Bronksi Beat and Communards 2CD Deluxe Editions on the way

Edsel Records maintain reputation for excellent 1980s reissues with the news that Bronksi Beat‘s 1984 album Age Of Consent will be reissued on 2 July as a 2CD deluxe edition, along with the same treatment for both Communards albums – Communards and Red.

Jimmy Sommerville is of course the common thread between these releases, and fans should be satisfied with what looks like solid track listings (selected by Somerville expert Heiko Bollman). Age Of Consent incorporates the full vinyl version of remix album Hundreds and Thousands along with non-album tracks and other remixes.

Communards includes the epic ‘Son Of Gotham City Mix’ of Don’t Leave Me This Way amongst the bonus material and Red is packed full of remixes and non-album tracks.

CDs will have outer slip-cases and booklets containing the lyrics, photos, singles sleeves, and notes from Jimmy (and Richard for Communards).

PREORDER Age Of Consent here, Communards here and Red here.

Full track listings below:

Bronski Beat / The Age Of Consent

CD 1

• 1 Why?
• 2 It Ain’t Necessarily So
• 3 Screaming
• 4 No More War
• 5 Love and Money
• 6 Smalltown Boy
• 7 Heatwave
• 8 Junk
• 9 Need-a-Man Blues
• 10 I Feel Love/Johnny Remember Me
• 11 Smalltown Boy [7” edit] (Bonus Track)
• 12 Why [remix] (Bonus Track)
• 13 I Feel Love Medley (Source Mix) (Bonus Track)
• 14 It Ain’t Necessarily So [12” version] (Bonus Track)
• 15 Red Dance

CD 2

• 1 Heatwave [Goldberg remix]
• 2 Why? [Goldberg remix]
• 3 Run From Love [Meita remix]
• 4 Hard Rain [Goldberg remix]
• 5 Smalltown Boy [Goldberg remix]
• 6 Junk [Goldberg remix]
• 7 I Feel Love [Fruit Mix] (Bonus Track)
• 8 Hard Rain [demo] (Bonus Track)
• 9 Screaming [demo] (Bonus Track)
• 10 Signs (And Wonders) (Bonus Track)
• 11 The Potato Fields (Bonus Track)
• 12 Run From Love [radio version] (Bonus Track)
• 13 Puit D’Amour (Bonus Track)
• 14 Close To The Edge (Bonus Track)
• 15 Cadillac Car (Bonus Track)

Communards

CD 1

• 1 Don’t Leave Me This Way
• 2 La Dolarosa
• 3 Disenchanted
• 4 Reprise
• 5 So Cold The Night
• 6 You Are My World
• 7 Lover Man
• 8 Don’t Slip Away
• 9 Heavens Above
• 10 Forbidden Love
• 11 Breadline Britain
• 12 Disenchanted (Dance)
• 13 Judgement Day (Bonus Track)
• 14 Don’t Leave Me This Way [Son Of Gotham City Mix 1986] [Part 1] (incorporates Sanctified)
• 15 When The Walls Come Tumbling Down [live] (Bonus Track)

CD 2

• 1 You Are My World [’87 Single Version]
• 2 Don’t Leave Me This Way [Son Of Gotham City Mix] [Part 3]
• 3 So Cold The Night [Remixed Club Version]
• 4 Heavens Above [10” version]
• 5 Johnny Verso
• 6 Sentimental Journey
• 7 The Message
• 8 Disenchanted [instrumental]
• 9 So Cold The Night [instrumental]
• 10 Never No More
• 11 Sanctified
• 12 When The Walls Come Tumbling Down
• 13 The Multimix (inc. Don’t Leave Me, So Cold The Night, Disenchanted)
• 14 Annie

Communards / Red

CD 1

• 1 Tomorrow
• 2 T.M.T. Love T.B.M.G.
• 3 Matter Of Opinion
• 4 Victims
• 5 For A Friend
• 6 Never Can Say Goodbye
• 7 Lovers And Friends
• 8 Hold On Tight
• 9 If I Could Tell You
• 10 C Minor
• 11 For A Friend [unplugged] (Bonus Track)
• 12 Never Can Say Goodbye [San Paulo Mix] (Bonus Track)
• 13 Romanze For Violin, Piano & Hedgehog (Bonus Track)
• 14 There’s More To Love [Jalapeno Mix] (Bonus Track)
• 15 Tomorrow [extended 12” version] (Bonus Track)
• 16 Zing Went The Strings Of My Heart (Bonus Track)

CD 2

• 1 Never Can Say Goodbye [Shep Pettibone Extended Mix]
• 2 When The Boy In Your Heart Is The Boy In You Arms
• 3 I Just Want To Let You Know
• 4 Scat
• 5 Piece Of Saxophone
• 6 Never Can Say Goodbye [San Paulo Dub Mix]
• 7 For A Friend [remix]
• 8 Victims
• 9 Don’t Leave Me This Way
• 10 Heavens Above
• 11 You Are My World
• 12 So Cold The Night
• 13 For A Friend
• 14 Never Can Say Goodbye
• 15 Hold On Tight
• 16 Spanish Rap (El Amor No Es Solo Un Hombre Y Una Mujer) (Bonus Track)
• 17 Never Can Say Goodbye [Instrumental Mix] (Bonus Track)