CousteauX (formerly known as Cousteau) after a few years away are back, with a new album Stray Gods.
Cousteau were a London based band active from 1999 to 2005, releasing 3 studio albums and known for the songs The Last Good Day of The Year and Mesmer.
Core Cousteau members Liam McKahey and Davey Ray Moor returned as CousteauX in 2016 and after releasing their first album under the CousteauX name in 2017, and a series of well-received gigs, it all went quiet again and the band seemed to have disappeared. Until now.
Stray Gods will be available with songs being released via their website, one track at a time, with a choose your own price model. There is no news at this stage of a physical release (a vinyl release would be welcome!) but this is a good way to support the band and that will hopefully lead to further music.
Lunatic Soul release their new album Through Shaded Woods on KScope on 13 November 2020, on single CD, limited double CD and vinyl.
Lunatic Soul is the solo studio project of vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Mariusz Duda (Riverside). Album number seven Through Shaded Woods explores the darkness of Slavic and Scandinavian folk.
Previous Lunatic Soul albums have been very electronic affairs. Through Shaded Woods is a virtually electronic free zone, with more acoustic and electric guitars than previous releases and for the first time, Duda plays all the instruments.
Through Shaded Woods opens with the hypnotising and trancelike Navvie, an upbeat and rousing call to arms that conjures up “the souls of the dead” and along with several tracks on the album, signals a feeling of rebirth and positivity. Not a bad feeling in these strange times we are currently living through.
The second longest track on the album, The Passage, is one of the most rewarding tracks as you journey Through Shaded Woods. This is the darkest Duda gets on the album, with a piece that starts off relatively bright and sparse, working towards the razor-sharp dark metal riffs that propel the powerful middle section.
“I’m thinking out loud passing former gods turned into trees am I in the real life or am I in the realm of make-believe”
The riffs fall away quickly but the tempo remains high on one of the strongest tracks on the album.
The title track twists and turns, with light percussion underneath the trademark Lunatic Soul harmonies and a feeling of paranoia, amplified by the heavily processed lead vocal. Lycanthropy lingers in the dark forests of Duda’s lyric.
“eyes on every corner shining in the dark”
As we hit the half-way mark, the mood of Through Shaded Woods lifts. Oblivion has a wonderful drum and guitar interplay, as melodies sneak in and out of the intriguing rhythm arrangement. Where previously synths would have laid the textures, on this album the same effect is offered by vocal layers.
Summoning Dance is the longest track, and as throughout the whole album, it offers up its secrets over repeated plays. The guitars give the main rhythmic thrust, underpinned by a simple kick pulse. I dare you to keep still whilst listening to Summoning Dance. The music hints at a simpler, more pagan and earth-connected time, and works so much better if you give your full attention and immerse yourself in the performance.
“so why do I feel like I already failed”
Photo: Tomasz Pulsakowski
The Fountain features one of my favourite Mariusz Duda vocal performances. There is a real lightness of touch, and a lovely slightly rasping timbre that suits the aching melancholy of the song perfectly.
“stream of sounds wash away the darkness from my soul”
Through Shaded Woods stands alone in the Lunatic Soul catalogue. It works so well as a complete body of work, as it flows with more consistency than previous albums. It has quickly seeped into my soul and is one of my favourite albums of 2020.
Navvie [04:03] The Passage [08:57] Through Shaded Woods [05:51] Oblivion [05:03] Summoning Dance [09:52] The Fountain [06:04]
Bonus tracks contained on disc 2 of the Limited Edition CD:
Vyraj [05:32] Hylophobia [03:20] Transition II [27:45]
Karisma Records are re-issuing Airbag’s All Rights Removed and The Greatest Show on Earth on November 20 2020 on limited edition vinyl, with both albums remastered for vinyl by White Willow / The Opium Cartel’s Jacob Holm-Lupo.
Airbag’s second album All Rights Removed was originally released in 2011. The 2020 remaster is released as a heavyweight double vinyl in gatefold cover, pressed on red vinyl.
The Norwegian band’s third album The Greatest Show on Earth was first released in 2013, and this 2020 heavyweight vinyl remaster is pressed on blue vinyl.
Jacob Holm-Lupo has offered a subtle and sympathetic remaster for vinyl. No brick-walling here – there is no real volume difference, just a little more punch and the synths really sparkle in this redux. This is the best these albums have ever sounded..
