Supercluster: The Big Dipper Anthology

Supercluster: The Big Dipper Anthology
Compilation album by Big Dipper
Released March 18, 2008
Genre Alternative rock, indie rock, jangle pop
Label Merge Records
Big Dipper chronology

Slam
(1990)
Supercluster: The Big Dipper Anthology
(2008)
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Supercluster: The Big Dipper Anthology is a 3-disc release by the band Big Dipper. The three disc set contains songs from the band's debut EP Boo-Boo and their first two full-length albums Heavens, and Craps. In addition to those three releases, the set also contains 15 tracks which were recorded after their final album, Slam.

The album's liner notes were written by Tom Scharpling, of Scharpling and Wurster fame.

The song, "Winsor Dam", was covered by Gigolo Aunts on the "Mrs. Washington" single and the Where I Find My Heaven compilation album. The song, "Mr. Woods", was covered by Gigolo Aunts on Safe and Sound: A Benefit in Response to the Brookline Clinic Violence, released in 1996 on Mercury Records (Catalog Number: 314 534 067-2).

Track listing

Disc One
No. Title Length
1. "Faith Healer"   3:02
2. "San Quentin, CA"   2:03
3. "What in Sam Hill...?"   3:03
4. "Wrong in the Charts"   2:58
5. "Ancers"   2:26
6. "Loch Ness Monster"   2:58
7. "She's Fetching"   2:37
8. "Man o'War"   2:41
9. "Easter Eve"   3:37
10. "Humason"   2:56
11. "Lunar Module"   4:48
12. "All Going Out Together"   2:57
13. "Younger Bums"   2:57
14. "When Men Were Trains"   2:29
15. "Wet Weekend"   3:15
16. "Mr. Woods"   3:12
Disc Two
No. Title Length
1. "Meet the Witch"   3:55
2. "Ron Klaus Wrecked His House"   5:05
3. "The Insane Girl"   3:39
4. "Semjáse"   4:37
5. "Stardom Because"   4:00
6. "Bonnie"   3:46
7. "Hey! Mr. Lincoln"   3:35
8. "Bells of Love"   3:15
9. "A Song to Be Beautiful"   4:06
10. "Golden Shame"   1:41
11. "Lou Gehrig's Disease"   3:47
12. "You're Not Patsy"   2:29
13. "San Quentin, CA"   2:18
14. "Which Would You Rather"   2:34
15. "He Is God"   2:16
16. "Guitar Named Desire"   1:54
17. "Ron Klaus Demo'd His House"   5:11
18. "Life Inside the Cemetery"   3:45
Disc Three
No. Title Length
1. "Wake Up the King"   3:25
2. "Edith"   3:27
3. "The Beast"   2:51
4. "Restaurant Cloud"   3:11
5. "Missing Time"   2:59
6. "Beginning of the End"   2:45
7. "Lifetime Achievement Award"   3:08
8. "Dead River"   3:04
9. "Silentium"   2:40
10. "Approach of a Human Being"   4:30
11. "Mineral Man"   2:48
12. "The Ghost of Emily"   4:25
13. "Winsor Dam"   4:53
14. "Nowhere to Put My Love"   3:44
15. "Extraordinary Worm"   3:27