Learn to Talk / The Country of Blinds
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Learn to Talk / The Country of Blinds
Compilation album by Skeleton Crew
Released 2005
Recorded Studio tracks: Switzerland, December 1983 – January 1984; December 1985 – January 1986
Live tracks: North America and Europe, 1982–1985
Genre
Avant-rock
experimental
Length 109:00
Label Fred (UK)
Producer Skeleton Crew
Robert Vogel
Tim Hodgkinson
Skeleton Crew chronology
The Country of Blinds
(1986) Learn to Talk / The Country of Blinds
(2005)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Dusted favourable[1]
Learn to Talk / The Country of Blinds is a double CD compilation album by United States experimental rock and jazz band Skeleton Crew. It was released by Fred Records in 2005 and comprises the band's two studio albums, Learn to Talk and The Country of Blinds, with one track omitted, plus ten live tracks taken from their North American and European tours, nine of which were previously unreleased.
This compilation was dedicated by Fred Frith to Tom Cora, who died in 1998: "Dedicated to the memory of Tom Cora – dear friend, master musician and enthusiastic co-conspirator."
In 1990 RecRec Music issued a similar compilation album, Learn to Talk / Country of Blinds on a single CD, comprising Learn to Talk and The Country of Blinds with three tracks omitted, and no additional tracks.
Contents
1 Track listing
1.1 Track notes
2 Personnel
2.1 Guests
2.2 Sound and art work
3 References
4 External links
Track listing
Disc 1: Learn to Talk
01 "Que Viva" (Skeleton Crew) – 3:40
02 "Onwards and Upwards" (Skeleton Crew) – 3:39
03 "The Way Things Fall (Back Apart)" (Cora/Frith/Sharpe) – 2:35
04 "Not My Shoes" (Skeleton Crew) – 2:14
05 "The Washington Post" (Sousa arr. Skeleton Crew) – 1:28
06 "We're Still Free" (Skeleton Crew) – 4:16
07 "Victoryville" (Skeleton Crew) – 2:43
08 "Los Colitos" (trad. Ecuador/Cora/Frith) – 2.53
09 "Life at the Top" (Frith) – 1:44
10 "Learn to Talk" (Skeleton Crew) – 3:40
11 "Factory Song" (Skeleton Crew) – 5:13
12 "It's Fine" (Skeleton Crew) – 4:22
13 "Zach's Flag" (Cora) – 3:10
14 "Sick as a Parrot" (Skeleton Crew) – 2:57
15 "Automatic Pilot" (Skeleton Crew) – 1:28
16 "Hook" (Frith) – 2:14
17 "Killing Time" (Frith/Lasswell/Maher) – 2:27
Tracks 1–13 are from the original Learn to Talk album
Tracks 8–9 and 14–17 are not on the RecRec Music compilation, Learn to Talk / Country of Blinds
Tracks 17 was previously released on Passed Normal Vol. 4 (1991) by various artists.
Disc 2: The Country of Blinds
01 "The Country of Blinds" (Cora) – 4:10
02 "The Border" (Hemenway) – 3:28
03 "The Hand that Bites" (Frith) – 5:32
04 "Dead Sheep" (Cora/Frith) – 3:22
05 "Bingo" (Frith) – 3:34
06 "Man or Monkey" (Cutler) – 2:27
07 "Foot in Hole" (Skeleton Crew) – 3:08
08 "Hot Field" (Skeleton Crew) – 2:36
09 "The Birds of Japan" (Frith) – 4:00
10 "You May Find a Bed" (Frith/Sharpe) – 6:10
11 "Sparrow Song" (Frith) – 1:29
12 "Safety in Numbers" (Skeleton Crew) – 3:18
13 "Howdywhoola Too" (Cora) – 2:47
14 "Second Rate" (Skeleton Crew) – 5:32
15 "New Orleans Stomp" (Morton, arr. Skeleton Crew) – 3:14
16 "Hasta la Victoria" (Skeleton Crew) – 3:24
Tracks 1–10 are from the original The Country of Blinds album
Tracks 11–16 are not on the
