Howard Jones / Dream Into Action: The Farmyard Sessions

The ‘Farmyard Sessions’ of Howard Jones second album Dream Into Action will be released as a 2LP coloured vinyl set next month, to mark the 40th anniversary of the 1985 long-player.

These are early versions of album tracks and singles from Dream into Action, so called because they were recorded at Rupert Hine’s ‘Farmyard Studios’ in Buckinghamshire.

This 2LP set contains all 16 tracks from the bonus CD included in the long out-of-print super deluxe edition of Dream Into Action that was released in 2018 (watch the SDEtv unboxing video, here). Four extra tracks (all on side four) make this a 20-track compilation, with 17 on vinyl for the first time.

This limited edition is pressed on 140g 2LP orange vinyl and features previously unseen images from the original photo session with photographer Simon Fowler.

Dream Into Action: The Farmyard Sessions will be released on vinyl on 22 August 2025, via Cherry Red.

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Tracklisting

Dream into Action: The Farmyard Sessions Howard Jones / 2LP orange vinyl

• • LP 1

    Side 1

    1. Things Can Only Get Better (Early Version) +*
    2. Dream Into Action (Early Version) +*
    3. No One Is To Blame (Early Version) +*
    4. Look Mama (Early Version) +*
    5. Assault And Battery (Early Version) +*

    Side 2

    1. Automaton (Robot Man) Instrumental +*
    2. Is There A Difference? (Early Version) +*
    3. Elegy (Early Version) +*
    4. Specialty (Early Version) + *
    5. Why Look For The Key? Early Version) +*
    6. Hunger For The Flesh (Early Version)+*

    + Farmyard Sessions
    * Previously unreleased on vinyl

  • LP 2

    Side 3

    1. Like To Get To Know You Well
       (Alternative Mix)
    2. Things Can Only Get Better (Remixed)*
    3. No One Is To Blame (TV Mix)*
    4. Things Can Only Get Better (Radio Mix)*
    5. You Jazzy Nork!

    Side 4

    1. No One Is To Blame (Lambs & Planes Mix)*
    2. Like To Get To Know You Well (Demo in HJ front Room)*
    3. Look Mama (UK Extended Mix)
    4. No One Is To Blame (Remake)*

    * Previously unreleased on vinyl