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Gold Mother

The Fontana debut, remade in 1991 around a new "Sit Down".
James, 1990

Rough Trade funded the album, but the band moved to Fontana, which cleared their debt to Sire. It was mixed at Square One in Bury, with Tim Palmer remixing "How Was It for You". The 1991 reissue replaced the original "Come Home", "Crescendo" and "Hang On" with a Flood mix of "Come Home", "Lose Control" and the re-recorded "Sit Down"; the US version was titled James. NME gave 8 of 10 and ZigZag 9 of 10, AllMusic 4 of 5, and NME placed it fifth in its year-end list; AllMusic's Erlewine said the band had difficulty writing convincing material.

Track listing

  1. Come Home5:00
  2. Government Walls5:47
  3. God Only Knows4:40
  4. You Can't Tell How Much Suffering (On a Face That's Always Smiling)2:56
  5. Crescendo7:01
  6. How Was It for You4:04
  7. Hang On4:03
  8. Walking the Ghost6:13
  9. Gold Mother7:53
  10. Top of the World3:49

More from James

Stutter (1986), Strip-Mine (1988), One Man Clapping (1989), Seven (1992), Laid (1993), Whiplash (1997), Millionaires (1999), Pleased To Meet You (2001), Hey Ma (2008), The Morning After (2010), The Night Before (2010), La Petite Mort (2014), Girl At The End Of The World (2016), The Greenpeace Palace Concert (23 November 1992) (2016), Living In Extraordinary Times (2018), All The Colours Of You (2021), Be Opened By The Wonderful (40 Years Orchestrated) (2023), Yummy (2024)

Sources

  1. Gold Mother, Wikipedia
  2. James discography, Wikipedia