Eric Clapton/The Definitive 24 NightsCD, Vinyl, Box Set, Blu-ray, DVD
Eric Clapton’s reputation has taken a bit of a battering in recent years, but back in 1991 he could do little wrong as this groundbreaking run of 24 concerts at London’s Royal Albert Hall demonstrates. Each night featured him performing a career-spanning set with one of three lineups – a rock band, a blues band, or an orchestra conducted by Michael Kamen. This reissue offers EIGHT physical formats including 8LP vinyl and 6CD box sets both of which come with three blu-rays.
Warner Music are repressing a series of Prince albums on vinyl for release in July and September.
The titles span a 16-year period and start with Prince’s 1978 debut For You, which marked the arrival of such a prodigious talent. The then 18-year old musician and wrote, performed, arranged and produced the entire album (with the exception of a co-write on single ‘Soft And Wet’).
Chronologically, the next vinyl reissue is 1988’s Lovesexy, Prince’s follow-up to Sign O’ The Times. Arguably, this features the last single from the purple one’s imperial phase, ‘Alphabet Street’.
‘Thieves in the Temple’ from Graffiti Bridge
Prince’s Batman album followed next from which ‘Batdance’ became Prince’s highest charting UK single since ‘Little Red Corvette’ five years earlier. Follow-up ‘Partyman’ reached No 14 and when issued in Japan, ‘Scandalous’ became The Scandalous Sex Suite, a 9-track mini-album.
The 1990 Graffiti Bridge film (directed by Prince) wasn’t well-received but the double album was his third chart-topper in a row in the UK and ‘Thieves in the Temple’ was a top 10 single. This is the only 2LP set in this reissue campaign.
The last album in the sequence of vinyl reissues is 1994’s Come. A classic ‘contractual obligation’ album, Prince cobbled this together and did zero promotion. ‘Letitgo’ deserved better as the single stalled at No 30 in the UK (not helped by a limp CD single with just one single edit of the song, while the USA got eight remixes on their disc!
These vinyl reissues are all released on 28 July 2023 except for Batman and Graffiti Bridge which follow on 8 September.
Fun Boy Three enjoyed two years of success in the early 1980s and this output is now brought together in one deluxe edition called The Complete Fun Boy Three.
The band formed in the summer of 1981 when Terry Hall, Lynval Golding and Neville Staples broke away from The Specials. They went on to enjoy seven UK top 20 hit singles (two with Bananarama) and released two albums (The Fun Boy Three (1982) and Waiting (1983), the latter produced by David Byrne. The group disbanded in 1983.
The Complete Fun Boy Three (click image to enlarge)
The Complete Fun BoyThree includes 69 audio tracks (across five CDs) which brings together all the official recordings (albums/singles/b-sides/remixes/live and previously unreleased outtakes). The 27 track DVD (region 0 /NTSC) includes all their promo videos, Top of The Pops performances and a live concert from 1983.
This is packaged in a DVD-sized casebound book, with newly written sleeves notes by SDE contributor John Earls with contributions from the band and photographs.
Both albums are also reissued on vinyl (like the CD set newly remastered) and are pressed on red and blue vinyl respectively. A newly remastered version of their classic 1984 ‘best of’ is also available on 180g green vinyl.
The Complete Fun Boy Three 5CD+DVD deluxe set and the vinyl reissues are released on 4 August 2023 via Chrysalis.
The Now That’s What I Call Music team is to release NOW 12″ 80s: 1980 a new 4CD set of 12-inch mixes which will be the first instalment in a brand new series.
The NOW team’s intention is clearly to work through the decade and there’s only one place to start and that’s at the beginning in 1980 when the 12” single was an increasingly essential part of the release schedule and would become even more so as the decade progressed. These extended versions, remixes, re-inventions – call them what you will – gave the dancefloor a longer version and the home listener an alternative take on a song.
NOW 12″ 80s: 1980
This new 4CD set (there’s no vinyl edition) offers 45 tracks with Disco still very much the dominant genre when it came to remixes. This new compilation includes tracks from Lipps Inc., Change, Odyssey, Donna Summer, Kook & The Gang, Diana Ross, Sister Sledge and more. Of course, 1980 sees the beginning of the New Romantic era and that can be seen via extended versions of songs from Spandau Ballet and Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (even if the OMD track was issued on 10-inch at the time). As ever, scroll down for the full tracklisting.
NOW 12″ 80s: 1980 will be released on 14 July 2023. It’s packaged in an eight-panel card wallet (as opposed to the casebound books of the Yearbooks).
Jimmy Somerville’s debut solo album, Read My Lips, is being reissued in September.
The 1989 album featured three top 30 UK singles, including ‘Comment Te dire Adieu’ (with June Miles Kingston) and Jimmy’s version of Sylvester’s ‘You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)’ (which reached No 5).
Previously reissued as a 2CD set by Demon in 2012, this reissue from London Records is available as a single LP (the original 10 track album on blue vinyl) and as a deluxe double LP on transparent vinyl with remixes from William Orbit, AMYL and B-sides and rarities such as ‘From This Moment On’ (from Red, Hot + Blue) and ‘I Believe In Love’ (with Arthur Baker and The Beat Disciples).
A new double CD version contains further remixes from Gerd Janson and Arpeggius; as well as unreleased demos, B-Sides and rarities. The reissue includes new sleeve notes by Paul Burston.
If you buy a bundle from the official Jimmy Somerville shop, it comes with a free 6-track CD single of ‘You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)’ with what looks like all new remixes.
Read My Lips is reissued on 1 September 2023 via London Records.
You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) (Gerd Janson Remix)
Comment Te Dire Adieu (Commercial Mix)
Rain (Pascal Gabriel Mix)
You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) (Arpeggius Club Vocal)
Run From Love (ft. Claudia Brücken) (12” Remix)
Until I Get Over You (Demo)
I Won’t Let You See Me Cry (Demo)
And You Never Thought This Could Happen To You (Demo)
Read My Lips (Enough Is Enough) (Demo)
You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) (William Orbit Remix)
LP 1
Comment Te Dire Adieu
You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)
Perfect Day
Heaven Here On Earth (With Your Love)
Don’t Know What To Do (Without You)
Read My Lips (Enough Is Enough)
My Heart Is In Your Hands
Control
And You Never Thought This Could Happen To You
Rain
LP 2
Read My Lips (Enough Is Enough) (AMYL Remix)
You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) (William Orbit Remix)
Adieu! (June et Jim présentent Madame Tata Mix)
From This Moment on (from ‘Red Hot + Blue’)
I Believe in Love (from ‘Merge’)
Comment Te Dire Adieu (Commercial Mix)
Rain (Pascal Gabriel Mix
LP
Comment Te Dire Adieu
You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)
Perfect Day
Heaven Here On Earth (With Your Love)
Don’t Know What To Do (Without You)
Read My Lips (Enough Is Enough)
My Heart Is In Your Hands
Control
And You Never Thought This Could Happen To You
Rain
You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) CD single
6-track CD Single in card wallet. Features remixes from Gerd Janson, AMYL, Kevin Saunderson, JZJ and Arpeggius plus exclusive Dub version of Read My Lips (Enough Is Enough) by AMYL
Complete Studio Albums & Rarities is a new 10CD box set featuring the solo output of Stevie Nicks. The singer-songwriter has released eight solo records since her 1981, and was the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice, first as a member of Fleetwood Mac and then as a solo artist in 2019.
