''The Early Years'' is the third
compilation album
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by the Danish rock group
D-A-D
D-A-D is a Danish rock band. They were originally named Disneyland After Dark, but changed their name to avoid a lawsuit from The Walt Disney Company.
History
In the early 1980s in Copenhagen, D-A-D started playing together under their origi ...
. The compilation was released on 13 November 2000.
It contains every track from the group's first two albums
Call of the Wild
''The Call of the Wild'' is a short adventure novel by Jack London, published in 1903 and set in Yukon, Canada, during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, when strong sled dogs were in high demand. The central character of the novel is a dog named Bu ...
and
D.A.D. Draws a Circle, their first
EP ''
Standin' On the Never Never
''Standin' on the Never Never'' was the first release by Danish rock band D-A-D, then known as Disneyland After Dark. The EP was released on 28 May 1985 on Mega Records
Mega Records was a Nashville, Tennessee-based music label founded in 1970 b ...
'' plus extra material consisting of
remix
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es and
radio edit
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s among other things. It peaked at number 40 on the Danish charts on 19 January 2001.
Track listing
CD 1
Call Of The Wild
: 1. Land Of Their Choice
: 2. Call Of The Wild
: 3. Riding With Sue
: 4. Marlboro Man
: 5. Counting The Cattle
: 6. Jackie O
: 7. Trucker
: 8. Rock River
: 9. Jonnie
: 10. Son Of A Gun
: 11. It's After Dark
D.A.D. Draws A Circle
: 12. Isn't That Wild
: 13. A Horse With No Name
: 14. Mighty Highty High
: 15. I Won't Cut My Hair
: 16. Black Crickets
: 17. There's A Ship
: 18. God's Favorite
: 19. 10 Knots
: 20. Ride My Train
: 21. Rather Live Than Die
CD 2
Standin' On The Never Never
: 1. Up, Up Over The Mountain Top
: 2. Marlboro Man
: 3. Never Never (Indian Love)
Extra material
: 4. Ride My Train (2000 Remix)
: 5. It's After Dark (video version)
: 6. Trucker (2000 remix single version/radio edit)
: 7. Trucker (2000 remix club version)
: 8. Trucker (1987 New York remix)
: 9. Trucker (1987 jab dub)
: 10. There's A Ship (The 1987 megamix)
: 11. Rin Tin Tin (demo)
: 12. It's A Sad Sad X-mas (single version)
: 13. The Danish Radio 1987/88 New year's jingle 1: "The Party"
: 14. The Danish Radio 1987/88 New year's jingle 2: "From Us To You"
: 15. The Danish Radio 1987/88 New year's jingle 3: "Fireworks"
: 16. Land Of Their Choice (live 1985)
: 17. Radio Voice interview: "The Whopper End"
References
External links
This album on D-A-D's official homepage*
2000 albums
D.A.D. (band) albums
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