Elephant's Graveyard

Infobox Album |
Name = Elephant's Graveyard
Type = Compilation album
Artist = Ed Harcourt


Released = August 8, 2005
Recorded = Maplewood Studios, Ridge Farm Studios, Real World Studios, Aerosol Grey Machine Studios, Atlantis Studios
Genre = British rock
Length = Promo CD1: 66:50
Promo CD2: 53:54
Label = Heavenly Records, Astralwerks Records
Producer = Jari Haapalainen, Hadrian Garrard, Ed Harcourt, Gil Norton, Tim Holmes, Tchad Blake
Reviews =
Last album = "Strangers"
(2004)
This album = "Elephant's Graveyard"
(2005)
Next album = "The Beautiful Lie"
(2006)

"Elephant's Graveyard" is a special collection of B-sides and rarities from singer-songwriter Ed Harcourt. The collection was made available as a digital download only in the UK, and as a hard-to-find promo only 2CD set in the US (released by Astralwerks Records). The collection spans roughly 5 years of music, some of which had been previously unreleased.

Ed also posted a [http://www.edharcourt.com/Pages/News.php#1515824 track-by-track discussion] of the collection on his website.

Track listing

Part 1

# "The Unlucky One" - 4:46
# "T Bone Tombstone" - 3:14
# "Here Be Monsters" - 4:43
# "I've Become Misguided" - 5:37
# "When Americans Come to London" - 5:05
# "Alligator Boy" - 5:29
# "Weary and Bleary Eyed" - 5:27
# "Last of the Troubadors" - 4:22
# "Little Silver Bullet" - 3:06
# "Sleepyhead" - 3:55
# "Coal Black Heart" - 4:54
# "Blackwoods Back Home" - 5:12
# "Still I Dream of It" - 5:24
# "The Ghosts Parade" - 5:36

Part 2

# "Angels on Your Body" - 4:13
# "The Hammer and the Nail" - 5:18
# "She Put a Curse on Me (Parts I & II)" - 6:07
# "The Iceman Cometh" - 4:29
# "Asleep at the Helm" - 3:50
# "Sugarbomb" - 3:12
# "Paid to Get Drunk" - 3:45
# "Atlantic City" - 3:45
# "Deathsexmarch" - 1:17
# "Mysteriously" - 3:34
# "Only Happy When You're High" - 4:21
# "Breathe a Little Softer" - 4:56
# "Every Night" - 2:53
# "Epitaph" - 2:14

Credits

"Part 1:"
* Track 1: previously unreleased
* Tracks 2-3: from "Something In My Eye" single (June 11, 2001)
* Tracks 4-5: from "She Fell Into My Arms" single (September 10, 2001)
* Tracks 6-9: from "Apple Of My Eye" single (January 21, 2002)
* Track 10: from a magazine compilation CD
* Tracks 11-12: from "All Of Your Days Will Be Blessed" (February 3, 2003)
* Tracks 13-14: from "Still I Dream Of It / The Ghosts Parade" single (October 28, 2002)
** Track 13: Brian Wilson cover
"Part 2:"
* Track 1: bonus track from the Japanese pressing of "From Every Sphere"
* Track 2: bonus track from the US pressing of "From Every Sphere"
* Tracks 3-5: previously unreleased
* Tracks 6-7: from "Watching The Sun Come Up" single (May 19, 2003)
* Track 8: Bruce Springsteen cover
* Tracks 9-10: from "This One's For You" single (August 30, 2004)
* Tracks 11-12: from "Born In The '70s" single (November 1, 2004)
* Tracks 13-14: from "Loneliness" single (February 14, 2005)