The box set features the following eight albums, with half of them newly remastered (from the analogue tapes):
Bella Donna (1981)
The Wild Heart (1983)
Rock a Little (1985)
The Other Side of the Mirror (1989)
Street Angel (1994)
Trouble in Shangri-La (2001)
In Your Dreams (2011)
24 Karat Gold: Songs from the Vault (2014)
Additionally this box set features two CDs of Rarities; 23 hard-to-find recordings, including non-album tracks such as contributions to film and television and B-sides. These have also been remastered.
As well as the 10CD box, there will be a limited-edition, 16LP version, but that will be exclusive to Rhino.com (in the UK and USA). Street Angel, Trouble in Shangri-La, and In Your Dreams will all receive their vinyl debut as part of this set. The rarities package will be a 3LP set in what is a clear vinyl box set.
Complete Studio Albums & Rarities will be released on 28 July 2023, via Rhino
Depeche Mode continue their 12″ Singles box sets with a seven-record package devoted to their 2009 album Sounds of the Universe.
As with some of the more recent boxes, some of these 12-inch records – three of them to be precise – are newly compiled from CD singles of the day and feature B-sides and various mixes. The singles from this album were ‘Wrong’, ‘Peace’, the double A-side ‘Fragile Tension’ / ‘Hole To Feed’.
Sounds of the Universe: The 12″ Singles box set (click image to enlarge)
Sounds of the Universe: The 12″ Singles will be released on 4 August via Sony Music. At the time of writing the Amazon France price of £120 (or €144) looks appealing.
Paul Hardcastle’s tenure at Chrysalis Records is celebrated with a new 4CD box set called Nineteen And Beyond:1984-1988.
During this time, Paul had four top 20 UK singles including the international chart-topping smash, 19. The box set includes remastered editions of Hardcastle’s two albums (Paul Hardcastle and No Winners) and two discs of rare mixes and B-sides.
Nineteen and Beyond: 1984-1988 (click image to enlarge)
Additionally, the SDE shop is exclusively offering a separate bonus CD called 19: The International EP with every purchase of Nineteen and Beyond! This contains six rare foreign-language versions of 19, including French, Japanese, Spanish and German versions and is the first official release on CD. This bonus disc is limited to 500 units. UPDATE: This has now sold out.
The clamshall box includes a 24-page booklet with notes by Paul Sexton which features an interview with Paul Hardcastle.
Nineteen and Beyond: 1984-1988 will be released on 28 July 2023, via Chrysalis.
Elvis Presley’s 1973 Honolulu concert was broadcast by satellite around the world and the resulting live album was called Aloha from Hawaii via Satellite.
This was reissued as 2CD set back in 2013 for its 40th anniversary, but a decade later Sony are expanding it even more and are offering a 3CD+blu-ray box set edition.
The new 3CD+blu-ray box set of Aloha from Hawaii via Satellite (click image to enlarge)
Previously, the concert was remastered, but this time around the audio (on CD 1) has been newly remixed. The second disc features the rehearsal show (from two days earlier, 12 January 1973) which presumably is the same remixed version from 2013. The third audio disc offers a complete after-show bonus song performance while the blu-ray delivers the TV concert, plus rehearsal concert and bonus songs (it’s not clear if the rehearsal/bonus songs are just audio).
A 2LP gatefold vinyl edition will also be available which contains highlights from the CD box set
Aloha from Hawaii via Satellite will be reissued on 11 August 2023 via Sony’s Legacy Recordings. The CD box is less than £27 via Amazon UK which seems decent value.
Aloha From Hawaii via SatelliteElvis Presley/50th anniversary edition
CD 1: Live from Hawaii via Satellite (newly mixed)
Recorded live at the Honolulu International Center Arena January 14, 1973, 12:30 AM
Introduction: Also Sprach Zarathustra (Theme From 2001: A Space Odyssey)
See See Rider
Burning Love
Something
You Gave Me A Mountain
Steamroller Blues
My Way
Love Me
Johnny B. Goode
It’s Over
Blue Suede Shoes
I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry
I Can’t Stop Loving You
Hound Dog
What Now My Love
Fever
Welcome To My World
Suspicious Minds
Introductions by Elvis
I’ll Remember You
Medley: Long Tall Sally / Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On
An American Trilogy
A Big Hunk O’ Love
Can’t Help Falling In Love
Closing Vamp
CD 2: Rehearsals
Recorded live at the Honolulu International Center Arena, January 12, 1973, 9:00 PM
Introduction: Also Sprach Zarathustra (Theme From 2001: A Space Odyssey)
See See Rider
Burning Love
Something
You Gave Me A Mountain
Steamroller Blues
My Way
Love Me
It’s Over
Blue Suede Shoes
I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry
Hound Dog
What Now My Love
Fever
Welcome To My World
Suspicious Minds
Introductions by Elvis
I’ll Remember You
An American Trilogy
A Big Hunk O’ Love
Can’t Help Falling In Love
Closing Vamp
CD 3: Bonus performances
Recorded without an audience at the Honolulu International Center Arena, January 14, 1973, 3:00 AM, as special bonus songs for the U.S. version of ALOHA FROM HAWAII.
Blue Hawaii -rehearsal, takes 1-2
Ku-U-I-Po – rehearsal
Ku-U-I-Po – take 1
Ku-U-I-Po – take 2 (incomplete)
Ku-U-I-Po – take 3 (incomplete)
Ku-U-I-Po – take 4
No More – take 1
No More – take 2
No More – take 3
No More – take 4
Hawaiian Wedding Song – take 1
Hawaiian Wedding Song – rehearsal
Hawaiian Wedding Song – take 2
Hawaiian Wedding Song – take 3
Early Morning Rain – take 1
Early Morning Rain – take 2
Blu-ray
TV broadcast of Aloha from Hawaii via Satellite plus rehearsals and bonus songs
Pet Shop Boys/Smash: The Singles 1985-2020CD, Vinyl, Blu-ray
New Pet Shop Boys ‘best of’ that includes new 2023 remasters and 55 singles. 3CD+2 x blu-ray is the pick of the formats. Disappointing artwork from the normally reliable combo of Farrow and PSBs.
Elton John’s 1988 album Reg Strikes Back (which features the hit single ‘I Don’t Wanna Go On With You Like That’) is one of five albums reissued on vinyl this week. The others are 21 at 33 (1980), Jump Up! (1982), Ice On Fire (1985) and Leather Jackets (1986). These are all remastered and faithful to the original track listing, packaging and cut at Abbey Road Studios.
This new 12-track album by Yusuf / Cat Stevens is described (by the record label) as “an epic body of work” which has been “more than a decade in the making”.
The Now That’s What I Call Music Team are continuing the Yearbook series not by continuing on into the late 1980s nor by delving deeper into the 1970s, but via an excursion into the 1990s!
NOW Yearbook ’92 is a 4CD or 3LP set that steps clear of the Eighties and captures the early part of that decade where, when we look back, we can spot the embryonic beginnings of Britpop (Suede, Manics) and recall the brilliant rumblings of what became a superb solo career for Paul Weller (‘Uh-Huh Oh Yeh!’). Crowded House finally crack the UK top 10 with ‘Weather With You’ and the single remix of Tori Amos’s ‘Crucify’ (Tears For Fears fans should note that this song is co-produced by Ian Stanley and features Chris Hughes on drums!) is at that point in time her biggest hit to date.
