Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time: Thirty Years of the Divine Comedy

Tracklist 1336:04

CD 1

1	Pie Jesu	3:36
2	Who	1:51
3	The Missing Link	1:17
4	Who’s Afraid	2:51
5	The Fools Who Can Only Talk	4:00
6	Give It a Chance	1:53
7	Power (Is Your Demand)	3:07
8	Who Is This Man	3:01
9	Loving You (Merciful Release)	1:34
10	Sanity	5:36
11	A Friend of Mine	2:07
12	Neil’s First Amp	0:46
13	Completely Barking	0:11
14	Nobody Wins	3:03
15	Passion Fruit	3:38
16	Silent Man	3:18
17	October	4:06
18	Anonymous	3:19
19	Ridgeway Street	2:57
20	Suffer in Silence	4:06
21	Roselyn	2:46
22	Stream of Unconsciousness	6:24

CD 2

1	Fanning Intro	0:09
2	Ignorance Is Bliss	3:39
3	Indian Rain	3:23
4	Bleak Landscape	3:39
5	Tailspin	2:43
6	The Rise and Fall	4:19
7	Logic vs Emotion	4:30
8	Secret Garden	4:08
9	Timewatch	3:39
10	Jerusalem	3:50
11	The Rise and Fall (Timewatch version)	7:20
12	Europop	4:13
13	New Wave	3:45
14	Intifada	4:24
15	Monitor	3:07
16	Thanks for Listening	0:28

CD 3

1	Festive Road	1:54
2	Death of a Supernaturalist	3:16
3	Bernice Bobs Her Hair	4:02
4	I Was Born Yesterday	3:26
5	Your Daddy’s Car	3:55
6	Europop	4:31
7	Timewatching	3:49
8	The Pop Singers Fear of the Pollen Count	4:20
9	Queen of the South	4:26
10	Victoria Falls	4:09
11	Three Sisters	4:41
12	Europe by Train	4:26
13	Lucy	4:41

CD 4

1	Untitled Melody	2:02
2	Your Daddy’s Car (demo)	3:53
3	Queen of the South (demo)	4:07
4	Europop (live)	4:10
5	Little Darlin’	1:25
6	Bernice Bobs Her Hair (early idea)	2:57
7	Bontempi Beats 1	2:29
8	The Pop Singer’s Fear of the Pollen Count (demo)	4:19
9	Europe by Train (live)	4:59
10	I Can Think (but I Can’t Feel)	2:59
11	Lucy (early version)	4:02
12	Festive Road (demo)	2:10
13	Three Sisters (live)	4:11
14	I Was Born Yesterday (early idea)	3:09
15	Bontempi Beats 2	2:55
16	Christmas With the Hannons	2:28
17	Victoria Falls (demo)	4:11
18	Timewatching (demo)	3:31
19	Bontempi Beat 3	2:29
20	Suzanne (live)	3:30

CD 5

1	Bath	4:10
2	Going Downhill Fast	2:33
3	The Booklovers	5:52
4	A Seafood Song	3:29
5	Geronimo	1:53
6	Don’t Look Down	4:48
7	When the Lights Go Out All Over Europe	3:29
8	The Summerhouse	4:15
9	Neptune’s Daughter	4:49
10	A Drinking Song	4:37
11	Ten Seconds to Midnight	2:10
12	Tonight We Fly	3:00
13	Ode to the Man	0:17

CD 6

1	Ten Seconds to Midnight (alternate version)	2:20
2	Assume the Goldsmith	5:13
3	When the Lights Go Out All Over Europe (live)	3:36
4	Tell Me What’s Wrong	2:14
5	Life’s What You Make It	2:50
6	Lost Prom Jam	1:41
7	Neptune’s Daughter (demo)	4:54
8	Going Downhill Fast (instrumental)	2:31
9	The Booklovers (demo)	4:56
10	The Bright Lights of Ealing	1:46
11	Bath (alternate version)	3:46
12	The Summerhouse (early idea)	1:18
13	The Summerhouse (live)	4:34
14	When the Lights Go Out All Over Europe (early idea)	2:44
15	A Woman of the World (Promenade‐style demo)	2:24
16	Geronimo (live) The Divine Comedy with Yann Tiersen	1:47
17	Don’t Look Down (demo)	4:58
18	A Drinking Song (live)	4:33
19	Only for Tonight	2:57
20	Tonight We Fly (demo)	3:03

