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Champion Versions

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Released
  
25 July 1997

Artist
  
The Beta Band

Producer
  
The Beta Band

Genres
  
Indie rock, Trip hop

Length
  
21:56

Release date
  
25 July 1997

Label
  
Regal Recordings

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Champion Versions (1997)
  
The Patty Patty Sound (1998)

Champion Versions is the first release by The Beta Band, released in 1997 on 12" vinyl only. The EP was later included in its entirety on the 1998 compilation The Three E.P.'s, along with The Patty Patty Sound and Los Amigos del Beta Bandidos.

Contents

Champion Versions, along with the other two original E.P.s from The Beta Band, long out of print on vinyl were re-issued as part of Record Store Day 2013.

The album cover references the design of King Tubby's The Roots of Dub LP.

"Dry the Rain" ranked at number 57 in Pitchfork Media's list of the Top 200 Songs of the 1990s.

Track listing

  1. "Dry the Rain" – 6:05
  2. "I Know" – 3:58
  3. "B+A" – 6:35
  4. "Dogs Got a Bone" – 5:58

Songs

1Dry the Rain
2I Know
3B+A

References

Champion Versions Wikipedia
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