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Bill Nelson Trade List (Last Updated Feb. 4, 2004)
Live at the Black Boy, Nottingham, England – May 16, 1981 (Features Ian Nelson on Sax) = Connie Buys a Kodak, Sleepcycle, Boom Year Ahead, The Art of Vision, Untitled 1 (Bill and Ian can’t remember the tune!), Untitled 2, Untitled 3 (Bill says DANCE!), Afterlife, Untitled 4, Untitled 5, Untitled 6, Untitled 7, Untitled 8, Opium. Quality = Good audience recording. A little bass heavy but very listenable.
Porterhouse, Retford, England - 5/25/81 (with the Practical Dreamers) - Don't Touch
Me (I'm Electric), For Young Moderns, Rooms with Brittle Views, A Kind of
Loving, Furniture Music, Do You Dream in Colour?, Sleepcycle, Boom Year Ahead,
Youth of a Nation On Fire, Out of Touch, Decline and Fall, Stay Young. Quality
= Fair audience recording.
The Warehouse, Leeds, England - 5/27/81 (with the Practical Dreamers) - Don't Touch Me (I'm Electric), For Young Moderns, Rooms with Brittle Views, A Kind of Loving, Furniture Music, Do You Dream in Colour?, Sleepcycle, Boom Year Ahead, Youth of a Nation On Fire, Out of Touch, Decline and Fall, Stay Young. Quality = Fair audience recording.
Guitarists Guild, New York City, New York, USA 7/24/81 (with the Practical Dreamers) - Sleepcycle, Boom Year Ahead, Don't Touch Me (I'm Electric), For Young Moderns, Rooms with Brittle Views, A Kind of Loving, Furniture Music, Do You Dream in Colour?, Eros Arriving, Youth of a Nation On Fire, Out of Touch, Decline and Fall, Stay Young, Opium. Quality = Good audience recording.
Youthanasia, New York City, New York, USA 7/26/81 (with the Practical Dreamers) - Sleepcycle, Boom Year Ahead, Don't Touch Me (I'm Electric), For Young Moderns, Rooms with Brittle Views, A Kind of Loving, Furniture Music, Do You Dream in Colour?, Eros Arriving, Youth of a Nation On Fire, Out of Touch, Decline and Fall, Stay Young, Opium. Quality = Good audience recording.
Elegant Machines - The Keystone, San Francisco, California, USA 7/29/81 (with the Practical Dreamers) - Sleepcycle, Boom Year Ahead, Don't Touch Me (I'm Electric), For Young Moderns, Rooms with Brittle Views, A Kind of Loving, Furniture Music, Do You Dream in Colour?, Eros Arriving, Youth of a Nation On Fire, Out of Touch, Decline and Fall, Stay Young, Opium. Quality = Excellent from a radio broadcast.
Whiskey-A-Go-Go, Hollywood, California, USA 7/31/81 (with the Practical Dreamers) - Sleepcycle, Boom Year Ahead, Don't Touch Me (I'm Electric), For Young Moderns, Rooms with Brittle Views, A Kind of Loving, Furniture Music, Do You Dream in Colour?, Eros Arriving, Youth of a Nation On Fire (missing most), Out of Touch (missing most), Decline and Fall, Stay Young, Opium. Quality = Excellent audience recording. What a shame that 2 of the songs are very chopped up!
The Roxy, Hollywood, California, USA - Early show - 8/2/81 (with the Practical Dreamers) - Sleepcycle, Boom Year Ahead, Don't Touch Me (I'm Electric), For Young Moderns, Rooms with Brittle Views, A Kind of Loving, Furniture Music, Do You Dream in Colour?, Eros Arriving, Youth of a Nation On Fire, Out of Touch, Decline and Fall, Stay Young, Opium. Quality = Good audience recording.
Live at the Venue, London 11/29/81 = Track list Unknown. Quality = Horrible! Very
muffled! I can’t make out a thing!
The Invisibility Exhibition Live at the Leicester Polytechnic, Feb 26, 1983 (Features Ian Nelson on Sax) = Blazing Memory of Innuendo, Into the Luminous Future, Endless Torsion, Medley of 3 Unknown songs, Tomorrowland (On the Threshold of 1947), A Dip in the Swimming Pool Reactor, My Sublime Perversion, Eros in Autumn, Unknown 1, Unknown 2, Sleeplessness. Quality = Pretty good audience recording.
