3 Loop Music are proud to announce the release of Mega City Four’s "Sebastopol Rd” as a 39 track, 2CD expanded edition remastered 2CD set covering all the studio output from the Sebastopol Rd era.
Read More3 Loop Music are proud to announce the release of Mega City Four’s "Sebastopol Rd” as a 39 track, 2CD
expanded edition. Remastered 2CD set covering all the studio output from the Sebastopol Rd era.
10 previously unreleased tracks Compiled by the band.
Includes 16 page booklet with sleevenotes from the band, rare photos and memorabilia
Sebastopol Rd was Mega City Four’s first album for their new major label home, Big Life. With the success of debut album "Tranzphobia”,
follow up "Who Cares Wins”, and a constant touring schedule around the UK, Europe and the US they built up a solid, devoted fanbase easily identifiable in
one of the many MC4 t-shirts. By this time, the band were appearing on the front covers of the NME and Melody Maker and the crossover to a major label was
no great surprise.
Teaming up with producer Jessica Corcoran (Senseless Things, Ned’s Atomic Dustbin, Shed Seven and The
Wonder Stuff) gave the album a pop-punk crunch and more emphasis on the pop than previous material. It features the
Top 40 hit ‘Stop’, ‘Prague’, covered by Muse in 2010 on the Resistance single as a tribute to the band who had influenced them, and CD1 now includes the two
singles (plus their attendant b-sides) Words That Say and Shivering Sand, their highest charting release.
This 2CD set, 21 years after the initial release, gathers together all the studio material from this
period and adds 10 previously unreleased tracks, including demos and the John Peel Session from September 1993.
It includes all the b-sides and demos taken from the box loads of cassettes and DATs in guitarist Gerry’s shed.
FURTHER INFORMATION
The quartet of school friends from Farnborough, Hampshire, formed Mega City Four in 1987. They went on to release five studio albums
and are cited as an influence by Muse, one of the biggest bands in the world today. They were always an incendiary
live band putting in thrilling performances and winning a devoted fanbase. Leadman and chief songwriter, Wiz sadly
passed away suddenly in 2006 leaving a legacy of fast-paced, crunching power pop songs that are often overlooked by many who regard this era of music as the template for much of the emo scene today.
Barcode | 5013929350649 |
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Genre | Indie |
Label | 3Loop |
Format | 2CD |
Artist | Mega City Four |
CD ONE:
ORIGINAL ALBUM
1. TICKET COLLECTOR
2. SCARED OF CATS
3. CALLOUS
4. PERIPHERAL
5. ANNE BANCROFT
6. PRAGUE
7. CLOWN
8. PROPS
9. WHAT’S UP?
10. VAGUE
11. STOP
12. WASTING MY BREATH
WORDS THAT SAY EP
13. WORDS THAT SAY
14. UNTOUCHABLE
15. LIPSCAR
16. MANSION
SHIVERING SAND EP
17. SHIVERING SAND
18. EVERYBODY LOVES YOU
19. DISTURBED
CD TWO:
DEMOS
1. PRAGUE – DEMO
2. CLOWN – DEMO
3. OVERLAP – DEMO
4. BACK TO ZERO – DEMO
5. PERIPHERAL – DEMO
6. WILDERNESS - INSTRUMENTAL DEMO
STOP B-SIDES
7. DESERT SONG
8. BACK TO ZERO
9. OVERLAP
10. REVOLUTION (LIVE)
11. WHO CARES (LIVE)
12. FINISH (LIVE)
AND SMELLS OF
PETROL STATIONS EP
13. DISTANT RELATIVES
14. MILES APART
15. CLEAR BLUE SKY
16. RUNNING DARKNESS
SESSION TRACKS
17. STAY DEAD (BBC R1 PEEL SESSION-19 SEPT 93)
18. CLOWN (BBC R1 PEEL SESSION-19 SEPT 93)
19. PRAGUE (BBC R1 PEEL SESSION-19 SEPT 93)
20. SLOW DOWN (BBC R1 PEEL SESSION-19 SEPT 93)