1992 is the year that Simply Red’sStars outsold every other album in the UK for the second year running and the touching ‘For Your Babies’ is included from that long-player along with the live version of ‘Lady Godiva’s Room’ (an excellent B-side from 1987), one of four tracks included on ‘The Montreux EP’.
‘Uh-Huh Oh Yeh!’ was from Paul Weller’s self-title solo debut album
1992 offers some brilliant one hit wonders like Tasmin Archer’s ‘Sleeping Satellite’, Charles & Eddie’s ‘Would I Lie To You’ and much of CD 3 highlights some superb dance tunes such as SNAP!’s ‘Rhythm Is A Dancer’, Utah Saint’s Kate Bush-aided ‘Something Good’, CeCe Peniston’s ‘Finally’, and “Dr” Alban’s ‘It’s My Life’.
U2 had successfully reinvented themselves with 1991’s Achtung Baby and the ‘Perfecto Mix’ version of fourth single ‘Even Better Than The Real Thing’ features on a strong CD 1 which also includes The KLF (‘America: What Time Is Love?’), George Michael (‘Too Funky’), Sade (‘No Ordinary Love’), Electronic (‘Disappointed’) and Annie Lennox (‘Why’).
Some big hitters from across the Atlantic make a showing on the second CD including an E-Street Band-free Bruce Springsteen (‘Human Touch’), Bon Jovi (‘Keep The Faith’), and ZZ Top (‘Viva Las Vegas’). The same disc includes Mr Big’s international hit ‘To Be With You’, Richard Marx’s ‘Hazard’ and Sophie B Hawkins’ exclamatory ‘Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover’.
The various formats of NOW Yearbook ’92
With the benefit of hindsight we can see that 1992 is a great big pop intersection where 80s pop stars are wondering what they need do to stay relevant, new pop/rock acts are establishing themselves and the dance scene is still thriving. For example, Kylie Minogue (‘Give Me Just A Little More Time’ is on the first disc) will soon ditch Stock Aitken Waterman, the Pet Shop Boys don’t release any singles under their own name, but do help Boy George who has his last UK top 30 hit with ‘The Crying Game’ (CD 1, track 16) and Duran Duran are nowhere to be seen because they’re holed up recording what will become ‘The ‘Wedding Album’. Meanwhile, The Cure’s ‘Friday I’m In Love’ (CD 3, track 16) is the last single of theirs anyone who’s not a fan can really remember.
Talking of acts who were big in the 1980s, one disappointment with NOW Yearbook ’92 is that it doesn’t include any of the singles issued in from INXS’sWelcome to Wherever You Are, arguably their best album and a record that was a real highlight of 1992 for this author, although presumably that’s down to the usual pesky licensing restrictions. Prince also had two top 10 UK hits in ’92 (‘Sexy MF and ‘My Name Is Prince’), while Madonna had three (‘This Used To Be My Playground’, ‘Erotica’ and ‘Deeper and Deeper’) but their absence is less surprising. Licensing issues can work for you occasionally, presuming that’s what has prevented Red Said Fred’s ‘Deeply Dippy’ being included on this compilation. Small mercies. That was one of only 13 chart-toppers in Britain in 1992 and a creditable nine are included in Yearbook ’92. The other absentees are Queen’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ (George Michael gets the ‘coveted’ CD 1, track 1 position), Erasure’s ‘ABBA-esque’ and Boyz II Men’s ‘End of the Road’.
The usual formats apply: 4CD deluxe version in hardcover book with track annotations and quiz, 3LPcoloured (green) vinyl and the cheaper 4CD in card sleeve. As with the 70s Yearbooks, ’92 has a new design for a new decade.
The Brand New Heavies celebrate 35 years since the release of their debut single with Never Stop… The Best Of, a new compilation bringing together 21 tracks.
The band was formed in 1985 by guitarist Simon Bartholomew, bassist /keyboardist Andrew Levy, and drummer/vocalist Jason Kincaid, and worked with a number of lead vocalists over the years including N’Dea Davenport, Siedah Garrett and Carleen Anderson. Pioneers of London’s burgeoning Acid Jazz scene the band enjoyed significant commercial success during the 1990s, chalking up an impressive 15 top 40 UK singles.
This new ‘best of’ is available as a 2CD set with hits on CD 1 and remixes by Masters at Work, Dimitri from Paris, Roger Sanchez on CD 2 (including a new remix of ‘Stay This Way’ by Bob Sinclair). The 2LP black vinyl edition features the hits from the first disc of the 2CD set.
Exclusive to the official Brand New Heavies shop is NonStop – the Essential Mix a bonus CD that features a 60-minute non-stop musical journey of the band by DJ Ross Allen that takes in deep cuts, remixes, single and more. This is free with all bundles.
Notes come courtesy of ‘superfan’ Mark Ronson: ““The Brand New Heavies and their pitch perfect jazz-funk revival were my musical coming out party. They were my introduction to all the incredible music I would spend the next 30 years of my life DJ’ing in clubs as well as triggering my desire to think outside of the basic-ass chords I knew on the guitar and piano.”
Never Stop… The Best of The Brand New Heavies will be released on 29 September 2023, via London Records.
