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After being out-of-print for many years, a reissue was announced in early 2007. [1]

Track listing

1. Breath – 3:58
2. Race The Sun – 3:25
3. Cry – 2:33
4. Why Go It Alone? – 2:49
5. Waiting For Mary – 3:29
6. Ice Cream Truck – 2:48
7. Bus Called Happiness – 3:13
8. Monday Night – 2:15
9. Love Love Love – 3:28
10. Lost Nation Road – 2:16
11. Fire – 3:45
12. Nevada! – 3:20
13. The Wire – 3:20
14. Flat – 2:23
15. The Waltz – 3:30
16. Pushin' – 2:27

Singles

The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. ... The Modern Rock Tracks chart is a music chart that has appeared in Billboard magazine since the early 1980s. ... The Mainstream Rock Tracks chart is a ranking in Billboard magazine of the most-played songs on mainstream rock radio stations, a category that includes stations that play primarily rock music but are not modern rock stations, which are counted in the Modern Rock Tracks chart. ...

Personnel

• David Thomas: vocals
• Jim Jones: guitar, backing vocals
• Allen Ravenstine: EML synthesizers, backing vocals
• Tony Maimone: bass, backing vocals
• Chris Cutler: drums
• Scott Krauss: drums

and

• Steven Hague: keyboards