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- Date Released: November 15, 2005
- Genre: Rock/Pop
- Style: Easy Listening
- Label: Cherry Red Records / IODA
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An outgrowth of the heralded Cherry Red label, Mike Alway's él Records defined baroque pop during the 1980s, building an exemplary catalog elegantly blending soft rock, easy listening, and fern-bar jazz at a time when the world wanted nothing of the kind. It was music about 20 years behind and ahead of its time, and its releases remain sought-after by bespectacled record collectors the world over. The aptly titled Too Good to Be True celebrates the label's 20th anniversary by assembling two dozen cult classics from él's mid-'80s heyday -- inasmuch as none of these records were hits, it balances "stars" (Momus, Louis Philippe, and the Would-Be-Goods, most notably) alongside long-forgotten one-shots like Anthony Adverse ("The Ruling Class") and the Cavaliers ("It's a Beautiful Game") -- essential listening for anyone who still laments the creative breakup of Burt Bacharach, Hal David, and Dionne Warwick.
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Curtain (Album Version)
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2:53 |  |
| 02. | |
Jet Set Junta (Album Version)
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1:49 | |
| 03. | |
I Bloodbrother Be (Single Version)
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3:40 | |
| 04. | |
Nice On The Ice (Single Version)
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3:36 | |
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The Camera Loves Me (Album Version)
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3:00 | |
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Cecil Beaton's Scrapbook (Album Version)
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2:55 | |
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Valleri (Album Version)
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3:13 | |
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Trial Of Dr Fancy (Single Version)
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3:41 | |
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Curry Crazy (Album Version)
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2:19 | |
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Discotheque (Album Version)
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4:52 | |
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Guess I'm Dumb (Single Version)
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3:12 | |
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You Mary You (Single Version)
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3:22 | |
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The Ruling Class (Single Version)
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2:07 | |
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Nicky (Single Version)
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4:16 | |
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John The Baptist Jones (Album Version)
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3:12 | |
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Umber Wastes (Caravaggio) (Album Version)
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3:18 | |
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Zophia (Album Version)
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2:33 | |
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Oh Constance (Album Version)
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3:23 | |
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Whisper Not (Single Version)
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2:09 | |
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West 14 (Single Version)
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3:22 | |
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It's A Beautiful Game (Single Version)
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3:40 | |
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Thames Valley Leather Club (Album Version)
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2:47 | |
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Love (Single Version)
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3:37 | |
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Ulysses & The Siren (Previously Unreleased)
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1:55 | |
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