Boxette

Boxette
Compilation album by Saint Etienne
Released January 21, 2008
Genre Alternative rock
Synthpop
Label Foreign Office - 004
Saint Etienne chronology

What Have You Done Today Mervyn Day?
(2006)		 Boxette
(2008)		 London Conversations
(2009)

Boxette is a 4-CD box set by Saint Etienne available for purchase only to people registered with their fan club, Lovers Unite.[1] It contains I Love to Paint (1994), Built on Sand (1999), Asleep at the Wheels of Steel (2001) and Eric Random.

The first three are remastered editions of very limited compilations of unreleased material sent out to members of the fan club over the years, while the fourth compiles songs released on various fan club EPs as well as five previously unreleased tracks. It was released in a numbered limited edition of 3,000[1] with some copies hand-numbered and signed by the band.[2]

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Stanley and Wiggs; except where indicated. 

Disc one - I Love to Paint
No. TitleWriter(s) Length
1. "Flight to Tashkent"    2:48
2. "Sushi Rider"  Bund, Cracknell 5:23
3. "Deutscher Kendals"    0:51
4. "Think Twice"    3:04
5. "Studio Kinda Filthy"  Stanley, Wiggs, Mais 4:58
6. "We're Coming in Loaded"  Otis Blackwell, Winfield Scott 3:22
7. "Fife Coast"    3:43
8. "Fake '88"    5:02
9. "Parliament Hill"  Stanley, Wiggs, Williams 2:35
10. "Everything I Touch Turns to Gold"    3:30
11. "Schroeder"    3:43
12. "Stranger in Paradise"  Wright, Forrest 3:26
Disc two - Built On Sand
No. TitleWriter(s) Length
1. "The Clothes Show"    0:23
2. "Suburban Autumn Lieutenant"  Cracknell, Daho, Stanley, Wiggs 4:06
3. "Jaydip Pharmacy"  Cracknell, Stanley, Wiggs 2:53
4. "Tomorrow Never Dies"  Cracknell, Stanley, Wiggs 3:48
5. "Nazi Jaloux"    3:22
6. "Please"  Cracknell, Stanley, Wiggs 2:35
7. "Keep Nothing"  Cracknell, Stanley, Wiggs 4:00
8. "Russian"  Cracknell, Stanley, Wiggs 3:27
9. "Blofeld Buildings"  Schneider, Lippok, Lippok, Johnson, Cracknell, Stanley, Wiggs 4:39
10. "Ken"    3:40
11. "Are We Gonna Be Alright"  Sweet 3:14
12. "Andrew McCarthy" (aka "Hill Street Connection")Cracknell, Stanley, Wiggs 2:55
13. "We're in the City"  Cracknell, Stanley, Wiggs 4:21
14. "The Clothes Show (Sad Refrain)"    1:42
Disc three - Asleep at the Wheels of Steel
No. TitleWriter(s) Length
1. "United World"    1:13
2. "Lost"    2:40
3. "Dunnottar"    1:15
4. "Owl"    2:39
5. "The Montana Gang"    2:24
6. "Magic Child"    3:19
7. "The Chemicals"    2:27
8. "Garsington"    2:19
9. "Portrait Of Beau"    1:16
10. "Christmas 1936"    1:36
Disc four - Eric Random
No. TitleWriter(s) Length
1. "Marcie Dreams of Deptford"    3:44
2. "Say It to the Rain"  Cracknell, Stanley, Wiggs 4:19
3. "Departure Lounge"  Cracknell, Male, Smith 4:25
4. "Summer Song"  Cracknell, Waterfield 3:27
5. "A Slavic Beauty with a Rose Between Her Teeth"    3:54
6. "Absolute Beginners"  Bowie 4:59
7. "A Good Thing (demo)"  Cracknell, Oakfley, Waterfield 3:34
8. "The Same but Different"    1:59
9. "Southern Train"  Cracknell, Stanley, Wiggs 3:01
10. "Message in a Bottle"  Cracknell, Stanley, Wiggs 2:07
11. "Kofi Annan"    5:28
12. "Puppy Love"  Anka 2:13

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Saint Etienne website, news section
  2. ↑ Saint Etienne forum post