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  Distant                              Plastic Trees / The Wayward Bus |  
                        | (CD/TAPE:                              1991/1992) |  
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  Merritt's                              first two albums Distant Plastic
 Trees and                              The Wayward Bus were recorded
 in 1989 and 1991                              with singer Susan Anway.
   Distant Plastic Trees                             was released in
the  UK on Red Flame Records, and in                              Japan on
RCA  Victor in 1991. In 1992, The Magnetic                              Fields
 released Distant Plastic Trees in the                           
  US, combining it with their unreleased album The                   
          Wayward Bus onto one CD. They released this on            
                 their own label, PoPuP with a 4:32 silent track separating
                              the two albums and removing the track 'Plant
 White                              Roses' which can now be found on The
 Long Secret                             compilation. 
  Merge                              Records
   re-released Distant Plastic Trees                             /
   The Wayward Bus in 1995 on CD and tape. |  
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  Distant                              Plastic Trees
                               coverbelow: 
  The                              Wayward Bus cover
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                        | 1.                            When You Were My Baby |  
                        | 2.                            The Saddest Story Ever Told |  
                        | 3.                            Lovers From The Moon |  
                        | 4.                            Candy |  
                        | 5.                            Tokyo A Go-Go |  
                        | 6.                            Summer Lies |  
                        | 7.                            Old Orchard Beach |  
                        | 8.                            Jeremy |  
                        | 9.                            Dancing In Your Eyes |  
                        | 10.                            Suddenly There Is a Tidal Wave |  
                        | 11.                            silence* |  
                        | 12.                            Railroad Boy |  
                        | 13.                            Smoke Signals |  
                        | 14.                            You Love to Fail |  
                        | 15.                            Kings |  
                        | 16.                            Babies Falling |  
                        | 17.                            Living in an Abandoned Firehouse with You |  
                        | 18.                            Tar-Heel Boy |  
                        | 19.                            Falling in Love with the Wolfboy |  
                        | 20.                            Josephine |  
                        | 21.                              100,000 Fireflies |  |  | 
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