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Intergalactic Sonic 7"s
Release Date: 2002
Label: Sony Music Distribution
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Import? Is that all for this fabulous singles LP? Are they crazy? While the last two LPs have been pretty damn great, Ash has often seemed like a punky 2000s version of a '60s pop group, where each song takes over your radio for weeks. One sugar-rush melody melts into another wall-of-guitar burner with Tim Wheeler's "infectious" happy-go-lucky vocals, and you wonder why they never had a singles LP collection before this! Really, if Northern Ireland-bred and London-based Ash is like a lesser cross between the Buzzcocks' big power and their Ulster forebears the Undertones' "chocolate and girls" sunny disposition, then who put out better singles LPs way back when than those two bands? It's hard to get the unfamiliar to shell out for import LPs when cheaper domestic ones still peek out of the bins. But anyone still undecided or unenlightened about this delightful quartet is well served by this consistent 19-song, big-hook collection. Even the rougher, merely good earlier singles, when they were a kid trio, stand up in the best light. The old likes of "Girl from Mars," "Kung Fu," and "Jack Names the Planets" (all of which they kick harder on now as a quartet), as well as the Ride-like "Oh Yeah," are like a wild boy freshly scrubbed and dressed for a wedding when surrounded by the more recent wonders of the pulsing "A Life Less Ordinary," the breakneck "Burn Baby Burn," the toe-tapping "Walking Barefoot," and the twinkling "Shining Light." And if all that isn't enough, there's Cosmic Debris, a bonus disc of 22 B-sides going back a decade, including some highly unusual picks for covers. This serves the fans and newcomers equally, so there's no argument against it. [The Sony version of Intergalactic Sonic 7"s features two additional tracks, "Get Out" and "Cherry Bomb," that are not included on the Infectious label release.] Jack Rabid, All Music Guide

Tracks:

	Title	Composer	Time
1	Burn Baby Burn	Wheeler	3:28
2	Envy	Wheeler	3:35
3	Girl from Mars	Wheeler	3:29
4	Shining Light	Wheeler	4:22
5	Life Less Ordinary	Wheeler	4:15
6	Goldfinger	Wheeler	4:33
7	Jesus Says	Hamilton, Wheeler	4:44
8	Oh Yeah	Wheeler	4:47
9	Jack Names the Planets	Wheeler	3:12
10	Sometimes	Wheeler	4:09
11	Kung Fu	Wheeler	2:18
12	Candy	Wheeler	4:51
13	Angel Interceptor	Wheeler, McMurray	4:08
14	Uncle Pat	Wheeler	3:13
15	Wildsurf	Hatherley, Wheeler	3:29
16	Walking Barefoot	Wheeler	4:14
17	Petrol	Hamilton, Wheeler	4:11
18	There's a Star	Wheeler	4:22
19	Numbskull	Wheeler, Hamilton	3:09
20	Get Out [*]	Hamilton, Wheeler	1:29
21	Cherry Bomb [*]	Wheeler	3:17
22	No Place to Hide	Wheeler	3:36
23	Warmer Than Fire	Ludwin	3:07
24	Where Is Our Love Going?	Wheeler	3:26
25	Taken Out	Hatherley	2:53
26	13th Floor [Live]	Wheeler	3:03
27	Stormy Waters	McMurray	4:42
28	Message from Oscar Wilde and Patrick the Brewer		:30
29	Who You Drivin'now?	Turner, McLaughlin, Lukin, Peters	2:02
30	Stay in Love Forever	Wheeler	3:41
31	Sweetness of Death by the Obsidian Knife	Wheeler	3:29
32	Melon Farmer	Peak, Lowe	2:01
33	Nocturne	Wheeler	3:31
34	Gabriel	Wheeler, Hamilton	5:29
35	Coasting	Wheeler	3:30
36	Lose Control	Peak, Lowe	2:14
37	I Need Somebody	Hamilton	2:37
38	Sneaker	Peak, Hamilton	3:15
39	Cantina Band	Wiliams	2:55
40	Astral Conversations With Toulouse Lautrec	Hamilton, Wheeler	6:04
41	Day of the Triffids	Wheeler	3:34
42	Halloween	Wheeler	3:30
43	Thinking About You	Wheeler	3:49
44	Bad Karma Blues	Wheeler	3:01

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Cosmic Debris
Release Date: 2002
Label: Infectious Records Ltd. (Hong Kong)

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