Ruby Trax

Ruby Trax – The NME's Roaring Forty is a compilation album released by New Musical Express (NME) magazine in 1992 to commemorate 40 years of publication. The album features 40 cover versions of classic Number 1 songs by popular bands of the era, though as the NME based it on their own chart,^[2] some songs (such as Ultravox's "Vienna" recorded by Vic Reeves)^[3] did not reach number one on the British Market Research Bureau/Gallup chart (now branded as the Official Singles Chart).^[4][5] It was released in the following formats: three LPs (NME40LP), three CDs (NME40CD) or two cassettes (NME40MC), all having a total of 40 songs.

Ruby Trax
Compilation album by various artists
Released	23 November 1992 (1992-11-23)
Genre	Alternative rock
Length	156:04
Label	New Musical Express
Producer	Various
Singles from Ruby Trax
"Theme from MASH" / "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" Released: 7 September 1992 (1992-09-07)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]

The album spawned a double A-side single featuring Manic Street Preachers' version of "Suicide Is Painless", which was listed as "Theme from M.A.S.H.", and the Fatima Mansions' take on Bryan Adams' "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" . The 12" and CD versions of the single included an interview with Steve Lamacq about an incident in which Richey Edwards had carved '4 Real' into his arm with a razor blade. This was entitled "Sleeping with the NME" and credited to the Manic Street Preachers. The single peaked at No. 7 on the UK Singles Chart.^[6]

All proceeds from the album went to the charity The Spastics Society.

Track listing

3-CD version

Disc one

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Artist	Length
1.	"Coz I Luv You"	Noddy Holder, Jim Lea	The Wonder Stuff	3:26
2.	"When Will I See You Again?"	Gamble and Huff	Billy Bragg	2:59
3.	"Little Red Rooster"	Willie Dixon	The Jesus and Mary Chain	3:24
4.	"Atomic"	Debbie Harry, Jimmy Destri	The Mission	5:11
5.	"(Everything I Do) I Do It for You"	Bryan Adams, Michael Kamen, Robert John "Mutt" Lange	The Fatima Mansions	6:26
6.	"Stranger in Paradise"	Alexander Borodin, Robert Wright, George Forrest	Saint Etienne	3:25
7.	"Cumberland Gap"	traditional	The Wedding Present	1:30
8.	"(If Paradise Is) Half as Nice"	Lucio Battisti, Jack Fishman	Aztec Camera / Andy Fairweather-Low	5:22
9.	"Show You the Way to Go"	Gamble and Huff	Dannii Minogue	4:40
10.	"Where Do You Go To My Lovely?"	Peter Sarstedt	Welfare Heroine	5:20
11.	"Bad Moon Rising"	John Fogerty	The Blue Aeroplanes	5:21
12.	"Apache"	Jerry Lordan	Senseless Things	2:41
13.	"Mr. Tambourine Man"	Bob Dylan	Teenage Fanclub	2:11

Disc two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Artist	Length
1.	"Another Brick in the Wall"	Roger Waters	Carter USM	3:49
2.	"Maggie May"	Rod Stewart, Martin Quittenton	Blur	4:08
3.	"Ashes to Ashes"	David Bowie	Tears for Fears	4:32
4.	"Rock Your Baby"	Harry Wayne Casey, Richard Finch	The House of Love	2:31
5.	"I'm a Believer"	Neil Diamond	The Frank and Walters	2:42
6.	"Shaddap You Face"	Joe Dolce	EMF	1:56
7.	"Brass in Pocket"	Chrissie Hynde, James Honeyman-Scott	Suede	3:42
8.	"Ring My Bell"	Frederick Knight	Tori Amos	4:35
9.	"Lady Madonna"	Lennon–McCartney	Kingmaker	2:04
10.	"Like a Prayer"	Madonna, Patrick Leonard	Marc Almond	6:10
11.	"Don't You Want Me?"	Philip Oakey, Jo Callis, Philip Adrian Wright	The Farm	4:09
12.	"I've Never Been to Me"	Ron Miller, Kenneth Hirsch	Ned's Atomic Dustbin	5:28
13.	"My Sweet Lord"	George Harrison	Boy George	3:27

Disc three

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Artist	Length
1.	"Voodoo Chile"	Jimi Hendrix	Jesus Jones	5:15
2.	"Sunny Afternoon"	Ray Davies	Bob Geldof	3:49
3.	"The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"	Ennio Morricone	Johnny Marr & Billy Duffy	4:50
4.	"Down Down"	Francis Rossi, Bob Young	Cud	3:20
5.	"The Legend of Xanadu"	Ken Howard, Alan Blaikley	The Fall	3:28
6.	"Secret Love"	Sammy Fain, Paul Francis Webster	Sinéad O'Connor	2:53
7.	"World without Love"	Lennon–McCartney	World Party	3:10
8.	"Tainted Love"	Ed Cobb	Inspiral Carpets	4:24
9.	"Baby Come Back"	Eddy Grant	Elektric Music	4:01
10.	"The Model"	Ralf Hütter, Karl Bartos, Emil Schult	Ride	3:49
11.	"Vienna"	Midge Ure, Chris Cross, Warren Cann, Billy Currie	Vic Reeves	3:21
12.	"Go Now"	Larry Banks, Milton Bennett	Tin Machine	4:30
13.	"I Feel Love"	Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder, Pete Bellotte	Curve	4:25
14.	"Suicide Is Painless"	Johnny Mandel, Mike Altman	Manic Street Preachers	3:40

See also

• Sgt. Pepper Knew My Father – the NME charity album featuring the number one double A-side "With a Little Help from My Friends" by Wet Wet Wet / "She's Leaving Home" by Billy Bragg with Cara Tivey
• List of NME number-one singles of the 1980s – from the NME's rival to charts broadcast by BBC Radio One and Independent Local Radio (Network Chart)