
Genre Rock
Length49:34
Label Hut (Virgin)
Producer Gomez
Gomez chronology
Machismo E.P.
(2000)
Abandoned Shopping Trolley Hotline
(2000)
In Our Gun
(2002)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 74/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Entertainment Weekly B+ [3]
Q Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Wall of Sound 78/100 [6]

Abandoned Shopping Trolley Hotline is a 2000 compilation of previously unreleased material, including BBC Radio 1 studio sessions, outtakes and B-sides by UK band Gomez. Some of the tracks foreshadow the band's move into electronic-based music on 2002's In Our Gun .

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Shitbag 9" – 0:30
  2. "Bring Your Lovin' Back Here" – 3:36
  3. "Emergency Surgery" – 3:04
  4. "Hit on the Head" – 1:25
  5. "Flavors" – 3:12
  6. "78 Stone Shuffle" – 3:27
  7. "We Haven't Turned Around (X-Ray Mix)" – 3:18
  8. "Buena Vista" – 8:59
  9. "Shitbag" – 1:03
  10. "Steve McCroski" – 4:34
  11. "Wharf Me" – 3:21
  12. "High on Liquid Skin" – 2:22
  13. "Rosemary" – 5:50
  14. "The Cowboy Song" – 1:17
  15. "Getting Better" (Lennon–McCartney) – 3:48

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References

  1. "Abandoned Shopping Trolley Hotline Reviews, Ratings, Credits, and More at Metacritic". Metacritic . Retrieved 16 May 2012.
  2. Allmusic review
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  4. Q November 2000, p.101.
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