All Rights Removed sees the band shift their sound up a gear. The album opener is a heady mix of classic and progressive rock, with guitarist Bjørn Riis rising to the fore on most tracks.
White Walls is full of Dave Gilmour influenced guitar runs and textures, and is one of my favourite songs in the Norwegion band’s catalogue. Dim the lights and turn up the volume.
The mid-section bass, keyboard and guitar prelude before the song kicks back into full power is a joy to experience.
“Cos nothing ever stays the same…”
The tempo remains constant with The Bridge, before the space-rock of Never Coming Home (it reminds me of Signify era Porcupine Tree) leads into the atmospheric instrumental Light Them All Up.
The album closes with one of the band’s most popular tracks (in terms of 1 million Spotify streams) with the 17 and a half minute Homesick. The song is stunning and this is the best I have heard this masterpiece sound. Heading off into Tangerine Dream and Pink Floyd territory in the mid-section, this is a journey you really want to take.
The Greatest Show on Earth adds a slight metal element to the band’s palette, on top of their more atmospheric layered sound from previous releases.
Redemption is a slow-burning modern prog piece, with spurts of heavy, gasoline fuelled choruses. Silence Grows moves the intensity down a couple of notches, with a powerful song that would not have sounded out of place on David Gilmour’s On An Island album. The instrumental sections sound amazing thanks to the superb Jacob Holm-Lupo vinyl master.
The Greatest Show on Earth is an album built to be heard in one sitting, and so works best in the vinyl format, when you can give it your full attention, and not break into individual tracks on streaming platforms.
There is a great use of vocal harmonies, atmosphere and restraint to build the mood on the albums second longest track, Call Me Back.
Surveillance (part 2-3) is the 16 minute album closer. Taking some of the mood of Porcupine Tree’s Stars Die, Surveillance (part 2-3) is a story of isolation and moves from an emotive, quite traditional arrangement to something darker and more experimental as it progresses.
“No need for you to be here The comfort of my TV screen is all that I need”
All Rights Removed & The Greatest Show on Earth are limited edition releases, so if you missed out on getting these wonderful modern progressive albums on vinyl a few years ago, now is your chance. Links to buy the albums on Burning Shed and Amazon are below.
The Bathers Marina Records trilogy received it’s first vinyl release in October 2020. Lagoon Blues, Sunpowder and Kelvingrove Baby were released on 180g vinyl and CD in remixed and remastered versions on 23 October 2020.
Scotland’s best-kept secret The Bathers will appeal to fans of The Blue Nile, Tom Waits and David Bowie. If you enjoy orchestrated, emotional, literate music that swerves from the standard rock template, The Bathers might become your new favourite band. You can thank me later.
Lagoon Blues
A 2020 remixed and remastered version of the album that was originally released on Marina Records in 1993. Lagoon Blues is an ambitious and emotional journey. Listen to the beautiful Venice Shoes, with its evocation of empty ballrooms and rainy nights on the lamp lit streets and city squares of Glasgow, below.
Lagoon Blues Pt. 1 Venice Shoes Gracefruit Never Too Late Fermina Fair Easter – for Edda Van Heemstra Pissoir / The Ornella Mutiny Through The Old Holmwood Sweetheart Sessions Lolita Via D’Oro Ave The Leopards Carnival Easter Sorbonne Lagoon Blues Pt. 2
A 2020 remixed and remastered version of the album that was originally released on Marina Records in 1995. Elizabeth Fraser of The Cocteau Twins contributes vocals to several tracks, most notably on the free-spirited The Angel On Ruskin (listen below).
Danger In Love The Angel On Ruskin Delft Faithless For Saskia Weem Rock Muse The Night Is Young Send Me Your Halo She’s Gone Forever The Dutch Venus Sunpowder
A 2020 remixed and remastered version of the final album in the Marina Records trilogy, originally released in 1997. Kelvingrove Baby features contributions from Justin Currie (Del Amitri) and James Grant (Love and Money).
The personal highlight on the albumis my favourite song from the band, the achingly beautiful If Love Could Last Forever.
