CD: BT 33076
RELEASE DATE: 2000
LABEL: Cherry Red

01. Beating My Head
02. He's Read
03. Monkey's On Juice
04. Talk About The Weather
05. Hand On Heart
06. Feel A Piece
07. Hollow Eyes
08. Strange Dream
09. Chance
10. Spinning Round
11. Last Train
12. Mescal Dance
13. Blitz
14. Walking On Your Hands
15. Cut Down
16. Crawling Mantra
17. Nothing Wrong
18. Only Dreaming
19. She Said
20. Open Up
21. Heaven
22. You Are Everything
23. Blow

A Best Of collection from one of the most successful Independent Bands of the 80's. The Very Best of Red Lorry Yellow Lorry improves upon all of the previous compilations by acknowledging 1988's Nothing Wrong and 1989's Blow, the two records the band made for RCA after making the jump from Red Rhino. Since the running order is chronological, it shows that the band indeed made subtle developments with their sound, much to the chagrin of those who felt that RLYL were sludge merchants -- nothing but Joy Division cloning, guttural howling, murky machine rhythms, and disturbingly acid-drenched guitars. No, they were much more than that, far more exciting than that description; if justice existed, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry's catalog would be just as known as Killing Joke's, not only recognized for having some wild guitar playing on par with Killing Joke's records (which are also comparable to Keith Levene's playing on PIL's debut), but also for putting an often terrific, unique spin on doom and gloom that should all but separate them from the remainder of the goth rock sect.