Mekons Songs List

Spin: "The greatest alt-country LP ever made - in England, anyway."

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Chivalry
• 2.Trouble Down South
• 3.Hard To Be Human Again
• 4.Darkness And Doubt
• 5.Psycho Cupid (Danceband On The Edge Of Time)
• Tracks of Disc 2
• 1.Flitcraft
• 2.Country
• 3.Abernant 1984/5
• 4.Last Dance
• 5.Lost Highway

Spin: "The greatest alt-country LP ever made - in England, anyway."

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Chivalry
• 2.Trouble Down South
• 3.Hard to Be Human Again
• 4.Darkness and Doubt
• 5.Psycho Cupid (Danceband on the Edge of Time)
• 6.Flitcraft
• 7.Country
• 8.Abernant 1984/1985
• 9.Lost Dance
• 10.Lost Highway

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Like Spoons No More
• 2.Join Us in the Countryside
• 3.Rosanne
• 4.Trevira Trousers
• 5.After 6
• 6.What Are We Going to Do Tonight
• 7.What
• 8.Watch the Film
• 9.Beetroot
• 10.I Saw You Dance
• 11.Lonely and Wet
• 12.Dan Dare

Spin: "...comes off like a rag-tag guerrilla skirmish against Reagan-Thatcherism on a John Ford movie backlot..."

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Hello Cruel World
• 2.Bastard
• 3.Oblivion
• 4.King Arthur
• 5.Ugly Band
• 6.Shanty
• 7.Garage D'or
• Tracks of Disc 2
• 1.Big Zombie
• 2.Sweet Dreams
• 3.Dream Dream Dream
• 4.Slightly South Of The Border
• 5.Alone & Forsaken
• 6.The Letter

Rolling Stone: "[T]he LP loses itself in the desert and finds timely survival metaphors everywhere. And it burrows deep into desert mythology..."

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Lawrence of California
• 2.Harar 1883
• 3.In The Sun / The Galaxy Explodes
• 4.How Many Stars?
• 5.In The Desert
• 6.Mirage
• 7.Weimar Vending Machine / Priest?
• 8.Andromeda
• 9.After The Rain

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Flowers of Evil Part 2
• 2.Skintrade
• 3.O Money
• 4.Bucket
• 5.Fear and Beer
• 6.Onion
• 7.Traveling Alone
• 8.Nude Hamlet
• 9.1848 Now
• 10.Simone on the Beach
• 11.The Cell
• 12.Remember

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.I'm Not Here - (1967)
• 2.Ghosts of American Astronauts
• 3.Road to Florida
• 4.Johnny Miner
• 5.Dora
• 6.Poxy Lips
• 7.Fletcher Christian, (Sometimes I Feel Like) - (Sometimes I Feel Like)
• 8.Fantastic Voyage
• 9.Robin Hood
• 10.Heart of Stone
• 11.Maverick
• 12.Vengeance
• 13.Revenge

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Myth
• 2.Out in the Night
• 3.Last Weeks of the War
• 4.City of London
• 5.Tina
• 6.The Flood
• 7.Cast No Shadows
• 8.Ordinary Night (In a Provincial Town)
• 9.Powers & Horror
• 10.Neglect
• 11.Something to Be Scared Of
• 12.Last Night on Earth
• 13.[Untitled Track] - (Hidden Track)

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.I Can't Find My Money
• 2.Hole in the Ground
• 3.Sleepless Nights
• 4.Keep on Hoppin'
• 5.Charlie Cake Park
• 6.If They Hang You
• 7.Prince of Darkness
• 8.Kidnapped
• 9.Sympathy for the Mekons
• 10.Spit
• 11.Trimdon Grange Explosion
• 12.Please Don't Let Me Love You
• 13.Gin Palace
• 14.Sin City
• 15.Danton
• 16.Prince of Darkness

Rolling Stone: "[T]he LP loses itself in the desert and finds timely survival metaphors everywhere. And it burrows deep into desert mythology..."

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Lawrence Of California
• 2.Harar 1883
• 3.In The Sun / The Galaxy Explodes
• 4.How Many Stars?
• 5.In The Desert
• 6.Mirage
• 7.Weimar Vending Machine / Priest?
• 8.Andromeda
• 9.After The Rain

Rolling Stone: "[T]he LP loses itself in the desert and finds timely survival metaphors everywhere. And it burrows deep into desert mythology..."

