Speak (1999)

About this title: In an interesting artistic choice, the next full No-Man album to appear after Wild Opera was, in ways, the band's first. Originally surfacing as a self-released cassette in the late '80s, Speak was reissued in the late '90s in slightly different form. Rather than a straight re-release, Bowness re-recorded all his vocals for the songs, though the music, with only two exceptions -- "Curtain Dream" and "Night Sky, Sweet Earth" -- stayed the same as when Wilson and founder member Ben Coleman recorded it. The result is an intriguing and sometimes revelatory revisit to the band's earliest days, ... read more

Tracks:

1. Speak [Coleman/Wilson]
2. Pink Moon [Drake]
3. Iris Murdoch Cut Me Down [Bowness/Wilson]
4. Curtain Dream [Bowness/Wilson]
5. Heaven's Break [Bowness/Wilson]
6. French Tree Terror Suspect [Coleman/Wilson]
7. River Song [Leitch]
8. Riverrun [Bowness/Wilson]
9. The Ballet Beast [Bowness/Wilson]
10. Night Sky Sweet Earth [Bowness/Wilson]
11. Life with Picasso [Bowness]
12. Death and Dodgson's Dreamchild [Bowness/Wilson]
13. The Hidden Art of Man Ray [Bowness/Wilson]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.