From “Best Boy Electric” to “Sing to Me”: Steven Wilson on Tim Bowness

Steven Wilson posts on Facebook:

My buddy from no-man, Tim Bowness, releases his fantastic new album Stupid Things That Mean the World on 17th July, a follow up to last year’s Abandoned Dancehall Dreams. I mixed and played a little on that one, but although I’m not directly involved in the new album, Tim has recorded a song for it that we wrote and demoed for No-Man 20 years ago! At that time the song was called Best Boy Electric, but the final finished album track has been retitled Sing to Me. … You can hear our original demo fragment from 1994 on the bonus CD that comes with initial copies of the album.

Pre-order for the July 17 release from Burning Shed:

CD 1 – Stupid Things That Mean The World

1. The Great Electric Teenage Dream 3.58
2. Sing To Me 5.46
3. Where You’ve Always Been 4.07
4. Stupid Things That Mean The World 3.05
5. Know That You Were Loved 6.44
6. Press Reset 3.54
7. All These Escapes 3.06
8. Everything You’re Not 3.40
9. Everything But You 1.12
10. Soft William 1.40
11. At The End Of The Holiday 4.58

CD 2 – Stupid Things That Meant The World

1. Stupid Things That Mean The World (alternate) (Nick Magnus mix) 3.09
2. Best Boy Electric (Sing To Me) (1994 No-Man demo) (Steven Wilson mix) 1.58
3. Know That You Were Loved (alternate, David Rhodes ‘electric version’) (Stephen Bennett mix) 6.29
4. I Still Miss You (Stupid Things That Mean The World, UXB ‘Ambient’ Mix) 6.13

Thoughts?