Description
The Chords UK, the alt-rock heroes helmed by Chris Pope, will release the mammoth 44-track ‘But Then Again: The Best of The Chords UK’ on 3CD and digital formats on 4 April 20205 on EPOP Records. The collection’s full release will be preceded by the single / video for new track ‘World Gone Crazy’ on 24 January 2025. The band will also tour extensively in 2025. Chris was described by Paul Weller as “the best songwriter of his generation”, by Uncut as “savage as Townshend with a toothache” and Vive Le Rock as creating, “timeless song writing and understated brilliance!” This collection underlines all that.
Designed to truly tell the tale of The Chords UK, ‘But Then Again’ is an ambitious and inventive collection, featuring new and previously unreleased tracks, remastered / remixed / remade versions of favourites, unashamedly obscure B-sides, and even live recordings. This is a set of songs that draw on what has gone before – and the fans will find all their favourites – but they have been revisited and taken to another place!
Chris Pope himself said, “I decided a few years ago to start work on a ‘compilation/ best of’, of sorts. But simply to add 20 plus songs from six albums onto Vinyl/CD and put it out there: that would be far too easy and wouldn’t interest me one bit! Instead, I looked back at songs from the three Pope albums ‘Grace of God’, ‘Tall Tales’, ‘Peace of Mind’ and the Hat-trick of Chords UK albums ‘Take on Life’, ‘Nowhere Land’ and ‘Big City Dreams’, then picked the ones we knew we could ‘dream up’ again, or re-imagine. The new tracks are renderings of unrecorded songs written between 1982 up to 2024. Finally, we hit the acoustic guitars and some old original Chords tunes got laid down too”.
The Chords UK were formed over a decade ago to continue playing classic Chords tunes such as ‘Maybe Tomorrow’, ‘The British Way Of Life’ and ‘So Far Away’. But Chris isn’t interested in remaining frozen in time and his aim has always been to push forward, ‘But Then Again: The Best of The Chords UK’ does just that. This album is a milestone, sure, but also a statement of intent – Chris Pope and The Chords UK have plenty to celebrate, but also plenty more to achieve along the way.
Disc 1
BRITISH WAY OF LIFE
BRAVE NEW WORLD
GET ME TO SATURDAY NIGHT
LOVE’S STILL HERE
WHITE VAN MAN
MUTINY ON THE THAMES
ONE HAPPY MAN
HIPSTERS OF LONDON
MAN ON THE NORTHERN LINE
GENTRIFIED THE ELEPHANT
ANY FOOL KNOWS
ANALOGY OF LIFE
DISC 2
HEY KIDS! COME THE REVOLUTION
SOMEWHERE BEYOND THE RAINBOW
TWENTY FIRST CENTURY GIRL
ANOTHER THING COMING
NINE TO FIVE AND ME
DREAMS OF YESTERDAY
LEAVE IT ALL BEHIND
WORLD GONE CRAZY
INDIE DISCO FRIDAY NIGHT
EAT SLEEP WORK REPEAT
TWO WEEKS IN HEAVEN
LAND OF MILK & HONEY
BUT THEN AGAIN
MAYBE TOMORROW
DISC 3
GET ON IN LIFE
ALL I EVER WANTED ( WAS TO BE WANTED BY YOU)
BITTER SWEET
HEART OF THE MATTER
VERONICA JONES
TAKE ON LIFE
THREE MINUTE POP SONG
ONE HORSE TOWN
ONE MORE MINUTE (ACOUSTIC)
TURN AWAY AGAIN (ACOUSTIC)
TWENTY FIRST CENTURY BLUES
RUNNING ON DREAMS
WELCOME TO MY WORLD
BEFORE ELVIS
ALWAYS QUIT WHILE YOUR STILL AHEAD ( POPE -LIVE)
THE LAST THING I EVER DO ( POPE – LIVE)
MAKING MOUNTAINS
LAST MAN STANDING
GENRE: Alternative
BARCODE: 0796520056633
RELEASE DATE: 04/04/2025
