Kim Wilde / Love Blonde: The RAK Years

A new 4CD set compiling Kim Wilde’s output for RAK Records will be released in February.

Love Blonde: The RAK Years features three studio albums along with a bonus CD of remixes. Those records are Kim Wilde (1981), Select (1982) and Catch as Catch Can (1983), each remastered and expanded with bonus tracks, plus a disc of ‘Special Disco Mixes’.

The bonus tracks don’t include everything previously issued on individual album releases. For example there was a 2CD+DVD deluxe of Kim Wilde in 2020 and the four bonus audio tracks (not including the disc of remixes) were ‘Shane’, ‘Boys’, ‘Water on Glass 7″ Version’ and ‘Tuning In Tuning On 7″ Version’. The two seven-inch versions are missing here, but you do get ‘He Will Be There’. Similarly, ‘Rain On’ is a new bonus track on Catch As Catch Can, but the original 7″ and 12″ Versions of ‘Love Blonde’ and the Nile Rodgers and instrumental mixes of ‘Dancing in the Dark’ are not included. There are new remixes of both songs on CD 4, however.

This final disc includes 10 remixes, none of which were issued at the time and six of which are brand new to this box set including ‘Water On Glass [Project K Soundtrack]’ and ‘House Of Salome [Luke Mornay Mix Of The Seven Veils]’.

The CDs come in a lift-off lid box with each album in this package is housed in a gatefold sleeve with original vinyl artwork. It comes with a 48-page booklet with new sleeve notes written by Kim Wilde expert Marcel Rijs.

Love Blonde: The RAK Years will be released on 1 March 2024 (was 23 February).

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Tracklisting

The RAK Years Kim Wilde /

• 4CD set
  • CD 1: Kim Wilde
    1. WATER ON GLASS
    2. OUR TOWN
    3. EVERYTHING WE KNOW
    4. YOUNG HEROES
    5. KIDS IN AMERICA
    6. CHEQUERED LOVE
    7. 2-6-5-8-0
    8. YOU’LL NEVER BE SO WRONG
    9. FALLING OUT
    10. TUNING IN TUNING ON

    BONUS TRACKS

    11. SHANE
    12. BOYS
    13. HE WILL BE THERE
  • CD 2: Select
    1. EGO
    2. WORDS FELL DOWN
    3. ACTION CITY
    4. VIEW FROM A BRIDGE
    5. JUST A FEELING
    6. CHAOS AT THE AIRPORT
    7. TAKE ME TONIGHT
    8. CAN YOU COME OVER
    9. WENDY SADD
    10. CAMBODIA
    11. CAMBODIA – REPRISE

    BONUS TRACKS

    12. CHILD COME AWAY
    13. BITTER IS BETTER
    14. WATCHING FOR SHAPES
    15. JUST ANOTHER GUY
  • CD 3: Catch As Catch Can
    1. HOUSE OF SALOME
    2. BACK STREET JOE
    3. STAY AWHILE
    4. LOVE BLONDE
    5. DREAM SEQUENCE
    6. DANCING IN THE DARK
    7. SHOOT TO DISABLE
    8. CAN YOU HEAR IT
    9. SPARKS
    10. SING IT OUT FOR LOVE
    BONUS TRACKS
    11. RAIN ON
    12. BACK SEAT DRIVER
  • CD 4: Special Disco Mixes
    1. KIDS IN AMERICA [LUKE MORNAY REMIX]
    2. CHEQUERED LOVE [MATT POP EXTENDED VERSION]
    3. WATER ON GLASS [PROJECT K SOUNDTRACK] *
    4. CAMBODIA [MATT POP EXTENDED VERSION]
    5. VIEW FROM A BRIDGE [PROJECT K SOUNDTRACK] *
    6. TAKE ME TONIGHT [LUKE MORNAY PROFONDO GIALLO MIX] *
    7. CHILD COME AWAY [MATT POP REMIX]
    8. LOVE BLONDE [PROJECT K’S LIMELIGHT MIX] *
    9. DANCING IN THE DARK [LUKE MORNAY MOONLIGHT MIX] *
    10. HOUSE OF SALOME [LUKE MORNAY MIX OF THE SEVEN VEILS] *

    * EXCLUSIVE NEW 2024 MIX