To celebrate the 40th Anniversary of The Green Pajamas, Sound-Effect Records, is excited to announce an expansive new album, JUST TO THIS, a 2-LP compilation of tracks never before released on vinyl or CD, spanning the band’s 40 years of making extraordinary music. Curated by Jeff Kelly and sequenced chronologically, the collection features 23 tracks, starting with a live version of Thinking Only of You from 1984, and ending with the finale, Something About the Light, which Jeff and Joe Ross started recording — with their original SUMMER OF LUST aesthetic very much in mind! — in November of 2023 and finished early this year.

Of the 23 songs heard here, 10 have never been released in any format and 11 were previously only available as digital downloads. Tom Dyer has mastered these songs for LP, now sounding better than ever before, bringing this collection of recordings from diverse sound sources — including cassette tapes from the 1980’s — together into a cohesive and wonderfully entertaining album. Each song’s recording history is detailed on the record’s two full-color inner sleeves, which also feature scores of never-before published photographs.

There are highlights a-plenty in this set approaching near 100 minutes of music: A blistering live version of Kim the Waitress from 1994; Jeff’s original demos for the songs, Ghosts of Love and Tess; a swift run-through of She’s Still Bewitching Me, live at Terrastock 4 in 2000; Jeff’s cover of the Kinks’ A Long Way from Home, previously only available on a 2006 Ray Davies tribute CD and a beautiful, early take of Princess Misa from 2022.

Detailed track description:

SIDE A

THINKING ONLY OF YOU (Live, 1984) Previously released on the digital-only UNDER THE RADAR collection 

I WANT YOU BACK (1985) Previously released on the digital-only UNDER THE RADAR collection 

SUCH A LOVELY DAUGHTER (1985) Previously released by Unhinged Magazine on flexi-disc and on the digital-only UNDER THE RADAR collection  

PAULA (Alternate Mix, 1986) Previously released on the digital-only UNDER THE RADAR collection

GHOSTS OF LOVE (Demo, 1988) Previously unreleased

STRANGE CITY DAY (1989) Previously released on the digital-only UNDER THE RADAR collection 

SIDE B

JANINE (1989) Previously unreleased

AIN’T SO BAD (Live Radio, 1990) Previously unreleased

DR. DRAGONFLY (Version One, 1993) Previously unreleased 

I HAVE TOUCHED MADNESS (Live, 1994) Previously released on the digital-only UNDER THE RADAR collection

KIM THE WAITRESS (Live, 1994) Previously unreleased 

TESS (Acoustic Demo, 1997) Previously unreleased

SIDE C 

MY ELIZEBETH TO ME (1996) Previously released on the digital-only UNDER THE RADAR collection 

AGENT 99 (Version One, 1997) Previously unreleased

SHE’S STILL BEWITCHING ME (Live, 2000) Previously unreleased 

GAZELLE (Rough Mix, 2004) Previously released on the digital-only UNDER THE RADAR collection 

A LONG WAY FROM HOME (2006) Previously released by Mojo Magazine on CD

YOU CAN’T LOOK (Version Two, 2012) Originally released on the digital-only EP, YOU CAN’T LOOK [New 2024 mix!]

SIDE D 

TEN MILLION LIGHT YEARS AWAY (Live, 2017) Previously released on the digital-only UNDER THE RADAR collection 

BLUE HALLOWEEN MOON (2021 version) Previously released on the digital-only UNDER THE RADAR collection [New 2024 mix!]

JUST TO THIS (Director’s Cut, 2021) Previously released on the digital-only UNDER THE RADAR collection 

PRINCESS MISA (Alternate Version, 2022) Previously unreleased

SOMETHING ABOUT THE LIGHT (2023-2024) Previously unreleased

All previously released tracks have been remastered for this collection.