Picture of Perfect Youth

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Picture of Perfect Youth

Compilation album by Feeder

Released

August 10, 2004

Recorded

1996-2003

Genre

Indie, rock

Length

132:06

Label

Echo

Producer

Various

Professional reviews

Back Hand Stories link
FHM.com (Positive) link
Leeds Music Scene link
Skinny's Music
Q
Rock Sound (8/10)

Feeder chronology

Comfort in Sound
(2002)

Picture of Perfect Youth
(2004)

Pushing the Senses
(2005)

Picture of Perfect Youth is a limited CD and vinyl collection of approximately half of Feeder's B-sides, only available from the band's official website. The website has since sold out of the CD edition, though the album was re-released in March 2007. The vinyl edition remains available to buy.

The compilation was released with little fanfare, the only single appearing on it being 2001's Just A Day. However, the band's covers of singles "Can't Stand Losing You" and "Power Of Love", originally released by The Police and Frankie Goes to Hollywood respectively, are included. The latter featured on the NME/War Child One Love compilation of covers of former UK No. 1 singles.

The album was given on original release a 3/5 by Kerrang!, but a review after the album's reissue from the same publication has reduced this to 2/5. The reviewer claimed that none of the tracks are good enough to be on an album (this view is heavilly disputed by the bands fanbase, and those who heard the album). The re-release charted in the UK albums chart at #65. It also charted at #3 in the Indie charts.

1 Track listing
- 1.1 Disc one
- 1.2 Disc two
2 Miscellanea
3 Credits

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Disc one

"Emily" - 4:44 ("Just a Day")
"Living In Polaroid" - 3:38 ("Insomnia")
"Opaque" - 3:58 ("Come Back Around")
"Power of Love" - 4:46 ("Just the Way I'm Feeling")
"Broken" - 3:23 ("Just the Way I'm Feeling")
"Lose the Fear" - 3:13 ("Forget About Tomorrow")
"Remember the Silence" - 3:50 ("Find the Colour")
"Tomorrow Shine" - 5:04 ("Yesterday Went Too Soon")
"Purple" - 4:04 ("Buck Rogers")
"Space Age Hero" - 3:45 ("Insomnia")
"Can't Stand Losing You" - 3:11 ("Just a Day")
"Just a Day" - 4:04 ("Seven Days in the Sun / Just a Day")
"Slowburn" - 3:52 ("Just a Day")
"Elegy" - 4:06 ("Tangerine")
"21st Century Meltdown" - 3:03 ("Buck Rogers")
"Home for Summer" - 3:24 ("Seven Days in the Sun")
"Here In the Bubble" - 4:25 ("Crash")
"Forgiven" - 4:41 ("Cement")

[edit] Disc two

"Feel It Again" - 3:54 ("Come Back Around")
"Getting To Know You Well" - 3:16 ("Yesterday Went Too Soon")
"Whooey" - 3:56 ("Paperfaces")
"Bullet" - 2:53 ("Come Back Around")
"World Asleep" - 4:21 ("Stereo World")
"Rain" - 3:26 ("Tangerine")
"Eclipse" - 2:41 ("Suffocate")
"Oxidize" - 3:50 ("Yesterday Went Too Soon")
"Bad Hair Day" - 2:05 ("Turn")
"Come Back Around" (Same name as the one on 'Comfort In Sound' but completely different song) - 3:26 ("Turn")
"Circles" - 3:00 ("Find the Colour")
"Spill" - 2:58 ("Suffocate")
"Rubberband" - 3:42 ("Yesterday Went Too Soon")
"Slider" - 3:25 ("Yesterday Went Too Soon")
"Can't Dance To Disco" - 3:01 ("Day in Day Out")
"TV Me" - 3:30 ("Tangerine")
"Wishing for the Sun" - 3:31 ("High")
"Undivided" - 4:06 ("Crash")

[edit] Miscellanea

All of the B-Sides from the "Yesterday Went Too Soon", "Just a Day" and "Find the Colour" singles appear on this album.

[edit] Credits

All tracks written by Grant Nicholas, except "Power of Love" (written by Peter Gill, Holly Johnson, Brian Nash, and Mark O'Toole of Frankie Goes to Hollywood) and "Can't Stand Losing You" (written by Sting).