“They flutter down like fireflies Tugging at your sleeves Somehow rise to shame you Bring you to your knees”
Thrive Girlfriend If Love Could Last Forever East Of East Delier Kelvingrove Baby Dial Once Upon A Time On The Rapenburg Girl From The Polders The Fragrance Remains Insane Hellespont In A Storm Twelve
UMC / Polydor have released a new Style Council collection: Long Hot Summers: The Story Of The Style Council.
The collection is available on CD and vinyl, and contains key single and album tracks from the band formed by Paul Weller & Mick Talbot after The Jam split.
This impressive collection features many of the great singles / EP and album tracks such as My Ever-Changing Moods, The Paris Match, Speak Like a Child, Have You Ever Had It Blue as well as less celebrated songs such as the stark Ghosts Of Dachau and the breezy How She Threw It All Away.
The collection includes tracks featuring drummer Steve White and vocalist Dee C. Lee, and was endorsed and co-compiled by Paul Weller.
Long Hot Summers: The Story Of The Style Council contains two previously unreleased recordings – a demo of the top 5 single My Ever Changing Moods (with strings), and an extended version of Dropping Bombs On The Whitehouse (the original version featured on the band’s first album, Café Bleu).
The release ties in with a Sky Arts documentary about the band, featuring interviews with all key members, fans and collaborators.
Headstart for Happiness Long Hot Summer My Ever-Changing Moods Walls Come Tumbling Down! Party Chambers Wanted (or Waiter, There’s…) Shout to the Top! It Just Came to Pieces in My Hands Come to Milton Keynes Why I Went Missing Waiting Ghosts Of Dachau Down in the Seine The Paris Match Boy Who Cried Wolf Life at a Top People’s Health Farm Homebreakers Dropping Bombs On The Whitehouse (Extended version)
Disc two
Speak Like a Child The Lodgers (Or She Was Only…) Money Go Round You’re the Best Thing How She Threw It All Away A Man of Great Promise The Piccadilly Trail A Solid Bond in Your Heart All Gone Away Sweet Loving Ways Promised Land Have You Ever Had It Blue It Didn’t Matter Spin’ Drifting Here’s One That Got Away A Woman’s Song Changing of the Guard My Ever-Changing Moods (Demo) Shout To The Top (Instrumental)
Vinyl Tracklisting:
Side A Headstart for Happiness Long Hot Summer My Ever-Changing Moods Walls Come Tumbling Down! Party Chambers
Side B Wanted (or Waiter, There’s…) Shout to the Top! It Just Came to Pieces in My Hands Come to Milton Keynes Why I Went Missing Waiting
Side C Ghosts Of Dachau Down in the Seine The Paris Match Life at a Top People’s Health Farm Dropping Bombs On The Whitehouse (Extended version)
Side D Speak Like a Child The Lodgers (Or She Was Only…) Money Go Round You’re the Best Thing How She Threw It All Away
Side E A Man of Great Promise The Piccadilly Trail A Solid Bond in Your Heart Sweet Loving Ways Promised Land It Didn’t Matter
Side F Have You Ever Had It Blue Spin’ Drifting Here’s One That Got Away Changing of the Guard My Ever-Changing Moods (Demo)
Parlophone have reissued eight Kraftwerk albums on limited edition 180g coloured vinyl. The audio included on these re-issued albums will be the 2009 remasters.
The 79 tracks (from a marketing view-point, maybe there should have been 78 tracks!) cover the well-known punk and new wave hits from the year, along with lesser-known regional acts from Manchester, Scotland and Northern Ireland. The collection also includes an entertaining 48-page booklet that includes details on every track included in the compilation.
The first CD features some of the era’s big-hitters. Opening with Sham 69’s Borstal Breakout from January 1978, followed by one of the hardest-hitting singles by The Stranglers, 5 Minutes. The percussive Emergency by 999 is another highlight, as is the early Gary Numan release – Oh! Didn’t I Say by Tubeway Army.
Automatic Lover by The Vibrators fits in with the short-lived power pop movement of bands such as Tonight (Drummer Man) from the Spring of 1978. She’s So Modern by The Boomtown Rats reminds you what a powerful force the band were from 1978 to around 1981, with an amazing run of pop / new wave hit singles.
A pre-fame Japan offer Don’t Rain On My Parade and are a world away from the sound they settled on from Quiet Life in late 1979, that showcased their move from new wave guitars to something more sophisticated on the cusp of the 80s synth-pop explosion.
