New and Improved (Mice album)

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New And Improved
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Compilation album by Mice
Released 2001
Label JamTart
Producer Julianne Regan, Tim McTighe
Mice chronology
... Because I Can
(1996)
New And Improved
(2001)

New And Improved is a compilation album by Mice that was released on All About Eve's label JamTart in 2001. It contains all of Mice's one and only album ... Because I Can , as well as three of the B-sides (including "Martian Man", a cover of the Lynsey de Paul song) [1] and five Mice and/or Julianne Regan demos from the same period (1995-1997). It was released by Julianne Regan post the All About Eve 1999 reformation, due to the renewed interest in Mice that this had caused.

All About Eve were an English rock band. The initial creative core consisted of Coventry-born Julianne Regan (vocals), Huddersfield-born Tim Bricheno (guitar) and Andy Cousin, with other members changing over the years. Their highest-charting UK single was "Martha's Harbour" (1988). The band was active from 1984 to 1993, then 1999 to 2004, achieving four UK Top-50 albums. The band had been recognised for their "unique, folk-rock-influenced take" on the gothic rock style, and Regan has been described as "certainly one of the more talented singers" of the scene in the late 1980s.

Lynsey de Paul English singer-songwriter

Lynsey de Paul was an English singer-songwriter. She had chart hits in the UK and Europe in the 1970s, starting with the UK top 10 single "Sugar Me", becoming the first British female artist to achieve a number one with a self-written song. She represented the UK in the Eurovision Song Contest, scoring another chart topping hit in Switzerland and had a successful career as an Ivor Novello Award-winning composer, record producer, actress and television celebrity.

Julie-Ann (Julianne) Regan is an English/Irish singer, songwriter and musician. She achieved success in the late 1980s and early 90s as the lead singer of the band All About Eve. AllMusic describe Regan as "certainly one of the more talented singers of the late eighties British goth rock scene".

Track listing

  1. "Dear Sir"
  2. "Miss World"
  3. "Star As Bright As You Are"
  4. "Trumpet Song"
  5. "The Milkman"
  6. "Matt's Prozac"
  7. "Blue Sonic Boy"
  8. "Bang Bang"
  9. "Battersea"
  10. "Messed Up"
  11. "Star"
  12. "Tiny Window"
  13. "Pyjamadrama"
  14. "Martian Man"
  15. "Unborn Angel"
  16. "Dumb Girl"
  17. "A Dark Place"
  18. "Hit Or Miss"
  19. "Julie Christie"

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References

  1. "New & Improved - Mice, Julianne Regan, Julianne Regan & Mice - Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic . Retrieved 17 August 2017.