The Imagination Chamber – "The Invisibility Exhibition" Live at the Dominion Theatre, London - March 16, 1983 (Features Ian Nelson on Sax) = Blazing Memory of Innuendo, Into the Luminous Future, Endless Torsion, Medley of 3 Unknown songs, Tomorrowland (On the Threshold of 1947), A Dip in the Swimming Pool Reactor, My Sublime Perversion, Eros in Autumn, Unknown 1, Unknown 2, Sleeplessness. Quality = Pretty good audience recording.
Live in Los Angeles – Wiltern Theatre -
April 27, 1984 = The Blazing Memory
of Innuendo, Into the Luminous Future, Every Day is Like Another New
Drug, A Private View, Eros Arriving, Age of Reason, Living for the Spangled
Moment, Glow World, Touch and Glow, Because of You, Contemplation, Do You Dream
in Colour?, A Kind of Loving, Another Day Another Ray of Hope, Outro
Live in San Francisco – The Stone - April
30, 1984 = The Blazing Memory of
Innuendo, Into the Luminous Future, Every Day is Like Another New Drug,
A Private View, Eros Arriving, Age of Reason, Living for the Spangled Moment,
Glow World, Touch and Glow, Because of You, Contemplation, Do You Dream in
Colour?, A Kind of Loving, Another Day Another Ray of Hope. Quality = Pretty
good audience recording.
Live in Toronto – El Mocombo – May 2, 1984 = Into the Luminous Future, A Private View, Age of Reason, Glow World, Because of You, A Kind of Loving, Contemplation, Another Day Another Ray of Hope. Quality = Great radio broadcast. Grade = A-
Live in New York City – Savoy Hotel - May 5, 1984 = The Blazing Memory of Innuendo, Into the Luminous Future, Every Day is Like Another New Drug, A Private View, Eros Arriving, Age of Reason, Living for the Spangled Moment, Glow World, Touch and Glow, Contemplation, Do You Dream in Colour?, A Kind of Loving, Another Day Another Ray of Hope.
Live in Washington DC – 9:30 Club – Early Show , May 6, 1984 = Into the Luminous Future, Every Day is Like Another New Drug, A Private View, Eros Arriving, Living for the Spangled Moment, Touch and Glow, Because of You (fades early), Contemplation, Do You Dream in Colour?, A Kind of Loving, Another Day Another Ray of Hope, Outro. Quality = Great audience recording. Grade = A-
Live in Washington DC – 9:30 Club – Late
Show , May 6, 1984 = Disc 1 – Intro,
Into the Luminous Future, Every Day is Like Another New Drug, A Private View,
Eros Arriving, Age of Reason, Living for the Spangled Moment, Unknown,
Touch and Glow, Because of You, Contemplation, Do You Dream in Colour?, A Kind
of Loving. Disc 2 - Another Day Another Ray of Hope, Outro. Quality =
Great audience recording. Bill is VERY Talkative at this show! Grade = A-
Live in Detroit, Michigan, USA – May 8, 1984 = Disc 1 - The Blazing Memory of Innuendo, Into the Luminous Future, Every Day is Like Another New Drug, A Private View, Eros Arriving, Age of Reason, Living for the Spangled Moment, Glow World, Touch and Glow. Disc 2 - Because of You, Contemplation, Do You Dream in Colour?, A Kind of Loving, Another Day Another Ray of Hope, Outro. Quality = tape is a little bit slow (probably from a high speed dub). Not too bad though.
Household Gods – Wakefield Park – June 9, 1990 (Features Ian Nelson on Sax) = Pulse Bongo Gothic, B-Movie Bug Boy, Astral Jazz, Moon Rocket Highway, Trance & Transcendent, Working Girl in Wonderland, But Sateria, Big Bliss Burnout, Bird-Drum-Heaven, Untitled, Welcome to the Sex-O-Mat, Nude Shuffle Substitute, Hippy House Blue. Quality = Pretty good audience recording. Very fun, loose show! Grade = B
Heroes de Lumiere, ‘Altar Pieces’ Live - June 15, 1990(Features Ian Nelson on Sax) = Prima Materia, Arbor Philisophica, Artifex, Opus Hermeticus, Splendor Solis, Signum Natura, Lumen de Lumine, Clavis Angelicae, Sanctus Illuminatus, Accesio Lucis. Quality = Very good audience recording. Grade = B+
Live in Tokyo with Harold Budd – LaForet Museum – Feb 4, 1992 = Disc 1 - Prima Materia, Themis Aurea, Signum Natura, Unknown 1, Unknown 2 (‘The Great Awakening’(?)), Opus Hermeticum, then 2 solo pieces by Budd, and the rest is Bill improvising guitar over Budd’s piano. Disc 2 = All duet improv between Nelson & Budd. 2 CD’s. Quality = Excellent audience recording. Grade = A
Live at Tower Records – New York City May 1996 = Beatnik Bill's A Capella Antics, Moon Rocket Highway, Sail the World in a Paper Canoe, Tomorrow Yesterday, Streamliner, Gloria Monday, Secret Agents in Science Park, Ordinary Idiots, Bird Ornaments, Deeply Dazzled.