Treason (It’s Just a Story) (Remixed Version) – Single
Use Me – B-Side
Traison (C’est Juste Une Histoire) – B-Side
Ha Ha I’m Drowning – Single
Poppies In the Field – B-Side
CD 2: CHRIST VERSUS WARHOL – THE SINGLES
Passionate Friend – Single
Christ Versus Warhol – B-Side
Colours Fly Away – Single
East of the Equator – B-Side
Window Shopping for a New Crown of Thorns – B-Side
Tiny Children – Single
Rachel Built a Steamboat – B-Side
You Disappear from View – Single
Suffocate – No Strings from US LP of version of Kilimanjaro
Ouch Monkeys – B-Side
Soft Enough for You – B-Side
The In-Psychlopedia – B-Side
CD 3: FROM DRUG PURITAN TO ACID KING
Camera Camera – Granada TV, February 1979
Band on The Wall – Live, Manchester, 05 March 1979
Instro
Sleeping Gas
Seeing Through You
Straight Rain
All I Am is Loving You
Read It In Books
Jury Service
Take A Chance
The Tunnel
Camera Camera
Outstro
Sleeping Gas (Encore)
Beauty Come Second – Live Bristol 06 October 1979, unrecorded song
Take A Chance – Cargo Demos / To the Shores of Lake Placid Version
Poppies In the Field – Cargo Demos
Brave Boys Keep Promises – Cargo Demos
Bouncing Babies – Cargo Demos, all November 1979
Ha Ha I’m Drowning – Live at Studio Y 30/05/1980
Second Head – Live at Studio Y 30/05/1980
Went Crazy – Live at Studio Y 30/05/1980
Thief of Bagdad – Live at Studio Y 30/05/1980
Save Me – Live Y Club – London 30/05/1980
When I Dream – To the Shores of Lake Placid Version, Rockfield, 1980
CD 4: THE GREAT DOMINIONS
Dialogue Between (Window Shopping for a New Crown of Thorns) – Rockfield, 1980
For Years aka Nobody Knows This Is Everywhere – Zoology Version, 1980
Suffocate (With Strings) – Baroque Version, Rockfield, Spring 1982
Bent Out of Shape – Skinner Session – 17 August 1981
Colours Fly Away – Club Zoo – 25 November 1981
Pure Joy – Club Zoo – 25 November 1981
Falling Down Around Me – Bearshank Lodge, April 1981
Passionate Friend – also Bearshank Lodge
Tiny Children – Zoology / Air Rough Mixes, Summer 1981
…And The Fighting Takes Over – Zoology, 1981
The Culture Bunker – Club Zoo – 25 November 1981
The Great Dominions – Soundboard Tape Guildford June 1981
Butchers Tale – Air Studios Rough Mixes, summer 1981; credited on the original Wilder inners but not included on the LP. Cover from the Zombies Odyssey and Oracle
Screaming Secrets – from Copes Notes: TheTeardrtop Explodes , 1981
Not My Only Friend – also Bearshank Lodge
I’m Not the Loving Kind – Zoology Version, 1981, John Cale cover from Slow Dazzle
World Shut Your Mouth – Instrumental Demo #1 – Liverpool Feb 1981 / Portastudio
CD 5: CLUB ZOO
Club Zoo – December 22 1981
Log Cabin
Tiny Children
Passionate Friend
Bouncing Babies
You Disappear from View
Ha Ha I’m Drowning
Reward
Culture Bunker
Sleeping Gas – also b-side Tiny Children
Bonus tracks from Club Zoo, 25 November 1981
Like Leila Khaled Said
Treason
Bouncing Babies
Vox Clemantis in Deserto
Sleeping Gas
CD 6: DEATH RATTLE
Whopper Kwalo Koblinsky’s Lullaby – from To the Shores of Lake Placid, January 1981
You Disappear from View – from Zoology. Demo, Producers Workshop, 1982
Log Cabin – from Zoology, 1982
Serious Danger – Julian Cope And Dave Balfe Cassette – demos, May 1982(Take 2 of 3)
Count To Ten and Run for Cover – JC And DB Cassette
Ouch Monkeys – JC And DB Cassette
Icarus #1 – JC And DB Cassette
Terrorist – JC And DB Cassette
Pussyface – Instrumental backing track, Spring 1982
Flipped Out on LSD – Excerpt, 1982, featuring rare Dave Balfe vocal
Your Big Lies – Julian Cope home demo, Tamworth May 1982
Camera Camera – With World Shut Your Mouth producer Steve Lovell, 1984
LP 1: IT’S SO ETHEREAL
Side One
Sleeping Gas – Zoo Single
Camera Camera – B-Side
Kirby Workers Dream Fades – B-Side
Bouncing Babies – Zoo Single
All I Am Is Loving You – B-Side
Treason – Zoo Single
Read It in Books – B-Side
When I Dream – First Mercury Single
Side Two
Kilimanjaro – B-Side
Reward – Single
Strange House in the Snow – B-Side
Treason (It’s Just a Story) (Remixed Version) – Single
Use Me – B-Side
Traison (C’est Juste Une Histoire) – B-Side
LP 2: CHRIST VERSUS WARHOL
Side One
Ha Ha I’m Drowning – Single
Poppies In the Field – B-Side
Passionate Friend – Single
Christ Versus Warhol – B-Side
Colours Fly Away – Single
East of the Equator – B-Side
Side Two
Window Shopping for A New Crown of Thorns – B-Side
Tiny Children – Single
Rachel Built a Steamboat – B-Side
You Disappear from View – Single
Suffocate – No Strings – from US LP version of Kilimanjaro
Ouch Monkeys – B-Side
LP 3: BAND ON THE WALL
Side One
Camera Camera – Live on What’s On – Granada TV – Feb 1979
Instro – Band on The Wall – Live, Manchester 05 March 1979
Sleeping Gas – Band on The Wall – Manchester 05 March 1979
Seeing Through You – Band on The Wall – Manchester 05 March 1979
Straight Rain – Band on The Wall – Manchester 05 March 1979
All I Am is Loving You – Band on The Wall – Manchester 05 March 1979
Side Two
Read It in Books – Band on The Wall – Manchester 05 March 1979
Jury Service – Band on The Wall – Manchester 05 March 1979
Take A Chance – Band on The Wall – Manchester 05 March 1979
The Tunnel – Band on The Wall – Manchester 05 March 1979
Camera Camera – Band on The Wall – Manchester 05 March 1979
Outstro – Band on The Wall – Manchester 05 March 1979
Sleeping Gas – Band on The Wall – Manchester 05 March 1979 (Encore)
LP 4: FROM DRUG PURITAN TO ACID KING
Side One
Beauty Come Second – Live Trinity Centre – Bristol 06 October 1979 (Un-Recorded Song)
Take a Chance – Cargo Demos, November 1979 / To the Shores of Lake Placid Track
Poppies in the Field – Cargo Studios, Rochdale – November 1979
Brave Boys Keep Promises – Cargo Studios, Rochdale – November 1979
Bouncing Babies – Cargo Studios, Rochdale – November 1979
For Years aka Nobody Knows This Is Everywhere – Zoology Version – Alan Gill’s Studio 1980
Side Two
Ha Ha I’m Drowning – Live at Studio Y (YMCA London) 30/05/1980
Second Head – Live at Studio Y (YMCA London) 30/05/1980
Went Crazy – Live at Studio Y (YMCA London) 30/05/1980
Thief Of Bagdad – Live at Studio Y (YMCA London) 30/05/1980
Save Me – Live at Studio Y (YMCA London) 30/05/1980
When I Dream – To the Shores of Lake Placid Version – Rockfield Studios March 1980
LP 5: OUT OF THE CULTURE BUNKER
Side One
Dialogue Between (Window Shopping for a New Crown of Thorns) – Rockfield, March 1980
Suffocate (With Strings) – Baroque Version – Hugh Jones 1982
Reward – US LP Version of Kilimanjaro
Bent Out of Shape – Skinner Session – 17 August 1981
Colours Fly Away – Club Zoo Liverpool – 25 November 1981
Falling Down Around Me – Bearshank Lodge April 1981
Side Two
Pure Joy – Club Zoo Liverpool – 25 November 1981
Passionate Friend – Bearshank Lodge April 1981
Tiny Children – Air Studios Rough Mixes, Summer 1981
…And The Fighting Takes Over – Warner Brothers Demo 1981 – Zoology Version
The Culture Bunker – Club Zoo Liverpool – 25 November 1981
LP 6: FALLING DOWN AROUND ME
Side One
The Great Dominions – Guildford Civic Hall, 18 June 1981
Butchers Tale – Air Studios Rough Mixes – Wilder Sessions, credited on the original Wilder inners but not included. Cover from the Zombies Odyssey and Oracale
Screaming Secrets – 1981, from The Teardrop Explodes Copes Notes
Not My Only Friend – Bearshank Lodge April 1981
I’m Not the Loving Kind – Producers Workshop – Zoology Version, 1981. John Cale cover from Slow Dazzle
World Shut Your Mouth – Instrumental Demo #1 – Liverpool Feb 1981 / Porta Studio
Side Two
Whopper Kwalo Koblinsky’s Lullaby – from To the Shores ofLake Placid Version – Jan 1981
You Disappear from View – From Zoology. Producers Workshop 1982 demo.