Concrete Jungle by The Coventry Automatics is an early track from the band that would soon become The Specials, with their mix of new wave and ska already starting to develop into the style they would use so successfully from 1979 onwards. The Only Ones Another Girl, Another Planet was unbelievably never a hit but is a classic single from this year, and sits well in this collection.
Magazine contribute the early single Touch And Go. Irish band Pretty Boy Floyd And The Gems Spread The Word Around is a song I missed at the time, but is worthy of inclusion here. The Steve Lillywhite produced When The Tanks Roll Over Poland Again by The Automatics has a great guitar sound and Jilted John’s only hit single (produced by Martin Hannett!) is one of the biggest selling tracks on this album.
The second CD opens with the track that gave the compilation it’s name, X-Ray Spex with The Day The World Turned Day-Glo, a song that has aged well. What a guitar sound! Up Against The Wall by the Tom Robinson Band is driven by a powerful guitar riff from the late, great Danny Kustow.
Tyne and Wear band The Carpettes (who I saw at least once in my local venue, Woolwich Tramshed) supply 2ne1, whilst the Midge Ure fronted Rich Kids offer the title track from their only studio album, Ghosts Of Princes In Towers, an album I still love.
Another couple of favourites sit on CD 2 – the John Foxx fronted Ultravox with Slow Motion and the Status Quo pastiche / Mike Oldfield mentioning Heads Down No Nonsense Mindless Boogie by Alberto Y Lost Trios Paranoias. I’ve still got a double 7″ vinyl of this single somewhere. I must dig it out.
The third and final disc opens with my favourite Public Image Ltd song, their debut single Public Image. Stiff Little Fingers 2nd single Alternative Ulster and Life’s A Gamble by Penetration are also highlights. Penetration’s Pauline Murray releases a new solo album in the Autumn.
Johnny Thunders full-length album version of You Can’t Put Your Arms Around A Memory is included here, although I prefer the short, stripped back Pete Wylie (Wah!) version, as part of the Hope (I Wish You’d Believe Me) single in 1983. The Saints Are Coming by the Skids features some of Stuart Adamson’s earliest incendiary guitar lines. Again, the compilers choose a deeper cut from one of the era’s biggest bands with In The Crowd from The Jam’s All Mod Cons album.
The punk-pop of Destination Venus by The Rezillos is a forgotten tune from this era. Flashing In The Subway by pub-rockers Tyla Gang comes from the more blues / Dr Feelgood side of new wave rock. RIP Sean Tyla. 10:15 Saturday Night by The Cure is a less obvious choice for this compilation, and so stands out amongst some of the more standard new wave blueprint tracks.
If you are a fan of punk and new wave and want to delve deeper than the hit singles, this Cherry Red compilation offers good value for money and is an entertaining collection from a vintage year for music.
Borstal Breakout – Sham 69 5 Minutes – The Stranglers Emergency – 999 Don’t Tango On My Heart – The Doll Oh! Didn’t I Say – Tubeway Army Automatic Lover – The Vibrators I’m A Boy – Cyanide Bad In Bed – The Electric Chairs Lost Lenore – Attrix Stuck With You – Zones Party Clothes – Subs You’re A Disease – The Outcasts She’s So Modern – The Boomtown Rats I’m Civilised – Menace Moonmidsummer – The Freshies The Kids Are Alright – The Pleasers Don’t Rain On My Parade – Japan Concrete Jungle – The Coventry Automatics Another Girl, Another Planet – The Only Ones Touch And Go – Magazine Spread The Word Around – Pretty Boy Floyd And The Gems When The Tanks Roll Over Poland Again – The Automatics Stella’s Got A Fella – Social Security Chloroform – The Bleach Boys Jilted John – Jilted John Rat Up A Drainpipe – The Members Glandular Angela – The Exits Why Don’t You Do Me Right? – Alternative Tv
Disc Two
