Tears For Fears - The Hurting (Reissue 006)

 

30 years later reissue of The Hurting by Tears For Fears in box set form. Nice!!! Comes with 3 CDs, 1 DVD, and a 7 Inch.

 

 

 

 

 



Here is a classic video of Mad World: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFsHSHE-iJQ

Vicious Pink - Vicious Pink (Reissue 005)

Nice reissue of the very hard to find vinyl record on CD. Cherry Pop out of the UK have given this a beautiful 16 track reissue with a number of the 12 Inch mixes included. Very good alternative dance music from the late eighties.

Vicious Pink dropped this classic album back in 1986. It was 1987 and I was at a six week program in La Pocatiere Quebec learning french and this guy on the same floor as me in the dorms named Steve dropped some of these tracks to me from a mix tape of his. CCCan't You See, Fetish and Take Me Now. Instantly hooked I tried to track down the rare 12 Inch records over the years. Now here is everything in one spot. Thanks Steve

Here is the tracklisting:

1 Cccan't You See 3:32
2 Spooky 3:17
3 The Spaceship Is Over There 4:21
4 Blue (Love Mix) 3:22
5 Fetish 3:21
6 Take Me Now 3:59
7 Always Hoping 3:56
8 8:15 To Nowhere / Great Balls Of Fire 4:57
9 Cccan't You See (Exxx-tended Re-mixxx) 6:05
10 Cccan't You See (French Extended Mix) 7:19
11 Cccan't You See (Re-mixxx) 3:20
12 Cccan't You See (7'' Version) 4:09
13 Cccan't You See (7" DJ Mix / Master Mix) 4:07
14 Fetish (Extended Mix / Feteeesh) 6:19
15 Take Me Now (Extended Version) 6:21
16 I Confess 3:57

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQKM5jtnBGo

Human League Dare (Reissue 004)

Thirty years later and Dare gets the reissue treatment. Two cd set featuring the original album, bonus tracks and the USA mini album Fascination. Nice!! Includes the massive hits Don't You Want Me, Fascination, and Mirror Man.

CD 1
1.The Things That Dreams Are Made Of (2002 - Remaster)
2.Open Your Heart (2002 - Remaster)
3.The Sound of the Crowd (2002 - Remaster)
4.Darkness (2002 - Remaster)
5.Do or Die (2002 - Remaster)
6.Get Carter (2002 - Remaster)
7.I Am the Law (2002 - Remaster)
8.Seconds (2002 - Remaster)
9.Love Action (I Believe in Love) (2002 - Remaster)
10.Don't You Want Me (2002 - Remaster)

Bonus tracks;
11.The Sound of the Crowd (Complete) (2012 - Remaster)
12.Don't You Want Me (Extended Dance Mix) (2012 - Remaster)
13.The Sound of the Crowd (Instrumental) (2012 - Remaster)
14.Open Your Heart/Non-Stop (Instrumental) (2012 - Remaster)
15.Don't You Want Me (Alternative Version) (2012 - Remaster)

CD 2
1.Hard Times/Love Action (I Believe in Love) (Instrumental) (2001 - Remaster)
2.Mirror Man (2003 - Remaster)
3.You Remind Me of Gold (2012 - Remaster)
4.(Keep Feeling) Fascination (Extended Version) (2012 - Remaster)
5.I Love You Too Much (2012 - Remaster)
6.Mirror Man (Extended Version) (2012 - Remaster)
7.You Remind Me of Gold (Instrumental) (2012 - Remaster)
8.(Keep Feeling) Fascination (Improvisation) (2012 - Remaster)
9.I Love You Too Much (Dub Version) (2012 - Remaster)
10.Total Panic (2012 - Remaster)

Video:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqqBs6kkzHE

The Smiths - The Smiths (Reissue 003)

In 1984, an English Band called the Smiths dropped their first album on the world. The record was simply self-titled The Smiths. Mainstream britpop was born.

The Smiths are about to reissue their old material in a super limited edition box set (3000 copies worldwide). It will be followed by 8 CD and 8 Vinyl box sets of their albums and compilations. If you have 300-400 dollars lying around you can pick up the super limited edition version.

The set, titled The Smiths Complete - Deluxe Collectors Box Set, features remastered versions of eight albums (on CD and vinyl), as well as reproduced versions of 25 7" singles, and all sorts of other stuff. Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr and Frank Arkwright remastered all the music from its original tape sources. The set includes all four of the band's studio albums (1984's The Smiths, 1985's Meat Is Murder, 1986's The Queen Is Dead, 1987's Strangeways, Here We Come) alongside the 1988 live LP Rank and the compilations Hatful of Hollow (1984), The World Won't Listen (1987), and Louder Than Bombs (1987). All are included on mini-LP gatefold-style CDs and 180-gram vinyl.

It also contains 25 7" singles. And as if that wasn't enough, there's also a 36" x 24" poster of the band's album and single cover art, The Complete Picture DVD of their music videos, an eight-page 12" booklet of expanded liner notes, 12" prints of the cover art for all eight albums, and a code to digitally download everything.

