OTHER COVERS
Local Boy In The Photograph
Re-released February 9, 1998 - Chart Position #14
This was the first single released able of achieving any chart position due to quantity pressed. It reached #51 in the UK Singles Charts, released on CD & 7", no cassette.
It featured three tracks, Local Boy In The Photograph, Too Many Sandwiches and the exclusive b-side Buy Myself a Small Plane. It was the first single that the band shot a video for also.
It was re-released the next year after the band began to pick up a following and achieved a more successful position of #14.
CD1
1. Local Boy in the Photograph2. Too Many Sandwiches
3. Buy Myself a Small Plane
7"
1. Local Boy in the Photograph2. Buy Myself a Small Plane
Re-Issue
1. Local Boy In The Photograph2. Check My Eyelids For Holes
3. Who'll Stop The Rain
Lyrics
There’s no mistake, I smell that smell,
It’s that time of year again, I can taste the air
The clock’s go back, railway track,
Something blocks the line again,
And the train runs late for the first time,
A pebble beach, we’re underneath,
A pier just been painted red
Where I hear the news for the first time
And all the friends lay down their flowers,
Sit on the banks and drink for hours
Talk of the way they saw him last,
Local boy in the photograph today
He’ll always be twenty three,
Yet the train runs on and on,
Past the place they found his clothing
Bah bah bah bah bah
Bah bah bah, bah bah
There’s no mistake, I smell that smell,
It’s that time of year again, I can taste the air
The clock’s go back, railway track,
Something blocks the line again,
And the train runs late for the first time today,
And all the friends lay down their flowers,
Sit on the banks and drink for hours
Talk of the way they saw him last,
Local boy in the photograph, today
He’s gone away