Duke of Wonderland - Live at Tower Records – Los Angeles May 7,1996 = Beatnik Bill's A Capella Antics, Moon Rocket Highway, Sail the World in a Paper Canoe, Tomorrow Yesterday, Streamliner, Gloria Monday, Secret Agents in Science Park, Ordinary Idiots, Bird Ornaments, Deeply Dazzled. Quality = Very good audience recording. Grade = A-
Secret Agents at Science Park – Live at
Virgin Megastore – Manchester May 21,1996 = Moon Rocket Highway, Sail the World in a Paper Canoe, Dreamster 2LR,
Streamliner, Gloria Monday, Secret Agents in Science Park, Ordinary Idiots,
Deeply Dazzled. Quality = Good audience recording.
B-Movie Bug Boy (compilation of rare radio session tracks) – Gloria Monday (1996), B-Movie Bug Boy (1996), Trance and Transcendent (1996), Sleepcycle (6/15/81), Jazz (6/15/81), Connie Buys a Kodak (?), The Art of Vision (3/10/81), Boom Year Ahead (3/10/81), Afterlife (3/10/81), Stay Young (6/15/81), 3rd Floor Heaven (Be Bop – 5/9/74), Yorkshire Landscape (Be Bop- 5/9/74), Mill Street Junction (Be Bop – 5/9/74). Quality = Pretty good recordings from radio.
Radio News: Radio Sessions from the US & UK = Disc 1 - USA = WFMU 5/24/95 – Gloria Monday, Signum Natura, Trance & Transcendent, Themis Aurea, Moon Rocket Highway. NPR – Live in Studio 4b 6/23/96 = Streamliner, Tomorrow Yesterday. Unknown sources 1996 = B-Movie Bug Boy, Gloria Monday, Trance & Transcendent, Gloria Monday (excerpt). Disc 2 – UK = Unknown source 1983(?) = A Dip in the Swimming Pool Reactor. Kid Jensen Show – BBC1 2/22/83 = Time Tracking. Unknown source (81?) = Connie Buys a Kodak. Peel Session – BBC1 6/15/81 = Sleepcycle, Jazz, Rooms with Brittle Views, Stay Young. Unknown source 3/10/81 = Afterlife, Boom Year Ahead, Art of Vision. 1982 BBC session = M1, Zen (Endless Torsion). Quality = Mostly awesome recordings. Some is the same as the other radio sessions previously listed, but the WFMU and NPR tracks are awesome! Finally have ‘Time Tracking’ as well!!!
Landscapes = soundtrack for film about sculptor Harry Moore. Approx 30 min.
Flowers in the Night (Moons / Satellite outtakes) = The Ringing Song (B), Golden Balloon (S), Nice to Know You (B), Shaker (B), Time and Distance (S), God Man Slain (diff vers.) (B), Heaven in Your Mind (B), Say What You Mean (B), Another Happy Day (S), On A Train I Never Boarded (B), Float Away (B), When She Falls (B), If Only (B), Flowers in the Night (B), Sunset and You (S). B = Blue Moons outtake, S = When the Satellite Sings outtake.
Demo Tapes = From "After the Satellite sings" = Golden Balloon, Time and distance. From "Practically wired" = Sunset and you, Another happy day. From "Blue moons and laughing guitars" = Ringing song, Nice to know you, Heaven in your mind, Shaker, Flowers in the night, The midnight chime, The way, Wings of wonder, I’ll be everywhere, Another girl, Float away, On a train I never boarded, Say what you mean, When she falls, God man slain, If only. Quality = This is basically the same as "Flowers…" but with a few extra tracks from 'Metaphysical'.
