Early Singles (Rational Youth album)

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Early Singles
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Box set by Rational Youth
Released 21 July 2000
Recorded 1981-1998
Genre Synthpop
Length 80 min 49 sec
Label October Records
Producer Rational Youth, Pyer Desrocher, Pat Deserio
Rational Youth chronology
To The Goddess Electricity
(1999)		Early Singles
(2000)		 The 20th Anniversary Collection
(2001)

Early Singles (which is the title listed on the record label's web site; also called Singles Box and Rational Youth) is a CD box with re-issues of Rational Youth's pre- Heredity singles and the eponymous EP. The box was released by Swedish label October Records in a limited edition of 600 copies.

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Contents

The box contains the following CDs, in chronological order:

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Track listing

All tracks by Tracy Howe & Bill Vorn except where noted.

Rational Youth :

  1. "In Your Eyes" (Howe, Kevin Komoda) – 2:53
  2. "Just A Sound In The Night" – 3:48
  3. "Latin Lovers (Howe, Komoda) – 3:54
  4. "Holiday In Bangkok" (Howe) – 5:28
  5. "The Man In Grey" (Howe) – 3:24
  6. "Holiday In Bangkok (live in Helsingborg 1998)" – 5:09 [bonus track]

"I Want To See The Light/Coboloid Race":

  1. "Coboloid Race" – 5:18
  2. "I Want To See The Light" – 3:42
  3. "Coboloid Race (Bill Vorn remix)" – 6:12 [bonus track]

"City Of Night":

  1. "City Of Night (danse mix)" – 7:09
  2. "Powerzone" – 3:38
  3. "Cité Phosphore" – 4:00

"Saturdays in Silesia":

  1. "Saturdays in Silesia (extended version)" – 7:14
  2. "Pile Ou Face" – 2:37
  3. "Saturdays in Silesia (Dee Long remix)" – 4:05 [bonus track]

"In Your Eyes":

  1. "In Your Eyes (extended)" (Howe, Komoda) – 5:24
  2. "Hot Streets" (Duran, Howe, Komoda) – 3:04 [English version of "Pile Ou Face"]
  3. "I've Got A Sister In The Navy" (Howe) – 3:50 [previously unreleased version, bonus track]

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ AllMusic Review
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