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Living overseas and not really having the feeling of what were their "bigger hits" in the UK (except the obvious ones), I've always wondered if the great reception of Better the devil in their latest tours was because of their particular version released back then, or because the song is just popular amongst gay crowds
 
It does make it more plausible that the Cardiff and Bournemouth shows were cancelled if they had planned to be full on press mode during these dates all along and Cardiff was the 1st and Bournemouth 2nd June
 

Mvnl

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Living overseas and not really having the feeling of what were their "bigger hits" in the UK (except the obvious ones), I've always wondered if the great reception of Better the devil in their latest tours was because of their particular version released back then, or because the song is just popular amongst gay crowds

Yeah same. Some singles just started feeling like classics ‘because they always perform them’. Others started feeling less and less significant because they always end up in medleys or fully ignored
 
It probably won’t feel as Step One heavy if the tracklist isn’t chronological. But yeah, Better Best Forgotten was one I had doubts on (but I don’t live in the UK so I have no memories of it actually being a sizeable hit.. over here they were pretty much done after Tragedy so to me it mainly feels like ‘the 5th single from an album’)


Better Best Forgotten enjoyed a post Tragedy wave. Was fairly big in the UK stuck around for a while and is one of their bigger selling singles 350k +
 

Mvnl

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I also would not hate the Simon Hill mix of Heartbeat making the cut. And that 80s mix of Say You’ll Be Mine (I know they’re on the remix collection but I hardly ever go and listen to a collection of 6+ minute mixes for fun)
Also Love U More 2018 obviously. Throw in Baby Don’t Dance for completions sake too. (Though then we’re seriously getting in ‘they really hate Light Up The World, don’t they?’ territory)
 

Mvnl

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They do have enough hits to make a 2 disc not just ‘fan only’ so I hope that deluxe just gets a general release. (Considering You’ll Be Sorry’s in the megamix it would be kind of odd to then only sell a 1 disc in stores that hasn’t even got that song on there) They can throw even more at it for a fan version then.
 
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