Bertie's Brochures

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Bertie's Brochures
Bertie's Brochures cover
Studio album by The Fatima Mansions
Released 1991
Genre Alternative rock
Length 25.30 minutes
The Fatima Mansions chronology
Viva Dead Ponies (1990) Bertie's Brochures (1991) Valhalla Avenue(1992)

Recorded and released between Viva Dead Ponies and Valhalla Avenue, the Bertie's Brochures mini-album found The Fatima Mansions displaying their more subtle side, with the record being dominated with slower, piano-led ballads such as the title track and their cover of Scott Walker's "Long About Now" ,although their radically altered take on REM's "Shiny Happy People" and "Mario Vargas Yoni" represented the band's noisier and more scathing side too.

[edit] Track listing

  • 1. Behind The Moon (3:47)
  • 2. Bertie's Brochures (5:15)
  • 3. Shiny Happy People (3:17)
  • 4. VN (Apology) (1:21)
  • 5. Mario Vargas Yoni (2:30)
  • 6. Smiling (3:05)
  • 7. Long About Now (1:53)
  • 8. The Great Valerio (4:26)