Metaphysical (unreleased album from 1991) = Two Hearts Beating, Waiting For the Midnight Chime, Human Rodeo, This is Something, It’s A Miracle, True Reflection, Believe it or Not, Wings of Wonder, The Way, Forever, She’s Got Me Floating, Burning Down, Another Girl, That’s Me All Over, Let’s Go Naked, I’ll Be Everywhere, Warm Bodies, Certain Feelings, Hold Onto Your Heart, She’s So Metaphysical, Language of the Birds, Bill’s Answerphone Message.
Acquitted by Mirrors EP’s (2 CD set with ALL of the ABM club 7"’s+ more) = Disc 1 – Sleepcycle, Konny Buys a Kodak, When the Birds Return, The Beat That Can’t Go Wrong Today, King of the Cowboys, Shadowland, Carnival, Spring, Dancing on a Knife’s Edge, Indiscretion, Contemplation, Dream Car Romantics (In Death’s Garage Antics), Dancing Music, The World and His Wife, Rhythm Unit, Junc Sculpture, Hard Facts From the Fiction Department, Daily Bells, The Strangest Things The Strangest Times, Touch and Glow. Disc 2 – ‘Giants of the Perpetual Wurlitzer’ EP = The Strangest Things The Strangest Times (same as disc 1), Phantom Gardens, French Promenade, Golden Mile, West-Deep, Threnolia. ‘Cote D’Azure’ EP = A Dream Fulfilled, Familiar Spirit, Palais des Marine, Letter to Jacques Maritain, Villefranche Interior. ‘Spangled Moment’ EP = Heart and Soul, Living for the Spangled Moment, Feast of Lanterns, Illusions of You, Word for Word, Finks and Stooges of the Spirit, Nightbirds.
B-sides and Other Noise (collection of b-sides and EP tracks) = The Passion, Acceleration (long version), Birds of Tin, Flaming Desire (long version), Living in my Limousine (remix), Love in the Abstract, Self Impersonation, Stay Young (Leicester 79), Out of Touch (Leicester 79), The Yo-Yo Dyne, Tony Goes to Tokyo (Revox Cadets), White Sounds, Wildest Dreams (Wild Mix), Wonder Toys That Last Forever, Acquitted by Mirrors, Acceleration (Dub).
Get Out of That Hole (Rarities and More) = Cut Up In Kartoonsville, Get Out of That Hole, My Life is In Your Hands, My Dream Demon, Contemplation (Short Edit), Ieyasu (Nelson/Jobson), Who He Is, Wonder Toys That Last Forever, The Shadow Garden (from ‘From Brussels with Love’ comp), Hard Facts from the Fiction Department, The Strangest Things The Strangest Times, Acquitted by Mirrors, Dancing in the Wind, Heroes de Lumiere, The Profound Sanctuary of the Human Heart, Bronze, Um Ah Good Evening, Several Famous Orchestras, Short Wave, Contemplation (Long Edit).
Modern Gods = Teenage Archangel, Jets at Dawn, Face in the Rain, Because of You (Popstand remix), Because of You (Dubbed to the Drums), Because of You (Nailed to theDub), Grey Parade (by the Skids – b-side of a single written and produced by Bill).
Altar Pieces = Prima Materia, Arbor Philosophica, Opus Hermeticum, Signum Natura, Mysterium Magnum, Clavis Angelicae, Sanctus Illuminatus, Accessio Lucis.
Getting the Holy Ghost Across (cassette vers. that includes the vocal tracks from
the ‘Spangled’ EP).
Astral Motel
Luxury Lodge
Painting with Guitars Vol. 1 – The Romance of Sustain
Interviews
Interviews 81 – 91 = Disc 1 – BBC Radio 5 5/30/91 (14:57), BBC Radio 1 12/14/85 (15:29), Radio City 6/18/82 (38:10). Disc 2 – Radio Piccadily 3/10/81 (21:06). Note = All interviews are not edited. In some cases the commercials are there as well as if they play a song of Bill’s (always an LP cut, no unreleased stuff), the whole song is generally there. Thus the length of the interviews…just to point that out!
BBC 1984 = Interview and Music (approx 45 min)
82 & 96 = Round Table 5/7/82 & WXPN Philadelphia 6/19/96
Red Noise
Live in Bristol – Hippodrome - March 4, 1979 = Don't Touch Me, For Young Moderns, Furniture Music, Out Of Touch, Stop-Go-Stop, The Atom Age, Possession, Superenigmatix, Substitute Flesh, A Better Home, Radar In My Heart, Art/ Empire/ Industry, Revolt Into Style, Stay Young, Ships In The Night, For Young Moderns (Encore). Quality = Not that great. Listenable. Worth it to hear them do Ships in the Night!!!