CD 7

1	Something for the Weekend	4:19
2	Becoming More Like Alfie	2:59
3	Middle‐Class Heroes	5:26
4	In & Out of Paris & London	3:26
5	Charge	5:27
6	Songs of Love	3:26
7	The Frog Princess	5:13
8	A Woman of the World	4:11
9	Through a Long & Sleepless Night	6:13
10	Theme From Casanova	5:51
11	The Dogs & the Horses	5:12

CD 8

1	Hannon’s Game	1:23
2	Birds of Paradise Farm	3:50
3	A Woman of the World (early idea)	2:06
4	Motorway to Damascus	4:18
5	Crapper’s Delight	1:46
6	Songs of Love (demo)	3:23
7	Love Is Lighter Than Air	3:50
8	Comme beaucoup de messieurs The Divine Comedy avec Valérie Lemercier	2:58
9	Grinchworm	1:14
10	Painting the Forth Bridge	4:03
11	Solsbury Eel	1:56
12	The Frog Princess (demo)	5:19
13	My Lovely Horse (from Father Ted)	1:22
14	Father Ted Theme	0:39
15	My Lovely Mayo Mammy (from Father Ted)	1:10
16	The Miracle Is Mine (from Father Ted)	2:22
17	Theme From Casanova (demo)	1:28
18	Electro Wurly Groove	1:32
19	Something Before the Weekend (early idea)	1:55
20	Something for the Weekend (monitor mix)	4:12
21	Becoming More Like Alfie (monitor mix)	2:55
22	Stereo Laboratory	1:00
23	Through a Long and Sleepless Night (early idea)	4:12
24	The Dogs and the Horses (live)	5:41

CD 9

1	In Pursuit of Happiness	3:31
2	Everybody Knows (Except You)	3:48
3	Someone	5:57
4	If…	4:25
5	If I Were You (I’d Be Through With Me)	4:40
6	Timewatching	4:41
7	I’m All You Need	4:59
8	Bath (live)	3:48
9	A Short Film About Driving	2:53
10	Everybody Knows (Except You) (early idea)	4:19
11	Johnny Mathis’ Feet (live)	3:39
12	I’m All You Need (demo)	2:17
13	A Short Film About Dreams	2:09
14	Your Daddy’s Car (live)	4:11
15	Teach Us to Love	3:54
16	A Short Film About Waiting	2:57
17	A Short Film About Chance	2:40
18	If I Were You (I’d Be Through With Me) (rehearsal version)	4:29
19	Make It Easy on Yourself (live)	3:34

DVD-Video 10

1	In Pursuit of Happiness
2	Everybody Knows (Except You)
3	Someone
4	Timewatching
5	If…
6	If I Were You (I’d Be Through With Me)
7	I’m All You Need
8	A Drinking Song
9	Something for the Weekend
10	The Dogs and the Horses

CD 11

1	Generation Sex	3:32
2	Thrillseeker	3:33
3	Commuter Love	4:42
4	Sweden	3:24
5	Eric the Gardener	8:24
6	National Express	5:06
7	Life on Earth	4:24
8	The Certainty of Chance	6:06
9	Here Comes the Flood	4:08
10	Sunrise	3:18

CD 12

1	I’ve Been to a Marvellous Party	3:40
2	Generation Sex (early idea)	1:27
3	Gin Soaked Boy	5:01
4	With Whom to Dance	2:38
5	Thrillseeker (rehearsal version)	3:31
6	Maryland Electric Rainstorm	5:44
7	Little Acts of Kindness	3:54
8	Life on Earth (early idea)	1:51
9	The Dead Only Quickly	1:14
10	The Winter Blues	3:42
11	London Irish	4:40
12	Here Comes the Flood (demo)	4:10
13	The Certainty of Chance (demo)	3:26
14	Last Stand in Metroland	4:18
15	Overstrand	4:05
16	Then Four Buses Come Along at Once	2:54
17	National Express (rehearsal version)	3:47
18	Postcard to Rosie	3:25
19	Dear Lord and Father of Mankind	3:50

