NewsAdam & The Ants / The Singles
20-track best of Ants & solo
Adam Ant is to release a new compilation next month. The Singles is a 20-track chronological set, running from Adam & The Ants’ 1978 debut single ‘Young Parisians’ to the title track of 1995’s Wonderful solo album.
Available on CD or as a limited edition red-and-white coloured 2LP vinyl set, the 20 songs comprise 10 each by Adam & The Ants and Adam Ant, the solo artist. It’s the tenth singles compilation by Adam Ant, but the first since 2012’s Playlist.
The Singles Collection includes songs released on Adam & The Ants’ pre-fame labels Decca and Do- It, plus most of Adam Ant’s singles released on MCA and EMI after leaving Sony following 1985’s Vive Le Rock album. No word on re/mastering.
However, it doesn’t include 2012’s ‘Cool Zombie’, the sole single Ant released from his 2013 comeback album Adam Ant Is The Blueblack Hussar In Marrying The Gunner’s Daughter, which reached No 25. Released on Ant’s own Blueblack Hussar label, it was Adam Ant’s first album since Wonderful 18 years earlier. AAITBHIMTGD so far remains Ant’s only new music this century, though he has continued to tour regularly.
Two other singles are missing from The Singles: ‘Deutscher Girls’, Adam And The Ants’ contribution to the soundtrack of 1978 punk film Jubilee, which reached No 13 on its release as a single at the height of Antmania in 1982 on EG Records; and ‘Gotta Be A Sin’, the second single from Wonderful, which made No 48.
The Singles is notable as the first Adam Ant catalogue release on Sony since the super deluxe edition of Kings Of The Wild Frontier in 2016 (still available). Hopefully, this might mean future catalogue releases for a singer who hasn’t had a multi-title reissue campaign since 2008, when Sony released expanded CDs of the five albums Ant released for the label between 1980-85. These each featured several unreleased demos, but didn’t include B-sides, mixes or live songs.
In addition, Adam Ant’s 1991 album Persuasion – due to have been his second album for MCA after the previous year’s Manners And Physique – remains officially unreleased, while Wonderful has yet to see a release on vinyl.
The Singles coincides with a UK tour running from late October to late November and is released on 31 October 2025, via Sony.
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Tracklisting
The Singles Adam Ant /
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- Young Parisians
- Zerox
- Cartrouble
- Kings Of The Wild Frontier
- Dog Eat Dog
- Antmusic
- Stand And Deliver
- Prince Charming
- Ant Rap
- Goody Two Shoes
- Friend Or Foe
- Desperate But Not Serious
- Puss ‘N Boots
- Strip
- Apollo 9
- Vive Le Rock
- Room At The Top
- Rough Stuff
- Can’t Set Rules About Love
- Wonderful
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By John Earls
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