Champion Versions | ||||
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EP by The Beta Band | ||||
Released | 25 July 1997 | |||
Genre |
Trip hop Indie rock |
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Length | 21:56 | |||
Label | Regal | |||
Producer | The Beta Band | |||
The Beta Band chronology | ||||
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Champion Versions is the first release by The Beta Band, released in 1997 on 12" vinyl only. The EP was later included in its entirety on the 1998 compilation The Three E.P.'s, along with The Patty Patty Sound and Los Amigos del Beta Bandidos.
Champion Versions, along with the other two original E.P.s from The Beta Band, long out of print on vinyl were re-issued as part of Record Store Day 2013.
The album cover references the design of King Tubby's The Roots of Dub LP.
"Dry the Rain" ranked at number 57 in Pitchfork Media's list of the Top 200 Songs of the 1990s.