# I Wanna Go Backwards

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I Wanna Go Backwards is a Robyn Hitchcock box set released in 2007 on Yep Roc Records. The set contains reissues of three of Hitchcock's albums, each with bonus tracks, and also a two-disc rarities set, While Thatcher Mauled Britain. The set consists of five CDs, and was also released as a limited edition of eight vinyl LPs.

## Disc 1 — Black Snake Dîamond Röle

The first disc of the set consists of Hitchcock's first album, Black Snake Dîamond Röle, originally released in 1981. Tracks 1-10 comprise the original album, and tracks 11-18 are bonus tracks.
* "The Man Who Invented Himself"
* "Brenda's Iron Sledge"
* "Do Policemen Sing?"
* "The Lizard"
* "Meat"
* "Acid Bird"
* "I Watch The Cars"
* "Out of the Picture"
* "City of Shame"
* "Love"
* "All I Wanna Do is Fall in Love"
* "A Skull, a Suitcase & a Long Red Bottle of Wine"
* "It Was The Night"
* "I Watch The Cars No. 2"
* "Give Me a Spanner Ralph"
* "It's a Mystic Trip"
* "Grooving On a Inner Plane"
* "Happy The Golden Prince"

## Disc 2 — I Often Dream of Trains

The second disc contains Hitchcock's third album, I Often Dream of Trains, originally released in 1984. Tracks 1-14 comprise the original album, and tracks 15-24 are bonus tracks.
* "Nocturne (prelude)"
* "Sometimes I Wish I Was a Pretty Girl"
* "Cathedral"
* "Uncorrected Personality Traits"
* "Sounds Great When You're Dead"
* "Flavour of Light"
* "Ye Sleeping Nights of Jesus"
* "This Could Be The Day"
* "Trams of Old London"
* "Furry Green Atom Bowl"
* "Heart Full of Leaves"
* "Autumn Is Your Last Chance"
* "I Often Dream of Trains"
* "Nocturne (Demise)"
* "Winter Love"
* "The Bones in the Ground"
* "My Favourite Buildings"
* "I Used To Say I Love You"
* "Chant/Aether"
* "Heart Full of Leaves" (Alternate)
* "I Often Dream of Trains" (Demo)
* "Not Even a Nurse"
* "Slow Chant/That's Fantastic Mother Church"
* "Traveller's Fare"

## Disc 3 — Eye

The third disc contains Hitchcock's 1990 album, Eye. Tracks 1-17 comprise the original CD version of the album, and tracks 18-21 are bonus tracks. The original CD release also contained a track called "College of Ice", which is instead included on disc 5 of I Wanna Go Backwards.
* "Cynthia Mask"
* "Certainly Cliquot"
* "Queen Elvis"
* "Flesh Cartoons"
* "Chinese Water Python"
* "Executioner"
* "Linctus House"
* "Sweet Ghost of Light"
* "Transparent Lover"
* "Beautiful Girl"
* "Clean Steve"
* "Raining Twilight Coast"
* "Agony of Pleasure"
* "Glass Hotel"
* "Satellite"
* "Aquarium"
* "Queen Elvis II"
* "Century"
* "Shimmering Distant Love"
* "Lovers Turn to Skulls"
* "The Beauty of Earl's Court"

## Disc 4 — While Thatcher Mauled Britain

Disc 4 is a rarities disc compiled for this set.
* "She Reached for a Light"
* "August Hair"
* "Take Your Knife Out Of My Back"
* "Fiend Before The Shrine"
* "Raymond Chandler Evening"
* "Birdshead"
* "Victorian Squid"
* "You've Got"
* "Captain Dry"
* "Raining Twilight Coast" (Demo)
* "Point It at Gran"
* "Vegetable Friend"
* "Flesh Number 1"
* "Surgery"
* "I Got a Message For You"
* "If I Could Look"
* "Parachutes & Jellyfish"
* "Queen Elvis" (Demo)
* "Nothing"
* "Stranded in the Future"
* "Melting Arthur"
* "The Abandoned Brain"
* "You're So Repulsive"
* "Opiatrescence"

## Disc 5 — While Thatcher Mauled Britain

Disc 5 is a second disc of rarities compiled for this set.
* "September Cones"
* "Lovely Golden Villains"
* "Dr Sticky" (live)
* "Toadboy"
* "Trash"
* "Pit of Souls" (Country Version)
* "Mr Deadly"
* "Let There Be More Darkness"
* "Listening To The Higsons"
* "College of Ice"
* "My Favourite Buildings" (Demo)
* "Lightplug"
* "Sleeping Knights of Jesus" (Demo)
* "Insect Mother"
* "I Wanna Go Backwards"