News 15 Jun 2014

The Average White Band / “All The Pieces”: career-spanning 19CD box

By Paul Sinclair

Demon Music are set to issue an Average White Band anthology that celebrates the Scottish soul/funk band’s entire career across a mammoth 19 CDs.

All The Pieces includes all the studio albums with the discs packaged as vinyl replicas including a few gatefolds (including 1976’s Person To Person which is a two-disc set). This collection also comes with two bonus CDs which gather rarities and remixes from across the decades.

A 52-page booklet accompanies the audio within and features extensive liner notes with contributions from Alan Gorrie and Hamish Stuart.

All The Pieces: The Complete Studio Recordings 1973-2003 is available at the time of writing for less than £50 and will be released on 14 July 2014.

Track listing

CD01 SHOW YOUR HAND (1973)

1. The Jugglers 4.51
2. This World Has Music 5.58
3. Twilight Zone 5.28
4. Put It Where You Want It 5.17
5. Show Your Hand 4.35
6. Back In ’67 4.12
7. Reach Out 4.04
8. T.L.C. 8.07

CD02 HOW SWEET CAN YOU GET? aka The Clover Sessions (2003)

1. Person To Person 3.23
2. Keepin’ It To Myself 3.10
3. There’s Always Someone Waiting 5.02
4. McEwan’s Export 4.48
5. Got The Love 3.42
6. Work To Do 3.42
7. Just Want To Love You Tonight 4.43
8. Pick Up The Pieces 3.57
9. I Just Can’t Give You Up 3.45
10. How Sweet Can You Get? (first version) 3.41

CD03 AVERAGE WHITE BAND (1974)

1. You Got It 3.30
2. Got The Love 3.47
3. Pick Up The Pieces 3.55
4. Person To Person 3.36
5. Work To Do 4.20
6. Nothing You Can Do 4.04
7. Just Want To Love You Tonight 3.54
8. Keepin’ It To Myself 3.57
9. I Just Can’t Give You Up 3.27
10. There’s Always Someone Waiting 5.27

CD04 PUT IT WHERE YOU WANT IT (1975)

1. How Can You Go Home? 3.05 *
2. This World Has Music 5.58
3. Twilight Zone 5.28
4. Put It Where You Want It 5.17
5. Show Your Hand 4.33
6. Back In ’67 4.12
7. Reach Out 4.04
8. T.L.C. 8.07

CD05 CUT THE CAKE (1975)

1. Cut The Cake 4.05
2. School Boy Crush 5.00
3. It’s A Mystery 3.56
4. Groovin’ The Night Away 3.43
5. If I Ever Lose This Heaven 4.59
6. Why 4.06
7. High Flyin’ Woman 3.47
8. Cloudy 4.21
9. How Sweet Can You Get? 3.59
10. When They Bring Down The Curtain 4.43

CD06 SOUL SEARCHING (1976)

1. Overture 2.14
2. Love Your Life 4.52
3. I’m The One 4.19
4. A Love Of Your Own 5.34
5. Queen Of My Soul 6.05
6. Soul Searching 3.17
7. Goin’ Home 4.39
8. Everybody’s Darling 3.34
9. Would You Stay 5.34
10. Sunny Days (Make Me Think Of You) 3.19
11. Digging Deeper (Finale) 2.44

CD07 & CD08 PERSON TO PERSON (1976)

1. Person To Person 7.04
2. Cut The Cake 5.05
3. If I Ever Lose This Heaven 8.10
4. Cloudy 6.36
5. T.L.C. 14.19
6. I’m The One 4.42
7. Pick Up The Pieces 18.34
8. Love Your Life 5.08
9. School Boy Crush 7.38
10. I Heard It Through The Grapevine 9.56

CD09 BENNY AND US (1977)

1. Get It Up For Love 4.34
2. Fool For You Anyway 5.39
3. A Star In The Ghetto 7.01
4. The Message 5.18
5. What Is Soul 4.34
6. Someday We’ll All Be Free 5.14
7. Imagine 4.57
8. Keepin’ It To Myself 4.29

CD10 WARMER COMMUNICATIONS (1978)

1. Your Love Is A Miracle 6.07
2. Same Feeling, Different Song 5.19
3. Daddy’s All Gone 4.39
4. Big City Lights 4.56
5. She’s A Dream 5.36
6. Warmer Communications 4.12
7. The Price Of A Dream 4.03
8. Sweet And Sour 4.50
9. One Look Over My Shoulder (Is This Really Goodbye?) 3.58

