BODEANS “ULTIMATELY FINE” DEBUT
Rhino Presents The Collector’s Edition of Love & Hope & Sex & Dreams that Includes a Remastered Version of the Original on CD Expanded with Unreleased Demos, A DVD Featuring an Unreleased 1985 Concert, Plus The Newly Recorded Track, “Janey”
Available from Rhino March 10
LOS ANGELES – As teens, Kurt Neumann and Sammy Llanas formed the BoDeans in 1983 in Waukesha, Wisconsin. They crafted heartfelt rock that intertwined personal lyrics with seamless harmonies and ringing guitars. The fresh and exciting sound of the band’s 1986 debut earned critical accolades along with a devoted following that voted BoDeans the Best New American Band in the 1987 Rolling Stone readers’ poll.
Rhino presents the Collector’s Edition of the BoDeans first album, which includes a remastered and expanded version of the original Slash/Warner Bros. release on CD and an unreleased 1985 performance filmed in Minneapolis on DVD. COLLECTOR’S EDITION: LOVE & HOPE & SEX & DREAMS will be available March 10 from Rhino Records at all retail outlets, including www.rhino.com, for a suggested list price of $24.98.
The unforgettable opening notes of the BoDeans’ “She’s A Runaway”—the album’s lead track— heralded a singular sound that was true to its own style and the unique sound of the group. Rock journalist Dave Marsh writes in the liner notes: “Such music speaks to those who seek it and waylays those who stumble across it. Whether its audience is measured in millions or thousands, it’s the only kind of rock ‘n’ roll (or most anything else in the cultural arena) that counts.”
Producer T-Bone Burnett, who recently produced the critically acclaimed Alison Krauss and Robert Plant album Raising Sand as well as the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack released in 2000, recorded the album in Los Angeles, capturing the beauty of Neumann and Llanas’ contrasting voices as they sang a batch of songs sophisticated enough to know when to tell a story or when to just speak to the moment.
The original, 11-song album contains essential tracks such as “Still The Night,” “Angels” and “Fadeaway.” Among the six bonus tracks included on the Collector’s Edition are “Try And Try” (“Fadeaway” b-side) and “Janey,” a song recorded in 2008 available here for the first time. For the set, Rhino also unearths four unreleased demos—including “Amen” and “Small Town Ways”—that Neumann and Llanas recorded in college, where they reportedly enrolled solely to gain access to the school’s four-track recorder.
The DVD captures the BoDeans’ July 15, 1985, performance at the legendary Minneapolis nightclub First Avenue. During the hour-long show, the band played 17 songs, previewing several tracks that would appear on the group’s debut almost a year later, including “She’s A Runaway,” “Rickshaw Riding,” “Misery,” and “The Strangest Kind.” The concert also featured an early-version of “Janey,” a song that Neumann and Llanas recorded recently for the first time especially for this Collector’s Edition.
COLLECTOR’S EDITION: LOVE & HOPE & SEX & DREAMS
CD Track Listing
1. “She’s A Runaway”
2. “Fadeaway”
3. “Still The Night”
4. “Rickshaw Riding”
5. “Angels”
6. “Misery”
7. “The Strangest Kind”
8. “Say You Will”
9. “Ultimately Fine”
10. “That’s All”
11. “Lookin’ For Me Somewhere”
12. “Try And Try”
13. “Sail Away” –Demo *
14. “Amen” – Demo *
15. “Small Town Ways” – Demo *
16. “Janey” –New Recording *
17. “Turn Your Radio On” – Demo *
DVD Track Listing
1. “Small Town Ways”
2. “The Strangest Kind”
3. “Oh Stella”
4. “Don’t You Just Know”
5. “Rickshaw Riding”
6. “Still The Night”
7. “Amen”
8. “Janey”
9. “Be My Girl”
10. “Say You Will”
11. “Heart Of America”
12. “Misery”
13. “Not So Long Ago”
14. “She’s A Runaway”
15. “Try And Try”
16. “Celia”
17. “Home Again”
* Previously unreleased
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