Blue Day is a compilation album by English shoegazing

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 band Slowdive

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. It was released in 1992 on Creation Records

Creation Records

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 and compiles the first three Slowdive EPs, "Slowdive" (missing the track "Avalyn II"), Morningrise (in its entirety), and Holding Our Breath (missing the Syd Barrett

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 cover "Golden Hair" and Catch the Breeze

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, which appears on the first full-length Just for a Day

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). It was subsequently made available in the US and the UK with the initial 1000 copies of "Souvlaki

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" in a limited edition double CD.

Track listing

1. "Slowdive" - (5:15)
2. "Avalyn 1" - (4:51)
3. "Morningrise" - (4:19)
4. "She Calls" - (5:38)
5. "Losing Today" - (5:00)
6. "Shine" - (5:21)
7. "Albatross" - (5:14)