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Lawrence of California
• 2.Harar 1883
• 3.Into the Sun
• 4.How Many Stars
• 5.In the Desert
• 6.Mirage
• 7.Weimar Vending Machine
• 8.Andromeda
• 9.After the Rain

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Se Reveló El Cadáver (Intro)
• 2.Escalera
• 3.West Yorks Ballad
• 4.The Inhuman
• 5.Nobody
• 6.Buried Treasure
• Tracks of Disc 2
• 1.Exquisite
• 2.What Happened To Delilah?
• 3.What I Believe At Night
• 4.Corn & Grain
• 5.Drink The New Wine

Q: 4 stars out of 5 - "The polar opposite of most airbrushed live albums....playing more like the booze-sodden, cowpunk soundtrack to a careening homemade road movie....implausibly entertaining..."

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 12.My Body J.F.K., Pt. 2
• 13.Abernant 84/87
• 14.Tommy
• 15.San Francisco D.J./Audience Participation
• 16.I Can't Find My Money
• 17.Robert and Steven in the Heartbreak Hotel
• 18.The Shape I'm In
• 19.Hard to Be Human
• 20.Beaten and Broken at Garage d'Or
• 21.Not Long Ago
• 22.My Body J.F.K., Pt. 3
• 23.Shanty
• 24.My Body in Chicago
• 25.Revenge
• 26.Sophie
• 27.Chivalry
• 28.Where Were You? - (bonus track)
• 29.Never Been in a Riot - (bonus track)
• 1.Chicago Introduction
• 2.Big Zombie
• 3.Trouble Down South
• 4.My Body J.F.K., Pt. 1
• 5.Slightly South of the Border
• 6.The Story of Nothing
• 7.Tex Rico
• 8.Flitcraft at the Iron Horse
• 9.Moby Dick / Shallow Bourgeois Smile: Moby Dick / Shallow Bourgeois Smile
• 10.Dadaist Rhetoric in Boston
• 11.Prince of Darkness

Rolling Stone: 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "ANCIENT & MODERN, their first in four four years, is meaty and grizzled folk rock."

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Warm Summer Sun
• 2.Space in Your Face
• 3.Geeshie
• 4.I Fall Asleep
• 5.Calling All Demons
• 6.Ugly Bethesda
• 7.Ancient & Modern
• 8.Afar & Forlorn
• 9.Honey Bear
• 10.The Devil at Rest
• 11.Arthur's Angel

Rolling Stone: 3 stars out of 5 -- "[R]eplete with chants, harmonicas...[and] found percussion....[With a] ramshackle, ritualistic, druids-at-Stonehenge mood..."

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Dark Dark Dark
• 2.Dickie Chalkie and Nobby
• 3.The Old Fox
• 4.White Stone Door
• 5.Shocking Curse Bird
• 6.Give Me Wine or Money
• 7.Diamonds
• 8.Burning in the Desert Burning
• 9.The Hope and the Anchor
• 10.Cockermouth
• 11.Zeroes and Ones
• 12.Perfect Mirror

Spin: "...comes off like a rag-tag guerrilla skirmish against Reagan-Thatcherism on a John Ford movie backlot..."

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.Hello Cruel World
• 2.Bastard
• 3.Oblivion
• 4.King Arthur
• 5.Ugly Band
• 6.Shanty
• 7.Garage d'Or
• 8.Big Zombie
• 9.Sweet Dreams
• 10.Dream, Dream, Dream
• 11.Slightly South of the Border
• 12.Alone & Forsaken
• 13.The Letter

• Tracks of Disc 1
• 1.We Refuse
• 2.Orpheus
• 3.Demon Horns
• 4.2000ad Cannibal
• 5.Now We Have the Bomb
• 6.German Cannibal / Golden Guitarist / You Still There?
• 7.Somewhere in This World
• 8.Call Sign I
• 9.Brain the Cannibal
• 10.Tiger Beer
• 11.Cannibal Highway
• 12.From Dark to Light
• 13.Wwy I
• 14.Reply
• 15.Wwy 2
• 16.Vito & The Mekons 50% Song
• 17.The Lost Dance
• 18.Optimism / Nostalgia / Disease
• 19.Animals Tonight?
• 20.Riot
• 21.Requiem
• 22.Call Sign 2
• 23.Jerusalem