We Love The City (expanded edition)

by Hefner

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Immediate download of 39-track album in your choice of high-quality MP3, FLAC, or just about any other format you could possibly desire.

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1.	We Love The City 05:00	download
2.	The Greedy Ugly People 04:03	download
3.	Good Fruit 03:28	download
4.	Painting And Kissing 05:27	download
5.	Hold Me Closer 03:46	download
6.	Don't Go 04:10	download
7.	The Greater London Radio 04:36	download
8.	As Soon As You're Ready 03:59	download
9.	She Can't Sleep No More 03:56	download
10.	The Cure For Evil 04:48	download
11.	The Day That Thatcher Dies 03:58	download
12.	Your Head To Your Toes 04:16	download
13.	Jubilee (b-side) 03:14	download
14.	Black Horse Road (b-side) 03:50	download
15.	I Will Make Her Love Me (b-side) 03:42	download
16.	Seafaring (b-side) 02:41	download
17.	Christian Girls (Boxing Version) 03:04	download
18.	We Don't Care What They Say About Us (b-side) 02:10	download
19.	The Fear (b-side) 02:49	download
20.	The Greedy Ugly People (Electric Sound Of Joy Remix) 04:06	download
21.	Lee Remick (Boxing Version) 04:58	download
22.	The Hymn For The Things We Didn't Do (Boxing Version) 03:40	download
23.	The Hymn For The Coffee (Boxing Version) 04:54	download
24.	Seafaring (Demo) 02:58	download
25.	Painting And Kissing (Demo) 05:18	download
26.	Your Head To Your Toes (Demo) 03:52	download
27.	Hold Me Closer (Demo) 03:44	download
28.	The Cure For Evil (Demo) 03:36	download
29.	Good Fruit (Demo) 04:02	download
30.	The Greedy Ugly People (Demo) 03:44	download
31.	The Hymn For The Telephones (1st Version) 03:51	download
32.	Seafaring (4-Track Demo) 03:12	download
33.	Lee Remick (4-Track Demo) 03:39	download
34.	Painting And Kissing (Rehearsal Demo) 04:38	download
35.	China Crisis (4-Track Demo) 03:58	download
36.	Good Fruit (The Wisdom Of Harry Remix) 04:20	download
37.	The Greedy Ugly People (Baxendale Remix) 04:32	download
38.	Painting And Kissing (Rob Lord Remix) 05:52	download
39.	Good Fruit (Piano Magic Remix) 04:43	download

about

We Love the City was Hefner's commercial and creative peak.

Having cleared a large backlog of songs on the band's first two albums and various B-sides, for their third Darren Hayman wrote a new set of loosely themed songs about love in the capital city. We Love The City eschews the band's former broken indie-folk sound in favour of a bouncy, urban, blue-eyed soul and an expanded line up including Hammond organs, Wurlitzer pianos and brass sections.

Songs like ‘Greedy Ugly People', ‘Good Fruit', ‘Painting and Kissing' and ‘The Day that Thatcher Dies' are typical examples of the direct, infectious, intelligent style that endeared Hefner to so many. The album's narrative is conceptual and played out by a retinue of vividly drawn characters, but at heart this is Hayman's most personal and focussed work.

Always championed by John Peel, promotion for this album culminated in a full, real time performance show session, broadcast live from BBC Maida Vale (now available else where as the album Maida Vale ).

This two-disc set expands the original album set to a mighty 39 songs including all of the relevant B-sides, substantially different alternate versions and surprising remixes from Electric Sound of Joy, Piano Magic and The Wisdom of Harry.

credits

released 28 September 2008
This compilation compiled and re-mastered by Joël Bourret in New York 2007. All 4-Track demos mixed by Joël Bourret.

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This bandcamp page was compiled by Audio Antihero - www.audioantihero.bandcamp.com

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