This is the original bootleg version – subsequently given official release on Cog Sinister/Voiceprint CD COGVP127CD
Track 1 is from ‘Room to live’ (not the 7” version) (March 1982)
Tracks 2-3 from limited 7” with initial copies of LP ‘Frenz experiment’; track 3 live 1987 (February 1988)
Track 4 from 7” v/a ‘Vinyl conflict 2’, freebie with Melody Maker; alternate version, recorded 1986 (September 1986)
Track 5 from 7” Sounds showcase 1’, freebie with Sounds; studio outtake (February 1987)
Track 6 from LP ‘Bugs on the wire’; live, New York City, 6 April 1985 (1987)
Track 7 from LP ‘Fruitcakes and furry collars’, Record Mirror mail order lp; live, Albany Empire, Deptford, 7 September 1986 (1986)
Track 8 from LP ‘Head over ears – a Debris compilation’; live, Bremen, Germany, 14 February 1987 (December 1987)
Track 9 from 7” ‘Sniffin’ Rock No. 9’, freebie with Sniffin’ Rock; live, Vienna, 15 April 1988 (June 1989)
Track 10 from 7” released as issue #7 of tapezine ‘Bang Zoom’; Peel session 9, recorded 29 September 1985 (1986)
Track 11 from 2LP ‘In a hole’; live, Auckland, New Zealand, 21 August 1982, (1983)
Track 12 is from an unreleased rehearsal, 1977; only previously available on 7” Total Eclipse DRD 1
Track 13 from Peel session 16, recorded 26 February 1993
Track 14 is a Gene Vincent song, from a BBC Radio 1 broadcast to celebrate John Peel’s 50th birthday; live, Subterranea, London, 29 August 1989
Track 15 live, The Venue, London, 21 March 1983
Track 16 is an unlisted, edited piece of MES talking about the release of ‘How I wrote elastic man’
Total time 1:16:06
Cover painting: Sobborgo di Milano by Umberto Boccioni (1910-11)