Gold Mine Trash

1987 compilation album by Felt

Gold Mine Trash

Compilation album by

Felt

Released| October 1987
Genre| Post-punk, indie pop
Length| 33:54
Label| Cherry Red
Producer| John A. Rivers, John Leckie, Robin Guthrie
Felt chronology
| Poem of the River
(1987)  | Gold Mine Trash
(1987)  | The Pictorial Jackson Review
(1988)

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Reissue

2005 Reissue Cover

Professional ratingsReview scores

Source| Rating
AllMusic| [1]

Gold Mine Trash is the first compilation album by English alternative rock band Felt, released in 1987. It collects tracks from the band's singles and albums recorded for Cherry Red between 1981 and 1985. The cover photo shows a detail from the Throne Hall of Neuschwanstein Castle in Germany.

Tracks 3 and 5 were unreleased versions recorded as demos for Blanco y Negro Records.[2] The version of "Fortune" here is a re-recording of the song from the band's first album.

## Track listing[edit]

All tracks are written by Lawrence and Maurice Deebank

No.| Title| Length

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1.| "Something Sends Me To Sleep"| 2:56
2.| "Trails Of Colour Dissolve"| 3:09
3.| "Dismantled King Is Off The Throne" (demo)| 2:52
4.| "Penelope Tree"| 3:02
5.| "Sunlight Bathed the Golden Glow" (demo)| 3:11
6.| "Crystal Ball"| 2:56
7.| "The Day The Rain Came Down"| 2:31
8.| "Fortune" (re-recorded version)| 3:38
9.| "Vasco Da Gama"| 3:41
10.| "Primitive Painters"| 5:58

## Personnel[edit]

Felt 1980-1985

* Maurice Deebank
* Nick Gilbert
* Lawrence
* Gary Ainge
* Mick Lloyd
* Martin Duffy

with

* Elizabeth Fraser – vocals on "Primitive Painters"

## References[edit]

1. ^ AllMusic review
2. ^ "Felt - Gold Mine Trash", Discogs, 5 October 1987

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Felt

* Lawrence
* Gary Ainge
* Maurice Deebank
* Martin Duffy

* Nick Gilbert
* Mick Lloyd
* Marco Thomas
* Mick Bund

Studio albums|

* Crumbling the Antiseptic Beauty
* The Splendour of Fear
* The Strange Idols Pattern and Other Short Stories
* Ignite the Seven Cannons
* Let the Snakes Crinkle Their Heads to Death / The Seventeenth Century
* Forever Breathes the Lonely Word
* Poem of the River
* The Pictorial Jackson Review
* Train Above the City
* Me and a Monkey on the Moon

Compilation albums|

* Gold Mine Trash
* Bubblegum Perfume
* Absolute Classic Masterpieces
* Absolute Classic Masterpieces Volume II
* Stains on a Decade

Denim|

* Back in Denim
* Denim on Ice
* Denim Take Over
* Novelty Rock

Go-Kart Mozart / Mozart Estate|

* Instant Wigwam and Igloo Mixture
* Tearing Up the Album Chart
* On the Hot Dog Streets
* Mozart's Mini-Mart
* Pop-Up! Ker-Ching! and the Possibilities of Modern Shopping

Authority control databases |

* MusicBrainz release group

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