From the depths of the legendary BT Puppy vaults...(a label which seems to have as many "lost albums" as they had hits!)...the very Daddies of Softpop...The Tokens! Though the Tokens are best remembered for their international smash hit "The Lion Sleeps Tonight", recently revived in "The Lion King", they did much more...producers, writers, publishers and label owners, they had a long string of hits in all those roles..."Intercourse" is a full on Softpop song cycle, inexplicably turned down by their then-label Warner Brothers, and released in an edition of 200 copies on their own BT Puppy label for contractual reasons...far from their Doo-Wop roots, The Tokens delivered an album pitched somewhere between Pet Sounds and Sergeant Pepper, with all the production and arrangement tricks that implies...no wonder Warners were dumbfounded!.....and no wonder collectors have been going nuts and paying silly sums for this album ever since!...Newly remastered by The Tokens themselves, this is a surprise treat in anyone's language, as The Tokens show not only every cult Softpop group, but many superstars just how it's done....with the wicked tongue-in -cheek touch which they were justly famous for.

It's Amazing to Be Alive / Droplets of Water / Bathroom Wall / Animal / Greenfields / Wonderful Things / Commercial / Gray Is Gray / Waiting for Something / I Could Be / Girl on 6 / I Want to Make Love to You / In and Out / Stereo / You Loser You Fool / It's Amazing To Be Alive-Reprise / Some People Sleep

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Released 25/08/08. The title kind of gives the game away here, it being somewhat a game of two halves! A semi concept follows the title of the exquisite baroque cover of the Joni Mitchell tune...The Tokens are pictured on the cover in off-duty mode, casually dressed and with a cigar on the go. Side one consists of more baroque re -workings of modern folk rock standards, covering label mates Melanie and The Lemon Pipers creditably, as well as doing a stripped down beauty of a cover of ‘Don't Worry Baby’, which surely influenced The Beach Boys later live revamps of their early repertoire.

Side two revisits The Tokens past in the manner of their later ‘Oldies Are Now!’ project, with their first two hits ‘Tonight I Fell In Love’ and ‘The Lion Sleeps Tonight’, and their soft-pop masterpiece ‘I Hear Trumpets Blow’ among others, being reinvented in the style of side one.

Both Sides Now / Brandywine / Green Tambourine / Beautiful People / She Lets Her Hair Down(Early In The Morning) / Don't Worry Baby / The Lion Sleeps Tonight / Tonight I Fell In Love / I Hear Trumpets Blow / He's In Town / If I Were A Carpenter / Some People Sleep / Bonus Track / Oh To Get Away / I Could See Me (Dancin' With You)

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