Hit Parade 2
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| Hit Parade 2 | ||||
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| Released | 4 January 1993 | |||
| Recorded | January–June 1992 | |||
| Length | 39:24 | |||
| Label | RCA | |||
| Producer | Jimmy Miller, Brian Paulson | |||
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Hit Parade 2 is a compilation album by The Wedding Present released in January 1993. Having decided to release a limited edition single every month for all of 1992 (each featuring an original track on the A side and a cover version on the B side) the group subsequently compiled the songs as two LPs called Hit Parade 1 and Hit Parade 2. In 2003, a double CD was issued called simply The Hit Parade.
A different recording of "Boing!" than the one found on the original 7" single was used on all subsequent album editions - the single edition was produced by Jimmy Miller (who also produced "Flying Saucer"), the re-recording by Brian Paulson (who also produced the remaining singles). The original video for this track was also omitted from the VHS compilation Dick York's Wardrobe.
Track listing
[edit]- "Flying Saucer"
- "Boing!"
- "Love Slave"
- "Sticky"
- "The Queen of Outer Space"
- "No Christmas"
- "Rocket" (Mud)
- "Theme from Shaft" (Isaac Hayes)
- "Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family" (David Bowie)
- "Go Wild in the Country" (Bow Wow Wow)
- "U.F.O." (Barry Gray)
- "Step into Christmas" (Elton John)
Early copies of the LP and CD formats came with an extra disc comprising BBC radio session versions of all 12 A-sides. These tracks have all been subsequently reissued on various CD compilations.