The Day The World Turned Day-Glo – X-Ray Spex Up Against The Wall – Tom Robinson Band Central Detention Centre – Gyro Ain’t Got A Clue – The Lurkers The Backstreet Boys – Patrik Fitzgerald Nobody Loves You When You’re Old And Gay – Dead Fingers Talk I Can’t Resist – The Reaction I Can’t Wait – The Jolt Kinnel Tommy – Ed Banger Loving A Killer – The Stoat A.C.A.B. – The Rowdies Start All Over Again – No Sweat I Believe – The V.I.P.S 2ne1 – The Carpettes Ghosts Of Princes In Towers – Rich Kids Kung Fu International – John Cooper Clarke Ringing In The Streets – The Ripchords Slow Motion – Ultravox Love Is Blind – Nightshift Rock’n’roll Ain’t Dead – The Questions Cortina Cowboys – Blue Steam Birmingham Reggie – The Others Live In A Car – UK Subs It’s Alright – The Turn Teenage Vice – The Teardrops Heads Down No Nonsense Mindless Boogie – Alberto Y Lost Trios Paranoias
Disc Three
Public Image – Public Image Ltd Alternative Ulster – Stiff Little Fingers Light At Your Window – The Detonators Fibre – Spizzoil Life’s A Gamble – Penetration 28/8/78 – Scritti Politti Europeans – Europeans Take The Cash (K.A.S.H.) – Wreckless Eric You Can’t Put Your Arms Around A Memory – Johnny Thunders The Saints Are Coming – Skids It’s The New Thing – The Fall Alphaville – The Monochrome Set In The Crowd – The Jam Starry Eyes – The Records Weekend Girl – The Bozos Destination Venus – The Rezillos Flashing In The Subway – Tyla Gang 10:15 Saturday Night – The Cure Larger Than Life – The Parrots Wrong Street – Nicky & The Dots New Town – The Vitamins Love Song – Passage What She Wants, She Needs – Eater Never Met Suzi – Time Machine White Christmas – Slush
The boxset edition (which like the previous TFF box-sets, is likely to sell-out at some point down the line) includes a Steven Wilson 5.1 surround sound mix on the bluray, whilst the other 4 CDs in the boxset contain a remaster of the album, a CD of b-sides, remixes and edits plus two CD’s of unreleased audio (including alt mixes and demos).
The booklet for the box-set includes interviews and notes by Paul Sinclair who runs the excellent Super Deluxe Edition website.
Tim Bowness releases his latest solo album, Late Night Laments, on Inside Out Music on August 28th 2020.
The album is available in a double-CD package version as well as on vinyl (including a limited edition blue vinyl from Burning Shed). Late Night Laments was co-produced by Bowness and Brian Hulse, mixed by Steven Wilson, with mastering by Calum Malcolm (The Blue Nile, Prefab Sprout). The album’s beautiful artwork is by Jarrod Gosling (I Monster/Regal Worm).
Late Night Laments is consistent in the mood and pace of the music, but is widely unpredictable lyrically – touching on generational divides, ideologically motivated violence, social exclusion, and a much-loved children’s author’s mental breakdown.
Opening with the most musically uplifting track, Northern Rain sets the scene for the rest of the album. Icy cold 80s synths and minimal percussion are the order of the day throughout. Northern Rain is a mix of The Blue Nile, topped up with the pop melancholy of Deacon Blue’s masterful Raintown (in part due to the backing vocals from Melanie Woods).
“the world we knew is dying, and maybe that’s okay”
The temperature drops further for I’m Better Now, with dark lyrics and heavily processed Björk Vespertine era beats. A performance highlight on this track is the guitar work from Kavus Torabi, that sits atop the washes of chilling synths.
“two seconds of hate, a lifetime of grieving – I couldn’t wait to stick the knife in”
Darkline has a feel of no-man’s returning jesus, with the discordant angular arpeggios, and featuring some fine synth work from Richard Barbieri, who Tim worked with on the Flame album.
“I turn to rust as the planet burns”
We Caught The Light features Bowness on “several echoed ukuleles”, that underpin the song and add its initial rhythm. The double bass from Colin Edwin and drums from Evan Carson add a mid-70s feel, and the vocal arrangement is constantly evolving, especially on the end section, where Bowness is joined again by Kavus Torabi and Melanie Wood (Knifeworld).
The Hitman Who Missed contains one of the strongest arrangements on the album, from sparse bass and piano instrumentation to a more expansive middle section, that drops and re-builds at several points. Another song that harks back to earlier times, with some lovely vibraphone from Tom Atherton, who proves that there is room for the instrument beyond Left Bank Two (Take Hart).
