Backwash (album)

Infobox Album
Name = Backwash
Type = Compilation album
Artist = Talulah Gosh


Released = 21 May, 1996
Recorded = 1986–1988
Genre = Indie pop/Twee pop
Length =
Label = K Records
Producer =
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:sv6jtrpqkl3x link]
Last album = "They've Scoffed the Lot"
(1991)
This album = "Backwash"
(1996)
Next album =

"Backwash" is a retrospective compilation of music by the group Talulah Gosh.

The album

Released on LP and CD by K Records in 1996 (see 1996 in music), it contains all of their single and radio session tracks, plus live versions of two songs of which no studio recordings exist ("Pastels Badge" and "Rubber Ball") and a flexi-disc track ("I Told You So"). The compilation falls in the field of twee pop.

With their earlier collections "" and "They've Scoffed the Lot" now out of print, "Backwash" remains the only commercially available record by the band. As well as the three exclusive songs, both of these previous compilations are included here, save for a short count-in (by either Eithne Farry or Amelia Fletcher) on "The Girl with the Strawberry Hair", which is omitted.

The artwork resembles the cover of "They've Scoffed the Lot": as well as the pattern design, two members are shown on the front with three on the back. On "Scoffed" the lineup with Elizabeth Price was represented, while on "Backwash" her successor Eithne Farry is shown.

"Backwash" was given the rare 10/10 rating by "NME".

Track listing

ide one

#"Beatnik Boy"
#"My Best Friend"
#"Steaming Train"
#"Just a Dream"
#"Talulah Gosh"
#"Don't Go Away"
#"Escalator Over the Hill"

ide two

#"My Boy Says"
#"Way of the World"
#"Testcard Girl"
#"Bringing Up Baby"
#"I Can't Get No Satisfaction (Thank God)"
#"The Girl with the Strawberry Hair"

ide three

#"Talulah Gosh (radio session version)"
#"Do you Remember"
#"Looking for a Rainbow"
#"Sunny Inside"

ide four

#"My World's Ending"
#"Be Your Baby"
#"Break Your Face"
#"In Love for the Very First Time"
#"Spearmint Head"
#"I Told You So"
#"Pastels Badge"
#"Rubber Ball"