Thousands of Tiny Luminous Spheres

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Released2000
RecordedJanuary 1985-April 1998
Label Flying Nun Records
The Bats chronology
Couchmaster
(1995)
Thousands of Tiny Luminous Spheres
(2000)
At the National Grid
(2005)
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Thousands of Tiny Luminous Spheres is a compilation album released in 2000 by New Zealand band The Bats.

Track listing

CD
No.TitleLength
1."North by North" (from the album Daddy's Highway )4:05
2."Courage" (from the album Silverbeet )4:03
3."Claudine" (from the EP And Here Is 'Music for the Fireside' )3:15
4."Afternoon in Bed" (from the album Couchmaster )3:50
5."Block of Wood" (from the album Daddy's Highway)3:11
6."Mastery" (from the album The Law of Things )2:55
7."Smoking Her Wings" (from the album The Law Of Things)4:35
8."For the Ride" (from the album Couchmaster)3:43
9."You Have the Right" (previously unreleased)3:25
10."I've Seen It All Before" (previously unreleased)4:25
11."Too Much" (from the album Silverbeet)2:58
12."Spill the Beans" (from the EP Spill the Beans )2:35
13."The Black and the Blue" (from the album Fear of God )3:15
14."Boogey Man" (from the album Fear of God)3:16
15."Tragedy" (from the album Daddy's Highway)3:02
16."Made Up In Blue" (from the EP Made Up in Blue )4:00
17."Supernova" (from the album Couchmaster)1:17

The track "North by North" featured in the ABC Television series The Hollowmen as the theme from the opening and closing titles.


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