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01. The Wedding Present - Go Out And Get 'Em, Boy!
02. The Wedding Present - (The Moment Before) Everything's Spoiled Again
03. The Wedding Present - Once More
04. The Wedding Present - At The Edge Of The Sea
05. The Wedding Present - Living And Learning
06. The Wedding Present - This Boy Can Wait
07. The Wedding Present - You Should Always Keep In Touch With Your Friends
08. The Wedding Present - Felicity
09. The Wedding Present - What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted?
10. The Wedding Present - Never Said
11. The Wedding Present - Every Mother's Son
12. The Wedding Present - My Favourite Dress
ARTIST
TITLE
Tommy 30
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
SCOPITONE 082CD SCOPITONE 082CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
8/16/2019

George Best became The Wedding Present's first album in 1988. But Tommy, released one year later, was made up of the early songs from the singles and radio sessions that had catapulted them from being bedsit musicians into indie darlings: "Go Out And Get 'Em, Boy!" with its purposefully super-fast guitars, "You Should Always Keep In Touch With Your Friends" an anthem for those long time Wedding Present fans, "My Favourite Dress" the only single in the collection that ended up on George Best, the classic, fraught tale of losing one's first love that perfectly played on the heart strings and began David Gedge's legacy of understanding everyone's heartbreak. Tommy 30, a brand-new re-recording of Tommy, did not come about simply as a "follow on" to George Best 30 (SCOPITONE 074CD, 2017). The band felt, during a Tommy 30th anniversary concert tour, that the songs had grown and evolved. Enter a more confident vocalist... an altogether growlier guitar. A bigger sound. The urgency of a 25-year-old Gedge is replaced with a charming vocalist with years of experience. Everything's warmer and, maybe, gentler... but in a satisfying way. It's like your old friends have come home to see you.