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Re: (TV) TOM VERLAINE Vanity Fair:1986 London Sessions UK sessions from 1986 intended for an album but later shelved.



Cool. But their new cover art is totally inferior to the original artwork that accompanied this 'release'...

More recent versions of this compilation include a standout unreleased track, "Untitled (Ah Lee)", as track #4.

--Phil



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 From: DavMarRnR <davmarrnr@aol.com>
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Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2012 3:31 PM
Subject: (TV) TOM VERLAINE Vanity Fair:1986 London Sessions UK sessions from  1986 intended for an album but later shelved.
 
Just spotted this:

http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=1166

TOM VERLAINE
Vanity Fair: The 1986 London Sessions [no label, 1CD]
UK sessions from 1986 intended for an album but later shelved. Ex SBD stereo.

gSometime in 1986 or early 1987 Verlaine and Dave Bascombe produced at least
10 tracks intended for an LP that was shortly thereafter rejected by
Phonogram/Fontana. The known 10 tracks from these sessions are sometimes
called the eBascombe sessionsf, the e1986 London sessionsf, the eLost
Albumf - or the e10 b-sidesf (as the tracks later appeared on b-sides of
various Verlaine UK single releases).

gSubsequently, Verlaine recorded the album Flash Light (1987). A version of
The Scientist Writes A Letter from the Bascombe sessions ended up intact on
Flash Light; the non-Flash Light, b-side version of Scientist is known as the
eParis Versionf, has a different spoken section in the middle and lacks, to
my mind, the power of the album version. Another of the 10 b-sides, One Time
at Sundown, was re-recorded in a different version for Flash Light.
Caveman-Flashlight, Circling, Smoother Than Jones, One Time at Sundown (The
1986 London Version) and The Scientist Writes a Letter (Paris Version) do not
exist in a CD format.

gAnna, Circling, Call Me The and Vanity Fair certainly rank with the best of
Verlainefs recorded work and we can only guess at why these tracks were not
acceptable to the record company. Not ecommercialf enough? Well, surely
no-one would sign Tom Verlaine in the mid-f80s and expect him to make an
album that would outsell, say, Dire Straits or the Police (or The Thompson
Twins or whatever else was passing for popular music back then). Would they?

gIn any case, someone turned down a pretty good album. So here it is.h -
thewonder.co.uk

Although released as b-sides, the singles, the album Flash Light and even the
1996 The Millerfs Tale: A Tom Verlaine Anthology are all out-of-print. Our
copy of gVanity Fairh arrived via snail mail trade all those years ago.
Thanks to whoever shared it with us.

Click on the highlighted tracks to download the MP3s (224 kbps). As far as we
can ascertain, these tracks have never been officially released on CD.

Please Do Not Hammer The Links. Due to the size of some of the files, please
be very patient when downloading the tracks. It could be that the server was
very busy. The tracks should still be around. Please try again later. Kindly
email us at mybigo@bigozine.com if you encounter persistent problems
downloading the files.

Track 01. Sixteen Tulips (7.9MB)
Track 02. Caveman/Flashlight (5.1MB)
Track 03. Anna (8.3MB)
Track 04. The Scientist Writes A Letter (oop Paris Version) (6.7MB)
Track 05. Call Me The (5.8MB)
Track 06. Circling (4.1MB)
Track 07. Smoother Than Jones (5.6MB)
Track 08. Vanity Fair (9.5MB)
Track 09. One Time At Sundown (the London 1986 version) (7.4MB)
Bonus
Track 10. Marquee Moon (Live) (16.9MB)
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