'With Love and Squalor' is the major label debut album from rock band We Are Scientists. It was released in the United Kingdom in October 2005 on Virgin Records and charted at No. 43, with a large cult following which enabled it to after nearly six months of release, gain a gold certification by the BPI in 2006. The album title is derived from a J.D. Salinger short story, 'For Esmé - with Love and Squalor', which was originally published in The New Yorker and subsequently in Nine Stories, a compilation of Salinger's short stories. 2025 is the albums 20th anniversary, for this the band have curated this 2LP expanded edition with the 2nd LP made up of non album tracks, B-sides, live and acoustic tracks. This also features unseen images from the bands archive, its pressed on LP1 pink & LP2 red vinyl.

Disc 1

Track name

Artist

Length

1.Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt

We Are Scientists

3.12

2.This Scene Is Dead

We Are Scientists

3.43

3.Inaction

We Are Scientists

2.32

4.Can't Lose

We Are Scientists

3.32

5.Callbacks

We Are Scientists

2.02

6.Cash Cow

We Are Scientists

2.35

7.It's a Hit

We Are Scientists

3.26

8.The Great Escape

We Are Scientists

3.18

9.Textbook

We Are Scientists

4.01

10.Lousy Reputation

We Are Scientists

3.35

11.Worth the Wait

We Are Scientists

2.43

12.What's the Word

We Are Scientists

3.17

Disc 2

Track name

Artist

1.Mucho Mas

We Are Scientists

2.Surprise

We Are Scientists

3.Ram It Home

We Are Scientists

4.Callbacks Under the Sea

We Are Scientists

5.Hoppipolla

We Are Scientists

6.Sie Hat Vat Vermisst

We Are Scientists

7.Nobody Move Under the Sea

We Are Scientists

8.History Repeats

We Are Scientists

9.This Means War

We Are Scientists

10.Great Escape Under the Sea

We Are Scientists

11.Be My Baby

We Are Scientists

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