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Celebrate It Together : The Best of Howard Jones 1983-2023

40th anniversary compilation

By Paul Sinclair

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Howard Jones / Celebrate It Together: The Best of Howard Jones 1983-2023

To mark the 40th anniversary of Howard Jones’ recorded music career, Cherry Red are releasing a new compilation called Celebrate It Together: The Best of Howard Jones 1983-2023.

This will be available in four formats: a 64-track 4CD clamshell box, a 2CD digipak with 35 tracks and a 2LP edition pressed on ‘mint green’ vinyl with 22 tracks. This best of brings together his Warner-era recordings as well as work from his independent Dtox label.

The deluxe 4CD box includes collection of hit singles, remixes, key album tracks, live versions and alternative recordings, with each disc themed (Popular Hits, Electro, Chill and Curiosities). Given that the album reissues have been amazingly comprehensive, there’s not a whole lot left in the vault, but there’s still room for four previously unreleased tracks and a further six tracks that have never been issued on CD.

The 4CD edition of Celebrate It Together (click image to enlarge)

Although Cherry Red kicked off their Howard Jones campaign back in 2017 with another best of (Best 1983-2017) they boast that the new compilation is the “first anthology that looks at his entire catalogue” which is somewhat disingenuous, given 1993’s The Best of Howard Jones looked at his complete catalogue at that time, as did the the 2017 compilation!

The 2CD version does away with any themes and just distils the offering down, although casual fans are going to know next to nothing from the second disc. However, there is a new remix of an old number towards the end (New Song (2023 Elephant Talk Remix).

Celebrate It Together: The Best of Howard Jones 1983-2023 will be released on 6 October 2023, via Cherry Red.

Tracklisting

Howard Jones / Celebrate It Together: The Best of Howard Jones 1983-2023

Celebrate It Together: The Very Best of Howard Jones 1983-2023 Howard Jones /

    • CD 1: Popular Hits
      1. Things Can Only Get Better
      2. Like To Get To Know You well
      3. Life In One Day
      4. Look Mama
      5. All I Want
      6. Everlasting Love
      7. New Song
      8. What Is Love? [Single Version]
      9. Pearl In The Shell
      10. Bounce Right Back
      11. You Know I Love You..Don’t You?
      12. Always Asking Questions
      13. Lift Me Up
      14. Tomorrow is Now
      15. The Prisoner
      16. Just Look At You Now
      17. Celebrate It Together (Lifelike Radio Edit)**
      ** Previously unreleased on CD
    • CD 2: Electro
      1. Celebrate It Together (Lifelike Extended Club Mix)**
      2. The One To Love You (Howard ones & BT – Lifelike UK Radio Remix)
      3. The Human Touch
      4. Eagle Will Fly Again
      5. Stay with Me (Album Version)
      6. Revolution Of The Heart (Album Version)
      7. Powerhouse
      8. Specialty
      9. Who You Really Want To Be
      10. New Song (2023 Elephant Talk Remix)*
      11. You’re The Buddha
      12. The Prisoner 2011
      13. Look Mama (Megamamamix)
      14. Conditioning (Peaceful Tour Live)
      15. Things Can Only Get Better (Cedric Gervais ft Howard Jones) (Radio Edit)
      * Previously unreleased
      ** Previously unreleased on CD
    • CD 3: Chill
      1. No One is to blame (Single Mix)
      2. If You Love
      3. City Song
      4. Not One Of The Lonely Tonight
      5. Hide And Seek (Single Version)
      6. Sleep My Angel
      7. Soon You’ll Go
      8. Someone You Need
      9. One Last Try
      10. Formed By The Stars
      11. Don’t Always Look At The Rain
      12. Will You Still Be There?
      13. Tears To Tell
      14. Blue
      15. Back In Your Life Again
      16. At The Speed Of Love (Howard Jones & BT)
    • CD 4: Curiosities
      1. Overture 2*
      2. Angels And Lovers (Single Mix)
      3. Road to Cairo
      4. Lazarus (Live at Siyan)
      5. Hide and Seek (Perform Version)
      6. Things Can Only Get Better (Simlish version)*
      7. Cookin’ In The Kitchen
      8. I.G.Y. (International Geophysical Year (Single Mix)
      9. When Lovers Confess
      10. Stay With Me (We’re In This Together)(Alternative Recording)*
      11. I Don’t Hate You**
      12. Collective Heartbeat (Havana Version)**
      13. Let The People Have Their Say (Original Version)
      14. You Know I Love You..Don’t You? (Video Mix)**
      15. Pearl In The Shell (Live in Hamburg)**
      16. New Song (Peaceful Tour Live)
      * Previously unreleased
      ** Previously unreleased on CD

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