Now The Truth Can Be Told is a two-disc retrospective compilation album by Christian musician Steve Taylor, released on September 27, 1994 by Sparrow Records.
Featuring over two hours of music, this set contains Taylor's catalog of music from his three Sparrow releases, plus songs from his 1987 Myrrh/Word album I Predict 1990, three songs from his 1991 super group album Chagall Guevara, live performances from his 1986 album Limelight, his holiday track "Winter Wonderland," from the various artists album Christmas, the tracks "Under the Blood" and "Bouquet" from his 1988 single disc compilation collection The Best We Could Find and previously unreleased demos. In the booklet, even though his most recent album Squint was released the previous year, the album is mentioned in the discography section but there are no songs from that album represented in this collection.
Now The Truth Can Be Told is also released on VHS containing seven select music videos, previously unreleased live performances, short films and documentary footage.
Track listing
All songs were written by Steve Taylor.
Disc 1
(from the EP I Want to Be a Clone) produced by Jonathan David Brown (tracks 1
-4)
1. I Want to Be a Clone -2:33
2. Whatcha Gonna Do When Your Number's Up -4:18
3. Whatever Happened to Sin -3:16
4. Bad Rap (Who You Tryin' to Kid, Kid?) -3:03
(from Meltdown) produced by Jonathan David Brown (tracks 5 -10)
5. Meltdown (At Madame Tussauds) -4:28
6. Sin for a Season -4:15
7. Guilty By Association -3:25
8. Hero -3:42
9. Am I In Sync? -4:25
10. Baby Doe -3:53
(from On the Fritz) produced by Steve Taylor and Ian McDonald (tracks 11 -16)
11. This Disco (Used to Be a Cute Cathedral) -4:06
12. To Forgive -3:55
13. Drive, He Said -4:29
14. I Just Wanna Know -4:40
15. On the Fritz -3:57
16. Lifeboat -4:28
Disc 2
(from Limelight) produced by Steve Taylor and Keith Bessey (tracks 1 and 2)
1. We Don't Need No Colour Code (live) -3:20
2. You Don't Owe Me Nothing (live) -3:44
(from The Best We Could Find (+3 That Never Escaped)) produced by Steve Taylor
and Dave Perkins aka The Beaufort Twins (tracks 3 and 4)
3. Under the Blood -3:41
4. Bouquet -3:53
(from I Predict 1990) produced by Steve Taylor and Dave Perkins aka The
Beaufort Twins (tracks 5 -12)
5. I Blew Up the Clinic Real Good -4:13
6. Jim Morrison's Grave -4:30
7. Innocence Lost -5:04
8. What Is the Measure of Your Success? -4:40
9. Since I Gave Up Hope I Feel A Lot Better -3:27
10. Svengali -4:31
11. A Principled Man -3:28
12. Harder to Believe Than Not To -4:33
(from Chagall Guevara) produced by Chagall Guevara and Matt Wallace (tracks
13 -15 written by Steve Taylor, Dave Perkins and Lynn Nichols)
13. Murder in the Big House -3:48
14. Escher's World -4:15
15. Violent Blue -4:01
(from Christmas) produced by Steve Taylor (track 16)
16. Winter Wonderland (Felix Bernard, Richard Bernhard Smith) -2:03
(previously unreleased demos, produced by Steve Taylor) (tracks 17 and 18)
17. Dream in Black & White (released 1980) -2:55
18. Shark Sandwich (more demos I forgot to erase) -3:00
Note: "Shark Sandwich" is a demo medley of archival selections taken from the following Taylor compositions: I Want to Be a Clone · Guilty by Association · Good Girl · Whatcha Gonna Do When Your Number's Up? · Whatever Happened to Sin?
Watch the long form video Now The Truth Can Be Told here:
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