CD 13

1	Timestretched	2:48
2	Bad Ambassador	3:45
3	Perfect Lovesong	3:10
4	Note to Self	5:59
5	Lost Property	4:39
6	Eye of the Needle	5:33
7	Love What You Do	3:52
8	Dumb It Down	3:56
9	Mastermind	5:21
10	Regeneration	5:33
11	The Beauty Regime	5:14

CD 14

1	Get Me to a Monastery	4:33
2	Lost Property (early idea)	2:32
3	You	4:08
4	U.S.E	3:08
5	How’s Your Wireless?	4:18
6	Thinking the Unthinkable (demo)	3:30
7	Garden Cities	1:42
8	Timestretched (demo)	2:30
9	Note to Self (live)	6:37
10	Edward the Confessor	5:21
11	Soft Power	1:41
12	Born With a Broken Heart	3:39
13	Mastermind (rehearsal version)	4:34
14	Boy With a Harmonica	1:07
15	Soul Trader	3:00
16	Perfect Lovesong (early idea)	3:33
17	The Night Is Not Enough	3:31
18	No Excuses	3:58
19	Love What You Do (live)	3:46

CD 15

1	Absent Friends	3:40
2	Sticks & Stones	4:47
3	Leaving Today	4:18
4	Come Home Billy Bird	4:06
5	My Imaginary Friend	2:42
6	The Wreck of the Beautiful	4:57
7	Our Mutual Friend	5:57
8	The Happy Goth	3:37
9	Freedom Road	3:55
10	Laika’s Theme	3:07
11	Charmed Life	4:43

CD 16

1	Absolute Power	3:52
2	Our Mutual Friend (early idea)	1:36
3	The Bird Evolution	4:07
4	Girl Least Likely	3:58
5	Mr Right	3:22
6	Sticks & Stones (demo)	4:35
7	The Dark Horse	2:59
8	Idaho	4:06
9	All Things (alternate version)	4:37
10	Rose for the Lady	4:18
11	Smiler	3:11
12	Absent Friends (demo)	3:38
13	Anthem for Bored Youth (demo)	3:04
14	Our Mutual Friend (alternate version)	5:27
15	Antidepressant	1:14
16	Windy Pop	3:17
17	Laika’s Theme (The Promise)	2:18
18	Charmed Life (alternate version)	4:46

CD 17

1	To Die a Virgin	3:39
2	Mother Dear	3:47
3	Diva Lady	4:17
4	A Lady of a Certain Age	5:47
5	The Light of Day	4:24
6	Threesome	1:10
7	Party Fears Two	4:02
8	Arthur C. Clarke’s Mysterious World	3:58
9	The Plough	5:15
10	Count Grassi’s Passage Over Piedmont	3:35
11	Snowball in Negative	4:36

CD 18

1	Births, Deaths and Marriages (monitor mix)	4:10
2	Diva Lady (acoustic version)	4:15
3	Home (demo)	3:23
4	Pamplemousse	2:52
5	Lili Marlene	3:19
6	Count Grassi’s Passage Over Piedmont (early idea)	1:17
7	Count Grassi’s Passage Over Piedmont (instrumental)	3:38
8	Trafalgar	2:40
9	Love/Hate Relationship	3:46
10	Miss Sharapova	2:55
11	Don’t Blame the Young	4:03
12	Guantanamo	5:46
13	Long Slow Suicide	3:56
14	To Die a Virgin (early idea)	2:48
15	A Little Bit of Love (Goes a Long Long Way)	4:13
16	Elaine (alternate version)	2:14
17	A Lady of a Certain Age (instrumental)	5:47
18	Premonition of Love	3:53

CD 19

1	Down in the Street Below	5:09
2	The Complete Banker	3:43
3	Neapolitan Girl	2:49
4	Bang Goes the Knighthood	2:48
5	At the Indie Disco	3:18
6	Have You Ever Been in Love	3:10
7	Assume the Perpendicular	4:06
8	The Lost Art of Conversation	4:01
9	Island Life	4:38
10	When a Man Cries	3:54
11	Can You Stand Upon One Leg	3:32
12	I Like	3:49