CD11 FEEL NO FRET (1979)

1. When Will You Be Mine 4.26
2. Please Don’t Fall In Love 3.44
3. Walk On By 3.59
4. Feel No Fret 6.24
5. Stop The Rain 4.30
6. Atlantic Avenue 3.16
7. Ace Of Hearts 3.51
8. Too Late To Cry 4.00
9. Fire Burning 3.29

CD12 SHINE (1980)

1. Our Time Has Come 3.36
2. For You, For Love 3.53
3. Let’s Go Round Again 4.57
4. Whatcha Gonna Do For Me? 4.10
5. Into The Night 4.00
6. Catch Me (Before I Have To Testify) 5.00
7. Help Is On The Way 4.19
8. If Love Only Lasts For One Night 4.39
9. Shine 3.56

CD13 VOLUME VIII (1980)

1. Kiss Me 3.49
2. Love Won’t Get In The Way 5.08
3. Love Gives, Love Takes Away 4.05
4. Growing Pains 4.28
5. Pick Up The Pieces 3.55
6. Person To Person 3.36
7. Cut The Cake 4.05
8. A Love Of Your Own 4.01
9. Queen Of My Soul 4.34

CD14 CUPID’S IN FASHION (1982)

1. You’re My Number One 3.23
2. Easier Said Than Done 4.07
3. You Wanna Belong 4.27
4. Cupid’s In Fashion 4.22
5. Theatre Of Excess 4.26
6. I Believe 4.31
7. Is It Love That You’re Running From 4.15
8. Reach Out (I’ll Be There) 3.52
9. Isn’t It Strange 3.25
10. Love’s A Heartache 4.48

CD15 AFTERSHOCK (1988)

1. The Spirit Of Love 4.05
2. Sticky Situation 4.29
3. Aftershock 4.07
4. Love At First Sight 4.47
5. I’ll Get Over You 4.32
6. Later We’ll Be Greater 3.52
7. Let’s Go All The Way 5.53
8. We’re In Too Deep 3.54
9. Stocky Sachoo-A-Shun 1.38

CD16 SOUL TATTOO (1996)

1. Soul Mine 4.25
2. Back to Basics 3.59
3. Livin’ On Borrowed Time 4.13
4. Every Beat Of My Heart 5.46
5. When We Get Down To It 4.03
6. Oh Maceo 3.39
7. Do Ya Really 4.26
8. I Wanna Be Loved 4.33
9. No Easy Way To Say Goodbye 4.28
10. Love Is The Bottom Line 4.04
11. Welcome To The Real World 4.16
12. Window To Your Soul 5.05
13. You Shoulda’ Known 0.00

CD17 LIVING IN COLOUR (2003)

1. Check Your Groove 4.59
2. Down To The River 5.26
3. Living In Colour 4.54
4. One Of My Heartbeats 5.06
5. Close To You Tonight 5.02
6. Half Moon In The Crescent City 5.13
7. Think Small 6.15
8. I Can’t Help It 4.37
9. I’m Gonna Make You Love Me 4.52
10. Love Won’t Let Me Wait 3.43

CD18: ALTERNATE VERSIONS & RARITIES

1. Reach Out [first version – recorded 1971] 4.04
2. The Jugglers [first version – recorded 1971] 4.06
3. It Didn’t Take Me A Minute (recorded 1971 2.25
4. In The Beginning (recorded between 1971/1972) 3.46
5. Look Out Now (recorded between 1971/1972) 2.14
6. White Water Dreams (recorded between 1971/1972) 4.00
7. Walk Tall – Recorded live in 1976 (first released in 2005) 5.28
8. I’m Gonna Make You Love Me – Recorded live in 1976 (first released in 2005) 5.53
9. Wasn’t I Your Friend 6.16
10. Miss Sun – Recorded 1980 4.14

CD19: THE MIXES

1. Back In ’67 [first version – Recorded between 1971/1972] 4.05
2. The Spirit Of Love (Radio Short Version) 4.05
3. The Spirit Of Love (Dance Mix) 7.28
4. Let’s Go Round Again [The Brothers Mix] 6.45
5. Livin’ On Borrowed Time (DJ Slok Remix) 5.21
6. Things (DJ Philly P & Joey M Remix) 7.44
7. Stop The Rain (Supreme One Mix) 4.08
8. Let’s Go Round Again (Cosmic Village Mix] 7.26
9. Let’s Go Round Again (12” Version) 6.27

• UK Pre-order: All The Pieces – The Complete Studio Recordings 1973-2003

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