Heaven 17 / Another Big Idea 1996-2015

This March, Heaven 17 are to release Another Big Idea (1996-2015), nine-CD and 4LP vinyl box sets that follow the band’s work from when they regrouped and returned from a six-year hiatus in 1996 with the album Bigger Than America.

The nine-disc CD version of Another Big Idea features the albums Bigger Than America (1996) and Before After (released 2005 – the last album to feature Ian Craig Marsh). There’s also the 1998 remix album Retox/ Detox where various then-contemporaries took the band’s earlier hits down the rave-up, 2008’s Naked As Advertised: Versions 08 where they offered acoustic/ stripped back versions of their and The Human League’s catalogue, and 1999’s How Live Is – taken from their first live appearance. The box also hoovers up covers of songs by U2 (‘With or Without You’), Prince (‘Sign O’ The Times’) and Madonna (‘Holiday’) which the band had recorded for various tribute albums.

More intriguing is the previously unreleased Space Age Space Music. An instrumental album recorded in 1998, where they’d planned to get various singers to write their own lyrics to the tunes, but never got around to fully realising it.

9CD exclusive edition of Another Big Idea (1996-2008) with signed print (click image to enlarge)

In total, there are 48 bonus tracks and remixes, and like last year’s Play to Win set, Another Big Idea comes packaged as a large format (12″ x 12″) book. This contains 28-pages of photos, new notes and interviews with the band.

There is also a 4LP coloured  vinyl version of Another Big Idea (1996-2008) which brings together the three studio albums – Bigger Than America (opaque blue vinyl), Before After (white vinyl) and Naked As Advertised (transparent green) – and How Live Is (process blue vinyl).

For the 9CD set only, there is an Amazon Exclusive edition (available only in the UK), limited to 500 units and which comes with a signed print.

Another Big Idea is released by Edsel/Demon Records on 20 March 2020.

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Another Big Idea(1996-2008) 9CD edition

CD 1: BIGGER THAN AMERICA

1. Dive
2. Designing Heaven
3. We Blame Love
4. Another Big Idea
5. Freak!
6. Bigger Than America
7. Unreal Everything
8. The Big Dipper
9. Do I Believe?
10. Resurrection Man
11. Maybe Forever
12. An Electronic Prayer

BONUS TRACKS

13. Bigger Than America [version]
14. Designing Heaven [Radio Mix]
15. We Blame Love [Gregorio’s Mix]
16. Designing Heaven [Lloyd Wright Mix] [Motiv 8’s Radio Mix]
17. We Blame Love [Spacebaby Mix]
18. Theme From The Unreal Everything

CD 2: RETOX

1. Let Me Go [Rob Playford Remix]
2. Let’s All Make A Bomb [Adrian Sherwood Remix]
3. Geisha Boys & Temple Girls [Freddie Fresh Club Remix]
4. We Live So Fast [DJ Suv Remix]
5. Come Live With Me [Mulu Remix]
6. At The Height Of The Fighting [The Steve Hillier Project Remix]
7. Crushed By The Wheels (Of Industry) [Ski Remix]
8. Play To Win [M@krohart (Phillip Erb & Mark Rutherford) Remix]
9. Let’s All Make A Bomb [Geek Remix]
10. Geisha Boys & Temple Girls [Sector (Kevin Francis) Mix]
11. And That’s No Lie [Steve D’Agostino Remix]
12. Let Me Go [Ashley Beedle’s Modern Travel Dub Mix]

CD 3: DETOX

1. Brothers & Sisters (Fascist Groove Thang) [Michael Lange Remix]
2. Temptation [Rhythm Masters Vocal Mix]
3. At The Height Of The Fighting [Cisserio Remix]
4. Penthouse And Pavement [Ruff Driverz Remix]
5. Fascist Groove Thang [Tinman Vocal Mix]
6. We Live So Fast [Skelly Mix for Ripe Productions]
7. Geisha Boys & Temple Girls [Freddie Fresh Mix Radio Mix]
8. Temptation [Future/Past Disco (Kirk Degiorgio /As One) Dub Mix]
9. Penthouse & Pavement [Disco Central (Ben Mitchell & Can Can Studios) Mix]
10. Designing Heaven [Giorgio Moroder’s Subterranean 12″]
11. With This Ring (Let Me Go) [Molella & Phil Jay Present Heaven 17 Meets Fast Eddie]

CD 4 BONUS TRACKS  ‘3TOX’ (REMIXES 1996-98)

1. Designing Heaven [Motiv 8’s Vocal 12″]
2. We Blame Love [Matt Darey Dub Mix]
3. With This Ring (Let Me Go) [Extended Mix]
4. Designing Heaven [Rodgers Mix] [James Reynold’s Vocal 12″]
5. We Blame Love [Instrumental Extended Mix]
6. With This Ring (Let Me Go) [Disco Fire Mix]
7. Designing Heaven [Le Corbusier Mix] [Motiv 8’s Dub 12]
8. Temptation [Rhythm Masters Vocal Mix] [Radio Edit]
9. Designing Heaven [Stark Mix] [Gregorio’s 12″]
10. We Blame Love [Instrumental Mix]
11. With This Ring (Let Me Go) [Kay Cee Remix]
12. Designing Heaven [Trans European Heaven]
13. With This Ring (Let Me Go) [Disco Funky Mix]
14. Designing Heaven [Den Himmel Designen]

