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Rough Trade Shops is set to release their first ever compilation album, 'Best of Rough Trade Records', on 23 March.
The authoritative collection will contain some of the best tracks from the influential indie label's 40 year run, selected by the label's Geoff Travis and Jeannette Lee and Rough Trade Shops' Simon Russell, Sean Forbes, Pete Donne and Nigel House.
The compilation will cover the early years i.e The Smiths, Robert Wyatt and The Raincoats right through to the label's 2001 reincarnation with tracks from Arcade Fire, The Libertines and The Strokes. The current crop will be represented by Warpaint, Alabama Shakes and Micachu.
The selection will be released on the following formats:
Twenty track single CD (RTRTCD1)
Sixty track deluxe triple CD (RTRTCD3)
Twenty track ltd. 2LP (RTRTLP)
Sixty track download album (RTRTDL)
The track listing for the download version is as follows:
1. Metal Urbain - Paris Maquis
2. Cabaret Voltaire - Do The Mussolini (Headkick)
3. Kleenex - Hedi’s head
4. File Under Pop - Heathrow
5. Stiff Little Fingers - Rough Trade
6. The Monochrome Set - Eine Symphonie Des Grauens
7. The Feelies - Fa Cé La
8. The Pack - King of Kings
9. The Pop Group - Where There's A Will There's A Way
10. The Prats - Disco Pope
11. James Blood Ulmer - Are You Glad To Be In America?
12. Young Marble Giants - Wurlitzer Jukebox
13. The Raincoats - Shouting out loud
14. Swell Maps - The Helicopter Spies
15. Missing Scientists - Big City Bright Lights
16. Vic Godard & The Subway Sect - Stop That Girl
17. Chris & Cosey - October (love song)
18. Scritti Politti - The "Sweetest Girl"
19. Robert Wyatt - Born Again Cretin
20. Tav Falco’s Panther Burns - She's The One That Got It
21. Zounds - More Trouble Coming Every Day
22. The Fall - The Man Whose Head Expanded
23. Rainy Day - I'll Keep It With Mine
24. The Stars of Heaven - Sacred Heart Hotel
25. The Motorcycle Boy - Big Rock Candy Mountain
26. Arthur Russell - Being It
27. The Smiths - London
28. AR Kane - Baby Milk Snatcher
29. The Sundays - Here's Where The Story Ends
30. Galaxie 500 - Blue Thunder
31. Mazzy Star - Blue Flower
32. The Strokes - The Modern Age
33. The Libertines - Time For Heroes
34. Palma Violets - Best Of Friends
35. Arcade Fire - Crown Of Love
36. Babyshambles - Albion
37. Antony & The Johnsons - I Fell In Love With A Dead Boy
38. Micachu - Golden Phone
39. Warpaint - Undertow
40. Sufjan Stevens - John Wayne Gacy, Jr
41. Arthur Russell - That's Us / Wild Combination
42. Jeffrey Lewis - East River
43. Belle & Sebastian - I'm a Cuckoo
44. Scritti Politti - The Boom Boom Bap
45. Mystery Jets - It's Too Late To Talk
46. British Sea Power - The Great Skua
47. Emiliana Torrini - Autumn Sun
48. Jenny Lewis with The Watson Twins - Rise Up With Fists!!
49. Dylan LeBlanc - Emma Hartley
50. Alabama Shakes - Always Alright
51. Pulp - After You
52. 1990s - You Made Me Like It
53. Benjamin Booker - Violent Shiver
54. Parquet Courts - Sunbathing Animal
55. Life Without Buildings - The Leanover
56. Brakes - What's In It For Me
57. Spring Heel Jack - Lee Perry
58. Pantha du Prince - Stick To My Side
59. Gruff Rhys - Candylion
60. Jarvis - Running The World
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