The Reissue Thread!

It's also pon the Fry!

 

I am looking forward to this.
Is it definitely the mca material.
I wonder when the tracklist will be out.

 

Listening to Debbie Gibson’s reissues… Out Of The Blue remains a classic - her scoring U.S. 5 hit singles was no fluke. It’s like a masterclass in “how to write perfect pop songs for teens in the late 80s.” It was always going to be tough for her to top that.

 

So there is;

Human Racing - 10 songs, B sides - 3 songs, remixes - at least 8
The Riddle - 10 songs, B sides - 3 songs (though bet Progress is missed!), remixes - 4 (no Wild Horses too!)
Radio Musicola - 10 songs, B sides - 1 song, remixes - 4
The Works - 10 songs, B sides - 2 songs, remixes - 4

49 songs and 20 remixes - they wont use all the remixes/edits etc but should be a comphrehensive set. I need;

- the other Dancing Girls remix (Special Hi-energy)
- Dancing Girls 7''
- the Boswell remix of Wouldnt It Be Good
- Wild Horses 12''
- Nobody Knows (Phil Harding remix)

Hopefully at least two of them?

 

Just utter pop perfection. Have a fondness for Electric Youth now though, after being proved very much wrong!

 

The Simon Boswell 12" mix of Wouldn't It Be Good is on this cd.
https://www.discogs.com/release/502860-Various-RetroActive4-Rare-Remixed

 

I agree. It’s stronger than I remembered.

 

Good mix of ballads and bops I think.

 

I need one less.. I forgot i had that CD, thanks for the reminder.

One of the most irritating Nik things I have is the US 7” edit of Wouldn’t It Be Good on this US cd. Relatively barbaric edit.

https://www.discogs.com/release/563093-Various-Just-Cant-Get-Enough-New-Wave-Hits-Of-The-80s-Vol-13

 

Nothing can ever sound as bad as the US edit of House Of The Rising Sun. In a league of its own!

 

Is it on YouTube? Not a song that lends itself well to an edit i guess!

 

The Communards reissue delayed for 2 weeks till 17th December. I can't wait to hear the new 7th Heaven club mixes of Don't Leave Me This Way.

 

The Nik Kershaw comp information :

• CD 1
  1. Wouldn’t It Be Good
  2. I Won’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me
  3. Don Quixote
  4. Radio Musicola
  5. Wide Boy
  6. Nobody Knows
  7. One Step Ahead
  8. Elisabeth’s Eyes
  9. James Cagney
  10. Bogart
  11. Cloak And Dagger
  12. Save The Whale
  13. When I Grow Up
  14. Wounded Knee
• 
  
• CD 2
  1. Dancing Girls
  2. The Riddle
  3. Human Racing
  4. When A Heart Beats
  5. Roses
  6. Cowboys & Indians
  7. Know How
  8. Monkey Business
  9. Wild Horses (Live At Hammersmith Odeon, London, UK, 1984)
  10. One Of Our Fruit Machines Is Missing (Instrumental)
  11. My Friend John
  12. Burning At Both Ends
  13. Life Goes On
  14. Take My Place
  15. City Of Angels (Live At Hammersmith Odeon, London, UK, 1984)
  16. Dark Glasses
• 
  
• CD 3
  1. I Won’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me (Extended Remix By Simon Boswell)
  2. Wouldn’t It Be Good (Remix)
  3. Dancing Girls (Special Extended Version)
  4. Drum Talk (Special Hi-energy Remix)
  5. The Riddle (Extended Riddle)
  6. Wide Boy (Special Extended Mix)
  7. Don Quixote (Extra Special Long Mix)
  8. Radio Musicola (Extended Version)
  9. One Step Ahead (Industrial Mix)
  10. Elisabeth’s Eyes (Extended Version)

 

FGTH Comp info :

• CD 1
  1. Relax (Sex Mix Edition 2)
  2. Two Tribes (Annihilation)
  3. War (Hidden)
  4. Welcome To The Pleasuredome
  5. The Power Of Love
  6. Black Night White Light
  7. Ferry Cross The Mersey
  8. The Only Star In Heaven
  9. Born To Run
  10. Get It On
  11. The World Is My Oyster (7” Version)
• 
  
• CD 2
  1. Rage Hard
  2. Warriors Gary Moore (Attack Mix)
  3. Maximum Joy
  4. Watching The Wildlife (Hotter)
  5. Kill The Pain
  6. Lunar Bay
  7. Relax
  8. Happy Hi!
  9. The Waves
  10. Rage Hard (Montreux Mix)
  11. Disneyland
  12. Warriors Of The Wasteland (Montreux Mix)
  13. Bang
• 
  
• CD 3
  1. Two Tribes (Hibakusha)
  2. Welcome To The Pleasuredome (An Alternative To Reality)
  3. Relax (The Last Seven Inches!)
  4. The Power Of Love (Extended Singlette Version)
  5. Rage Hard (Freddie Bastone Remix)
  6. Warriors Of The Wasteland (Turn Of The Knife)
  7. Watching The Wildlife (Movement 2)
  8. Relax (Sex Mix Edition 3)

 

Hard to fault either set really, the fact that the Nik one is heavy on 12s is interesting and I had forgotten most of the Radio & Works 12s arent on CD. Hope the Dancing Girls / Drum Talk ones are different to The Riddle 2CD ones. FGTH, doesnt look like anything new but doubt there was anything left!

Edit, so new to Nik on CD is;
- One Step Ahead (Industrial Mix)
- Radio Musicola (Extended Mix)
- Drum Talk (Special Hi-energy Remix)

? hoping the Dancing Girls one is the Special New Mix from the same 12 as Drum Talk.
? is Don Quixote Extra Special Long Mix new, as I have only ever seen it labelled as Extended Version (though I dislike Don Quixote immensely and longer version wont help that).

 

The Nik one isn't too bad, would have that for a fiver just for those few rarer mixes. I did make my own 4-disc set, but this is neat enough.

FGTH, I must have every sodding thing by now, so I'll pass.

 

It has a nice cover....

 

Ooh, I winced appropriately. Thanks!

 

*sigh*

PASS!

At this point, can they just release a comprehensive singles boxset with every version of each single?