Photo by Mark Wood
Credit must go to Tim’s main musical foil on this album. Brian Hulse adds keyboards, occasional guitar and some fascinating drum programming throughout Late Night Laments.
One of the most emotional tracks is one of the sparsest, with Never A Place. Bowness often writes songs that are built on repeating, decaying and evolving riffs, and this is a perfect example. The melodies grow from inbetween the slabs of heavily processed sequenced keyboards and noise, and deliver something unique and unexpected. A definite album highlight for me, and a track I find myself returning to often. And the vibraphone is back for this song too, another plus point for me.
The Last Getaway arrangement reminds me somewhat of a gentler exploration (than no-man’s soft shoulders from flowermouth) of Suzanne Vega’s experimentation on her 99.9F° album. This is the heartbreaking song that Tim describes as being about a much-loved children’s author.
“I hated how I’d feel, so I struck the only deal.”
Hidden Life would not have sounded out of place on the first Bowness / Chilvers album. A cheap drum machine and just Bowness / Hulse, no guest contributors here.
A combination of the musical nods to The Associates (Breakfast) and the instrumentation / arrangement gives a real late night 80s feel as the album heads to its conclusion.
One Last Call is a perfect end to the album, and my favourite lyric and vocal performance on the album. The song is heart-wrenching, and is up there with Post-its, truenorth, Dancing For You and Nowhere Good To Go in the sad songs say so much category.
The mood reminds me a little of the delicate If Leaving Me Is Easy from Face Value. In fact, Phil Collins would have killed for this song back in the early 80s. The good news is, Tim does not have a paint pot on his piano, so all appears good in the house of Bowness.
“I thought that I was empty and empty I’d remain”
One Last Call evokes the weightless feel of the early hours, and before you know it, the album abruptly ends, leaving you wanting more, so back to the beginning you go.
Photo by Mark Wood
Whilst this is musically a million miles away from Lost In The Ghost Light, Late Night Laments shares a musical cohesion that makes for a very rewarding and emotional listening experience, and the album holds a unique and satisfying position in the Bowness solo catalogue.
Tom Atherton – vibraphone 1, 4, 5, 6, 9 Richard Barbieri – synths and synth solos 3, 7 Evan Carson – drums and percussion 1, 4 Colin Edwin – double bass 4, 5, 9 Alistair ‘The Curator’ Murphy – dianatron 5 Kavus Torabi – glissando guitar and guitar solo 2 / backing vocals 4 Melanie Woods – backing vocals 1, 2, 4
The bonus disc on the CD edition features five unreleased pieces, four from the Late Night Laments sessions and one – featuring Peter Hammill and Adam Holzman – a Flowers At The Scene outtake.
Cheerleaders For The Damned (extras)
The Other Side (4.11) Beauty In Decay (3.43) Beyond The Firing Line (4.19) Cheerleader For The Damned (2.52) War Games By The Sea (3.00)
The Prince Estate is continuing to release his studio albums in expanded form, complete with material from his legendary Vault. Considered by many to be his masterpiece, Sign O’ The Times is being issued on vinyl and CD, remastered and overflowing with extras.
The super deluxe edition (8 CD and 1 DVD) includes all the audio material that Prince officially released in 1987, as well as 45 previously unreleased studio songs recorded between May 1979 and July 1987, and a complete live audio performance from the June 20 1987 show on the Sign O’ The Times Tour at Stadium Galgenwaard in Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Also included is a brand-new DVD containing the complete, previously unreleased New Year’s Eve benefit concert at Paisley Park on December 31 1987, which was Prince’s final performance of the Sign O’ The Times Tour stage show and his only on-stage collaboration with jazz legend Miles Davis.
Weighing in at a hefty price, this is a real collectors edition – and includes a 120-page hardcover book with previously unseen images and hand-written lyrics.
The super deluxe edition (like the 1999 super-deluxe) is likely to sell-out, and become a collectors item. If you are fan of Prince, the super deluxe is a treasure trove of unreleased music, plus one of the greatest albums of all time in remastered form. Dig deep, it will be worth it!
