Scratchy: The Complete Reprise Recordings

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Scratchy: The Complete Reprise Recordings
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ReleasedNov 29, 2005
Genre Rock, hard rock, country rock
Label Rhino Handmade [1]
Crazy Horse chronology
Gone Dead Train: The Best of Crazy Horse 1971-1989
(2005)
Scratchy: The Complete Reprise Recordings
(2005)
Live at the Fillmore East
(2009)
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Scratchy: The Complete Reprise Recordings is a 2005 compilation album released by the group Crazy Horse. [4] It is a re-issue of the first two Crazy Horse albums, Crazy Horse and Loose , on Reprise Records, with bonus tracks and the first single by the pre-Crazy Horse group Danny & The Memories.

Contents

The album went out of print in 2006. It was briefly released in Europe in 2006 under the title The Complete Reprise Recordings 1971-'73, without the Danny & The Memories single. In 2013, Wounded Bird licensed the release and reissued the album using the original track listing and mastering. The booklet from the original release was replaced by a four-page booklet with credits for the album.

Track listing

Disc One

  1. "Gone Dead Train" (Nitzsche, Titelman) – 4:06
  2. "Dance, Dance, Dance" (Young) – 2:10
  3. "Look at All the Things" (Whitten) – 3:13
  4. "Beggar's Day" (Lofgren) – 4:28
  5. "I Don't Want to Talk About It" (Whitten) – 5:18
  6. "Downtown" (Whitten, Young) – 3:14
  7. "Carolay" (Nitzsche, Titelman) – 2:52
  8. "Dirty, Dirty" (Whitten) – 3:31
  9. "Nobody" (Lofgren) – 2:35
  10. "I'll Get By" (Whitten) – 3:08
  11. "Crow Jane Lady" (Nitzsche) – 4:24
  12. "Hit and Run" (Blanton) - 2:42
  13. "Try" (Whitsell) - 3:18
  14. "One Thing I Love" (Leroy) - 2:37
  15. "Move" (Whitsell) - 3:14
  16. "All Alone Now" (Whitsell) - 2:47
  17. "All the Little Things" (Leroy) - 5:01
  18. "Fair Weather Friend" (Leroy) - 2:42
  19. "You Won't Miss Me" (Whitsell) - 2:47
  20. "Going Home" (Leroy) - 2:50
  21. "I Don't Believe It" (Whitsell) - 3:07
  22. "Kind of Woman" (Blanton) - 4:25
  23. "One Sided Love" (Whitsell) - 3:12
  24. "And She Won't Even Blow Smoke in My Direction" (Whitsell) - 1:21

Disc Two

  1. "Dirty, Dirty" (Alternate Version) 2:42
  2. "Scratchy" (Takes 1-3) 12:47
  3. "Dear Song Singer" 2:50
  4. "Downtown" (Unedited Long Version) 10:42
  5. "Susie's Song" (Takes 1-5) 4:25
  6. "When You Dance You Can Really Love" 3:12
  7. "Radio Spot" 1:21
  8. "Can't Help Loving That Girl of Mine" - 45rpm single by Danny & The Memories 3:54
  9. "Don't Go" - 45rpm single by Danny & The Memories - 2:02

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