Log Cabin – Demo 1982 (Ft. Kate St John and Nicky Holland) – from Zoology
The In-Psychlopedia – B-Side of ‘You Disappear From View’, Spring 1982
Serious Danger – Julian Cope and Dave Balfe Demos May 1982 (Take 2 of 3)
LP 7: DEATH RATTLE
Side One
Count To Ten and Run for Cover – Julian Cope and Dave Balfe Demos May 1982
Ouch Monkeys – Julian Cope and Dave Balfe Demos May 1982
Icarus #1 – Julian Cope and Dave Balfe Demos May 1982
Terrorist – Julian Cope and Dave Balfe Demos May 1982
Soft Enough for You – B-Side of ‘You Disappear from View’
Side Two
Pussyface – Instrumental backing track 1982, Spring 1982
Your Big Lies – Julian Cope home demo, Tamworth May 1982
Camera Camera – Recorded with World Shut Your Mouth producer Steve Lovell 1984
The recent Steely Dan vinyl reissue series continues with the band’s 1974 album, Pretzel Logic.
The album features ‘Rikki Don’t Lose That Number’, which was a top 5 hit in the US singles chart. This resulted in Pretzel Logic being, commercially, a very successful album, peaking at number eight in the American album charts, the second highest peak from the original era (Aja reached number six).
Rikki is of course the best known song, but Pretzel Logic is a truly wonderful album, one of their best, and is full of brilliant songs like the moving ‘Charlie Freak’, the groove-laden ‘Night by Night’ and the warm pop of ‘Any Major Dude Will Tell You’.
As before, this vinyl reissue has been mastered by Bernie Grundman from the original analog tapes with lacquers cut by Alex Abrash at his AA Mastering studio from high-resolution digital files of Grundman’s new masters.
Pretzel Logic will be reissued on vinyl on 28 July 2023.
The Boo Radleys‘ 1993 album Giant Steps has been remastered for a 30th anniversary reissue.
An attempt, perhaps, to break out of the ‘Shoegaze’ scene for which they were best known, the 17-track Giant Steps exhibited a wider range of influences and was the band’s second album on Creation Records. This genre-hopping long-player was the one before their 1995 breakthrough album Wake Up! which tends to be associated with Britpop.
The formats for this reissue are 2LP vinyl and expanded CD. The 2LP edition is also available pressed on purple and orange vinyl at indie shops and comes with a bonus vinyl 10-inch featuring Saint Etienne remixes of both ‘Lazarus’ and ‘Rodney King’. The 20-track CD offers both of those remixes and ‘Peachy Keen’.
Writing about the album, drummer, Cieka reflected on Giant Steps, stating: “Creation loved it, people’s reactions seemed really positive. I do listen to it from time to time and still find great moments I’d forgotten about. I think it stands up pretty well today. I’m always left feeling happy to have been a part of the record”.
Giant Steps will be reissued on 1 September by Brighton-based label Two Piers.
T. Rex’s celebrated 1972 album is reissued as a 2CD set in seven-inch deluxe gatefold packaging. CD1 features the original album, accompanied by three non-album b-sides. CD2 contains “The Alternate Slider: Rabbit Fighter”, an extra disc of fascinating ‘work-in-progress’ versions and demos, which (more or less) mirrors the original album’s running order. Comes with an 8-page booklet with notes.
Christine and the Queens / Paranoïa, Angels, True Love (new album)
The new album by Christine and the Queens is a sprawling but intoxicating 20-track, triple album. Produced by Mike Dean, Madonna features on three tracks. A cut-down 9-track version is also available.
SDE editor Paul Sinclair takes a first look at No 9 in the SDE Surround Series, Tears For Fears’ 1983 album The Hurting.
This physical product features FOUR exclusive versions of the album and two bonus tracks, as follows:
A 2023 Dolby Atmos Mix of The Hurting (by Steven Wilson)
A 2023 DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 Mix of The Hurting (by Steven Wilson)
The 1983 mix of The Hurting in hi-res stereo as remastered by Miles Showell for the half-speed mastered vinyl
A hi-res 2023 stereo instrumental mix of The Hurting (by Steven Wilson)
A hi-res stereo remix of The Hurting (by Steven Wilson)
Two previously unreleased bonus tracks: ‘Mad World’ (Mike Howlett Version) and ‘Watch Me Bleed’ (Mike Howlett Version). Both newly mixed to hi-res stereo by Steven Wilson.
This product is not available anywhere else. It is No.9 in the ongoing SDE Surround Series and ships with a collectible SDE slipcase.
The Hurting SDE-exclusive blu-ray is released on 9 June 2023. These are temporarily available again due to cancellations/contingency stock. Order while you can via the SDE shop using this link or via the buy button (‘pre-order’) below.
TECHNICAL NOTES: This blu-ray audio requires a blu-ray player. Decoding the Dolby Atmos mix requires a Dolby Atmos-certified soundbar or a Dolby Atmos-compatible AV Receiver/Amp. The Dolby Atmos mix will ‘fold down’ to 5.1 or stereo if a Dolby Atmos decoder is not detected.
EU SHIPPING NOTES: If you are ordering from the EU please be aware that that goods may be subject to import VAT when they arrive from the UK. The prices the SDE shop charge you do not include VAT
Tracklisting
The Hurting Tears For Fears/
‘The Hurting’ in Dolby Atmos, DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (96/24), stereo & Instrumental Mix (96/24) and original stereo mix
Neil Young continues his occasional Official Release Series box sets with a new volume (No 5) which brings together four albums released as the 1980s turned into the 1990s.
The albums are 1989’s Freedom, Ragged Glory from 1990, the live album Weld and it’s experimental companion, Arc (both 1991). These are discs 22, 23+, 24 and 25 in the series. The ‘+’ for Ragged Glory indicates some bonus material which is two B-sides (‘Interstate’ and ‘Don’t Spook The Horse’) and unreleased versions of ‘Box Car’ and ‘Born To Run’, the latter a 12-minute version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhjJLZDVRrA
Rockin’ in the Free World from Freedom
The Freedom studio album relaunched Young’s career to a certain degree and features a mix of musicians and sessions. It includes the NY anthem ‘Rockin’ in the Free World’. Ragged Glory saw Neil reunited with Crazy Horse and was recorded a Young’s Broken Arrow Ranch in Northern California.
Live album Weld comprises performances recorded on the tour to promote the Ragged Glory album. It was originally issued as a 3-disc set with Arc, an experimental 35-minute outburst of feedback, improvisation, guitar solos and vocal fragments. This Official Release Series box marks the album’s first release on vinyl.
The 9LP vinyl version of Original Release Series Volume 5 (click image to enlarge)
There are two box sets. One is a 9LP offering (pressed on 180g black vinyl) with Freedom as a 2LP set, Ragged Glory and Weld as 3LP packages and Arc as a single vinyl record. For the 6CD versionRagged Glory and Weld are doubles and the other two, single discs. All box sets are numbered. Like all the reissues in this series, the albums are remastered from the best source available, the original analog tape in most cases. This is, in fact, the first time any of these four albums have been remastered.
The Original Release Series Volume 5 box will be released on 28 July 2023 (was 14 July), via Warner Music.
