News 21 Oct 2014

It Bites / Whole New World: The Virgin Albums 1986-1991

By Paul Sinclair

Next month sees the releases of Whole New World, a four-CD set featuring the work of It Bites from 1986-1991.

The collection features all three studio albums from that era (The Big Lad In The Windmill (1986), Once Around The World (1988) and Eat Me in St. Louis (1989)) as well as the Thank You And Goodnight live set.

The studio albums all come with bonus tracks including seven-inch edits, B-sides, original CD/Cassette bonus tracks and more. This set features sleeve notes by Malcolm Dome and new artwork.

At less than £14 Whole New World is a bit of a steal and comes recommended. However, if you *must* spend more money on It Bites reissues and/or you are a packaging freak (guilty as charged), the albums are available individually as Japanese SHM-CDs in mini-LP vinyl replica packaging. These also have a different selection of bonus tracks, although there’s only a couple (Woman Is An Addict and a seven inch version of Old Man And The Angel) that aren’t on the European Whole New World set. Even so this does mean that Whole New World it’s not the complete Virgin output as is claimed on Amazon. Full track listings for everything is below.

Whole New World is out on 3 November with the individual Japanese reissues available just before that date.

Whole New World 4CD Compilation

Japanese SHM-CD mini-LP CD reissues

The Big Lad In the Windmill (Japanese SHM-CD)

• Pre-order from JPC.de
• Pre-order from CD-Japan

Once Around The World (Japanese SHM-CD)

• Pre-order from JPC.de
• Pre-order from CD-Japan

Eat Me In St. Louis (Japanese SHM-CD)

• Pre-order from JPC.de
• Pre-order from CD-Japan

Thank You And Goodnight (Live) – Japanese SHM-CD

• Pre-order from JPC.de
• Pre-order from CD-Japan

WHOLE NEW WORLD Track listing

DISC 1:

THE BIG LAD IN THE WINDMILL

1. I Got You Eating Out Of My Hand
2. All In Red
3. Whole New World
4. Screaming On The Beaches
5. Wanna Shout
6. Turn Me Loose
7. Cold Tired And Hungry
8. Calling All The Heroes
9. You’ll Never Get To Heaven
10.The Big Lad In The Windmill
11.Heartbreaker
12.Calling All The Heroes (7″ Version)
13.Strange But True (Full Length Version)
14.Black December
15.Calling All The Heroes (Live At The Marquee 1986)
16.Screaming On The Beaches (Live At The Marquee 1986)

DISC 2:

ONCE AROUND THE WORLD

1. Midnight
2. Kiss Like Judas
3. Yellow Christian
4. Rose Marie
5. Black December
6. The Old Man And The Angel
7. Hunting The Whale
8. Plastic Dreamer
9. Once Around The World
10.Castles (12″ Full Length Version)
11.Staring At The Whitewash
12.Kiss Like Judas (12” Extended Mix)
13.Midnight (Extended Version)

DISC 3:

EAT ME IN ST. LOUIS

1. Positively Animal
2. Underneath Your Pillow
3. Let Us All Go
4. Still Too Young To Remember
5. Murder Of The Planet Earth
6. People Of America
7. Sister Sarah
8. Leaving Without You
9. Till The End Of Time
10.The Ice Melts Into Water
11.Charlie
12.Having A Good Day
13.Reprise
14.Bullet In The Barrel
15.Vampires

DISC 4

THANK YOU AND GOODNIGHT

1. Kiss Like Judas
2. All In Red
3. Underneath Your Pillow
4. Murder Of The Planet Earth
5. The Ice Melts (Into Water)
6. Yellow Christian
7. You’ll Never Go To Heaven
8. Calling All The Heroes
9. Screaming On The Beaches
10.Still Too Young To Remember

Japanese SHM-CD mini-LP track listings

The Big Lad In The Windmill (Japan SHM-CD)

1 I Got You Eating Out Of My Hand
2 All In Red
3 Whole New World
4 Screaming On The Beaches
5 Wanna Shout
6 Turn Me Loose
7 Cold, Tired And Hungry
8 Calling All The Heroes
9 You’ll Never Go To Heaven
10 The Big Lad In The Windmill
11 [Bonus Track] Calling All The Heroes (7″ Version)
12 [Bonus Track] Strange But True
13 [Bonus Track] Heartbreaker

Once Around The World (Japan SHM-CD)

1 Midnight
2 Kiss Like Judas
3 Yellow Christian
4 Rose Marie
5 Black December
6 Old Man And The Angel (Full Length Version)
7 Hunting The Whale
8 Plastic Dreamer
9 Once Around The World
10 [Bonus Track] Old Man And The Angel (7″ Single Version)
11 [Bonus Track] Castles (12″ Full Length Version)
12 [Bonus Track] Staring At The Whitewash
13 [Bonus Track] Kiss Like Judas (12″ Extended Mix)

Eat Me In St. Louis (Japan SHM-CD)

1 Positively Animal
2 Underneath Your Pillow
3 Let Us All Go
4 Still Too Young To Remember
5 Murder Of The Planet Earth
6 People Of America
7 Sister Sarah
8 Leaving Without You
9 ‘Til The End Of Time
10 The Ice Melts Into Water
11 Charlie
12 [Bonus Track] Vampires
13 [Bonus Track] Having A Good Day
14 [Bonus Track] Reprise
15 [Bonus Track] Bring In The Barrel
16 [Bonus Track] The Woman Is An Addict

Thank You And Goodnight (Japan SHM-CD)

1 Kiss Like Judas
2 All In Red
3 Underneath Your Pillow
4 Murder Of The Planet Earth
5 The Ice Melts (Into Water)
6 Yellow Christian
7 You’ll Never Go To Heaven
8 Calling All The Heroes
9 Screaming On The Beaches
10 Still Too Young To Remember
11 [Bonus Track] Screaming On The Beaches