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Idle Race - The Best Of Idle Race (1969)

Track listing:
  1. The End of the Road 2:11
  2. The Morning Sunshine 1:50
  3. The Lady Who Said She Could Fly 2:24
  4. Happy Birthday 0:25
  5. The Birthday 3:02
  6. Girl at the Window 3:46
  7. Big Chief Woolly Bosher 5:17
  8. Here We Go Round the Lemon Tree 2:47
  9. My Father's Son 2:17
  10. The Skeleton and the Roundabout 2:28
  11. Come With Me 2:47
  12. Going Home 3:46
  13. Mr. Grow and Sir Norman 3:19
  14. Please No More Sad Songs 3:23
  15. On With the Show 2:24
  16. Follow Man [#] 2:50
  17. Lucky Man 2:40
  18. Imposters of Life's Magazine 2:23
  19. Day's of the Browken Arrows 3:53
  20. I Like My Toys 2:14
  21. Sea of Dreams 3:15
  22. A Better Life (The Weatherman Knows) 2:47
  23. Warm Red Carpet 3:05
  24. Someone Knocking 2:58
  25. Hurry up John 3:36

Notes

See for Miles' 1990 compilation The Best of Idle Race contains a generous 25 tracks -- just over half of what the Idle Race recorded. This means that it does have the great majority of the best material the band recorded, and it would satisfy everyone outside of the rabid collectors who need anything. The catch is, if you're into the Idle Race, you need everything, so this collection is essentially a stopgap until you can track down (or afford) EMI's 1996 complete collection, Back to the Story. Even then, this may be a little more listenable, since it boils the group's interesting but erratic career to its very best -- which is obscure British psych at its best (in other words, it's for the collectors who will seek it out, not anyone else).