Alexis Petridis examines the new multi-disc box set
It is the summer of 1981 and the letters page in Smash Hits is preoccupied by a single topic. A correspondent from Kirkintilloch who signs herself Sexy Lexy wants “more colour pictures” of The Teardrop Explodes’ frontman Julian Cope. Kathi Kelli of Blackley writes in to inform the world that she has kissed him, judging him “beautiful and macho-bodied”, while Lorraine Dick of Lanarkshire reports that she has seen The Teardrop Explodes live and Julian Cope’s voice was “really sexy, especially when he spoke to the audience”. Gail from Birmingham is preoccupied by the thought that she might miss The Teardrop Explodes – and most importantly “the wonderful Mr Cope” – when they play her hometown: the gig is the night before her A-Levels. Simon Nash of Wimbledon believes they band have “kicked their fans in the teeth” by re-releasing their single ‘Treason’, but Claire McGann of Liverpool warns off “misguided trendies, rock critics and I Was An Original Punk types” from “knocking The Teardrop Explodes” for “entering the dreaded ‘pop market’.” Too late, Claire, here’s one of them now: a correspondent from Manchester, dismayed to see “hoardes of screaming girls in frilly blouses at their concert, all having hysterics at Julian”, a state of affairs they deem “naff”. No such issues for our old friend Sexy Lexy who, presumably flushed with the success of getting her name in print, writes again, in more robust terms, detailing a fantasy in which she ties Julian Cope to her bed.
The overall message seems clear. There are new teen idols in town, pretenders to Adam and The Ants’ throne: there are also rumblings on the Smash Hits letters page about Spandau Ballet and Duran Duran. But in the summer of 1981, if you had to take a punt on who would depose Adam in adolescent affections, the smart money would go on The Teardrop Explodes.
Of course, it didn’t work out like that at all. As Head-On, Julian Cope’s incredible 1994 autobiography, makes clear, The Teardrop Explodes spent their brief commercial zenith – which begins with the release of the Top 10 single ‘Reward’ in January 1981 and ends when the Top 30 hit ‘Passionate Friend’ starts descending the charts in October – behaving not like gimlet-eyed, ambition-fuelled pop stars, but as if they were engaged in an experiment to see whether it was possible to navigate Top Of The Pops-sized fame while subsisting on a diet largely comprised of LSD. No spoilers, but it wasn’t.
One of the six CDs in this exhaustive box set is given over to a live recording from Liverpool’s Club Zoo – a couple of highlights appear on the 7LP vinyl version – recorded a grand total of three months after Sexy Lexy et al were pledging their undying troth in print. The venue is tiny, and – by all accounts – far from sold out. Among the performances lurks an 11-minute version of ‘Sleeping Gas’, during which an audibly frazzled Julian Cope barks like a dog, threatens to attack the audience and offers musical recommendations (“Mercenaries by John Cale – have you heard it?”) before lapsing into a lengthy silence during which, it becomes apparent, he has been gurning at the crowd: “the people at the front,” he announces, “have been witnessing a face solo”. You couldn’t really blame the Smash Hits correspondents – who clearly hadn’t signed up for this – for deserting them in droves.
It’s meant as no slight on the pulchritude of Julian Cope – sexy voice, macho body and all – to say that, listening to the contents of Culture Bunker, you wonder how the world of Smash Hits ever became a consideration in the first place. As the first disc of early singles and b-sides underlines, The Teardrop Explodes started life purveying a spindly, trebly brand of post- punk. Their monochromatic sound feels very much a product of the late 70s – the lo-fi, cheap-studio quality of the original recordings amped up by the fact that the master tapes are clearly long-gone, and the tracks are dubbed from noticeably cracklier vinyl than that used for needle-drops on Piano, a 1990 compilation which highlights some of the same material – although something about it echoes the 60s as well: Cope’s well-elocuted vocals have an air of Syd Barrett to them, the needling organ recalls The Seeds, the titles of ‘Sleeping Gas’ and ‘Kirby Workers Dream Fades’ evocative of the garage-punk found on the Nuggets compilation and the first stirrings of British psychedelia respectively. You could see why a major label might have signed them, but as an albums act, aimed more at NME readers than Smash Hits. But with Mercury Records’ cash on the table, the organ was replaced with synthesizers and a brass section, and they dug into their skill for concise, bright pop songs – ‘When I Dream’, ‘Reward’ – consigning their weirder side to the b-sides: the cacophonous ‘Strange House In The Snow’; the fractured ‘Christ Vs. Warhol’.
Cope’s well-elocuted vocals have an air of Syd Barrett to them
Alexis Petridis
Cope’s tousled good looks and aura of wide-eyed enthusiasm (“bless my cotton socks, I’m in the news!” opens ‘Reward’) did the rest. The problems with that situation were manifold. Cope had expected cult-dom, and the artistic freedom that entailed, and largely agreed with the Smash Hits correspondent who thought the screaming girls were “naff”: he went along with it for a while – largely, one suspects, to annoy his fellow travellers from Liverpool’s quite astonishingly bitchy and competitive music scene – but pop stardom, he waspishly opined in Head-On, was OK only “if you were into being adored by flat-chested premenstrual virgins”. And then there were the drugs. It’s not recorded whether Alan Gill, briefly The Teardrop Explodes guitarist, ever expressed regret for insisting the previously clean-living Cope smoke a joint during the recording of their debut album Kilimanjaro, an action that appeared to turn the frontman into a maniac overnight: From Drug Puritan To Acid King, as one CD in the box set is titled.
The ensuing madness Head-On details is stupidly, luridly entertaining: “every day, we would wake up, take acid, then ride to the studio on our imaginary horses,” opens one typical anecdote. In fact, it’s so stupidly, luridly entertaining, that it’s hard not to feel the stories of drugged lunacy have overshadowed The Teardrop Explodes’ actual music. It’s a situation Culture Bunker clearly seeks to redress, although it’s hard to imagine its six hours of singles, b-sides, demos, live performances, rough mixes and outtakes appealing to anyone who who isn’t already a fan of 1980’s Kilimanjaro or its more expansive flop follow-up Wilder (1981), which stirred into the mix angular avant-funk and two brilliant, epic ballads, ‘Tiny Children’ and ‘The Great Dominions’. The live recordings in particular are frequently so rough as to repel all but the most committed, which is a shame, as they’re both packed with otherwise-unheard songs – ‘The Tunnel’, ‘Straight Rain’, ‘Beauty Comes Second’, ‘Vox Clamantis In Deserto’ – and document a band who covered a lot of musical ground in a short space of time: from the frantic post-punk of two 1979 gigs to a more measured, pop-facing London performance in 1980, to the compelling madness of the Club Zoo shows a year later, where the songs from the Wilder era take on a far looser, noticeably stranger tone (there’s a particularly great version of ‘Colours Fly Away’ that sounds a lot closer to the humid, agitated funk of Talking Heads than the one they released as a single).
The Teardrop Explodes throw away songs as good as ‘Soft Enough For You’ on B-sides. They come up with a glacially beautiful synth ballad, then call it ‘Flipped Out On LSD’.
