Various Artists

The Complete Obscure Records Collection 1974–1978

Release date November 24, 2023

Tracklist

1
The Sinking of the Titanic
24:28
24:28
2
Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet
25:54
25:54
3
Aran
3:57
3:57
4
American Standard: I. John Philip Sousa
4:28
4:28
5
American Standard: II. Christian Zeal and Activity
9:13
9:13
6
American Standard: III. Sentimentals
5:17
5:17
7
McCrimmon Will Never Return
9:28
9:28
8
1, 2, 1–2–3–4
15:02
15:02
9
Discreet Music
30:35
30:35
10
Fullness of Wind (variation on the “Canon in D major” by Johann Pachelbel)
9:57
9:57
11
French Catalogues (variation on the “Canon in D major” by Johann Pachelbel)
5:20
5:20
12
Brutal Ardour (variation on the “Canon in D major” by Johann Pachelbel)
8:18
8:18
13
Hydrophone
8:59
8:59
14
Metallophone
7:02
7:02
15
The Centriphone
4:48
4:48
16
Elastic Aerophone / Centriphone
5:00
5:00
17
Do the Bathosphere
2:37
2:37
18
The Divination of the Bowhead Whale
16:42
16:42
19
The Chairs Story
3:30
3:30
20
All Day
7:19
7:19
21
Distant Saxophones
10:52
10:52
22
Rhapsody Spaniel
5:20
5:20
23
Experience no. 1
4:12
4:12
24
Experience no. 2
5:02
5:02
25
The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs
2:29
2:29
26
Forever and Sunsmell
6:22
6:22
27
In a Landscape
10:38
10:38
28
1–100
27:27
27:27
29
Bell Set No. 1
21:35
21:35
30
1–100 (Faster Decay)
13:42
13:42
31
Penguin Cafe Single
6:20
6:20
32
Zopf: From the Colonies
1:39
1:39
33
Zopf: In a Sydney Motel
2:28
2:28
34
Zopf: Surface Tension (Where the Trees Meet the Sky)
2:22
2:22
35
Zopf: Milk
2:22
2:22
36
Zopf: Coronation
1:33
1:33
37
Zopf: Giles Farnaby’s Dream
2:17
2:17
38
Zopf: Pigtail
2:44
2:44
39
The Sound of Someone You Love Who’s Going Away and It Doesn’t Matter
11:46
11:46
40
Hugebaby
4:48
4:48
41
Chartered Flight
6:44
6:44
42
Autumn Countdown Machine
5:32
5:32
43
Son of Gothic Chord
10:14
10:14
44
Jew’s Harp Machine
2:50
2:50
45
Drinking and Hooting Machine
4:54
4:54
46
The Squirrel and the Ricketty Racketty Bridge
21:10
21:10
47
Introduction
4:50
4:50
48
Overture
6:51
6:51
49
Aria: “I Tell You That’s Irma Herself”
5:27
5:27
50
First Interlude
1:47
1:47
51
Aria: “Irma You Will Be Mine”
2:40
2:40
52
Second Interlude
4:54
4:54
53
Chorus: “Love Is Help Mate”
4:51
4:51
54
Postlude
4:18
4:18
55
Bismillahi ’Rrahman ’Rrahim
18:27
18:27
56
Two Songs: Let Us Go Into the House of the Lord / Butterfly Sunday
6:24
6:24
57
Madrigals of the Rose Angel: Rosetti Noise / The Crystal Garden and a Coda
14:20
14:20
58
Juno
8:24
8:24

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Various Artists will be next performing at Huntington Bank Pavilion on Saturday 06 June 2026, and is scheduled to play 4 concerts across 2 countries in 2026.

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