Texas celebrate a quarter of a century with “Texas 25”

Scottish band Texas will celebrate their 25th anniversary early next year with a new album, Texas 25.

This release is effectively a greatest hits, although every track is “re-recorded and reworked” which at least offers fans something of interest, as will the four new songs that are also included.

A two-CD deluxe edition adds a bonus disc of the standard version of the hits and perhaps inevitably, there will be a super deluxe edition box set which contains the two-CD version, a red vinyl edition (also available separately), five art prints and a numbered certificate of authenticity signed by Sharleen Spiteri.

Texas had a top ten hit in the UK in 1989 with I Don’t Want A Lover and then followed that tune with five singles that failed to even breach the top 30. The none-hits continued deep into the 1990s and they looked dumper-bound until 1997’s Say What You Want reached number three, with a little help from BBC Radio One Breakfast Show host Chris Evans who famously championed the single, playing it often (and on at least one occasion, twice in a row).

The White On Blonde album that track was taken from relaunched their career spectacularly. They ended up having had five top ten hits from that one record and went on to become a big selling act in the late 1990s.

Texas 25 is released on 16 February 2015.

Super Deluxe Edition box set

• • UK Pre-order: Texas 25 – Super Deluxe Box Set

2CD Deluxe Edition

• • UK Pre-order: Texas 25
• • USA Pre-order: Texas 25
• • CANADA Pre-order: Texas 25
• • GERMANY Pre-order: Texas 25
• • FRANCE Pre-order: Texas 25

Red Vinyl Edition

• • UK Pre-order: Texas 25 
• • USA Pre-order: Texas 25
• • CANADA Pre-order: Texas 25 (Vinyl)
• • GERMANY Pre-order: Texas 25
• • FRANCE Pre-order: Texas 25

Single CD Edition

• • UK Pre-order: Texas 25
• • GERMANY Pre-order: Texas 25

Track listing

CD1 / LP
THE TRUTH & SOUL SESSIONS
1.Start A Family 
2. Black Eyed Boy 
3. Say What You Want 
4. Supafly Boy 
5. Halo 
6. Inner Smile 
7. The Conversation 
8. Say Goodbye
9. When We Are Together 
10. Are You Ready
11. I Don’™t Want A Lover 
12. Summer Son 

CD 2 (original hits)
1. I Don’t Want A Lover
2. Everyday Now
3. Say What You Want
4. Halo
5. Black Eyed Boy
6. Put Your Arms Around Me
7. Summer Son
8. When We Are Together
9. In Our Lifetime
10. In Demand
11. Inner Smile
12. Sleep
13. Say What You Want (All Day Every Day)