Slight Return/The Fountainhead

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"Slight Return/The Fountainhead"
Single by The Bluetones
Released February 1995
Songwriter(s) Eds Chesters, Adam Devlin, Mark Morriss, Scott Morriss (both songs)
The Bluetones singles chronology
"Slight Return/The Fountainhead"
(1995)
"Are You Blue or Are You Blind?"
(1995)

"Slight Return"/"The Fountainhead" are songs by The Bluetones, released as their first single, a double A-side, in 1995. They were also included on the band's 2007 compilation The Early Garage Years .

"Slight Return" was reissued the following year as a single from Expecting to Fly . The song is named after the subtitle for "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" by Jimi Hendrix.

Track listing

  1. "Slight Return"
  2. "The Fountainhead"

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