Sign O’ The Times Play In The Sunshine Housequake The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker It Starfish And Coffee Slow Love Hot Thing Forever In My Life
Remastered Album (CD 2)
U Got The Look If I Was Your Girlfriend Strange Relationship I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man The Cross It’s Gonna Be A Beautiful Night Adore
Single Mixes & Edits (CD 3)
Sign O’ The Times (7” single edit) La, La, La, He, He, Hee (7” single edit) La, La, La, He, He, Hee (Highly Explosive) (7” single edit) If I Was Your Girlfriend (7” single edit) Shockadelica (“If I Was Your Girlfriend” B-side) Shockadelica (12” long version) U Got the Look (Long Look) (12” edit) Housequake (7” edit) Housequake (7 Minutes MoQuake) I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man (Fade 7” edit) Hot Thing (7” single edit) Hot Thing (Extended Remix) Hot Thing (Dub Version)
Vault, Part 1 (CD 4)
All tracks previously unreleased
I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man (1979 version) Teacher, Teacher (1985 version) All My Dreams Can I Play With U? (featuring Miles Davis) Wonderful Day (original version) Strange Relationship (original version) Visions The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker (with horns) Witness 4 The Prosecution (version 1) Power Fantastic (live in studio) And That Says What? Love And Sex A Place In Heaven (Prince vocal) Colors Crystal Ball (7” mix) Big Tall Wall (version 1) Nevaeh Ni Ecalp A In A Large Room With No Light
Vault, Part 2 (CD 5)
All tracks previously unreleased
Train It Ain’t Over ‘Til The Fat Lady Sings Eggplant (Prince vocal) Everybody Want What They Don’t Got Blanche Soul Psychodelicide The Ball Adonis And Bathsheba Forever In My Life (early vocal studio run-through) Crucial (alternate lyrics) The Cocoa Boys When The Dawn Of The Morning Comes Witness 4 The Prosecution (version 2) It Be’s Like That Sometimes
Vault, Part 3 (CD 6)
All tracks previously unreleased
Emotional Pump Rebirth Of The Flesh (with original outro) Cosmic Day Walkin’ In Glory Wally I Need A Man Promise To Be True Jealous Girl (version 2) There’s Something I Like About Being Your Fool Big Tall Wall (version 2) A Place In Heaven (Lisa vocal) Wonderful Day (12” mix) Strange Relationship (1987 Shep Pettibone Club Mix)
Live In Utrecht (CD 7 & CD 8)
All tracks previously unreleased
Intro/Sign O’ The Times Play In The Sunshine Little Red Corvette Housequake Girls & Boys Slow Love Take The “A” Train/Pacemaker/I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man Hot Thing Four (With Sheila E. Drum Solo) If I Was Your Girlfriend Let’s Go Crazy When Doves Cry Purple Rain 1999 Forever In My Life Kiss The Cross It’s Gonna Be A Beautiful Night
Live At Paisley Park – December 31, 1987 (DVD)
All tracks previously unreleased
Sign O’ The Times Play In The Sunshine Little Red Corvette Erotic City Housequake Slow Love Do Me, Baby Adore I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man What’s Your Name Jam Let’s Pretend We’re Married Delirious Jack U Off Drum Solo Twelve Hot Thing If I Was Your Girlfriend Let’s Go Crazy When Doves Cry Purple Rain 1999 U Got The Look It’s Gonna Be A Beautiful Night Medley (featuring Miles Davis)
Please note – video content is exclusive to the physical DVD and will not appear on digital download or streaming versions of the Super Deluxe Edition set.
Deluxe Edition 3 CD Set Remastered Album + Single Mixes & Edits
Remastered Album (Disc 1)
Sign O’ The Times Play In The Sunshine Housequake The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker It Starfish And Coffee Slow Love Hot Thing Forever In My Life
Remastered Album (Disc 2)
U Got The Look If I Was Your Girlfriend Strange Relationship I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man The Cross It’s Gonna Be A Beautiful Night Adore
Single Mixes & Edits (Disc 3)
Sign O’ The Times (7” single edit) La, La, La, He, He, Hee (7” single edit) La, La, La, He, He, Hee (Highly Explosive) (7” single edit) If I Was Your Girlfriend (7” single edit) Shockadelica (“If I Was Your Girlfriend” B-side) Shockadelica (12” long version) U Got the Look (Long Look) (12” edit) Housequake (7” edit) Housequake (7 Minutes MoQuake) I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man (Fade 7” edit) Hot Thing (7” single edit) Hot Thing (Extended Remix) Hot Thing (Dub Version)
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