Heaven 17 / Play to Win:The Virgin Years / 10CD deluxe & 5LP vinyl box

10CD box set of the Virgin Years • Albums • demos • remixes • Also available 5LP vinyl COLOURED vinyl box set

Synthpop legends Heaven 17‘s Virgin Records recordings are brought together in Play To Win: The Virgin Years, a large format 10CD deluxe set which features all five albums issued in the 1980s, along with over 100 bonus tracks, including demos, B-sides, non-album singles and remixes. It will also be released as a 5LP coloured vinyl box set called Play To Win: The Virgin Albums.

The albums in this new deluxe set are Penthouse and Pavement (1981), The Luxury Gap (1983), How Men Are (1984), Pleasure One (1986) and Teddy Bear, Duke & Psycho (1988). Every album has A-sides and B-sides appended and then there’s a whole disc of demos and four further CDs of remixes!

This 10CD box is a large format (12″ x 12″) book style package which includes a 36-page booklet with lyrics, credits, photos and ephemera from the band’s collections, and brand new annotation, based on new interviews with the band.

Play To Win will also be available as a special five-LP 180g coloured vinyl box, featuring the original albums.

Both the CD and vinyl variants of Play To Win will be released on 29 March 2019 via Edsel and Demon Records respectively.

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Play to Win: The Virgin Years – 10CD box set

CD 1: PENTHOUSE AND PAVEMENT

Pavement Side

1. (We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thang
2. Penthouse And Pavement
3. Play To Win
4. Soul Warfare

Penthouse Side

5. Geisha Boys And Temple Girls
6. Let’s All Make A Bomb
7. The Height Of The Fighting
8. Song With No Name
9. We’re Going To Live For A Very Long Time

Bonus tracks – A-Sides

10. (We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thang [7” version]
11. I’m Your Money
12. Play To Win [7” version]
13. Penthouse And Pavement [7” version]
14. The Height Of The Fighting (He-La-Hu)

Bonus tracks – B-Sides

15. The Decline Of The West [by B.E.F]
16. B.E.F. Ident [by B.E.F]
17. Are Everything
18. Play
19. Honeymoon In New York [by B.E.F]
20. He-La-Hu*

CD 2: THE LUXURY GAP

1. Crushed By The Wheels Of Industry
2. Who’ll Stop The Rain
3. Let Me Go
4. Key To The World
5. Temptation
6. Come Live With Me
7. Lady Ice And Mr Hex
8. We Live So Fast
9. The Best Kept Secret

Bonus tracks – A-Sides

10. Let Me Go [US 7” version]
11. Temptation [7” version]
12. Come Live With Me [7” version]
13. Crushed By The Wheels Of Industry (Part 1)

Bonus tracks – B-Sides

14. Let Me Go [instrumental]
15. Let’s All Make A Bomb [new version]
16. Song With No Name [new version]
17. Crushed By The Wheels Of Industry (Part 2)

CD 3: HOW MEN ARE

1. Five Minutes To Midnight
2. Sunset Now
3. This Is Mine
4. The Fuse
5. Shame Is On The Rocks
6. The Skin I’m In
7. Flamedown
8. Reputation
9. And That’s No Lie

Bonus tracks – A-Sides

10. This Is Mine [7” version]
11. …(And That’s No Lie) [7” version]

Bonus tracks – B-Sides

12. Counterforcce
13. Counterforce II
14. Skin
15. Mine [instrumental]
16. The Heaven 17 Megamix 

CD 4: PLEASURE ONE

1. Contenders
2. Trouble
3. Somebody
4. If I Were You
5. Low Society
6. Red
7. Look At Me
8. Move Out
9. Free

Bonus tracks – A-Sides

10. The Foolish Thing To Do [featuring Jimmy Ruffin] [Version 1]
11. Contenders [7” version]
12. Contenders [US 7” edit]
13. Trouble [7” version]

Bonus tracks – B-Sides

14. My Sensitivity (Gets In The Way) [featuring Jimmy Ruffin]
15. The Foolish Thing To Do [featuring Jimmy Ruffin] [Version 2]
16. The Foolish Thing To Do [featuring Jimmy Ruffin] [instrumental]
17. Excerpts from ‘Diary Of A Contender’

CD 5: TEDDY BEAR, DUKE & PSYCHO 

1. Big Square People
2. Don’t Stop For No One
3. Snake And Two People
4. Can You Hear Me?
5. Hot Blood
6. The Ballad Of Go Go Brown
7. Dangerous
8. I Set You Free
9. Train Of Love In Motion
10. Responsibility
11. The Last Seven Days
12. The Foolish Thing To Do

