Push Barman to Open Old Wounds is a 2005 two-disc/triple-LP compilation released by Belle and Sebastian. Blender described the collection as "25 charming tales of shy girls dabbling in photography and bookish boys dabbling in shy girls."
Content
The compilation contains the singles and EPs they released for Jeepster Records:
- Dog on Wheels (1997)
- Lazy Line Painter Jane (1997)
- 3.. 6.. 9 Seconds of Light (1997)
- This Is Just a Modern Rock Song (1998)
- "Legal Man" (2000)
- "Jonathan David" (2001)
- "I'm Waking Up to Us" (2001)
The track listing features every song on the aforementioned EPs, listed in chronological order.
Critical reception
Push Barman to Open Old Wounds received widespread critical acclaim from contemporary music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 89, based on 18 reviews, which indicates "universal acclaim".