Live in Manchester - Apollo – March 11, 1979 = Don’t Touch Me (I’m Electric), For Young Moderns, Furniture Music, Out of Touch, Stop Go Stop, The Atom Age, Possession, Superenigmatix, Substitute Flesh, A Better Home in the Phantom Zone, Radar in My Heart, Art/Empire/Industry, Revolt Into Style, Stay Young. Quality = Fair audience recording.a bit distorted in places but listenable. C
Live in Sheffield - March 13,1979 = Don’t Touch Me (I’m Electric), Furniture Music, Stop Go Stop, The Atom Age, Possession, Substitute Flesh, A Better Home in the Phantom Zone, Radar in My Heart, Art/Empire/Industry, Revolt Into Style, Stay Young. Quality = Very Excellent sounding show taped from radio. A+
Live at Drury Lane – March 18,1979 = Track list is forthcoming.
Demos, Live, & Sessions = Don’t Touch Me (I’m Electric) (Peel Session), For Young Moderns (demo), Stop/Go/Stop (demo), Furniture Music (demo), Radar in My Heart (demo), Stay Young (demo), Out of Touch (demo), A Better Home in the Phantom Zone (demo), Substitute Flesh (demo), The Atom Age (demo), Revolt into Style (demo), Waiting for the Night (unreleased track – demo), That Way for Years (unreleased track – demo), Stay Young (Peel Session), Out of Touch (Peel Session), Furniture Music (Peel Session), Acquitted by Mirrors (demo), Don’t Touch Me (Whistle Test), Furniture Music (Whistle Test), Stay Young (Whistle Test), Stay Young (Sheffield 79).
Interviews
Bedrock Special 1979 = interview from Newcastle w/album tracks played.
Be Bop Deluxe (All CD’s)
Live at Leeds Poltechnic 3/1/74 = Intro, So Insane So In Love, Adventures In A
Yorkshire Landscape, Third Floor Heaven, Axe Victim, Bluesy Ruby, Watch This
Space, Jets At Dawn, Teenage Archangel, No Trains To Heaven.
Live at the Black Swan, Sheffield 7/18/74
= So Insane So In Love, Third Floor
Heaven, Jet Silver And The Dolls Of Venus, Night Creatures, Adventures In A
Yorkshire Landscape, Watch This Space (18 Mins Long!), Axe Victim, Mill Street
Junction, Jets At Dawn, Sweet Jane, Rocket Cathedrals, No Trains To Heaven.
Live at Golders Green 1975 (BBC
Broadcast) = Stage Whispers, Third
Floor Heaven, Adventures in a Yorksire Landscape, Sister Seagull, Piece of
Mine, Maid in Heaven, Axe Victim.
Live in Philadelphia 3/12/76 = Track list is forthcoming!
Live at The Riviera – Chicago, IL – May 12, 1976 = Fair Exchange, Stage Whispers, Life In The Air Age, Sister Seagull, Adventures In A Yorkshire Landscape, Maid In Heaven, Ships In The Night, Arnold Higginbottom Blues, Blazing Apostles. Quality = Pretty good recording. Not sure if it is audience or a radio broadcast.
Live at Calderone Hall – Long Island, NY – December 6, 1976 = Life in the Air Age, Fair Exchange, Sister Seagull, Ships in the Night, Adventures in a Yorkshire Landscape, Forbidden Lovers, Down on Terminal Street, Blazing Apostles/Dance of the Uncle Sam Humanoids/Blazing Apostles (reprise). Quality = Fair audience recording. Cass Only
Live at the Hippodrome - Golders Green (BBC Sight And Sound In Concert + 2 Extra Tracks) – Jan. 19, 1978 (Broadcast Date April 26, 1978) = New Precision, Superenigmatix, Dangerous Stranger, Possession, Islands Of The Dead, Panic In The World, Lovers Are Mortal, Love In Flames, Blazing Apostles. Quality = Very good!
“Blimps” Live at the Apollo – Glasgow –
February 7, 1978 = New Precision,
Possession, Superenigmatix, Dangerous Stranger, Speed of the Wind, Islands of
the Dead, Surreal Estate, Lovers are Mortal, New Mysteries, Panic in the World,
Forbidden Lovers, Love in Flames, Fair Exchange, Blazing Apostles. Quality =
Fair audience recording.
Interviews
"Rock Around the World" interview - 1977 (approx 25 min)
