Charlatans UK – A Head Full of Ideas (Vinyl 2LP)

The Charlatans present the career spanning best of collection, A Head Full of Ideas. Released on Then Recordings through Republic Of Music, A Head Full of Ideas sums up their remarkable progress from 1990 Manchester scene hopefuls to one of the UK’s most enduring and best-loved bands. The band have notched up 13 Top 40 studio albums – three of them number ones – alongside 22 hit singles, four of them top 10. The rollercoaster highs have been accompanied by some shattering lows, any which one of them could have felled a less resilient band, from nervous breakdowns to near bankruptcy and the deaths of two founder members. Somehow, they have not just carried on but adapted and transformed. The classic Charlatans sound – driving Hammond organ, Northern Soul and house-influenced rhythms, swaggering guitars and Tim Burgess’s sunny yet somehow yearning vocal – remains instantly recognizable.

LP1

1. The Only One I Know
2. Weirdo
3. Can’t Get Out Of Bed
4. Jesus Hairdo
5. Just When You’re Thinking Things Over
6. North Country Boy
7. Tellin’ Stories
8. One To Another
9. How High
10. Forever
11. Impossible

LP2

1. Love Is The Key
2. A Man Needs To Be Told
3. Up At The Lake
4. Blackened Blue Eyes
5. Oh Vanity
6. My Foolish Pride
7. Come Home Baby
8. Let The Good Times Be Never Ending
9. Plastic Machinery
10. Totally Eclipsing