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"This Is Really Something - The Complete Anthology" - The Sports

1997 Mushroom Records; re-released 16 August 2004 as "The Sports: The Definitive Collection" with new artwork
Album cover Album compiled by
Billy Pinnell and Paul Costello

Liner notes by
Stephen Cummings

Special thanks to
Stephen Cummings, Andrew Pendlebury and Bill Page

Thanks to
Francine Keeling
for her kind co-operation

All tracks digitally remastered at Festival Studios by
William Bowden

Sydney Morning Herald review

Disc 1

selections from the albums

Disc 2

rare, previously unreleased, alternate versions and live tracks

  1. Boys (What Did The Detective Say)
  2. Reckless
  3. When You Walk In The Room
  4. I Put The Light On
  5. Who Listens To The Radio
  6. Suspicious Minds
  7. Don't Throw Stones
  8. Wedding Ring
  9. Suddenly
  10. Blue Hearts
  11. Strangers On A Train
  12. Perhaps
  13. Black Stockings (for Chelsea)
  14. Lucky Shop
  15. How Come
  16. This Is Really Something
  17. Stop The Baby Talking
  18. Passionette
  1. Twist Senorita
  2. Cruisin' In A Citroen
  3. Reckless
  4. Sunshine Superman
  5. Ballad Of A Thin Man
  6. You're A Big Girl Now
  7. Fourth Time Around
  8. All The Tired Horses
  9. Worst Kind
  10. Terror Hits
  11. I Fought The Law
  12. When I Write This Book
  13. Drug Sluts
  14. O Narcissus
  15. All The Girls
  16. Can't Ever Decide
  17. Hit Single
  18. Live Work and Play
1-4 - from Reckless (1978)
5-7 - from Don't Throw Stones (1979)
8 - from O.K.U.K. (1979)
9-12 - from Suddenly (1980)
13-18 - from Sondra (1981) 		1 - from Fair Game EP (1977)
2 - from various artists release Debutantes (1977)
3 - re-recorded version - bonus single with Don't Throw Stones album
4-8 - from The Sports Play Dylan (and Donovan) (1981)
9,10 - alternate versions of tracks from Don't Throw Stones
11,12,14,15 - previously unreleased
13 - original version was b-side of How Come single
16-18 - live at Bombay Rock (1980)
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