The U.K.’s Fire Records next month will release a new 2CD career-spanning overview of resurrected Boston post-punk legends Mission of Burma, compiling 29 tracks from both halves of the band’s career to serve both as an introduction for new fans and a preface to the label’s upcoming full-catalog reissue series.
The 29-track Learn How: The Essential Mission of Burma is due out Dec. 3 in the U.K. and features one disc of material from the band’s original era, when it released the EP Signals, Calls and Marches and the full-length Vs., and a second disc covering its ongoing 2000s-era reunion, which so far has spawned four studio albums.
As for the label’s planned reissues, no details have yet been announced.
Below, stream the classic “That’s When I Reach For My Revolver” and check out the tracklist.
Tracklist: Mission of Burma, Learn How: The Essential Mission of Burma
CD 1
1. “Academy Fight Song”
2. “That’s When I Reach for My Revolver”
3. “Fame and Fortune”
4. “This Is Not a Photograph”
5. “Secrets”
6. “Trem Two”
7. “New Nails”
8. “Dead Pool”
9. “Mica”
10. “The Ballad of Johnny Burma”
11. “Einstein’s Day”
12. “That’s How I Escaped My Certain Fate”
13. “Learn How”
14. “Peking Spring” (Live)
15. “Heart 0f Darkness” (Live)
CD 2
1. “Dirt”
2. “The Setup”
3. “2Wice”
4. “Spider’s Web”
5. “Let Yourself Go”
6. “Donna Sumeria”
7. “13″
8. “Innermost”
9. “1, 2, 3 Partyy!”
10. “Comes Undone”
11. “One Day We Will Live There”
12. “Second Television”
13. “What They Tell Me”
14. “ADD in Unison”
PREVIOUSLY ON SLICING UP EYEBALLS
- Mission of Burma reveals cover art, tracklist for ‘Unsound’ — band’s 4th post-reunion LP
- Mission of Burma releasing ‘Unsound’ in July — stream first track ‘Dust Devil’
- Video: Mission of Burma’s ‘1, 2, 3 Partyy!’
- Mission of Burma offers free MP3 of ‘1, 2, 3, Partyy!’
- New Mission of Burma album ‘The Sound The Speed The Light’ due in October
at 8:29 am
This will be the third catalog reissue for this band, though if Fire’s Giant Sand reissues are any indication, this one will encompass the band’s Matador albums as well. Still, I think I’ll stick with my Rykodisc reissues.