7 Inches include:

7” Singles (only available in the Deluxe Collectors Boxset)
1. Hand In Glove b/w Handsome Devil (Live)
2. Reel Around The Fountain b/w Jeane
3. This Charming Man b/w Jeane
4. What Difference Does It Make? b/w Back To The Old House
5. Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now / Suffer Little Children
6. William, It Was Really Nothing b/w Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want
7. How Soon Is Now b/w Well I Wonder
8. Shakespeare’s Sister b/w What She Said
9. The Headmaster Ritual b/w Oscillate Wildly
10. That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore b/w Meat Is Murder (Live)
11. The Boy With The Thorn In His Side b/w Asleep
12. Bigmouth Strikes Again b/w Money Changes Everything
13. Panicb/w Vicar In A Tutu
14. Ask b/w Cemetry Gates
15. Shoplifters Of The World Unite b/w Half A Person
16. Sheila Take A Bow b/w Is It Really So Strange?
17. Girlfriend In A Coma b/w Work Is a Four Letter Word
18. I Started Something I Couldn’t Finish b/w Pretty Girls Make Graves
19. Last Night I Dreamt Somebody Loved Me b/w Rusholme Ruffians
20. Sweet And Tender Hooligan b/w I Keep Mine Hidden
21. There Is A Light That Never Goes Out b/w Half A Person
22. Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others b/w The Draize Train
23. Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before b/w Girlfriend In A Coma
24. Hand In Glove b/w I Don’t Owe You Anything
25. William, It Was Really Nothing b/w How Soon Is Now

Hand In Glove taken from the album The Smiths

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh2bonnjv70

Jesus And Mary Chain Psychocandy (Reissue 002)

I have to admit that I just missed Psychocandy back in November 1985. I was still probably on my dose of early eighties pop/new wave pop ala Howard Jones, Platinum Blonde, Abc, and Simple Minds. A couple months later I ended up picking up the Some Candy Talking EP on vinyl for 4.99 Canadian at the local A and A Records and was hooked. Soon after I had Psychocandy on Tape. Life definately changed.

Here we are approx 25 years later and Psychocandy gets the 2 CD/DVD reissue treatment. Over the next few months all 6 Jesus and The Mary Chain albums will get the reissue treatment with the original album, b-sides, outtakes, demos, etc included. The soaring grungy buzzy guitars still sound as fresh as they were in 1986.

People have been led to believe some other band in 1991 started the alternative revolution. Sorry to break the news. It happened in the eighties and this may have been the first band to do it.

Here is what is on the reissue:

CD 1
1 Just Like Honey
2 The Living End
3 Taste The Floor
4 The Hardest Walk
5 Cut Dead
6 In A Hole
7 Taste Of Cindy
8 Never Understand
9 Inside Me
10 Sowing Seeds
11 My Little Underground
12 You Trip Me Up
13 Something's Wrong
14 It's So Hard
15 Suck
16 Ambition
17 Just Out Of Reach
18 Boyfriend's Dead
19 Head
20 Cracked

CD 2
1 Upside Down
2 Vegetable Man
3 In A Hole
4 You Trip Me Up
5 Never Understand
6 Taste The Floor
7 The Living End
8 Inside Me
9 Just Like Honey
10 Some Candy Talking
11 Psychocandy
12 You Trip Me Up
13 Cut Dead
14 Up Too High
15 Upside Down
16 Never Understand
17 Taste The Floor
18 In A Hole
19 Something's Wrong
20 Just Like Honey
21 The Living End
22 My Little Underground
23 Never Understand (Alternate version)
24 Jesus Fuck

DVD 3
1 Never Understand
2 You Trip Me Up
3 Just Like Honey
4 In A Hole - Old Grey Whistle Test
5 Riot at North London Polytechnic - Interview and Live Clips
6 Interview - VRT, Belgium
7 Never Understand – VRT, Belgium
8 Just Like Honey - The Tube
9 Inside Me - The Tube


Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EgB__YratE

Shriekback Oil and Gold (Reissue 001)

Another new column for the blog on album reissues. 26 years later english band Shriekback reissue their classic 1985 album Oil and Gold which featured the classic singles Fish Below Ice, and Nemesis.

The reissue is a double CD set featuring the original album on disc one and extended mixes/b-sides/live cuts taken from the singles (12 Inch/7 Inch) on the second disc. I'm excited to hear the Arch Deviant Mix of Nemesis which I didn't even know existed. I find out now that there was actually two 12 Inches for Nemesis released in 1985 in the UK. I've never physically seen the second.

CD 1: Original Album
1. “Malaria”
2. “Everything That Rises Must Converge”
3. “Fish Below The Ice”
4. “This Big Hush”
5. “Faded Flowers”
6. “Nemesis”
7. “Only Thing That Shines”
8. “Health And Knowledge And Wealth And Power”
9. “Hammerheads”
10. “Coelocanth”

CD 2: Bonus Disc
1. “Suck” - Live Hatfield Poly (Shrk3)
2. “Mothloop” – Live Hatfield Poly (Shrk3)
3. “Feelers” - Live Hatfield Poly (Shrk3)
4. “Nemesis” - Extended
5. “Nemesis” - Arch Deviant Mix
6. “Fish Below the Ice” – Single Edit
7. “All Lined Up” - B-Side “Fish Below the Ice”
8. “My Spine (Is The Bassline)” - B-Side “Fish Below the Ice”
9. “Fish Below the Ice” - The Plankton Enriched Mix
10. “Fish Below the Ice” – Dance Mix

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bMM61Y5CEU&ob=av2e

Primal Scream - Come Together - Screamdelica 20 Years Later

20 Years later and the brilliance still shines through. Part Ambient Dub, part indie manchester funk. Screamadelica gets the 20 year re-issue treatment

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUjW82je_38