So my British copy of The Numbers showed up today, pretty swift. I am unreasonably pleased with it. Two things bear discussing. One is, the song 'I Don't Know'. I've been listening to Numerology which is the 15-year-old CD compilation of Numbers material, which mooshes both albums and the entirety of their first EP. 'I Don't Know' isn't on that CD, and I had kind of forgotten it,* except now I hear it again on this record I have to admit I absolutely had not forgotten one note of it - it is completely ingrained, it must have been playing on RRR when my portal was at its most receptive. Weirdly if anything it's been mashed in my brain with Blondie's 'I Know But I Don't Know' which is a more complicated but less pleasing song. 'I Don't Know' is classic teen angst of the kind of thing The Undertones excelled at (though it's not as rock). Two is the song 'Jericho' which is sitting at the end of side one of this English LP whereas it's not on the original version. It's a different version, and pretty special. A bit muddier than the version that was released as a single/appears on the second album, I guess it's kind of more primitive but/and still very enjoyable.
I might spend some time comparing or I might not, but I suspect the whole album sounds a bit tougher and fuller than the original. It also has a lyric sheet, which my copy of the Australian version doesn't, but I don't know whether it did once.
*I do have the Aust version of the album, so I've got two copies now - decadent! - but I hadn't played it for a while, I think because I had just assumed the CD was the entirety of the first album and about half of the second. Wrong.
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