Various Artists
No Sense Of History
(Alternative/Stunt, 1992)

 
 
Executive Producer: Randy Layton and Tom Gulotta

Known Formats
CD – catalog # ES 4013/96A, lyrics included - no

Featured Albums
Two Pound Planet – Songs From The Hydrogen Jukebox {1}
7 & 7 is – More Miserable Than You'll Ever Be {2}
Steve Scott – Lost Horizons {3}
Steve Scott – Magnificent Obession {4}
Rob Watson – "Body And Soul" single {5}

Songs
1.   {1} Two Pound Planet -- "No Room" (3:52)
2.   {1} Two Pound Planet -- "One Time/Bop Apocalypse" (3:55)
3.   {2} 7 & & is (77s) -- "Miserable" (4:08)
4.   {2} 7 & & is (77s) -- "Treasure In You" (4:52)
5.   {3} Steve Scott -- "Not A Pretty Picture" (4:07)
6.   {3} Steve Scott -- "Call Of The Wild" (4:16)
7.          John Nau -- "Burn It Low" * (3:33)
8.   {1} Two Pound Planet -- "Sinister Sun" (3:51)
9.   {4} Steve Scott -- "Memory Babe [live]" ** (7:31)
10.        Silver Express -- "Steel Guitar Rag" * (1:28)
11.        Crime Horse (DA) -- "Like Lazarus" * (3:26)
12.        Crime Horse (DA) -- "Stones Of Venice" * (3:56)
13.        Smokin' Globes -- "Roll The Stones Away" * (3:33)
14.        Mojo Monkeys -- "Eye Of The Sun" * (4:02)
15.        Boy-O-Boy -- "She Makes Love With Her Eyes" * (4:39)
16.        Boy-O-Boy -- "That What You Get" * (3:10)
17.        Rob Watson -- "Wall Around My Heart" * (3:39)
18. {5} Rob Watson -- "The Graylands" ** (8:15)

Total Time – 76:12

*   = previously unreleased track
** = new version of previously released song
 

Comments: This is supposed to be a recollection of sorts of the history of the Alternative Records label, in existence since 1979.  The number of tracks that come from album releases is indicative of the history of the label.  They'd been mostly sort of an underground label - a haven for creativity - and like most of those labels, have disappeared just as quietly since.  They probably have less than 20 albums to their name (maybe even less than 10).  This compilation was released simultaneously with the Shirley, Goodness and Misery compilation, which has several more unreleased rarities from this small label.