Ups & Downs: Early Recordings and B-Sides is a B-Side compilation album by Saves the Day

Saves the Day

Saves the Day is an American rock band from Princeton, New Jersey, formed in 1994. The band consists of lead vocalist and guitarist Chris Conley, guitarist Arun Bali, bassist Rodrigo Palma, and drummer Claudio Rivera....

, released on Vagrant Records

Vagrant Records

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 on August 24, 2004.

As the title suggests, it is a compilation

Compilation album

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 of early recordings and B-sides, recorded between 1997 when they were known as Sefler to the live reworking of "Jessie and My Whetstone" in 2003. The compilation also includes the entire I'm Sorry I'm Leaving EP, remaster

Remaster

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ed and without the Modern English

Modern English (band)

Modern English are an English rock band best remembered for their songs "I Melt with You", "Hands Across the Sea", and "Ink and Paper". The group disbanded for a period in 1991, but later recorded in 1995 and 2002 with new members...

 cover, "I Melt with You

I Melt With You

"I Melt with You" is a song by the British post-punk and New Wave band Modern English. The song, produced by Hugh Jones, was a single from the 1982 album After the Snow, and is about a couple making love as nuclear bombs fall. It reached #7 on Billboard's Top Tracks chart and #78 on the Billboard...

", as well as for the first time on CD

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, the EP

Extended play

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's vinyl

Gramophone record

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-only track "The Way His Collar Falls".

Track listing

1. "Ups and Downs"
2. "Sell My Old Clothes, I'm Off to Heaven"
3. "A Drag in D Flat"
4. "I'm Sorry I'm Leaving"
5. "Hold"
6. "Jessie and My Whetstone"
7. "Take Our Cars Now!"
8. "The Way His Collar Falls"
9. "The Art of Misplacing Firearms"
10. "East Coast"
11. "1:19"
12. "An Afternoon Laughing"
13. "Dave Feels Right"
14. "When It isn't Like It Should Be"
15. "1959"
16. "I Think I'll Quit" (For the first pressing the song is mistitled as "Kentucky Parallel Parking." The song was made by Chris Conley's previous band, Sefler.)
17. "Cheer" (A cover, originally recorded by Descendents)
18. "Clash City Rockers" (A cover, originally recorded by The Clash)
19. "Jessie and My Whetstone" (Live 2003)