My record collection
[386] - Dean Wareham - Anesthesia (No. 6 single)

This is a copy of the No. 6 edition of Dean Wareham’s first post-Galaxie 500 release Anesthesia. It only arrived in my collection a couple of weeks ago when a Discogs seller in the UK had a copy.

Dean Wareham - Anesthesia / I Can't Wait (No.6)

This single actually has a very confused existence as follows:

The sticker on the front of the sleeve declares that the b-side is called “I Don’t Care” - it isn’t. The label does have the correct title for the b-side although initial pressings didn’t actually have the correct b-side. It was released in two vinyl editions, one yellow and one black, and the first pressing had a Dogbowl track called “I Am Drunk Every Night Because of The Blue Fur Bosom Girl”. It was then re-pressed in both colours with the correct b-side.

So availabe as:

1. mispressed black vinyl
2. mispressed yellow vinyl
3. correctly pressed black vinyl
4. correctly pressed yellow vinyl

My copy is No.3. I never owned this before because I already had the lovely Mint Records 12” single.

The two songs were the demos Dean recorded at Fun City, produced by Wharton Tiers. Anesthesia with Jimmy Chambers on drums; I Can’t Wait with the late Hamish Kilgour on drums.

After Lunapark was relased a few months later I settled into the opinion that the demo version of Anesthesia was better than the Luna LP version. I still think that now although I do wonder if this was as much to do with the relief that I mentioned in the earlier Anesthesia posts.

Completist me would of course like copies of 1, 2, and 4.

• Catalogue Number: AHFOW 11/085
• Artist: Dean Wareham
• Title: Anesthesia / I Can’t Wait
• Notes: black vinyl, correct pressing
• Format: 7”
• Bought from a Discogs seller for £6.40

Previously in my record collection:

• [072] Dean Wareham - Anesthesia (12”)
• [051] Dean Wareham - Anesthesia (CD)