Robyn Hitchcock, I Often Dream of Trains - 1h 8m 46s

Tracks & Durations

1. Nocturne (Prelude)	1:42
2. Sometimes I Wish I Was A Pretty Girl	1:59
3. Cathedral	3:43
4. Uncorrected Personality Traits	1:45
5. Sounds Great When You're Dead	3:23
6. Flavour Of Night	2:58
7. Ye Sleeping Knights Of Jesus	4:01
8. Mellow Together	1:55
9. Winter Love	2:40
10. The Bones In The Ground	3:09
11. My Favourite Buildings	2:49
12. I Used To Say I Love You	4:34
13. This Could Be The Day	2:47
14. Trams Of Old London	3:31
15. Furry Green Atom Bowl	3:18
16. Heart Full Of Leaves	2:30
17. Autumn Is Your Last Chance	3:33
18. I Often Dream Of Trains	2:28
19. Nocturne (Demise)	1:52
20. Ye Sleeping Knights Of Jesus [bonus]	4:14
21. Sometimes I Wish I Was A Pretty Girl [bonus]	1:56
22. Cathedral [bonus]	3:53
23. Mellow Together [bonus]	2:00
24. The Bones In The Ground [bonus]	1:52

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Review

The ghosts of cracked '60s British visionaries Syd Barrett, Vivian Stanshall, and Kevin Ayers float above this pleasurable 1984 release, arguably Robyn Hitchock's definitive solo statement. I Often Dream of Trains is a sparse, surreal work that alternates moments of sublime, acoustic beauty with bouts of puerile, schoolboy humor. The usual Hitchcockian obsessions are here: death (the rousing and gloomy "Sounds Great When You're Dead" and the haunting, majestic "Bones in the Ground"), nostalgia for the lost and obscure (the cocktail lounge lament "My Favourite Buildings" and the priceless, lush "Trams of Old London"), decay (the lovely, haunting instrumental track "Heart Full of Leaves" and the savory "Autumn Is Your Last Chance"), and unmitigated pot-head nonsense (the desultory "Furry Green Atom Bowl"). Forced novelty numbers such as "Uncorrected Personality Traits" and "Sometimes I Wish I Was a Pretty Girl" grate after repeated listenings, making a strong case for the judicious employment of the CD player's program function. --Mike McGonigal

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I Often Dream of Trains

Tracks: 24, Disk length: 1h 8m 46s

I Often Dream of Trains

Tracks: 19 (-5 tracks), Disk length: 54m 33s (-15m 47s)

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