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Aztec Camera / Backwards and Forwards: The WEA Recordings 1984-1995

9CD box set with bonus material

By Paul Sinclair

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Backwards and Forwards: The WEA Recordings 1984-1995 is a forthcoming nine-CD box set that collects the music of Aztec Camera via five studio albums, B-sides, live recordings, remixes and rarities.

The box set includes all five studio albums issued on WEA: Knife (1984, Love (1987), Stray (1990), Dreamland (1993) and Frestonia (1995). The only other Aztec Camera album – which is not included in this set – is the band’s 1983 debut High Land, Hard Rain (which was released on Rough Trade).

Each album on CD comes with bonus tracks, but on top of that are two further discs collecting remixes, B-sides and extra tracks. Additional CDs, In Concert 1984 and Live at Ronnie Scott’s complete this nine-disc collection. There are 112 tracks in total.

Demon Music previously released ‘casebound book’ deluxe editions of all six of the band’s albums back in 2012. The track listings for those can be found on the original SDE post.

Backwards and Forwards: The WEA Recordings 1984-1995 is being released by Cherry Red. There is no word on remastering. It is out on 27 August 2021.

Tracklisting

Forwards and Backwards: The WEA Recordings 1984-1995 Aztec Camera / 9CD box set

    • CD 1 – Knife
      1. Still On Fire
      2. Just Like The USA
      3. Head Is Happy (Heart’s Insane)
      4. The Back Door To Heaven
      5. All I Need Is Everything
      6. Backwards And Forwards
      7. The Birth Of The True
      8. Knife
      BONUS TRACKS
      1. All I Need Is Everything (7″ Edit)
      2. Jump
      3. All I Need Is Everything (Latin Mix)
      4. Jump (Loaded Version)
    • CD 2 – In Concert 1984
      1. Walk Out To Winter (Live in Glasgow)
      2. The Bugle Sounds Again (Live in Glasgow)
      3. We Could Send Letters (Live in Glasgow)
      4. Backwards And Forwards (Live in Glasgow)
      5. Oblivious (Live in Glasgow) 6 All I Need Is Everything (Live in Glasgow)
      6. The Boy Wonders (Live in Glasgow)
      7. Mattress Of Wire (Live in London)
      8. The Bugle Sounds Again (Live in London)
      9. The Birth Of The True (Live in London)
      10. Backwards And Forwards (Live in London)
      11. Walk Out To Winter (Live in London)
    • CD 3 – Love
      1. Deep & Wide & Tall
      2. How Men Are
      3. Everybody Is A Number One
      4. More Than A Law
      5. Somewhere In My Heart
      6. Working In A Goldmine
      7. One And One
      8. Paradise
      9. Killermont Street
      BONUS TRACKS
      1. Bad Education
      2. The Red Flag
    • CD 4 – Remixes, B-Sides and Live 1986-1988
      1. Somewhere In My Heart (12″ Remix)
      2. Somewhere in My Heart (Eric Calvi Remix)
      3. Somewhere In My Heart (The Alternate Mix)
      4. Deep & Wide & Tall (Breakdown Mix)
      5. Deep & Wide & Tall (LP Edit)
      6. Everybody Is A Number One (Boston ’86 Version)
      7. Working In A Goldmine (Sax Version)
      8. Working In A Goldmine (Live At Pinewood)
      9. Somewhere In My Heart (Live At Pinewood)
      10. Killermont Street (Live in LA)
      11. Pillar To Post (Live in LA) 12 How Men Are (Night Network Live)
      12. Down The Dip (Live in Glasgow)
      13. Jump (Live in Glasgow)
      14. I Threw It All Away (Live in Bristol)
      15. Interview
    • CD 5 – Stray
      1. Stray
      2. The Crying Scene
      3. Get Outta London
      4. Over My Head
      5. Good Morning Britain
      6. How It Is
      7. The Gentle Kind
      8. Notting Hill Blues
      9. Song For A Friend
      BONUS TRACKS
      1. Salvation
      2. True Colours
    • CD 6 – Remixes, Rarities and Live 1990
      1. Do I Love You?
      2. Good Morning Britain (7″ Mix)
      3. Good Morning Britain (Laylow Posse Hypno- Mix/Kitsch ‘N’ Sync Mix)
      4. Good Morning Britain (Laylow Posse Hypnomental/ Instrumental Mix)
      5. Good Morning Britain (Laylow Posse Hypno- Edit/Vocal Remix)
      6. Good Morning Britain (Mendelsohn Single Mix) 7 Good Morning Britain (Morning Acid Mix)
      7. Consolation Prize (Live at Glasgow Barrowlands, August 4th, 1990)
      8. Good Morning Britain (Live at Glasgow Barrowlands, August 4th, 1990)
    • CD 7 – Live at Ronnie Scott’s
      1. Birth Of The True
      2. Song For A Friend
      3. Killermont Street
      4. Spanish Horses
      5. Stray
      6. The Bugle Sounds Again
      7. Dolphins
      8. How Men Are
      9. Sister Ann
      10. Good Morning Britain
      11. Mattress Of Wire
      12. Let Your Love Decide
      13. Orchid Girl
    • CD 8 – Dreamland
      1. Birds
      2. Safe In Sorrow
      3. Black Lucia
      4. Let Your Love Decide
      5. Spanish Horses
      6. Dream Sweet Dreams
      7. Pianos And Clocks
      8. Sister Ann
      9. Vertigo
      10. Valium Summer
      11. The Belle Of The Ball
      BONUS TRACKS
      1. (If Paradise Is) Half As Nice
      2. Just Like The USA (Live in Barcelona)
      3. Let Your Love Decide (Edit)
    • CD 9 – Frestonia
      1. Rainy Season
      2. Sun
      3. Crazy
      4. On The Avenue
      5. Imperfectly
      6. Debutante
      7. Beautiful Girl
      8. Phenomenal World
      9. Method Of Love
      10. Sunset
      BONUS TRACKS
      1. The Crying Scene (Live At The Phoenix Festival, 1995)
      2. Black Lucia (Live At The Phoenix Festival, 1995)
      3. We Could Send Letters (Live At The Phoenix Festival, 1995)
      4. Rainy Season (Live At The Phoenix Festival, 1995)

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