Stains on a Decade

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Stains on a Decade
StainsFeltAlbum.jpg
Compilation album by
ReleasedMay 2003
Genre Post-punk, indie pop
Length43:49
Label Cherry Red
Producer John A. Rivers, Robin Guthrie, John Leckie
Felt chronology
Absolute Classic Masterpieces Volume II
(1993)
Stains on a Decade
(2003)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [1]
The Guardian (favourable) [2]
Pitchfork (8.7/10) [3]
Uncut (5/5) [4]

Stains on a Decade is the fifth compilation album by English alternative rock band Felt, released in 2003. A career-spanning collection, it contains tracks from the band's singles released between 1981 and 1988, [3] with one album-track exception: "Dismantled King Is Off The Throne".

Contents

"Sunlight Bathed the Golden Glow" as it appears here is the original single, and is different from the version on the band's third album. The version of "Fortune" here is a re-recording of the song from their first album.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Lawrence, except where noted.

No.TitleLength
1."Something Sends Me to Sleep"2:53
2."Trails of Colour Dissolve"3:06
3."Penelope Tree"2:58
4."Sunlight Bathed the Golden Glow" (single version)3:14
5."Fortune" (re-recorded version)3:32
6."Dismantled King Is Off the Throne"2:46
7."Primitive Painters"6:00
8."Ballad of the Band"2:46
9."I Didn't Mean to Hurt You"2:33
10."I Will Die with My Head in Flames"1:34
11."Sandman's on the Rise Again"1:50
12."The Final Resting of the Ark"2:40
13."There's No Such Thing as Victory"2:20
14."Be Still"3:15
15."Space Blues"2:23

Personnel

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References

  1. AllMusic review
  2. Petridis, Alexis (8 May 2003), "Felt: Stains on a Decade", The Guardian
  3. 1 2 Plagenhoef, Scott (11 August 2003). "Felt: Stains on a Decade". Pitchfork .
  4. "Lawrence Of Suburbia". Uncut . 1 September 2003.