Raw Material #11 1991 01 08 Playroom album 2022 (cover)

Desk tape from the Collected Works era.

Released In: [Australia / NZ].

Release Date: Digital: 11 February 2022.

Australian Chart Position: N/A.

Availability: Streaming audio only.

Track Listing(s)

Legend:

 Commercial single.
 Promotional single.

Version: Digital album.

Album length: 67 minutes, 17 seconds.

ReplayGain loudness: -1.02dB.

1. Talking To A Stranger
2. Say Goodbye
3. Ghost Nation
4. Blind Eye
5. Where Do You Go?
6. You Stole My Thunder
7. I Believe
8. What Are You Waiting For?
9. Crime Of Passion
10. Throw Your Arms Around Me
11. Do You See What I See?
12. When The River Runs Dry
13. Carry Me
14. Everything’s On Fire
15. Inside A Fireball

Original studio source of the songs on this live album:

• Hunters And Collectors contains:
  • Talking To A Stranger
• The Jaws Of Life contains:
  • I Believe
  • Carry Me
• Human Frailty contains:
  • Say Goodbye
  • Throw Your Arms Around Me
  • Everything’s On Fire
• Living Daylight EP (attached to most Human Frailty albums) contains:
  • Inside A Fireball
• What’s A Few Men? / Fate contains:
  • What Are You Waiting For?
  • Do You See What I See?
• Ghost Nation contains:
  • Ghost Nation
  • Blind Eye
  • You Stole My Thunder
  • Crime Of Passion
  • When The River Runs Dry
• Cut contains:
  • Where Do You Go?

Review

N/A.

Liner Notes

In late 1990, Hunters and Collectors released the popular ‘best of’ compilation Collected Works – and naturally followed it up with more touring… and this is a recording from that tour!

The retrospective inspired the band to bring back Talking To A Stranger live for the first time since 1983 (!). The unusual version found here features a reworking of the lyrics – which were later dropped in favour of the original lyrics.

The recording also heavily features tracks from the previous studio album, Ghost Nation. Half of the album is here – When The River Runs Dry, Blind Eye, Crime of Passion, You Stole My Thunder and Ghost Nation. The two latter tracks, while great, are rarer in live recordings.

There is also a glimpse of the future via an early version of Where Do You Go? – a full nine months before it was released as a single!

We had to lose two tracks due to tape issues – 42 Wheels and Love All Over Again. The good news is that both can be found elsewhere in our series.

So we have only two more recordings to go in our Raw Material series… can you tell what is missing…?