Alexis Petridis
But for those with the time and the inclination, the sound of The Teardrop Explodes’ failed attempt to wrangle two opposing impulses, continued commercial success and drug-fuelled anything-goes experimentation, is endlessly intriguing, and a constant source of what-ifs? They throw away songs as good as ‘Soft Enough For You’ on B-sides. They come up with a glacially beautiful synth ballad, then call it ‘Flipped Out On LSD’. A February 1981 demo reveals they had a perfect follow-up to ‘Passionate Friend’ lurking around, but they never finished it, for reasons unknown: Julian Cope eventually did, and had a solo hit with ‘World Shut Your Mouth’ in 1986. The aborted 1982 sessions for their third album, eventually released in 1990 as Everybody Wants To Shag The Teardrop Explodes, were so disastrous they ended with drummer Gary Dwyer chasing guitarist/keyboard player Dave Balfe across farmland near Rockfield Studios with a loaded shotgun – perhaps understandably, the band spilt up shortly afterwards – but the rough sketches of songs on the final disc are great: a wracked take on ‘Serious Danger’, a different version of which made it onto the 1990 release, ‘Log Cabin’ and ‘Icarus 1’, neither of which did.
In the years after their demise, Cope took to painting The Teardrop Explodes’ swift decline from their brief moment of mainstream stardom as something inevitable and inbuilt: he was, he announced, on a “white male fuck-up” trip at the time. “I used to do outlandish, extreme things because that’s what my heroes would have done – the idea was that the accumulation of all my heroes would be one hell of a god to be,” he told one journalist. By ‘heroes’, he meant damaged psychedelic renegades like Syd Barrett, Jim Morrison and The Thirteenth Floor Elevators’ Roky Erickson: figures that burned out quickly in the 60s. Perhaps he’s right: the Smash Hits early 80s were probably not the most receptive climate for an acid-fuelled, wildly unpredictable pop star, no matter how sexily-spoken or macho-bodied. If the contents of Culture Bunker sometimes belie the popular image of The Teardrop Explodes – barely three years separate its earliest tracks from its latest, the musical distance between them seems an impossibly large area to traverse by the kind of drugged-out disaster area Head-On suggests they were – its unaccountable dead ends and missed opportunities do suggest the kind of muddled thinking that a vast quantity of hallucinogens might induce.
Culture Bunker isn’t the perfect introduction to the Teardrop Explodes – the uninitiated or curious would be better off buying Kilimanjaro and Wilder – nor the last word on them: it’s clearly intended as a companion to those albums, and Everybody Wants To Shag…, aimed squarely at the devotees. But its lovely packaging (matching sleeves, authoritative notes by their former press officer Mick Houghton) conceals six hours of music that’s variously chaotic, exploratory, commercial, wilfully alienating and a bit of a mess, but is liberally studded with incredible songs and fantastic ideas that don’t always get off the ground. In that sense, it’s The Teardrop Explodes all over.
Culture Bunker 1978-1982 was reviewed by Alexis Petridis for SDE and is released today, via Universal Music Recordings.
The box sets are not available via normal retail channels are can only be ordered via Universal direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites.
Treason (It’s Just a Story) (Remixed Version) – Single
Use Me – B-Side
Traison (C’est Juste Une Histoire) – B-Side
Ha Ha I’m Drowning – Single
Poppies In the Field – B-Side
CD 2: CHRIST VERSUS WARHOL – THE SINGLES
Passionate Friend – Single
Christ Versus Warhol – B-Side
Colours Fly Away – Single
East of the Equator – B-Side
Window Shopping for a New Crown of Thorns – B-Side
Tiny Children – Single
Rachel Built a Steamboat – B-Side
You Disappear from View – Single
Suffocate – No Strings from US LP of version of Kilimanjaro
Ouch Monkeys – B-Side
Soft Enough for You – B-Side
The In-Psychlopedia – B-Side
CD 3: FROM DRUG PURITAN TO ACID KING
Camera Camera – Granada TV, February 1979
Band on The Wall – Live, Manchester, 05 March 1979
Instro
Sleeping Gas
Seeing Through You
Straight Rain
All I Am is Loving You
Read It In Books
Jury Service
Take A Chance
The Tunnel
Camera Camera
Outstro
Sleeping Gas (Encore)
Beauty Come Second – Live Bristol 06 October 1979, unrecorded song
Take A Chance – Cargo Demos / To the Shores of Lake Placid Version
Poppies In the Field – Cargo Demos
Brave Boys Keep Promises – Cargo Demos
Bouncing Babies – Cargo Demos, all November 1979
Ha Ha I’m Drowning – Live at Studio Y 30/05/1980
Second Head – Live at Studio Y 30/05/1980
Went Crazy – Live at Studio Y 30/05/1980
Thief of Bagdad – Live at Studio Y 30/05/1980
Save Me – Live Y Club – London 30/05/1980
When I Dream – To the Shores of Lake Placid Version, Rockfield, 1980
CD 4: THE GREAT DOMINIONS
Dialogue Between (Window Shopping for a New Crown of Thorns) – Rockfield, 1980
For Years aka Nobody Knows This Is Everywhere – Zoology Version, 1980
Suffocate (With Strings) – Baroque Version, Rockfield, Spring 1982
Bent Out of Shape – Skinner Session – 17 August 1981
Colours Fly Away – Club Zoo – 25 November 1981
Pure Joy – Club Zoo – 25 November 1981
Falling Down Around Me – Bearshank Lodge, April 1981
Passionate Friend – also Bearshank Lodge
Tiny Children – Zoology / Air Rough Mixes, Summer 1981
…And The Fighting Takes Over – Zoology, 1981
The Culture Bunker – Club Zoo – 25 November 1981
The Great Dominions – Soundboard Tape Guildford June 1981
Butchers Tale – Air Studios Rough Mixes, summer 1981; credited on the original Wilder inners but not included on the LP. Cover from the Zombies Odyssey and Oracle
Screaming Secrets – from Copes Notes: TheTeardrtop Explodes , 1981
Not My Only Friend – also Bearshank Lodge
I’m Not the Loving Kind – Zoology Version, 1981, John Cale cover from Slow Dazzle
World Shut Your Mouth – Instrumental Demo #1 – Liverpool Feb 1981 / Portastudio
CD 5: CLUB ZOO
Club Zoo – December 22 1981
Log Cabin
Tiny Children
Passionate Friend
Bouncing Babies
You Disappear from View
Ha Ha I’m Drowning
Reward
Culture Bunker
Sleeping Gas – also b-side Tiny Children
Bonus tracks from Club Zoo, 25 November 1981
Like Leila Khaled Said
Treason
Bouncing Babies
Vox Clemantis in Deserto
Sleeping Gas
CD 6: DEATH RATTLE
Whopper Kwalo Koblinsky’s Lullaby – from To the Shores of Lake Placid, January 1981
You Disappear from View – from Zoology. Demo, Producers Workshop, 1982
Log Cabin – from Zoology, 1982
Serious Danger – Julian Cope And Dave Balfe Cassette – demos, May 1982(Take 2 of 3)
Count To Ten and Run for Cover – JC And DB Cassette
Ouch Monkeys – JC And DB Cassette
Icarus #1 – JC And DB Cassette
Terrorist – JC And DB Cassette
Pussyface – Instrumental backing track, Spring 1982
