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This grew from a line in Tim's notebooks: "Today I am happy, you are a weirdo". And grew and grew, into one of those tracks that - for a while - turned up everywhere as a music bed for sports programmes and drama trails. It's still a bloody great song:
[Part of Between 10th and 11th Weekend]
The only appearance of this track on YouTube is marked with a fan video which only slightly looks like a screensaver. Soothing, though. Soothing.
[Part of Between 10th & 11th weekend]
This was one of the album's singles - it came in a somewhat pointless double CD set, with one of them coming with an outside, swing-fronted container which never fitted in any CD rack, box, or display device known to man.
This version is live, from The Melkweg in Amsterdam in 2008:
[Part of Between 10th and 11th weekend]
Not the most-obvious choice for a second track on an album, a song called Ignition. This is the 2008 version of the band playing the track in Sheffield:
[Part of Between 10th & 11th weekend]
So, then, onto the album proper - and one of the band's great lost classics:
Another happy lad with dirty pictures plastered on the wall.
A british beach collection, a classic alcoholic argument.
I don't want to see the sights there is nothing worse,
Thank God I don't have to see the sights.
Don't worry if you're not a big Charlatans fan - or, indeed, can't stand the lips-and-fringe-and-organ combination at all; I'm probably not going to work through all of The Charlatans album-by-album.
Probably not.
But someone did hope for an illustrated Between 10th & 11th last week, and who am I to turn my back on popular demand?
This, then, was to be the first of what has proved to be an increasingly difficult series of follow-up albums. Having galloped to number one on a wave of popular affection for all things Madchester, the band were now facing a task of building on success while, all around them, the scene they'd helped shape was falling apart.
But you know what? Before we get to the 1992 album, let's take a couple of moments to remember the singles that bridged the gap between Some Friendly and Between..., which signposted a shift to something a bit more atmospheric.
First up was Over Rising:
Then, the gorgeous Me, In Time:
Of course, we all scribbled out the final letter 'e' and giggled back when it came out. We made our own fun back then.
Buy
CD version
MP3 download
Cassette version
And don't rely on dribbles of videos - have Tim Burgess permanently shoved in your slot:
Forever: The Singles: The videos
More to come, when we actually hit the album proper
I Don't Want To See The Sights
Ignition
Tremolo Song
Can't Even Be Bothered
Weirdo
