''Songs from the Film'' is

Tommy Keene Tommy Keene (born Thomas Clay Keene; June 30, 1958 – November 22, 2017) was an American singer-songwriter, best known for releasing critically acclaimed rock & roll/power pop songs in the 1980s. He has a longtime cult following among fans of ...

's second full-length album and his major label debut. Originally released on LP and cassette in 1986 (

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, catalog #GHS 24090), it wasn't available on CD until 1998. The album hit No. 148 on the ''Billboard'' 200.

Track listing

All songs written by Tommy Keene, except where noted #"Places That Are Gone" – 2:53 #"In Our Lives" – 2:59 #"Listen to Me" – 3:52 #"Paper Words and Lies" – 2:23 #"Gold Town" – 2:57 #"Kill Your Sons" – 5:02 (

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) #*Originally recorded by Lou Reed, 1974 #"Call on Me" – 3:04 #"As Life Goes By" – 2:23 #"My Mother Looked Like Marilyn Monroe" – 3:19 #"Underworld" – 5:00 #"Astronomy" – 1:28 #"The Story Ends" – 3:48 Bonus tracks on the 1998 CD version #"Take Back Your Letters" – 4:24 #*Previously unreleased; ''Songs from the Film'' outtake #"Run Now" – 4:42 #*Originally released on the ''Run Now'' EP (Geffen, 1986) #"Away from It All" – 2:54 #*From ''Run Now'' #"I Don't Feel Right at All" – 3:42 #*From ''Run Now'' #"Back Again" – 4:03 #*From ''Run Now'' #"They're in Their Own World" – 3:45 #*From ''Run Now'' #"We're Two" – 3:20 #*Previously unreleased; recorded in 1984 #"Faith in Love" (full band version) – 3:15 #*Previously unreleased; recorded in 1984 #"Teenage Head" – 3:44 (Roy Loney, Cyril Jordan) #*Originally recorded by

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, 1971 #*Previously unreleased; recorded live-in-the-studio note: On the CD, "Take Back Your Letters" appears between "Underworld" and "Astronomy"; the remainder of the bonus tracks follow "The Story Ends").

Personnel

The band

*Tommy Keene —

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*Billy Connelly — Guitars,

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, lead guitar ("Teenage Head") *

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*Doug Tull —

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Production

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— Producer, mixing ("Places That Are Gone", "Listen to Me", "Gold Town", "Call on Me", "As Life Goes By", "Underworld", "Astronomy", "The Story Ends") *Matt Butler — Engineer, mixing ("Places That Are Gone", "Listen to Me", "Gold Town", "Call on Me", "As Life Goes By", "Underworld", "Astronomy", "The Story Ends") *Frank Oglethorpe — Technical assistance, second engineer *Bill Wittman — Mixing ("In Our Lives", "Paper Words and Lies", "Kill Your Sons", "My Mother Looked Like Marilyn Monroe") *John Agnello — Mixing ("In Our Lives", "Paper Words and Lies", "Kill Your Sons", "My Mother Looked Like Marilyn Monroe") *Tom Zutaut — Production assistance *George Marino — Mastering *Jeff Magio — Executive producer (CD version) *Josh Grier — Executive producer (CD version) *

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— Producer ("Run Now") *

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— Producer ("Away from It All", "I Don't Feel Right at All", "Back Again", "They're in Their Own World", "We're Two", "Faith in Love") * Don Dixon — Producer ("Away from It All", "I Don't Feel Right at All", "Back Again", "They're in Their Own World", "We're Two", "Faith in Love") *David Donnelly — CD remastering

Additional credits

*Recorded at

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*Recorded at

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*Mixed at AIR Studios, Montserrat ("Places That Are Gone", "Listen to Me", "Gold Town", "Call on Me", "As Life Goes By", "Underworld", "Astronomy", "The Story Ends") *Mixed at

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("In Our Lives", "Paper Words and Lies", "Kill Your Sons", "My Mother Looked Like Marilyn Monroe") *"Thank you Teresa Ensenat, Tom Zutaut, Bobby Keene, Ed Rosenblatt, Pat Day, Joe Picuri, Jim Crence, Josh Rowley, Yvonne Kelly and all at AIR Studios, Montserrat, Dody Bowers, Josh Grier, Don Dixon, Steve Carr, Big Joe" *Tom Zutaut — A&R *Teresa Ensenat — A&R *Mastered at Sterling Sound, New York City *Michael Hodgson — Art direction and design *Jeffrey Kent Ayeroff — Art direction and design *Just Loomis — Photography *Terry Robertson — CD design *Tommy Keene — Additional photography (CD) *"With thanks to the

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" *CD thanks: "Tommy wishes to thank: Josh Grier, Jeff Magid, Bobby Keene and Ed Morgan", "Special thanks: Bill Bennett, David Berman, Brit Davis, Lyn Fey, Dave Garbarino, Kristin Hambsch, Julie Hall, Rich Hyland, Greg Lapidus, Clark Pardee, Mel Posner, Ed Rosenblatt, Robin Rothman, Jennifer Schiller, Annie B. Siegel, Robert Smith, Jim Walker, Jason Whittington" *CD liner notes — John M. Borack

Alternate versions

In 1998, Geffen released ''Songs from the Film'' on CD (catalog #GEFD-25225) with nine bonus tracks.

Sources

*LP and CD liner notes

References

{{Authority control 1986 albums Tommy Keene albums Geffen Records albums Albums produced by Ted Niceley Albums produced by Geoff Emerick Albums recorded at AIR Studios Albums produced by Don Dixon (musician)