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Way Beyond Blue is the debut album by the Welsh band Catatonia. It has been seen by many fans as being something of a compilation album, as all but five songs on the album had appeared on one of the band's early EPs or singles, albeit in different renditions (see below). It spawned the band's first top 40 hit, "You've Got a Lot to Answer For" which hit No. 35.

Critical reception

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The Guardian concluded that "'Lost Cat' and 'Sweet Catatonia', creamy janglefests both, are among the best things to have emerged from the nascent Welsh scene."

Track listing

All tracks are written by Cerys Matthews and Mark Roberts unless otherwise noted

No.	Title	Previous appearance	Length
1.	"Lost Cat"	N/A	2:32
2.	"Sweet Catatonia"	For Tinkerbell EP	2:43
3.	"Some Half Baked Ideal Called Wonderful"	N/A	3:10
4.	"You've Got a Lot to Answer For"	N/A	3:16
5.	"Infantile" (Matthews, Roberts, Paul Jones)	N/A	4:28
6.	"Dream On"	The Sublime Magic of Catatonia	2:37
7.	"Bleed"	"Bleed" single	2:30
8.	"This Boy Can't Swim"	"Bleed" single	3:01
9.	"Painful"	"Bleed" single	2:39
10.	"Whale"	"Whale" single	2:54
11.	"For Tinkerbell"	For Tinkerbell EP	4:10
12.	"Way Beyond Blue" (contains hidden track "Gyda Gwên (With a Smile)")	N/A	13:31

2015 reissue bonus disc
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Blow the Millennium, Blow"
2.	"Beautiful Sailor"
3.	"Tourist"
4.	"Acapulco Gold"
5.	"Cut You Inside" (Demo)
6.	"To and Fro"
7.	"All Girls Are Fly"
8.	"Indigo Blind"
9.	"Sweet Catatonia" (Live)
10.	"Whale" (Live)
11.	"Bleed" (Version 2)
12.	"Do You Believe in Me?"
13.	"Dimbran"
14.	"You Can"
15.	"All Girls Are Fly" (Da-De? Remix)
16.	"Blow The Millennium, Blow" (Splott Remix)
17.	"Do You Believe in Me?" (Live)
18.	"Way Beyond Blue" (Live)
19.	"Painful" (Live)
20.	"Bleed" (Live)

Personnel

Cerys Matthews – vocals
Mark Roberts – guitar
Owen Powell – guitar
Paul Jones – bass
Aled Richards – drums (tracks 1–5, 7, 9, 11)
Dafydd Ieuan – drums (tracks 2, 6–8, 10, 12)

References

"New Releases: Singles" (PDF). Music Week. 17 August 1996. p. 10. Retrieved 9 April 2022.
Bennun, David (28 September 1996). "Coma chameleons". Melody Maker. Vol. 73, no. 39. p. 49.
Way Beyond Blue at AllMusic
Sullivan, Caroline (4 October 1996). "Catatonia Way Beyond Blue". Features. The Guardian. p. 18.
"Way Beyond Blue". Demon Music Group. Retrieved 7 May 2015.

v t e Catatonia
Cerys Matthews Mark Roberts Paul Jones Aled Richards Owen Powell Stephen Jenkins Guto Pryce Dafydd Ieuan Clancy Pegg
Studio albums	Way Beyond Blue International Velvet Equally Cursed and Blessed Paper Scissors Stone
Compilations	The Sublime Magic of Catatonia The Crai-EPs 1993/1994 Greatest Hits The Platinum Collection Road Rage: The Best of Catatonia
Extended plays	For Tinkerbell Hooked
Singles	"Whale" "Bleed" "Sweet Catatonia" "Lost Cat" "You've Got a Lot to Answer For" "Bleed (reissue)" "I Am the Mob" "Mulder and Scully" "Road Rage" "Strange Glue" "Game On" "Dead from the Waist Down" "Londinium" "Karaoke Queen" "Stone by Stone"
Other songs	"International Velvet"
Promotional releases	Christmas '95 Tourist EP A's & B's of Catatonia Storm the Palace EP

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