We Love The City (expanded edition), by Hefner

We Love The City (expanded edition)

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

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 September 28, 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 is the official Bandcamp page for songwriter Darren Hayman, the Indie band Hefner, The French and other side projects.

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

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discography

You Will Not Die

Nov 2022
PRE 014: Hefner – Steve Lamacq session 24.03.99

Jul 2022
PRE 012: Hefner – Steve Lamacq session 15.07.98

Mar 2022
PRE 013: Hefner – John Peel session 13.10.98

Mar 2022
Music to Watch News By

Feb 2021
Actually I Still Really, Really Miss You

Dec 2020
The Doll's House Room

Jun 2020
Home Time

May 2020
I Can Travel Through Time

Apr 2020
Songs of High Altitude

Sep 2019
12 Astronauts

Jul 2019
Thankful Villages Volume 3

Nov 2018
The Hayman Kupa Band

Jul 2017
Thankful Villages Volume 2

May 2017
Trains

Aug 2016
Thankful Villages Volume 1

Jun 2016
Someone to Care For - The Hayman Kupa Band

May 2016
Bad, Bad Boy

Apr 2016
Florence

Nov 2015
Folk Lullabies for Children and the Childless

Jul 2015
brute love 03

May 2015
brute love 02

Mar 2015
brute love 01

Feb 2015
Dubs for Socialists

Feb 2015
Chants For Socialists

Jan 2015
DOG E.P.

Jul 2014
Boy, Look at What You Can't Have Now

Feb 2014
Blue House

Dec 2013
Bugbears

Jul 2013
Old Man Don't Waste Your Time / I Don't

May 2013
The Four Queens EP

Apr 2013
The Violence

Nov 2012
Field Recordings for Lido

Oct 2012
Lido

Aug 2012
The Best Of Hefner

Mar 2006
Essex Arms

Oct 2010
The Fidelity Wars (expanded edition)

Jun 2008
Great British Holiday EPs

Aug 2008
January Songs

Jan 2011
The Ship's Piano

Apr 2012
Local Information

Aug 2003
Hayman, Watkins, Trout and Lee

May 2008
Catfight

Jul 2006
Breaking God's Heart (expanded edition)

Jan 2007
Madrid

Jul 2009
Christmas In Haworth

Nov 2011
Kick, Snare, Hats, Ride

Jul 2002
The Stereo Morphonium

Aug 2005
Vostok 5

May 2012
We Love The City (expanded edition)

Sep 2008
The Shit Piano

Feb 2012
Dead Media (expanded edition)

Oct 2011
The Green and the Grey

Jun 2011
Antony Harding and Darren Hayman Split Single

Feb 2011
Porn Shoes

Aug 2012
Boxing Hefner

Apr 2000
Table For One: The Dessert Menu

Mar 2007
Losing My Glue EP

Feb 2011
Maida Vale

Dec 2006
I Taught You How To Dance

Nov 2011
Dagenham

Jul 2003
Pram Town (A Folk Opera)

Jan 2009
Songs for Harmonium and Drum Machine

Nov 2008
Darren Hayman and the Secondary Modern

Nov 2007
Bad Policewoman

Jul 2007
Table For One

Sep 2006
Cortinaland

Jul 2005

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