CD 20

1	Assume the Perpendicular (alternate version)	4:07
2	On the Barge (demo)	4:09
3	At the Indie Disco (demo 1)	3:12
4	Girl Overboard	4:17
5	Bang Goes the Knighthood (alternate version)	1:57
6	Beside the Railway Tracks	2:56
7	Have You Ever Been in Love (alternate version)	3:33
8	Oh Christina	3:35
9	Ya Sumeera	2:36
10	Down in the Street Below (demo)	4:52
11	Island Life (demo)	3:23
12	The Bitter End	3:55
13	When a Man Cries (demo)	3:50
14	The Loneliest Man in the World	4:17
15	The Circular Firing Squad	2:48
16	At the Indie Disco (demo 2)	3:26
17	What’s Wrong With You (alternate The Lost Art of Conversation)	3:40
18	Wide Open Spaces (demo)	2:22
19	I Like (alternate version)	3:31

CD 21

1	Napoleon Complex	4:45
2	Foreverland	4:01
3	Catherine the Great	3:03
4	Funny Peculiar	2:44
5	The Pact	2:55
6	To the Rescue	5:16
7	How Can You Leave Me on My Own	3:31
8	I Joined the Foreign Legion (to Forget)	3:41
9	My Happy Place	4:10
10	A Desperate Man	2:42
11	Other People	1:35
12	The One Who Loves You	3:21

CD 22

1	Napoleon Complex (alternate version)	4:44
2	How Can You Leave Me on My Own (alternate version)	3:16
3	Them Chattering Teeth	0:41
4	The Pact (demo)	2:48
5	Desperate Man (demo)	2:43
6	Your Lucky Day	1:23
7	I Joined the Foreign Legion (early idea)	1:19
8	Breakfast (To Our Fathers in Distress demo)	6:24
9	Reconnecting (To the Rescue early idea)	5:03
10	To the Rescue (demo)	5:10
11	One Ear Up, One Ear Down (demo)	3:50
12	Catherine the Great (demo)	2:59
13	Pictures (alternate Foreverland)	3:56
14	ARP Break	2:57
15	My Happy Place (demo)	3:49
16	Just Can’t Get Enough	2:59
17	The One Who Loves You (demo)	3:19
18	C’est si bon	0:59
19	I Joined the Foreign Legion (alternate version)	3:03
20	Who Were We (demo)	4:14

CD 23

1	Queuejumper	3:07
2	Office Politics	4:02
3	Norman and Norma	3:45
4	Absolutely Obsolete	4:13
5	Infernal Machines	3:04
6	You’ll Never Work in This Town Again	4:11
7	Psychological Evaluation	2:39
8	The Synthesiser Service Centre Super Summer Sale	3:50
9	The Life and Soul of the Party	3:27
10	A Feather in Your Cap	4:00
11	I’m a Stranger Here	4:37
12	Dark Days Are Here Again	3:14
13	Philip and Steve’s Furniture Removal Company	4:51
14	‘Opportunity’ Knox	3:42
15	After the Lord Mayor’s Show	3:46
16	When the Working Day Is Done	4:12

CD 24

1	The Divine Comedy Ltd.	2:26
2	Where Have All the Milkmen Gone	2:08
3	Take Your Drum	2:53
4	After the Lord Mayor’s Show (alternate version)	3:49
5	Olivia, New Tron Song	1:55
6	The Life and Soul of the Party (alternate version 1)	3:34
7	You’ll Never Work in This Town Again / Office Politics (alternate version)	3:35
8	The Erotic Dreams of Andrea Palladio	3:11
9	Absolutely Obsolete (demo)	3:40
10	Death and the Mellotron	1:43
11	Dark Days Are Here Again (early version)	2:59
12	The Berlin Airlift	2:10
13	Queuejumper (early version)	3:29
14	Pop Muzik	3:24
15	Large Mellotron Collider	1:15
16	The Life and Soul of the Party (alternate version 2)	3:12
17	Infernal Machines (early version)	3:31
18	Turning Japanese	4:19
19	Norman and Norma (demo)	3:45
20	Nordyland 83	2:47
21	Philip and Steve’s Furniture Removal Company (alternate version)	4:29