All Music Guide review.)
This Special Edition of Boil That Dust Speck contains the remastered CD plus a region-free NTSC DVD featuring bonus tracks, rare studio footage, vintage live concert material, interviews with participants, and video from a 2006 reunion of the original core band (Mike Keneally, Doug Lunn and Toss Panos) performing songs from both albums. And of course, the first 3000 copies of each Special Edition will be personally signed and numbered by Mike. The Boil That Dust Speck DVD includes a 90-minute presentation of "The Making of Boil That Dust Speck," featuring extensive video footage of 1994 album sessions, newly-shot interview footage, live-in-the-studio performances from Keneally, Doug Lunn and Toss Panos of "Weekend," "The Desired Effect" and "Skunk," and other vital tidbits, resulting in an exhaustive examination of Dust Speck which will thrill any Keneally enthusiast, music fan, or human. The DVD also features an audio archive, with more than 20 alternate mixes and unreleased tracks, including an unreleased recording session with Mike's rarely documented band Drop Control, playing together for the last time.
Mike on 1994's BTDS: "This was an album I very much needed to make-- an album wrenched out of my darkest depths while in the throes of an exciting variety of emotional torment, this album is a lot less goofy than hat." The result has been heralded as a masterpiece by critics and fans. Its songs have been a major part of Mike's live sets for years and head-ripping live versions are featured his 2006 Guitar Therapy Live release. BTDS has been unavailable for eons, and collectors have paid exhorbitant prices for it.
Keneally's entire Immune catalog from the 1990s is being remastered and reissued by Exowax. Boil That Dust Speck has been remastered with its original track order. Songs on the remastered Boil That Dust Speck CD are:
- Sooth
- 'Cause Of Breakfast
- The Desired Effect
- Skunk
- I'm Glad There's Lemon-Freshened Thorax In You
- Top Of Stove Melting
- Aglow
- Bryan Beller's Favorite Song
- Deep-Fried Skinks Are Go!
- Good Morning, Sometime
- Them Dolphins Is Smart
- 1988 Was A Million Years Ago
- Yep, Them Dolphins Is Smart, Alright
- Bullys (sic)
- My Dilemma
- Helen Was Brash
- Weekend
- Land Of Broken Dreams
- Blameless (The Floating Face)
- That Claim-Jumping Swine, O'Bannon
- Faithful Axe
- Natty Trousers
- Scotch
- There Have Been Bad Moments
- Frang Tang, The Valentine Bear
- I Will
- In The Bone World
- The Old Boat Guy, Part One
- The Old Boat Guy, Part Two
- The Old Boat Guy, Part Three