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Artist
  
Robert Wyatt

Label
  
Rough Trade Records

Release date
  
1993

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Similar
  
Robert Wyatt albums, Other albums

Mid-Eighties is a 1993 compilation album by Robert Wyatt that contains various tracks from that period, including the whole of his 1985 album Old Rottenhat, and his 1984 EP Work in Progress.

Contents

It is issued by Gramavision and Rough Trade Records and distributed by Rhino Records.

Track listing

  1. "Yolanda" – 4:12
  2. "Te Recuerdo Amanda" – 3:33
  3. "Biko" – 4:38
  4. "Amber and the Amberines" – 4:11
  5. "Memories of You" (Andy Razaf, Eubie Blake) – 2:58
  6. "'Round Midnight" (Thelonious Monk, Bernie Hanighen) – 4:09
  7. "Pigs" – 2:39
  8. "Chairman Mao" – 6:15
  9. "Alliance" – 4:24
  10. "The United States of Amnesia" – 5:51
  11. "East Timor" – 2:53
  12. "Speechless" – 3:37
  13. "The Age of Self" – 2:50
  14. "Vandalusia" – 2:43
  15. "The British Road" – 6:48
  16. "Mass Medium" – 4:17
  17. "Gharbzadegi" – 8:24
  18. "P.L.A." – 2:05
  19. "Alfie and Robert Sail Off Into the Sunset" – 1:40 (Easter egg track based on the Specials' "You're Wondering Now")

Tracks 1–4 were originally released as Work in Progress.

Tracks 9–18 comprise the whole album Old Rottenhat in the original order, all selections from which were written by Wyatt.

Songs

1Yolanda4:12
2Te Recuerdo Amanda3:34
3Biko4:38

References

Mid-Eighties Wikipedia
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