CD 5: HOW LIVE IS

1. Fascist Groove Thing
2. Crushed By The Wheels Of Industry
3. We Blame Love
4. Come Live With Me
5. Freak!
6. Let Me Go
7. Let’s All Make A Bomb
8. Penthouse And Pavement
9. Designing Heaven
10. Temptation
11. Being Boiled

BONUS TRACKS / TRIBUTES

12. Holiday
13. With Or Without You
14. Sign O’ The Times
15. Holiday [XTended Dance Mix]

CD 6: BEFORE AFTER

1. I’m Gonna Make You Fall In Love With Me
2. Hands Up To Heaven
3. The Way It Is
4. Freedom From Love
5. Don’t Fear The Reaper
6. Into The Blue
7. Deeper And Deeper
8. What Would It Take
9. Someone For Real
10. Are You Ready?

BONUS TRACKS ––’SHORTER LONGER’ (REMIXES 2006 – 07)

11. Hands Up To Heaven [Radio Edit]
12. I’m Gonna Make You Fall In Love With Me [Qubiq Radio Edit]
13. Don’t Fear The Reaper [Radio Edit]
14. Hands Up To Heaven [Spray’s Mega Dance Radio Edit]
15. I’m Gonna Make You Fall In Love With Me [Qubiq Tribal Back To 5 And 6 Mix]
16. Hands Up To Heaven [Qubiq Hands Up Tribal Vocal Mix]

CD 7 ‘SHORTER LONGER’ (REMIXES 2006 – 07) continued

1. Hands Up To Heaven [Spray Mix]
2. I’m Gonna Make You Fall In Love With Me [DonQuiBeats Remix]
3. Hands Up To Heaven [Canal Pop Mix]
4. I’m Gonna Make You Fall In Love With Me [Lovesick Dub]
5. Hands Up To Heaven [DJ Futuro Mix]
6. I’m Gonna Make You Fall In Love With Me [T Total’s Secret Stalker Mix]
7. Hands Up To Heaven [DJ BC Mix]
8. I’m Gonna Make You Fall In Love With Me [Dimensional Love Machine]
9. Hands Up To Heaven [Astromill Mix]
10. I’m Gonna Make You Fall In Love With Me [Electroluv’s Remix]
11. Hands Up To Heaven [Qubiq DJ Edit]
12. I’m Gonna Make You Fall In Love With Me [Atom’s Ostwald Process Dub]

CD 8: NAKED AS ADVERTISED [VERSIONS ’08]

1. Being Boiled
2. Geisha Boys And Temple Girls
3. Temptation [featuring Billie Godfrey]
4. Penthouse And Pavement
5. Party Fears Two
6. Don’t Fall
7. (We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thang
8. We Live So Fast
9. Empire State Human

BONUS TRACKS / RARITIES

10. Penthouse And Pavement [live]
11. (We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thang [live]
12. Let Me Go [exclusive acoustic version]
13. Rocket Man
14. Rocket Man [12″ remix]
15. Hands Up To Heaven [Qubiq Hands Up Tribal Dub Mix]

CD 9: SPACE AGE SPACE MUSIC

Recorded in 1998

1. Overture
2. Post Apocalypse
3. Soft Power Landscape
4. Track 4
5. Funk Experiment
6. Abandoned Malls
7. Fast Groove 1
8. Unknowable
9. Mission Creep
10. Thinking Machine
11. New Chase
12. Liquid Syncopation

Another Big Idea(1996-2008) 4LP vinyl box

BIGGER THAN AMERICA

Side One
1. Dive
2. Designing Heaven
3. We Blame Love
4. Another Big Idea
5. Freak!
6. Bigger Than America

Side Two
1. Unreal Everything
2. The Big Dipper
3. Do I Believe?
4. Resurrection Man
5. Maybe Forever
6. An Electronic Prayer

HOW LIVE IS

Side One
1. Fascist Groove Thing
2. Crushed By The Wheels Of Industry
3. We Blame Love
4. Come Live With Me
5. Freak!
6. Let Me Go

Side Two
1. Let’s All Make A Bomb
2. Penthouse And Pavement
3. Designing Heaven
4. Temptation
5. Being Boiled

BEFORE AFTER

Side One

1. I’m Gonna Make You Fall In Love With Me
2. Hands Up To Heaven
3. The Way It Is
4. Freedom From Love
5. Don’t Fear The Reaper

Side Two
1. Into The Blue 2. Deeper And
3. What Would It Take
4. Someone For Real
5. Are You Ready?

NAKED AS ADVERTISED [VERSIONS ’08]

Side One
1. Being Boiled
2. Geisha Boys And Temple Girls
3. Temptation [featuring Billie Godfrey]
4. Penthouse And Pavement
5. Party Fears Two

Side Two
1. Don’t Fall
2. (We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thang
3. We Live So Fast
4. Empire State Human