Today Belongs To Me : The Complete Recordings 1977-1980 = 2 CD = (CD)
Two CD collection. After witnessing the Birmingham leg of The Clash's White Riot tour in the spring of 1977, Coventry rock band Midnight Circus adopted a more streamlined, urgent sound and a more punk-friendly name. As The Flys, they issued a self-financed five-track EP at the end of the year before signing with EMI on the back of a tour with Buzzcocks. Over the next three years, The Flys were responsible for a dazzling run of witty, supremely melodic, endlessly inventive singles and two superb albums, Waikiki Beach Refugees and Own, with the latter standing some 40 years later as the Great Lost Album of the pop-punk era. However, a lack of commercial success and endless internal bickering saw guitarist, singer and chief songwriter Neil O'Connor pull the plug in mid-1980 to join sister Hazel during her rise to prominence with the film Breaking Glass. Today Belongs To Me is the first complete anthology of a band that, despite critical acclaim and major label support, somehow fell through the cracks. It includes every known studio recording - including that early pre-EMI EP - as well as nine previously unreleased, from-the-masters studio demos, with two early versions of 1979 single 'Living In The Sticks' joined by seven previously-unheard late '70s songs in the classic Flys tradition. Today Belongs To Me is the definitive document of the greatest pop-punk band never to score a Top Thirty single.
01 We Don't Mind The Rave 02 Beverley 03 Looking For New Hearts 04 She's The One 05 Monsoon Sky 06 Fun City 07 Don't Moonlight On Me 08 Some Kind Of Girl 09 I Don't Know 10 Waikiki Beach Refugees 11 Saturday Sunrise 12 Dark Nights
13 Bonus Tracks 14 Love And A Molotov Cocktail 15 Can I Crash Here? 16 Me And My Buddies 17 Just For Your Sex 18 Civilization 19 Fun City - (single Version) 20 E.c.4 21 Waikiki Beach Refugees - (single Version) 22 Beverley - (edited Single Version) 23 Name Dropping 24 Fly V. Fly 25 Adrian (don't Call Me Jimmy) 26 I'll Survive 27 Living In The Sticks - (first Demo Version)
Disc 2
01 Let's Drive 02 Energy Boy 03 Fascinate Me 04 Talking To The Wall 05 Down 06 Fortunes 07 Night Creatures 08 When 2 And 5 Make 9 09 Undercover Agent Zero 10 Cheap Days 11 Walking The Streets 12 Through The Windscreen 13 Freezing 14 Frenzy Is 23 15 Bonus Tracks 16 We Are The Lucky Ones 17 Living In The Sticks 18 Night Creatures - (single Version) 19 Lois Lane 20 Today Belongs To Me 21 What Will Mother Say? 22 Undercover Agent Zero - (single Version) 23 Come On Stupid 24 Program 25 Don Your End Of The Phone 26 Hang On 27 I Say 28 Living In The Sticks - (second Demo Version)