Nerves, The - Best Collection (red marble)

Third Man Records presents The Nerves - Best Collection, a definitive 2LP survey assembled in close collaboration with surviving members Paul Collins and Peter Case, together with Jack Lee’s daughter Cynthia. Rather than relying on later-generation copies, vinyl rips or CD sources, the project returned to the original recordings wherever possible to present these songs with greater clarity and authority.

The tapes were mastered and remastered by Warren Defever at Third Man Mastering in Detroit. That source work is central to the release: several tracks appear here in versions that have effectively not been heard since the day they were recorded. The collection therefore works as more than a standard anthology, gathering key songs while also restoring the sound of one of the defining groups in American power pop.

Across four sides, the set includes Hanging On The Telephone, When You Find Out, Working Too Hard, Walking Out on Love, One Way Ticket, Paper Dolls, I Don’t Fit In and many more. The tracklist captures the sharp economy, melodic urgency and stripped-down rock energy that made The Nerves so influential well beyond their brief original lifespan. Their songs would echo through later punk, new wave and guitar pop, with Hanging On The Telephone becoming especially well known through Blondie’s subsequent version.

Tracklisting:

1. Hanging On The Telephone
   
2. When You Find Out
   
3. Give Me Some Time
   
4. Working Too Hard
   
5. Are You Famous
   
6. Letter To G.
7. Day In and Day Out
   
8. You Won't Be Happy
   
9. Stand Back and Take a Good Look
   
10. Many Roads to Follow
    
11. Why Am I Lonely?
    
12. Come Back and Stay / I Need Your Love
    
13. Any Day Now
    
14. Will You Come Through?
15. One Way Ticket
    
16. Paper Dolls
    
17. Walking Out on Love
    
18. House On the Hill
    
19. Little Suzy
    
20. Radio Station
    
21. Everyday Things
    
22. Do You Wanna Love Me?
23. Things Of The Past
    
24. I Don't Fit In
    
25. USA
    
26. Let Me into Your Life
    
27. I Need Your Love
    
28. One Way Ticket
    
29. Paper Dolls