James have already been lucky-dipped for the 7″and 12″ singles, so today marks the hat-trick. And given that I’m feeling incredibly lazy, I’m doing a cut’n’paste from a post which was written up back in May 2014.
1990 had been a very good year for James.
The LP Goldmother had received very favourable reviews, as had a performance at that summer’s Glastonbury festival. The band was gaining a very formidable reputation as a live act, and it was no surprise that they were being asked to play as special guests at outdoor gigs as they did with both David Bowie and The Cure (the former being at Maine Road, the then home of Manchester City FC where James stole the show from the headliner).
It was decided that a new single should be released just prior to Christmas and with a mini-tour taking in Glasgow, Newcastle and Manchester to help with its promotion. The popularity of the band in their home town could be seen from the fact that they sold out two consecutive nights at the 10,000 capacity G-Mex and could probably have done the same again if the time had been available. Sadly, I wasn’t able to get a ticket for the Glasgow Barrowlands gig, but I am reliably informed by someone who was there that it was amongst the best ever at the famous old venue.
The new single came out on 7″, 12″, cassette and CD, but I’ve only a copy of the latter:-
mp3 : James – Lose Control (extended version)
mp3 : James – Sunday Morning
mp3 : James – Out To Get You
The extended version is two and a bit minutes longer than the 7″ version.
The b-side common to all formats was a tremendous cover in which the lyrics were amended with the addition of all sorts of song titles and lines from other Velvet Underground songs,
The bonus b-side on the CD was such a great bit of music that it was resurrected and re-recorded some two years later. If you’re only familiar with the later version from the album Laid, then I hope you appreciate this gentler sounding effort – I think it represents one of Tim’s loveliest and most tear-jerking vocal performances.
Enjoy
THE NEW VINYL VILLAIN 
I remember being so angry when I picked up this 12″. The mastering is just awful. It sounds like they just mastered it for CD and pressed that right onto the vinyl. Every sibilance is just a splotch of white noise that takes over. I’d been resisting switching from vinyl to CD and this one piece of vinyl pushed me over the edge. It’s one of the great regrets of my life and I can’t hear this song without dredging it all up again. Not their fault of course. Nice songs and great b-sides.
They were still pretty good at this point, always liked Lose Control
This first version of out to get you ( the 12” version ) is still one of the best things they’ve done . I saw Bowie in 1990 at maine road although the day I went I must have got the short straw as support was Alison Moyet who was frankly a bit lost in such a big venue and Terence Trent Darby who frankly was a bit of an arse and definitely didn’t outshine the main act ( and this was despite it being the mess that was the Glass Spider tour )