Hope Springs Eternal – Various Songs

Hope Springs Eternal
Various Songs
199? (no label)
Middlesbrough, England, United Kingdom

1. Dig It Deep
2. Drive My Intelligence
3. Kick Your Soul Awake
4. Me and My Friends
5. One Thing
6. Bite
7. Brother Velocity
8. Crazy Wild and New
9. Deep Seed
10. Out of Range
11. Same as You
12. Searching for the Last Amen
13. Seen the Car
14. Sidetracked
15. Somewhere the Light (Sawmills)
16. The Ground and the Rain
17. Thinking in Semaphor

This was actually a collection of songs that a member of the band shared a while back (no longer available, sorry). In that collection were all of the songs for Stark Raving Glad as well. However, the songs were mostly in alphabetical order, except for the first 5 songs that were set apart but also in alphabetical order. You can tell that different songs come from different recording sessions, so they are probably from other releases that I haven’t heard of. Or they are unreleased songs. Anyways, “Searching for the Last Amen” is a studio version of the song on their live tape Heady Summers Ending. The songs are like the two other tapes that are reviewed here – energetic guitar-driven alternative rock.

Missing Information: Who played on these songs? What releases are they from?