Bonus tracks – A-Sides

13. The Ballad Of Go Go Brown [version]
14. Train Of Love In Motion [7” version]

Bonus tracks – B-Sides

15. Slow All Over
16. Work
17. Giving Up

CD 6 : DEMONSTRATION DISC: THE LOST DEMOS 1980

1. Penthouse And Pavement [original demo]
2. (We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thang [original demo]
3. Play To Win [original demo instrumental]
4. Soul Warfare [original demo]
5. Are Everything [original demo]
6. BEF Ident [alternate version]
7. Decline Of The West [alternate version]
8. Rise Of The East [alternate version]
9. Music To Kill Your Parents By [alternate version]
10. Uptown Apocalypse [alternate version]
11. A Baby Called Billy [alternate version]
12. Rhythmic Experiment 1
13. Rhythmic Experiment 2
14. Boys Of Buddha Experiment
15. At The Height Of The Fighting [original rhythm track]
16. Rhythmic Loop Experiment
17. Funky Experiment
18. Song Experiment
19. Heavy Drum Experiment
20. Play To Win [original demo with vocals]

Bonus tracks

21. Groove Thang
22. Temptation [original demo]

CD 7: SPECIAL FORTIFIED DANCE MIXES TO ENHANCE DANCEABILITY #1

1. (We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thang [12” version]
2. I’m Your Money [12” version]
3. Play To Win [12” version]
4. Penthouse And Pavement [12” version]
5. Let Me Go [12” version]
6. Temptation [12” version]
7. Who’ll Stop The Rain [12” version]
8. Come Live With Me [12” version]
9. Crushed By The Wheels Of Industry [Parts I & II – uninterrupted single version]
10. Sunset Now [extended version]
11. This Is Mine [extended version]
12. …(And That’s No Lie) [remixed to enhance its danceability]

CD 8: SPECIAL FORTIFIED DANCE MIXES TO ENHANCE DANCEABILITY #2

1. Penthouse And Pavement [Remix]
2. Let Me Go [Endless Version]
3. Play To Win [Endless Version]
4. Contenders [Dance Version]
5. Contenders [Go Go Version]
6. (Big) Trouble
7. The Ballad Of Go-Go Brown [Extended Version]
8. Train Of Love In Motion [The Mainline Mix]
9. Temptation [Brothers In Rhythm Remix]
10. (We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thang [Rapino Club Mix]
11. Penthouse And Pavement [Tommy D’s Master Remix]
12. Let Me Go [“Hon, Its Flawless” Mix]

CD 9: SPECIAL FORTIFIED DANCE MIXES TO ENHANCE DANCEABILITY #3

1. Play [12” version]
2. Penthouse And Pavement [instrumental 7” version]
3. Penthouse And Pavement [instrumental 12” version]
4. Who’ll Stop The Rain [US dub version]
5. We Live So Fast [12” version]
6. Crushed By The Wheels Of Industry [dub version]
7. Crushed By The Wheels Of Industry [The Extended Dance Version]
8. This Is Mine [Filmix]
9. This Is Mine [Cinemix]
10. Contenders [US Club Mix]
11. Trouble [US Club Mix]

CD10: SPECIAL FORTIFIED DANCE MIXES TO ENHANCE DANCEABILITY#4

1. Temptation [Brothers In Rhythm Remix Edit]
2. (We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thang [Rapino Edit]
3. Penthouse And Pavement [Tommy D’s Master Edit]
4. (We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thang [Democratic Edit]
5. Let Me Go [I Trance Alone Mix]
6. Temptation [Brothers In Rhythm instrumental]
7. (We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thang [Democratic Rapino]
8. Penthouse And Pavement [Mr Big Buckles And His Amazing Ride]
9. Temptation [7″ backing track]
10. (We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thang [Democratic Instrumental]
11. Penthouse And Pavement [Original Vibe Mix]
12. Let Me Go [Let Me House You]
13. Penthouse And Pavement [D’s Super Disco Dub Mix]
14. Temptation [Orchestral Theme From Temptation]

Play to Win: The Virgin Albums 5LP coloured vinyl box

Penthouse and Pavement

Pavement Side

1. (We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thang
2. Penthouse And Pavement
3. Play To Win
4. Soul Warfare

Penthouse Side

5. Geisha Boys And Temple Girls
6. Let’s All Make A Bomb
7. The Height Of The Fighting
8. Song With No Name
9. We’re Going To Live For A Very Long Time

The Luxury Gap

Side One

1. Crushed By The Wheels Of Industry
2. Who’ll Stop The Rain
3. Let Me Go
4. Key To The World

Side Two

1. Temptation
2. Come Live With Me
3. Lady Ice And Mr Hex
4. We Live So Fast
5. The Best Kept Secret

How Men Are

Side One

1. Five Minutes To Midnight
2. Sunset Now
3. This Is Mine
4. The Fuse
5. Shame Is On The Rocks

Side Two

1. The Skin I’m In
2. Flamedown
3. Reputation
4. And That’s No Lie

Pleasure One

Side One

1. Contenders
2. Trouble
3. Somebody
4. If I Were You
5. Low Society

Side Two

1. Red
2. Look At Me
3. Move Out
4. Free

Teddy Bear, Duke & Psycho

Side One

1. Big Square People
2. Don’t Stop For No One
3. Snake And Two People
4. Can You Hear Me?
5. Hot Blood

Side Two

1. The Ballad Of Go Go Brown
2. Dangerous
3. I Set You Free
4. Train Of Love In Motion
5. Responsibility
6. The Last Seven Days
7. The Foolish Thing To Do