Name: From Croydon to Cuba: An Anthology
Brand: EMI Music Distribution
SKU: 840757
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From Croydon to Cuba

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Album: From Croydon to Cuba: An Anthology
#	Song Title	Time
1)	They Don't Know
2)	You Caught Me Out - (previously unreleased)
3)	Keep Your Hands Off My Baby
4)	There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis
5)	Hard to Believe
6)	See That Girl
7)	Queen of the High Teas
8)	I Want Out
9)	You Still Believe in Me
10)	Rhythm of the Real Thing
11)	Berlin
12)	Camel Crossing - (previously unreleased)
13)	Roman Gardens
14)	Sticked and Stoned - (previously unreleased)
15)	Terry
16)	New England, A
17)	Patrick
18)	He's on the Beach
19)	Innocence - (Single Remix)
20)	Don't Come the Cowboy With Me, Sonny Jim!
21)	Closer to God
22)	Fairytale of New York
1)	Free World
2)	You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby
3)	Tread Lightly
4)	End of a Perfect Day, The
5)	Mother's Ruin
6)	Dancing in Limbo
7)	Days
8)	Still Life
9)	Clubland
10)	Other People's Hearts
11)	Don't Run Away from Me Now
12)	Please Help Me, I'm Falling
13)	Miss Otis Regrets/Just One of Those Things
14)	All the Tears That I Cried
15)	Walking Down Madison
16)	London Bridge Is Falling Down - (previously unreleased)
17)	My Affair
18)	All I Ever Wanted
19)	Halloween
20)	We'll Never Pass This Way Again
21)	Count on Me
22)	Dear John
1)	Angel
2)	Soho Square
3)	Bad
4)	Can't Stop Killing You
5)	Titanic Days
6)	Tomorrow Never Comes
7)	Caroline
8)	I Am Afraid - (previously unreleased)
9)	Butcher Boy, The
10)	As Long as You Hold Me
11)	Perfect Day
12)	Sail Away
13)	Libertango
14)	Golden Heart
15)	Mambo de la Luna
16)	In These Shoes?
17)	England 2 Columbia 0
18)	Celestine
19)	Good for Me
20)	Manhattan Moon - (previously unreleased)
21)	Sun on the Water - (previously unreleased)

Album: From Croydon to Cuba: An Anthology
#	Song Title	Time
1)	They Don't Know
2)	You Caught Me Out - (previously unreleased)
3)	Keep Your Hands Off My Baby
4)	There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis
5)	Hard to Believe
6)	See That Girl
7)	Queen of the High Teas
8)	I Want Out
9)	You Still Believe in Me
10)	Rhythm of the Real Thing
11)	Berlin
12)	Camel Crossing - (previously unreleased)
13)	Roman Gardens
14)	Sticked and Stoned - (previously unreleased)
15)	Terry
16)	New England, A
17)	Patrick
18)	He's on the Beach
19)	Innocence - (Single Remix)
20)	Don't Come the Cowboy With Me, Sonny Jim!
21)	Closer to God
22)	Fairytale of New York
1)	Free World
2)	You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby
3)	Tread Lightly
4)	End of a Perfect Day, The
5)	Mother's Ruin
6)	Dancing in Limbo
7)	Days
8)	Still Life
9)	Clubland
10)	Other People's Hearts
11)	Don't Run Away from Me Now
12)	Please Help Me, I'm Falling
13)	Miss Otis Regrets/Just One of Those Things
14)	All the Tears That I Cried
15)	Walking Down Madison
16)	London Bridge Is Falling Down - (previously unreleased)
17)	My Affair
18)	All I Ever Wanted
19)	Halloween
20)	We'll Never Pass This Way Again
21)	Count on Me
22)	Dear John
1)	Angel
2)	Soho Square
3)	Bad
4)	Can't Stop Killing You
5)	Titanic Days
6)	Tomorrow Never Comes
7)	Caroline
8)	I Am Afraid - (previously unreleased)
9)	Butcher Boy, The
10)	As Long as You Hold Me
11)	Perfect Day
12)	Sail Away
13)	Libertango
14)	Golden Heart
15)	Mambo de la Luna
16)	In These Shoes?
17)	England 2 Columbia 0
18)	Celestine
19)	Good for Me
20)	Manhattan Moon - (previously unreleased)
21)	Sun on the Water - (previously unreleased)

Performer Notes

Personnel: Kirsty MacColl (vocals); Mark Nevin (guitar, keyboards).
Audio Mixers: Keith McDonnell; Peter Lewis ; Gregg Jackmann; Trevor Gray; Howard Gray; Colin Stuart; Jon Fausty; Steve Lillywhite; Andy Kowalski; Jeremy Wheatley.
Audio Remixers: Nigel Brockbank; Pete Glenister.
Liner Note Authors: Chris Frantz; Jean MacColl; James Knight; Mark Nevin; Mike Laye; Rob Miller; Holly Johnson; Patrick McCabe; Johnny Marr ; Kate OBrien; Nigel Reeve; Philip Chevron; Spider Stacy; Steve Lillywhite; Tina Weymouth ; Bono ; Boz Boorer.
Recording information: Ealing Studios (01/1983/??/1993); Electric Lady Studios, NY (01/1983/??/1993); Rak Studios (01/1983/??/1993); Regents Park Studios (01/1983/??/1993); The Attic, Gospel Oak, London, England (01/1983/??/1993); The Townhouse (01/1983/??/1993).
Photographers: Charles Dickens ; Charlie Dickins; Mike Laye.
Arranger: Kirsty MacColl.
Drawing from fewer albums (but more labels) than one might ever have expected, Kirsty MacColl's twenty-year career spreads out over three discs, consolidating her growing reputation as the finest English songwriter of her generation; confirming her status as one of the finest singers, as well, and leaving the listener aghast at the foul injustice of a life that should have been lived at the peak of achievement, but which has only begun to be granted its fair due in death.
From Croydon to Cuba: An Anthology is the centerpiece of a three-pronged marketing attack -- it was accompanied on to the shelves by a matching DVD and biography. They have their problems; both suffer from a paucity of available material; the book lacks understanding as well. But the box set is a marvel. Tracking MacColl's career from the 1979 single that introduced her to the world, the effervescent teen drama of "They Don't Know," through to one of the last demos she ever recorded, 2000's "Manhattan Moon," From Croydon to Cuba balances the hits and the misses, the rarities and the obscurities, the guest appearances and the glorious covers.
A fourth disc would have been nice -- there's no sign of "Boys" here, or the electrifying "A Boy Like That," and there's a batch of other rarities that it would have been pleasing to behold. But still, 65 beautifully remastered tracks include nine unreleased numbers, a bundle more that are making their CD debut, and a host of others that might take a lifetime to track down in their original format. But where that could have opened the door to a host of dodgy demos and obscure-for-the-sake-of-it outtakes, the quality control never wavers for a moment, and you're left wondering precisely how MacColl's genius passed so many people by. ~ Dave Thompson