Ruby Trax
{{Infobox album
| name = Ruby Trax
| type = compilation
| artist = various artists
| cover = Various - Ruby Trax.jpg
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| released = {{Start date|1992|11|23|df=yes}}
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| genre = Alternative rock
| length = 156:04
| label = New Musical Express
| producer = Various
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| misc = {{Singles
| name = Ruby Trax
| type = compilation
| single1 = Theme from MASH" / "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You
| single1date = {{Release date|1992|9|7|df=yes}}
}}
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{{Music ratings
|rev1 = AllMusic
|rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite web |first=Dean |last=Carlson |title=Review: Ruby Trax: The NME's Roaring 40 |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r301316/review|pure_url=yes}} |publisher=AllMusic |accessdate=27 July 2009}}
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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,{{Cite web|url=http://www.old-charts.com/|title=Old-Charts|website=www.old-charts.com}} some songs (such as Ultravox's "Vienna" recorded by Vic Reeves){{Cite web|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/18593/ultravox/|title=Ultravox | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company|website=www.officialcharts.com}} did not reach number one on the British Market Research Bureau/Gallup chart (now branded as the Official Singles Chart).{{Cite web|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/who-we-are/how-we-built-our-database/|title=Official Charts Company|website=www.officialcharts.com}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/who-we-are/eighties/|title=Who We Are - History of the Official Charts - The Eighties|website=www.officialcharts.com}} It was released in the following formats: three LPs (NME40LP), three CDs (NME40CD) or two cassettes (NME40MC), all having a total of 40 songs.
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.{{cite web |url=https://www.officialcharts.com/search/singles/Last%20Thing%20On%20My%20Mind |title=The Official Charts Company - Manic Street Preachers/Fatima Mansions - Theme From M*A*S*H/(Everything I Do) I Do It For You |accessdate=26 July 2009}}
All proceeds from the album went to the charity The Spastics Society.
Track listing
= 3-CD version =
{{Track listing
| headline = Disc one
| extra_column = Artist
| title1 = Coz I Luv You
| writer1 = Noddy Holder, Jim Lea
| extra1 = The Wonder Stuff
| length1 = 3:26
| title2 = When Will I See You Again?
| writer2 = Gamble and Huff
| extra2 = Billy Bragg
| length2 = 2:59
| title3 = Little Red Rooster
| writer3 = Willie Dixon
| extra3 = The Jesus and Mary Chain
| length3 = 3:24
| title4 = Atomic
| writer4 = Debbie Harry, Jimmy Destri
| extra4 = The Mission
| length4 = 5:11
| title5 = (Everything I Do) I Do It for You
| writer5 = Bryan Adams, Michael Kamen, Robert John "Mutt" Lange
| extra5 = The Fatima Mansions
| length5 = 6:26
| title6 = Stranger in Paradise
| writer6 = Alexander Borodin, Robert Wright, George Forrest
| extra6 = Saint Etienne
| length6 = 3:25
| title7 = Cumberland Gap
| writer7 = traditional
| extra7 = The Wedding Present
| length7 = 1:30
| title8 = (If Paradise Is) Half as Nice
| writer8 = Lucio Battisti, Jack Fishman
| extra8 = Aztec Camera / Andy Fairweather-Low
| length8 = 5:22
| title9 = Show You the Way to Go
| writer9 = Gamble and Huff
| extra9 = Dannii Minogue
| length9 = 4:40
| title10 = Where Do You Go To My Lovely?
