Strange Times (The Chameleons album)

Strange Times
Studio album by The Chameleons
Released September 1986
Recorded 1986 at Jacob's Studio, Surrey, England
Genre Post-punk
Length 52:09
Label Geffen Records
Producer David M. Allen
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The Chameleons chronology
What Does Anything Mean? Basically
(1985)
Strange Times
(1986)
Strip
(2000)

Strange Times, released in 1986 (see 1986 in music), is the third album released by The Chameleons.

Initial American pressings of the record came with a bonus 12" with six additional tracks, two of which are covers; the American cassette also had the same bonus tracks, split up so that each side of the cassette contained half of the bonus tracks.

The record did not have a B Side. It was credited as Side A and Side A+.

The album was never released on CD in any territory until 1993. Although Geffen released it as a two-disc set with all of the bonus tracks in the United Kingdom and Germany, the decision was made to omit one of the bonus tracks ("Ever After") from the American version to facilitate its release on a single disc.

Contents

Track listing

All songs written by Mark Burgess, Dave Fielding, Reg Smithies, and John Lever.

  1. "Mad Jack" – 3:55
  2. "Caution" – 7:46
  3. "Tears" (original arrangement) – 5:05
  4. "Soul in Isolation" – 7:28
  5. "Swamp Thing" – 5:56
  6. "Time/The End of Time" – 5:41
  7. "Seriocity" – 3:00
  8. "In Answer" – 4:54
  9. "Childhood" – 4:39
  10. "I'll Remember" – 3:39

Bonus tracks:

  1. "Tears" (full arrangement) – 5:10
  2. "Paradiso" – 4:35
  3. "Inside Out" – 3:34
  4. "Ever After" – 3:59
  5. "John, I'm Only Dancing" (David Bowie) – 2:30
  6. "Tomorrow Never Knows" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 6:08

Personnel

Musicians

Technical

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