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1986 release from the Baroque Pop pioneers, available worldwide on CD for the first time! Includes 6 bonus tracks, and featuring the return of original member Michael Brown, while the packaging features new liner notes from Scott Schinder.
The Left Banke arrived in 1966 with their hit singles “Walk Away Renee” (ranked #222 on Rolling Stone’s “500 Greatest Songs Of All Time” list in 2004) and “Pretty Ballerina,” which put them on the forefront of the genre now known as Baroque Pop. Founder Michael Brown left the band before their second album (The Left Banke Too), featuring “There’s Gonna Be A Storm,” the title of the long out-of-print and collectable anthology of their Smash Records repertoire, before going on to see involvement in other influential groups including Montage, Stories, and The Beckies.
In 1978, original members Steve Martin Caro, Tom Finn, and George Cameron reunited to record tracks for Finn’s new publishing deal. The tracks would emerge nearly a decade later in the US as Strangers On A Train (they also appeared in the UK under the title, Voices Calling).
Flash forward to 2001. Brown (who wasn't exactly inactive in his songwriting) invited Caro to lay down vocals on new material he had written. In hopes of sparking a Left Banke resurgence, the tracks were circulated to industry insiders, but were not heard by the public at large. Those six tracks augment the Strangers On A Train reissue – making it a cohesive document of not only the last Left Banke album, but what exists as what could have been another.
This release presents the culmination of this groundbreaking band, whose influence is not only still felt, but heard. Again.
Tracklist
1. Strangers On A Train
2. Heartbreaker
3. Lorraine
4. Yesterday’s Love
5. Hold On Tight
6. And One Day
7. You Say
8. I Can Fly
9. Only My Opinion
10. Queen Of Paradise
11. Airborne [Bonus Track]
12. I Don’t Know (2002 Version) [Bonus Track]
13. Until The End [Bonus Track]
14. My Buddy Steve (Long Lost Friend) [Bonus Track]
15. Meet Me In The Moonlight [Bonus Track]
16. High Flyer [Bonus Track]