| writer10 = Peter Sarstedt
| extra10 = Welfare Heroine
| length10 = 5:20
| title11 = Bad Moon Rising
| writer11 = John Fogerty
| extra11 = The Blue Aeroplanes
| length11 = 5:21
| title12 = Apache
| writer12 = Jerry Lordan
| extra12 = Senseless Things
| length12 = 2:41
| title13 = Mr. Tambourine Man
| writer13 = Bob Dylan
| extra13 = Teenage Fanclub
| length13 = 2:11
}}
{{Track listing
| headline = Disc two
| extra_column = Artist
| title1 = Another Brick in the Wall
| writer1 = Roger Waters
| extra1 = Carter USM
| length1 = 3:49
| title2 = Maggie May
| writer2 = Rod Stewart, Martin Quittenton
| extra2 = Blur
| length2 = 4:08
| title3 = Ashes to Ashes
| writer3 = David Bowie
| extra3 = Tears for Fears
| length3 = 4:32
| title4 = Rock Your Baby
| writer4 = Harry Wayne Casey, Richard Finch
| extra4 = The House of Love
| length4 = 2:31
| title5 = I'm a Believer
| writer5 = Neil Diamond
| extra5 = The Frank and Walters
| length5 = 2:42
| title6 = Shaddap You Face
| writer6 = Joe Dolce
| extra6 = EMF
| length6 = 1:56
| title7 = Brass in Pocket
| writer7 = Chrissie Hynde, James Honeyman-Scott
| extra7 = Suede
| length7 = 3:42
| title8 = Ring My Bell
| writer8 = Frederick Knight
| extra8 = Tori Amos
| length8 = 4:35
| title9 = Lady Madonna
| writer9 = Lennon–McCartney
| extra9 = Kingmaker
| length9 = 2:04
| title10 = Like a Prayer
| writer10 = Madonna, Patrick Leonard
| extra10 = Marc Almond
| length10 = 6:10
| title11 = Don't You Want Me?
| writer11 = Philip Oakey, Jo Callis, Philip Adrian Wright
| extra11 = The Farm
| length11 = 4:09
| title12 = I've Never Been to Me
| writer12 = Ron Miller, Kenneth Hirsch
| extra12 = Ned's Atomic Dustbin
| length12 = 5:28
| title13 = My Sweet Lord
| writer13 = George Harrison
| extra13 = Boy George
| length13 = 3:27
}}
{{Track listing
| headline = Disc three
| extra_column = Artist
| title1 = Voodoo Chile
| writer1 = Jimi Hendrix
| extra1 = Jesus Jones
| length1 = 5:15
| title2 = Sunny Afternoon
| writer2 = Ray Davies
| extra2 = Bob Geldof
| length2 = 3:49
| title3 = The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
| writer3 = Ennio Morricone
| extra3 = Johnny Marr & Billy Duffy
| length3 = 4:50
| title4 = Down Down
| writer4 = Francis Rossi, Bob Young
| extra4 = Cud
| length4 = 3:20
| title5 = The Legend of Xanadu
| writer5 = Ken Howard, Alan Blaikley
| extra5 = The Fall
| length5 = 3:28
| title6 = Secret Love
| writer6 = Sammy Fain, Paul Francis Webster
| extra6 = Sinéad O'Connor
| length6 = 2:53
| title7 = World without Love
| writer7 = Lennon–McCartney
| extra7 = World Party
| length7 = 3:10
| title8 = Tainted Love
| writer8 = Ed Cobb
| extra8 = Inspiral Carpets
| length8 = 4:24
| title9 = Baby Come Back
| writer9 = Eddy Grant
| extra9 = Elektric Music
| length9 = 4:01
| title10 = The Model
| writer10 = Ralf Hütter, Karl Bartos, Emil Schult
| extra10 = Ride
| length10 = 3:49
| title11 = Vienna
| writer11 = Midge Ure, Chris Cross, Warren Cann, Billy Currie
| extra11 = Vic Reeves
| length11 = 3:21
| title12 = Go Now
| writer12 = Larry Banks, Milton Bennett
| extra12 = Tin Machine
| length12 = 4:30
| title13 = I Feel Love
| writer13 = Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder, Pete Bellotte
| extra13 = Curve
| length13 = 4:25
| title14 = Suicide Is Painless
| writer14 = Johnny Mandel, Mike Altman
| extra14 = Manic Street Preachers
| length14 = 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)