News 11 Nov 2013

Gene / 2CD reissues on the way

By Paul Sinclair

olympian_flat — Gene’s first album “Olympian” is one of five to be reissued by Edsel

Edsel Records will reissue all five of the official studio albums by UK Britpop era band Gene in January 2014.

The albums have all been remastered and these reissues are being issued as two-CD sets, with a large selection of bonus tracks added, including BBC radio sessions and unreleased live performances (see full track listing below). These deluxe editions will be presented in the now familiar casebound book packaging.

Gene were signed to Polydor Records and enjoyed a fair amount of success in the mid-to-late nineties with three top twenty albums, before their popularity waned towards the turn of the millennium. They disbanded in 2004.

All five albums Olympian (1995), To See The Lights (1996), Drawn To The Deep End (1997), Revelations (1999) and Libertine (2001) will be issued on 27 January 2014.

Track listings

Olympian

Disc One

1. Haunted By You
2. Your Love, It Lies
3. Truth, Rest Your Head
4. A Car That Sped
5. Left-Handed
6. London Can You Wait?
7. To The City
8. Still Can’t Find The Phone
9. Sleep Well Tonight
10. Olympian
11. We’ll Find Our Own Way

Bonus tracks:

12. For The Dead
13. Child’s Body (BBC Radio Session 18/5/94)
14. This Is Not My Crime (BBC Radio Session 18/5/94)
15. Left-Handed (BBC Radio Session 1/2/95)
16. We’ll Find Our Own Way (BBC Radio Session 1/2/95)

Disc Two

Live At Sound City 18/4/95

1. Sleep Well Tonight
2. Left-Handed
3. Be My Light, Be My Guide
4. Haunted By You
5. A Car That Sped
6. Truth, Rest Your Head
7. London Can You Wait?
8. Sick, Sober & Sorry
9. I Can’t Help Myself
10. Olympian

Live at The Forum 6/7/95

11. To The City
12. Sleep Well Tonight
13. Haunted By You
14. Trust, Rest Your Head
15. Sick, Sober & Sorry
16. London Can You Wait?
17. Speak To Me Someone
18. Left-Handed
19. Olympian
20. Be My Light, Be My Guide

To See The Lights

Disc One

1. Be My Light, Be My Guide
2. Sick, Sober & Sober
3. Her Fifteen Years
4. Haunted by You
5. I Can’t Decide If She Really Loves Me
6. To See The Lights
7. I Can’t Help Myself
8. A Car That Sped
9. For The Dead (Version)
10. Sleep Well Tonight
11. How Much For Love
12. London, Can You Wait
13. I Can’t Help Myself
14. Child’s Body
15. Don’t Let Me Down
16. I Say A Little Prayer
17. Do You Want To Hear It From Me
18. This Is Not My Crime
19. Olympian
20. Child’s Body
21. For The Dead

Disc Two

BBC Radio Session 14/12/95

1. Save Me I’m Yours
2. Drawn To The Deep End
3. Speak To Me Someone
4. Fighting Fit

BBC Live at The Phoenix Festival 18/7/96

5. Fighting Fit
6. Sleep Well Tonight
7. Speak To Me Someone
8. Be My Light, Be My Guide
9. Left-Handed
10. Why Was I Born
11. Olympian

Drawn to the Deep End

Disc One

1. New Amusements
2. Fighting Fit
3. Where Are They Now?
4. Speak To Me Someone
5. We Could Be Kings
6. Why I Was Born
7. Long Sleeves For The Summer
8. Save Me I’m Yours
9. Voice Of The Father
10. The Accidental
11. I Love You, What Are You?
12. Sub Rosa

Bonus Tracks

13. Drawn To The Deep End
14. Autumn Stone
15. Cast Out In The Seventies
16. Nightswimming
17. We Could Be Kings [single edit]
18. Dolce & Gabbana Or Nowt
19. Wasteland

Disc Two

Bonus Tracks

1. As The Bruises Fade
2. The Ship Song

Live At The Royal Albert Hall

3. Where Are They Now
4. Save Me I’m Yours
5. Voice Of The Father
6. Sub Rosa
7. Speak To Me Someone
8. Drawn To The Deep End
9. New Amusements
10. Olympian

BBC Session 2/10/96

11. Voice Of The Father
12. Sub Rosa
13. The Accidental
14. Why I Was Born

BBC Session 24/6/97

15. For The Dead
16. Save Me I’m Yours

Revelations

Disc One

1. As Good As It Gets
2. In Love With Love
3. Love Won’t Work
4. The British Disease
5. Fill Her Up
6. Something In The Water
7. Mayday
8. Angel
9. The Looker
190. Little Child
11. Stop
12. The Police Will Never Find You
13. You’ll Never Walk Again

Bonus Tracks

14. Toasting The Union
15. Man On Earth
16. All Night
17. To All Who Sail In Her
18. Pass On To Me
19. Touched By The Hand Of Havoc
20. Common As Air
21. Slice

Disc Two

Live In Concert BBC Sound City Newcastle Riverside 29/10/98

1. You’ll Never Walk Again
2. Fighting Fit
3. Mayday
4. Where Are They Now
5. As Good As It Gets
6. We Could Be Kings
7. Stop
8. Olympian
9. In Love With Love
10. The British Disease
11. Be My Light, Be My Guide
12. Speak To Me Someone
13. Sleep Well Tonight
14. Voice Of The Father
15. London Can You Wait?
16. Sick, Sober & Sorry

Libertine

Disc One

1. Does He Have A Name
2. A Simple Request
3. Is It Over?
4. O Lover
5. Let Me Rest
6. We’ll Get What We Deserve
7. Walking In The Shallows
8. Yours For The Taking
9. You
10. Spy In The Clubs
11. Somewhere In The World

Bonus tracks

12. Let Me Move On [Long Version]
13. If I’m A Friend [b side of ‘Let Me move on’]
14. Left For Dust [b side of ‘Let Me move on’]
15. Supermarket Bombscare [b – side of ‘Is it Over’]
16. Little Diamond [b – side of ‘Is it Over’]

Disc Two

1. Rising for Sunset [unreleased studio version}
2. Who Said This Was The End? [b side of ‘Is it Over’]
3. From Georgia to Osaka [b side of ‘Does He Have A Name’]
4. With Love In Mind [b side of ‘Does He Have A Name’]
5. Welcome to Dover [b side of ‘Does He Have A Name’]
6. Baby I’m Sorry [unreleased studio track]
7. Man Seeks life [unreleased demo track]
8. 6 am unreleased [unreleased demo track]
9. Skin Parade [unreleased demo track]
10. You [Chapel Studio Version]
11. Does He Have A Name[demo version]
12. Simple Request [demo version]
13. Is it Over [demo version]
14. Spy in the Clubs [demo version]
15. Walking In The Shallows [demo version]
16. Let Me Move On [demo version]
17. O Lover [demo version]

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