LPCDreissues: Looking forward to the past

Track list: Playing Games / I'm In Love / The Fly Catcher / You / Old Faces / Short And Sweet / First Thing In The Morning / The Unknown Soldier / Ten Years Ago / True Story
'The Unknown Soldier' marked the real end of my relationship with EMI records and, in many ways, regrettably, with the Abbey Road Studios. It was made after a period of tension which involved writing a record to order, as a quick follow-up to 'Bullinamingvase'. (Namely, 'Commercial Breaks', which I wasn't that pleased with at the time.) Consequently I held the publishing side of 'Commercial Breaks' up so that EMI couldn't release it. This impasse went on for two or three years by the end of which time both parties had thoroughly come to the end of it with each other. 'The Unknown Soldier' was made in this atmosphere, and like any relationship that you know is over; you just wonder how it's finally going to end. The title was not entirely unrelated to my feelings about my own life, caught up in the machinations of the great media palace at the time. 'The Unknown Soldier' marked the real end of my relationship with EMI records and, in many ways, regrettably, with the Abbey Road Studios. It was made after a period of tension which involved writing a record to order, as a quick follow-up to 'Bullinamingvase'. (Namely, 'Commercial Breaks', which I wasn't that pleased with at the time.) Consequently I held the publishing side of 'Commercial Breaks' up so that EMI couldn't release it. This impasse went on for two or three years by the end of which time both parties had thoroughly come to the end of it with each other. 'The Unknown Soldier' was made in this atmosphere, and like any relationship that you know is over; you just wonder how it's finally going to end. The title was not entirely unrelated to my feelings about my own life, caught up in the machinations of the great media palace at the time. Roy Harper