Wide Open Road - Most remarkable opening to a Church album ever. The schoolground noises make way to the dreams of moving on, and Steve gets that widescreen, skyblue, wide eyed love for the future that youth alone brings.

It's No Reason - The drums sound like plodding across the floorboards of a bedsit. I feel I'm a different person in a different room listening to this. I loved the live b-side recently too, they have really moved the whole song into a new, and less self conscious space. The cello interlude is the start of the sun shining through the cracks.

Reptile - Jazz cigarettes in a Kurt Weill operetta. I can imagine George Melly tackling this. I never knew this version hid inside the original,

Tantalised - Another massive reinterpretation. The backing sounds like Florian Fricke on acid. I love this, especially when herbally challenged walking around town.

Electric Lash - I absolutely love this track no matter how it is presented, and this is a beautiful version. I've known this song through so many years, it is like a focal point to some great nights two decades ago. I still "get" this song.

After Everything - This is a really good version, but after the sweeping reconstructions before, it sounds very much more in spirit with the original. I do love the string work though, it really brings a sense of high style and faded glory.

Song in the Afternoon - Great use of the words "in the afternoon", that bit of the song has been bumping around my head for days now. Somehow reminds me slightly of Unsubtantiated in some way, but I don't know why.

Two Places at Once- Never one of my more favourite songs on Sometimes Anywhere really, I have been known to skip it. This version however displays a different facet. It seems amazingly seafaring and adrift.

Appalatia- There is a huge amount of sunlight shining through this track, enhanced and focused through the fact it now has the correct shape. A real gem.

Bordello - Wildly surreal and swirly, a drunken stagger through half experienced bits of situations. Dark and brooding, intense and unnerving. Love it.

Pure Chance - There is a lot more air blowing through this version in comparrison to the Uninvited Like the Clouds original. The female voice transforms the feel of the middle eight to a more earthbound experience, rather than the drowning spiralling of the original. Somehow it is like a different song. Great playing all round too.

Grind - Thank you for choosing this one, even better than the original. Fantastic

NSEW - Again, what a treat. Like meeting an old friend who now looks different. This version is one of my favourites on this disk.

Comeuppance - Off into the sunset. The song sounds like it could have been on Earthed. Wonderful.

Yeah, fucking great CD.

Brian