Subtitled - New Wave Retro Hits From The 80’s. Canadian box-set loaded with classic alternatives from obvious choices like Tears For Fears, Simple Minds, Modern English, Yaz, Fankie Goes To Hollywood, & Soft Cell, as well as hits from lesser known acts like Anything Box, Endgames, Chalk Circle, Payolas, It’s Immaterial, & Secession. 66 tracks of 12-inch extended rare mixes on 6 CDs in a standard double jewel case. SPG Music. 2003.
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Wow, 41 awesome tracks on 3 CDs! Includes extended mixes from Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Duran Duran, Visage, Lords of the New Church, Japan, Micro Chip League, Vicious Pink and many more. I appreciate the inclusion of the LONG version of the Flying Lizards’ “Money,” as well as Feargal Sharkey’s hit song with Vince Clarke (of Depeche Mode, Yaz, Erasure, etc.) recorded under the name the Assembly. My only complaint with SPG releases is that many of the songs sound like they’ve been mastered off of vinyl; occasionally there are strange edits on the beginnings of the tracks and I can often detect the sound of a needle riding the record’s groove.
It should be noted that disc one appears to contain the same track listing as Hardest Hits #3 in the series … similarly, disc two is the same as Hardest Hits #4 … and disc three is apparently identical to Hardest Hits #5. Something to do with SPG’s licencing of certain tracks, I imagine. But now you know to skip #3 through #5 and buy Hardest Hits #1 if you can find it. Then add Hardest Hits #2 for more top-notch retro music from the likes of Re-Flex, Trio, Naked Eyes, Pigbag, and the Normal (an early pseudonym used by Daniel Miller of Mute Records fame.) …
Don’t buy each volume separately except volume 2!!! This boxed set is volumes 3-5. Track times are:
CD1
1. story of love (5:39)
2. swamp thing (5:56)
3. first picture of you (5:27)
4. you move me (5:37)
5. love is shining down on me (6:09)
6. feels like heaven (3:31)
7. goodbye yesterday (6:26)
8. heartbeat like thunder (5:45)
9. dance with me (5:50)
10. Tokyo streets (4:42)
11. baby jude (5:05)
12. cccan’t you see (8:11)
13. new york (5:07)
14. transdance (4:57)
CD2
1. never never (5:51)
2. san damiano (6:35)
3. money (5:50)
4. take me now (6:20)
5. 88 lines (5:30)
6. escalator of life (4:41)
7. you don’t need someone new (6:05)
8. Everywhere I Go (4:18)
9. brilliant mind (7:00)
10. life in Tokyo (7:05)
11. planet earth (6:20)
12. into the fire (5:44)
13. let me go (6:23)
CD3
1. first last for everything (4:39)
2. whistle down the wind (3:41)
3. melody (3:58)
4. working with fire & steel (5:00)
5. baby’s in the mountains (6:49)
6. day one (3:49)
7. pleasure boys (6:49)
8. only you (3:23)
9. doot doot (6:00)
10. love missile f1-11 (6:54)
11. simon says (6:10)
12. international (7:07)
13. jettown (3:40)
14. jet boy jet girl (7:00)