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Popular Songs Of Great Enduring Strength And Beauty
Release Date: June 24 !

This collection also features five songs from CVB's critically acclaimed albums on Virgin Records - 1988's Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart and 1989's Key Lime Pie. However, after the band tried to buy back the rights to the original masters for inclusion on Popular Songs, Virgin refused. So CVB have faithfully re-recorded these five tracks for this collection and, in doing so, have not only reclaimed their own music but have given a stiff middle finger to their former label in the process.

  1. The Day That Lassie Went To The Moon
  2. Border Ska
  3. Take The Skinheads Bowling
  4. Pictures Of Matchstick Men*
  5. Skinhead Stomp
  6. Opi Rides Again/Club Med Sucks
  7. Eye Of Fatima (Parts 1 And 2)*
  8. ZZ Top Goes to Egypt
  9. Sad Lovers' Waltz
  10. When I Win The Lottery*
  11. The History Of Utah
  12. Seven Languages
  13. All Her Favorite Fruit*
  14. Good Guys And Bad Guys
  15. Circles
  16. One Of These Days
  17. Ambiguity Song
  18. Shut Us Down

* Re-recording

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Popular Songs Of Great Enduring Strength and Beauty
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And I can almost smell her breath faint with a sweet scent of decay
Got me a little old shack in the woods
And I will say this at the risk of falling from favour
And on a mission over China The lady opens up her arms
It's not the magic bus
My partner gives the signal, pull the trigger, then there's smoke
And I can see her squeeze the phone between her chin and shoulder
How I long to see your face photographed in fifteen second intervals
And cowboys on acid are like Egyptian cartoons
My partner gives the signal, pull the trigger, then there's smoke
I would fight for hippy chicks
I hate this part of Texas
Well, this here verse is for the people in Russia
Cigarettes and carrot juice
you don't know anything 'til you're 51-7






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