This 2 CD - 25 track Deluxe Edition features Nick Kamen's debut album plus 15 related remixes and rarities as bonus tracks dating from its original release back in 1987.
This is the definitive collection available of Nick Kamen's eponymous debut album.
Nick Kamen first came to the public’s attention as a model, and is probably best remembered for his role in the
infamous Levi’s advert, where he walks into a launderette and takes off his jeans. However, it was music that was
Nick’s first love and, after using modelling to kick start his career, Nick began a hugely successful recording career,
charting in the UK, US and across Europe.
CD 1 features the original 10 track album plus four related bonus tracks
CD 2 includes many 12" versions, remixes and B sides
All the bonus material appears on CD for the first time in the UK.
This collection includes various versions of the four singles taken from the 'Nick Kamen' album.
‘Each Time You Break My Heart’ - peaked at #5 in the UK Singles charts in 1986 and was Top 10 across the European
music charts. The single was written and produced by Madonna and Stephen Bray - the writer / producer team
behind Madonna's "Like A Prayer” album. Madonna also unmistakably provides backing vocals on the track. This
compilation features six versions of this essential Nick Kamen track - album / dance mix / extended - remixed by
Shep Pettibone / dub / extended instrumental version and the US radio mix.
Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever - the 2nd single from the album was a cover of the old Four Tops classic, co-written
by Stevie Wonder & Ivy Jo Hunter. It reached #16 in the UK charts. Three versions are included across this 2 CD
edition - album / extended dance mix and instrumental version.
‘Nobody Else’ - didn't replicate the success of the first two singles. There are five versions featured including
remixes by Arthur Baker and Jellybean - album / Arthur Baker dance mix / special Arthur Baker dance mix /
Jellybean US 12" version and Jellybean US dub.
Come Softly To Me - the final single taken from the album and featured twice on this collection - album and 12"
versions.
The album in large part was produced by Stewart Levine, the man responsible for many hit records over the years
including Simply Red, Curiosity Killed The Cat and Lionel Ritchie amongst many others.
There are contributions from remix giants - Arthur Baker, Jellybean and Shep Pettibone
All the tracks have been sourced from the original production master-tapes.
The CD booklet features the original album front cover plus extensive sleeve notes and a UK discography.
Track Listing:
DISC ONE
1. WIN YOUR LOVE
2. OPEN THE DOOR TO YOUR HEART
3. NOBODY ELSE
4. INTO THE NIGHT
5. COME SOFTLY TO ME
6. LOVING YOU IS SWEETER THAN EVER
7. EACH TIME YOU BREAK MY HEART
8. THE MAN IN ME
9. ANY DAY NOW
10. HELP ME BABY
11. BABY AFTER TONIGHT (BONUS TRACK) *
12. MISS YOU (BONUS TRACK) *
13. EACH TIME YOU BREAK MY HEART -
DANCE MIX (BONUS TRACK) *
14. NOBODY ELSE - ARTHUR BAKER DANCE
MIX (BONUS TRACK) *
DISC TWO
1. EACH TIME YOU BREAK MY HEART -
EXTENDED VERSION *
2. LOVING YOU IS SWEETER THAN EVER -
EXTENDED DANCE MIX *
3. NOBODY ELSE - SPECIAL ARTHUR BAKER
DANCE MIX *
4. WIN YOUR LOVE - THE LOVE MIX *
5. COME SOFTLY TO ME - 12" VERSION *
6. EACH TIME YOU BREAK MY HEART - DUB *
7. NOBODY ELSE - JELLYBEAN US 12" VERSION *
8. EACH TIME YOU BREAK MY HEART -
EXTENDED INSTRUMENTAL *
9. LOVING YOU IS SWEETER THAN EVER -
INSTRUMENTAL *
10. EACH TIME YOU BREAK MY HEART - US
RADIO MIX *
11. NOBODY ELSE - JELLYBEAN US DUB *
*DENOTES RELEASED ON CD IN THE UK FOR THE FIRST TIME
Andy Bell’s critically acclaimed electro-acoustic cabaret show and album ‘Torsten The Bareback Saint’ was a brave and unexpected career move in 2014 from his comfort zone of being lead singer with Erasure, one of the world’s most successful synth-pop bands. Classic Pop magazine awarded it 5 stars.
• After performances at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and before starting to write the second Torsten episode ‘Torsten The Beautiful Libertine’, songwriters Barney Ashton-Bullock and Christopher Frost, producer Michael J. Allison (Olivia Newton-John, Cliff Richard, Freddie Mercury) and Andy Bell himself collaborated in re-fashioning some of the album tracks purely for fun. These remixes include re-sung vocals, alternate and new lyrics and new instrumentation.
• There are three remixes specifically made for the radio; two danceable remixes of ‘Weston-Super-Mare’ connecting the Torsten project back to Andy's more familiar Erasure electro-pop heritage (thanks to synth-pop stalwarts Dancing With Ruby and mOOger!) and there’s a complete electro-pop re-work of fan favourite track ‘Bingo Hall Baby’ which has more than a touch of the Alan Bennett about it. The experimentation was perhaps at its most abstract on the Industrial Soundscape Mix of ‘Weston-Super-Mare’ which perhaps recalls early noise terrorists Cabaret Voltaire and Einstürzende Neubauten.
• This surprisingly innovative 9-track collection is available as a CD packaged in a miniature replica LP gatefold sleeve, featuring a unique black vinyl CD.
TRACK LISTING:
1. WESTON-SUPER-MARE (RADIO SUPER MIX)
2. WESTON-SUPER-MARE (EXTENDED VERSION)
3. WESTON-SUPER-MARE (DANCING WITH RUBY REMIX)
4. WESTON-SUPER-MARE (MOOGER! REMIX)
5. WESTON-SUPER-MARE (INDUSTRIAL SOUNDSCAPE MIX)
6. BINGO HALL BABY (ELECTROPOP REMAKE)
7. I DON’T LIKE (RADIO REMIX)
8. FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH (RADIO REMIX)
9. TORSTEN THE BAREBACK SAINT (PROMOTIONAL MEDLEY)
British Nuclear Bunkers is the new album by Luke Haines. It was recorded using entirely analogue synthesisers. Apart from an occasional vocal the only organic sound used is a recording of Camden Borough Control Bunker being attacked late at night by Luke Haines. Maximum Electronic Rock and Roll.
British Rock heroes The Zombies return with their follow-up to 2011’s Breathe Out, Breathe In, STILL GOT THAT HUNGER contains many brand new songs written by Rod Argent, plus ‘Never Get Over You’ by Colin Blunstone, and a new version of their 1965 single ‘I Want You Back Again’.
On the 1st December 2015 WIRE plays at the BOTANIQUE , Brussels.
Wire was founded in the seventies , navigating between punk , post-rock and experimental music. The current Britpop scene owes much to the legendary , atmospheric songs from this trio.
On the link below you can get tickets.
Op 01.12.15 komt WIRE naar de BOTANIQUE.
Het Londense Wire ontstond in de seventies, schipperend tussen punk, post-rock en experimentele muziek. De huidige britpopscène heeft veel te danken aan de legendarische, sferische nummers van dit trio.
Op onderstaande link kan je terecht voor tickets.