The Wedding Present – “The Hit Parade (30th Anniversary Edition)” (Released 23rd September 2022)

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//Sony CMG/We Are Vinyl//

£36.99 – 2xLP, 2xCD

In 1992, The Wedding Present decided to release a limited edition single every month, each featuring an original track on the A side and a cover on the B side. The tracks were compiled as two LPs called Hit Parade 1 and Hit Parade 2 and re-released as a double CD in 2003 called The Hit Parade.

The plan to release 12 singles in a year was an attempt to match Elvis Presley’s record of 12 top 40 singles in a year which he had achieved in 1957. The singles, each in an edition of 10,000, were deleted soon after release. They were critically acclaimed and each charted in the top 40..

Tracklisting:

Blue eyes
Go
Go dancer
Three
Silver shorts
Come play with me
California
Flying saucer
Boing!
Love slave
Ever circling skeletal family
Sticky
The queen of outer space
No Christmas
Cattle and cane
Don’t cry no tears
Think that it might
Falling
Pleasant valley Sunday
Let’s make some plans
Rocket
Theme from shaft
Chant of the
Go wild in the country
U.F.O.
Step into christmas