Where I Find My Heaven (album)

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Where I Find My Heaven
GigoloAunts Heaven.jpg
Compilation album by Gigolo Aunts
Released 1997
Genre Rock, Alternative, Power Pop
Label Nectar Masters (UK) (1997)
Fire Records (UK) (1998)
Producer Mike Denneen

Where I Find My Heaven is a compilation album by Gigolo Aunts released in the UK, first on Nectar Masters (1997), and then on Fire Records (1998). The album collects a number of singles and b-sides from 1993 through 1995. The album includes a cover of "Winsor Dam", a 1991 recording by Big Dipper that did not receive its formal release until the 2008 compilation album Supercluster: The Big Dipper Anthology . [1]

Gigolo Aunts are an American power pop band, who were formed in 1981.

Fire Records (UK) British Records label founded in 1986

Fire Records is a British independent record label, based in London, England. The label was founded by music journalist Johnny Waller and Clive Solomon in 1985 and released early records from Pulp, Teenage Fanclub, Spacemen 3, Blue Aeroplanes, Lives of Angels and others. In the early 1990s, the label was home to Neutral Milk Hotel, The Lemonheads, Built to Spill, Urge Overkill and others.

Big Dipper are an American indie rock band who formed in Boston in 1985 by former members of Volcano Suns and the Embarrassment. They released four studio albums between 1987 and 1990, before splitting up. The band reunited in 2008. They were described in a New York Times article as "musical contortionists: they love to toy with extremes, juxtaposing ferocious guitar noise with celestial vocal harmonies or planting a delicate melody in jagged rhythm".

Track listing

UK Version (Nectar Masters) Catalog Number: NTMCD549 (1997)
UK Version (Fire Records) Catalog Number: FIRECD71 (1998)

  1. "Cope" (Brouwer, Gibbs, Hurley, Hurley) 3:50
  2. "Bloom" (Brouwer, Gibbs, Hurley, Hurley) 4:00
  3. "That's O.K." (Brouwer, Gibbs, Hurley, Hurley) 3:59
  4. "Gun" (Brouwer, Gibbs, Hurley, Hurley) 4:40
  5. "Take Me On" (Brouwer, Gibbs, Hurley, Hurley) 2:34
  6. "Walk Among Us" (Brouwer, Gibbs, Hurley, Hurley) 4:21
  7. "Serious Drugs" (Duglas T. Stewart, Norman Blake, Joe McAlinden) 3:57
  8. "Mrs. Washington" (Brouwer, Gibbs, Hurley, Hurley) 4:06
  9. "Ask" (Morrissey/Johnny Marr) 2:24
  10. "Winsor Dam" (Bill Goffrier, Jeff Oliphant, Steve Michener, Gary Waleik) 4:40
  11. "Where I Find My Heaven" (Brouwer, Gibbs, Hurley, Hurley) 3:25
  12. "Ride On Baby Ride On" (Brouwer, Gibbs, Hurley, Hurley) 5:17
  13. "Lemon Peeler" (Brouwer, Gibbs, Hurley, Hurley) 3:28
  14. "Shame" (Brouwer, Gibbs, Hurley, Hurley) 4:03
  15. "Weird Sister" (Brouwer, Gibbs, Hurley, Hurley) 3:52

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References

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