1. Give Me Some Love
2. Lundi Bleu
3. Colour Of My Love
4. Kiss Me
5. I Helped Patric McGoohan Escape
6. Manchester
7. Translucence
8. Another Star In Heaven
9. Sorry I've Written A Melody
10. Will Success Spoil Frank Summit
11. Losing My Grip
12. On The Peace Line (At The Astradome)
13. Baby Girl
14. We Love Malcolm
15. Cloud Over Liverpool
16. Palatial
17. Blue Fire
18. Finnegans Break
19. Ballad Of Georgie Best
20. No Love On Haight Street
21. This Is London
22. Up Against It
23. Snow
24. All I Want Is You To Care ----------- Thanks to the lack of album attribution, as well as inscrutable selection logic and mad sequencing by compiler (and Creation boss and one-album Times member) Alan McGee, novices won't be able to glean much more than a random sense of career highlights from the two CDs of Welcome to the Wonderful World of Ed Ball. As an introduction, it's a delightful journey that leads those not already familiar down a blind alley. The primeval "We Love Malcolm" (a 1978 rewrite of a Television Personalities song by the pre-Times O-Level) follows a 1993 dub track that mixes raggamuffin toaster Tippa Irie into a Scritti Politti song. Whoa! The Times' ingenious mod kernels (1983's "I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape" and "This Is London") are set next to more modern bits of whimsy (like 1989's scene-ribbing "Manchester" from the acid-synched E Is for Edward) and theatrical ambition ("Up Against It," the title track of an album based on Joe Orton's rejected script for a Beatles movie); among the stranger juxtapositions are a delightful (if badly pronounced) French version of New Order's "Blue Monday" next to eleven endless minutes of Love Corporation's club-pumping "Give Me Some Love." This hodgepodge won't encourage many converts from the vast audience segment that has never encountered Ball's amazing adventures in style, but those who have some idea of his unchartable course will find plenty of times to enjoy