Flipped Out on LSD – Excerpt, 1982, featuring rare Dave Balfe vocal
Your Big Lies – Julian Cope home demo, Tamworth May 1982
Camera Camera – With World Shut Your Mouth producer Steve Lovell, 1984
LP 1: IT’S SO ETHEREAL
Side One
Sleeping Gas – Zoo Single
Camera Camera – B-Side
Kirby Workers Dream Fades – B-Side
Bouncing Babies – Zoo Single
All I Am Is Loving You – B-Side
Treason – Zoo Single
Read It in Books – B-Side
When I Dream – First Mercury Single
Side Two
Kilimanjaro – B-Side
Reward – Single
Strange House in the Snow – B-Side
Treason (It’s Just a Story) (Remixed Version) – Single
Use Me – B-Side
Traison (C’est Juste Une Histoire) – B-Side
LP 2: CHRIST VERSUS WARHOL
Side One
Ha Ha I’m Drowning – Single
Poppies In the Field – B-Side
Passionate Friend – Single
Christ Versus Warhol – B-Side
Colours Fly Away – Single
East of the Equator – B-Side
Side Two
Window Shopping for A New Crown of Thorns – B-Side
Tiny Children – Single
Rachel Built a Steamboat – B-Side
You Disappear from View – Single
Suffocate – No Strings – from US LP version of Kilimanjaro
Ouch Monkeys – B-Side
LP 3: BAND ON THE WALL
Side One
Camera Camera – Live on What’s On – Granada TV – Feb 1979
Instro – Band on The Wall – Live, Manchester 05 March 1979
Sleeping Gas – Band on The Wall – Manchester 05 March 1979
Seeing Through You – Band on The Wall – Manchester 05 March 1979
Straight Rain – Band on The Wall – Manchester 05 March 1979
All I Am is Loving You – Band on The Wall – Manchester 05 March 1979
Side Two
Read It in Books – Band on The Wall – Manchester 05 March 1979
Jury Service – Band on The Wall – Manchester 05 March 1979
Take A Chance – Band on The Wall – Manchester 05 March 1979
The Tunnel – Band on The Wall – Manchester 05 March 1979
Camera Camera – Band on The Wall – Manchester 05 March 1979
Outstro – Band on The Wall – Manchester 05 March 1979
Sleeping Gas – Band on The Wall – Manchester 05 March 1979 (Encore)
LP 4: FROM DRUG PURITAN TO ACID KING
Side One
Beauty Come Second – Live Trinity Centre – Bristol 06 October 1979 (Un-Recorded Song)
Take a Chance – Cargo Demos, November 1979 / To the Shores of Lake Placid Track
Poppies in the Field – Cargo Studios, Rochdale – November 1979
Brave Boys Keep Promises – Cargo Studios, Rochdale – November 1979
Bouncing Babies – Cargo Studios, Rochdale – November 1979
For Years aka Nobody Knows This Is Everywhere – Zoology Version – Alan Gill’s Studio 1980
Side Two
Ha Ha I’m Drowning – Live at Studio Y (YMCA London) 30/05/1980
Second Head – Live at Studio Y (YMCA London) 30/05/1980
Went Crazy – Live at Studio Y (YMCA London) 30/05/1980
Thief Of Bagdad – Live at Studio Y (YMCA London) 30/05/1980
Save Me – Live at Studio Y (YMCA London) 30/05/1980
When I Dream – To the Shores of Lake Placid Version – Rockfield Studios March 1980
LP 5: OUT OF THE CULTURE BUNKER
Side One
Dialogue Between (Window Shopping for a New Crown of Thorns) – Rockfield, March 1980
Suffocate (With Strings) – Baroque Version – Hugh Jones 1982
Reward – US LP Version of Kilimanjaro
Bent Out of Shape – Skinner Session – 17 August 1981
Colours Fly Away – Club Zoo Liverpool – 25 November 1981
Falling Down Around Me – Bearshank Lodge April 1981
Side Two
Pure Joy – Club Zoo Liverpool – 25 November 1981
Passionate Friend – Bearshank Lodge April 1981
Tiny Children – Air Studios Rough Mixes, Summer 1981
…And The Fighting Takes Over – Warner Brothers Demo 1981 – Zoology Version
The Culture Bunker – Club Zoo Liverpool – 25 November 1981
LP 6: FALLING DOWN AROUND ME
Side One
The Great Dominions – Guildford Civic Hall, 18 June 1981
Butchers Tale – Air Studios Rough Mixes – Wilder Sessions, credited on the original Wilder inners but not included. Cover from the Zombies Odyssey and Oracale
Screaming Secrets – 1981, from The Teardrop Explodes Copes Notes
Not My Only Friend – Bearshank Lodge April 1981
I’m Not the Loving Kind – Producers Workshop – Zoology Version, 1981. John Cale cover from Slow Dazzle
World Shut Your Mouth – Instrumental Demo #1 – Liverpool Feb 1981 / Porta Studio
Side Two
Whopper Kwalo Koblinsky’s Lullaby – from To the Shores ofLake Placid Version – Jan 1981
You Disappear from View – From Zoology. Producers Workshop 1982 demo.
Log Cabin – Demo 1982 (Ft. Kate St John and Nicky Holland) – from Zoology
The In-Psychlopedia – B-Side of ‘You Disappear From View’, Spring 1982
Serious Danger – Julian Cope and Dave Balfe Demos May 1982 (Take 2 of 3)
LP 7: DEATH RATTLE
Side One
Count To Ten and Run for Cover – Julian Cope and Dave Balfe Demos May 1982
Ouch Monkeys – Julian Cope and Dave Balfe Demos May 1982
Icarus #1 – Julian Cope and Dave Balfe Demos May 1982
Terrorist – Julian Cope and Dave Balfe Demos May 1982
Soft Enough for You – B-Side of ‘You Disappear from View’
Side Two
Pussyface – Instrumental backing track 1982, Spring 1982
Your Big Lies – Julian Cope home demo, Tamworth May 1982
Camera Camera – Recorded with World Shut Your Mouth producer Steve Lovell 1984
I’m pleased to inform everyone that the second run of No 7 in the SDE Surround Series – Ten Years After’s 1971 album A Space In Time, is now in stock and available to order.
The original production run of 1000 sold out in a matter of days back in January, so we clearly underestimated demand! As before, this Blu-ray Audio is only available via SDE and is packed with great content, as follows:
New Dolby Atmos Mix
5.1 Mix (DTS HD-Master Audio 5.1)
1973 Quad Mix (DTS HD-Master Audio 4.0)
2023 Chris Kimsey Stereo Mix (48/24)
Flat transfer of the Original 1971 Mix (48/24)
The Quad Mix corrects the channels which were inadvertently switched (front to back) on the 2012 DVD (which came with a vinyl LP). The brand new stereo mix is by original producer/engineer, Chris Kimsey, using transfers from the original two-inch multitrack tapes. Chris’ work on the stereo mix was the basis for the new Atmos Mix.
This second edition has the words ‘second edition’ just above the barcode on the back, to differentiate from the first edition. There are 1000 available, although be aware that 200 have sold in the last hour, so it doesn’t look like these will last long (again). Don’t miss out a second time!
A Space in Time blu-ray audio is a collaboration between SDE and Chrysalis Records. This item is available to ship immediately and comes with a free, collectible SDE Surround Series slipcase. You can order via the SDE shop using this link or via the ‘buy button’ below.
EU SHIPPING NOTES: If you are ordering from the EU please be aware that that goods may be subject to import VAT when they arrive from the UK. The prices the SDE shop charge you do not include VAT
TECHNICAL NOTES: This blu-ray audio contains no video. It requires a blu-ray player. Decoding the Dolby Atmos mix requires a Dolby Atmos-certified soundbar or a Dolby Atmos-compatible AV Receiver/Amp. The Dolby Atmos mix will ‘fold down’ to 5.1 or stereo if a Dolby Atmos decoder is not detected.
