The Blue Aeroplanes / Outsider Art: The Other Best Of 1985-2025

The Blue Aeroplanes are to release their second ‘Best Of’ compilation, in 2025, to mark their 40th anniversary.

Released next month, Outsider Art: The Other Best Of 1985-2025 follows the Magical Realism compilation from January. It features 19 songs on double vinyl and single CD, with the 2LP set coming with a bonus seven-inch single housing two additional tracks: a first vinyl release for ‘Tyger Tyger Burning Bright!’, originally on the 2024 CD compilation Staring At The Future, which was limited to 100 copies, plus a new live version of ‘Lover And Confidante’.

Outsider Art’s 19 songs feature five previously unreleased tracks: a newly recorded take on 1984’s ‘Gunning The Works’, plus live versions of ‘Control Of Embassies’, ‘What It Is’, ‘Winter Sun’ and ‘Breaking In My Heart’. In addition, three songs have been unavailable on vinyl before: ‘Cavaliers P10’ and ‘Cavaliers P12’ from 2000’s Cavaliers And Roundheads and ‘Bright Star Catalogue’ from 2006’s Altitude.  

The compilation has been remastered by Phil Kinrade at AIR Studios, with vinyl and CD both featuring sleevenotes, lyrics and photos from the band’s archives.

Outsider Art: The Other Best Of 1985-2025 is released on 31 October via Chrysalis.

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Tracklisting

Outsider Art: The Other Best Of 1985-2025 The Blue Aeroplanes /

• 2LP or CD edition
  • 1. You (Are Loved) (1990 standalone single)
    2. Detective Song (from Rough Music, 1995)
    3. Gunning The Works 2025
    4. Nothing (from Anti-Gravity, 2011)
    5. Skin (from Welcome Stranger, 2017)
    6. Control Of Embassies (Live)
    7. Your Ages (from Swagger, 1989)
    8. Frightened At Night (from Life Model, 1991)
    9. Half A Crown (from Culture Gun, 2023)
    10. The Boy In The Bubble (from Beatsongs, 1991)
    11. What It Is (Live At The BBC)
    12. Someone (In The Arms Of No-One) (from Culture Gun, 2023)
    13. Bright Star Catalogue (from Altitude, 2006)
    14. Love Comes Round (from Swagger, 1989)
    15. Cavaliers P10 (from Cavaliers And Roundheads, 2000)
    16. Winter Sun (Live)
    17. Jack Leaves And Black Spring (from Beatsongs, 1991)
    18. Breaking In My Heart (Live At The BBC)
    19. Cavaliers P12 (from Cavaliers And Roundheads, 2000)
• Bonus 7″ single (with 2LP)
  • 1. Tyger Tyger Burning Bright (from Staring At The Future, 2024)
    2. Lover And Confidante (Live)