Track Listing

1. Icing On The Cake
2. Kiss Me (1985)
3. Unkiss That Kiss
4. Sunday Supplement
5. Wednesday Jones (Dixie)
6. I Love You
7. Blasted With Ecstasy
8. Julie Christie
9. Cocksure
10. Love Is Driving Me Insane
11. Kiss Me (1983)
12. Dream Machine
13. Lot Of Ink
14. When You Go To Bed
15. Done For
16. Moments Of Being (Interlude)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #66514 in Music
• Released on: 1998-12-28
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

Customer Reviews

Yes, our life is a misery, an endless misery. Why do we exist? Send me the news.'
I'm not too keen on my incunabula or early work but, whilst acknowledging that I was seldom heavenly in those brutal surly eighties, I feel Sunday Supplement & Julie Christie are above average creations for a twenty two year old. I find solace though in that I fared better than the Silverline 445888 500 Watt Submersible Water Pump for which Swicky had stern words and one star and gratitude to be judged to be equal with the Intex Single Air Bed with Built in Pump which also got two stars. "I try to reassure myself with Rimbaud's last letter to his sister: `Yes, our life is a misery, an endless misery. Why do we exist? Send me the news.' " Bless you Swicky and I will try harder in the next life.

The beginnings of genius
Although admittedly not his best work however the standard he sets is so high?
A journey through his early work full of finely crafted tunes and everyday lyrics. This is where it all began for some of us and by the way its my 14 and 6 year old daughters favourite album. So don't be scared to share it. They wouldn't forgive me if I gave it less than 5 stars

A wonderful document of Stephen Duffy's early work.
If you were buying records in the early-to-mid '80s, you've probably heard the hits 'Kiss Me' and 'Icing on the Cake'. There are a few tracks here that carry on in a somewhat similar vein ('Unkiss That Kiss', 'I Love You' and 'A Lot of Ink'), but the real gems are 'Sunday Supplement', 'When You Go to Bed', 'Julie Christie' and the alternate version of 'Wednesday Jones'. Mostly free of the synth poppy production that dominated The Ups and Downs and Because We Love You, these tracks highlight Duffy's rapid growth as a songwriter and represent the first formative steps toward his later work with the Lilac Time. A must for any fan of Stephen Duffy and the Lilac Time, worth a listen for anyone with fond memories of 'Kiss Me' and "Icing on the Cake.'