Chris Difford / ‘Chris To The Mill’: Solo Recordings box set with rarities
The solo work of Squeeze singer-songwriter Chris Difford is collected in Chris To… The Mill, a new 4CD+DVD box set that collects albums, rarities and unreleased demos.
Difford’s three solo albums – I Didn’t Get Where I Am (2002), The Last Temptation of Chris (2008) and Cashmere If You Can (2011) – span nearly a decade and all feature here, along with 21 bonus tracks – B-sides, songs featured on compilations and unheard demos.
A DVD features Chris discussing the songs as well as four new acoustic performances, filmed at Elton John’s studio. This set is packaged in a clamshell box (with the discs in card sleeves) and comes with a 48-page booklet with new notes by Chris on each album and a track-by-track annotations.
The Chris To… The Mill box set is released 3 March 2017.
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CD1: I DIDN’T GET WHERE I AM (November 2002)
- Tight Rope
- For A Change
- Cowboys Are My Weakness
- No Show Jones
- A World That Passed Me By
- One Day
- Playing With Electric Trains
- Lamas Fayre
- Trafalgar Square
- Parents
CD2: I DIDN’T GET WHERE I AM – BONUS TRACKS
- Black Coffee [version] – CD single b-side
- Lamas Fayre [alternate version] – CD single b-side
- Pole Star – previously unreleased song
- Under The Moon Over You – previously unreleased song
- For A Change [demo] 4.59 – Plane Groovy LP – PLG002 (2012)
- Cathy Come Home 4.28 – Plane Groovy LP – PLG002 (2012)
- A World That Passed Me By [demo] – Plane Groovy LP – PLG002 (2012)
- Take Me I’m Yours [Mix 1] – Plane Groovy LP – PLG002 (2102
- Cowboys Are My Weakness – [demo, sung by Gary Clark]
CD3: THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIS (April 2008)
- Come On Down
- Broken Family
- Battersea Boys
- On My Own I’m Never Bored
- Julian And Sandy
- The Other Man In My Life
- My Mother’s Handbag
- Fat As A Fiddle
- The Gates Of Eden
- Reverso
- Never Coming Back
- Good Life
- The Party Is Over
Bonus tracks
- Piece Of Cake 2.51 – ‘It’s All About Me’ compilation (2009)
- It’s All About Me 3.27 – ‘It’s All About Me’ compilation (2009)
- Gates Of Eden [early version] 4.42 – previously unreleased
- Never Bored [demo] 4.18 – previously unreleased
- Walrus [demo] 2.42 – previously unreleased song
- Penny For Your Thoughts [demo] 3.15 – previously unreleased song
- What Goes On 3.02 (Lou Reed song) – ‘1969: Key To Change’ VA comp for Centre Point (2010)
CD4: CASHMERE IF YOU CAN (May 2011)
- 1975 (CIYC)
- Like I Did
- The Still And The Sparkling
- Back In The Day
- Sidney Street
- Cottontops
- Upgrade Me
- Who’d Ever Want To Be
- Passion Killer
- Goldfish
- Wrecked
- Happy Once Again
Bonus tracks
- All My Loving – ‘ We’re With The Beatles’ Mojo VA comp (2013)
- Passion Killer [Boo Hewerdine demo] – previously unreleased
- Upgrade Me Please [Boo Hewerdine demo] – previously unreleased
- Tears [Boo Hewerdine demo] – previously unreleased song
- Wonderful Surprise [Boo Hewerdine demo] – previously unreleased song
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