Green Pajamas
Just To This (2lp/black)
'FORTY SUMMERS OF LUST, LOVE, HEARTBREAK AND MADNESS' - To celebrate the 40th Anniversary of The Green Pajamas, Sound-Effect Records releases an expansive album, 'Just To This,' a 2-LP compilation of tracks never before released on vinyl or CD, spanning the band's 40 years of making extraordinary music. Curated by Jeff Kelly and sequenced chronologically, the collection features 23 tracks, starting with a live version of 'Thinking Only Of You' from 1984, and ending with the finale, 'Something About The Light,' which Jeff and Joe Ross started recording - with their original 'Summer Of Lust' aesthetic very much in mind! - in November of 2023 and finished early 2024. Of the 23 songs heard here, 10 have never been released in any format and 11 were previously only available as digital downloads. Tom Dyer has mastered these songs for LP, now sounding better than ever before, bringing this collection of recordings from diverse sound sources - including cassette tapes from the 1980's - together into a cohesive and wonderfully entertaining album. Each song's recording history is detailed on the record's two full-color inner sleeves, which also feature scores of never-before published photographs. There are highlights a-plenty in this set approaching near 100 minutes of music: A blistering live version of 'Kim The Waitress' from 1994; Jeff's original demos for the songs 'Ghosts Of Love' and 'Tess;' a swift run-through of 'She's Still Bewitching Me,' live at Terrastock 4 in 2000; Jeff's cover of the Kinks' 'A Long Way From Home,' previously only available on a 2006 Ray Davies tribute CD and a beautiful, early take of 'Princess Misa' from 2022. Edition on black vinyl.