While waiting for the pre-sale to start on Nov. 15th, we can disclose the content of Best Things Are Yet To Come (Area Pirata), the double CD compilation celebrating the first 30 years of the Strange Flowers career.
The track list follows the time order of the writing, separated into two periods, one representing the very first and classical band line-up, and the other the following two main line-ups. The two CDs include unreleased songs, alternative versions, alternative mixes, or alternative masterings of previously published songs.
Disc 1- The First Republic
- Goodbye Summer Skies
- Of Perception
- Miriam On The Nile
- Carrin’ To Pie
- Dreaming, Bleeding A Bit
- Me And The Eggman
- Janet’s Faces
- Apples In Your Eyes
- Roger Talks To The Young Emily
- John On The Moon
- Of Green And Of Milk Of Bread And Of Sand
- Girls Of April
- The Sixth Colour
- Sand In The Wind
- No Love No Pain No Fall From Grace
Disc 2- The Second And Third Republic
- Strange Girl 2000
- Hemerick G
- Alice Stealing Rainbows
- Yellow Of Sun
- Angela’s Disease
- September
- The Insect And The Fish
- The Naked Monk
- Everyone Has A Spot In The Sunshine
- Blue Mothers
- Dreams Obscure
- Seven Year Old Poets
- Underneath Electric Wires
- Evelyn’s Face
- Watching The Clouds From A Strawberry Trees
Photo: The Strange Flowers in 1989 ©Carlo Silipo