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Following on from OMD’s hugely successful Architecture and Morality, Dazzle Ships met with a degree of critical and commercial hostility. Two singles were released, "Genetic Engineering" and "Telegraph", with some chart success, but the majority of the album focused on cold war and eastern block themes, and was patchworked from musique sound collages and shortwave radio recordings. This 2008 remastered cd features bonus tracks and is released to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the album.

Track List:

1. Radio Prague (2008 Digital Remaster)
2. Genetic Engineering (2008 Digital Remaster)
3. ABC Auto-Industry (2008 Digital Remaster)
4. Telegraph (2008 Digital Remaster)
5. This Is Helena (2008 Digital Remaster)
6. International (2008 Digital Remaster)
7. Dazzle Ships (Parts II, III And VII) (2008 Digital Remaster)
8. The Romance Of The Telescope (2008 Digital Remaster)
9. Silent Running (2008 Digital Remaster)
10. Radio Waves (2008 Digital Remaster)
11. Time Zones (2008 Digital Remaster)
12. Of All The Things We've Made (2008 Digital Remaster)
13. Telegraph (The Manor Version 1981)
14. 4-Neu (2008 Digital Remaster)
15. Genetic Engineering (312MM Version)
16. 66 And Fading (2008 Digital Remaster)
17. Telegraph (Extended Version) (2008 Digital Remaster)
18. Swiss Radio International

The Gutter Twins (Mark Lanegan / Greg Dulli): Saturnalia

The Gutter Twins (Mark Lanegan / Greg Dulli): Saturnalia

Released on 03/03/2008

Nicknamed "the Satanic Everly Brothers," Mark Lanegan and Greg Dulli have produced a unique gothic bluesy sound on their debut album, Saturnalia. Two of alt- rock’s foremost front men, Lanegan was singer with The Screaming Trees, one of the most successful bans to emerge from the Seattle scene alongside Nirvana, Mud Honey and the like, while Dulli was the guiding force behind the revered soul-rock of The Afghan Whigs. Reborn as The Gutter Twins, Lanegan and Dulli are revered for their dark, messianic sound and embracing of such bleakly seductive themes as decadence, excess, betrayal and mortality.

Track List:

1. The Stations
2. God's Children
3. All Misery/Flowers
4. The Body
5. Idle Hands
6. Circle the Fringes
7. Who Will Lead Us?
8. Seven Stories Underground
9. I Was in Love with You
10. Bête Noire
11. Each to Each
12. Front Street

Muse: H.A.A.R.P: Live At Wembley 2007 (Special Edition CD & DVD)

Muse: H.A.A.R.P: Live At Wembley 2007 (Special Edition CD & DVD)

Released on 17/03/2008

This is a Special Edition Box Set containing a set of 3 postcards, additional exclusive backstage footage and a photo gallery.

Track List:

DVD:
1. Intro
2. Knights Of Cydonia
3. Hysteria
4. Supermassive Black Hole
5. Map Of The Problematique
6. Butterflies And Hurricanes
7. Hoodoo
8. Apocalypse
9. Feeling Good
10. Invincible
11. Starlight
12. Improv
13. Time Is Running Out
14. New Born
15. Soldiers Poem
16. Unintended
17. Blackout
18. Plug In Baby
19. Stockholm Syndrome
20. Take A Bow

CD:
1. Intro
2. Knights Of Cydonia
3. Hysteria
4. Supermassive Black Hole
5. Map Of The Problematique
6. Butterflies And Hurricanes
7. Invincible
8. Starlight
9. Time Is Running Out
10. New Born
11. Unintended
12. Microcuts
13. Stockholm Syndrome
14. Take A Bow

Joy Division: The Best of Joy Division

The Best of Joy Divison

Released on 24/03/2008

This collection details Manchester post-punk band Joy Division's short but influential career. Despite having only recorded two studio albums, 'Unknown Pleasures' and 'Closer', Joy Division have left a lasting legacy. Well-known tracks are featured such as 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' to 'She's Lost Control' as well as recordings from the famed Peel session and their iconic performance on Something Else.

Track List:

Disc 1

1. Digital
2. Disorder
3. Shadowplay
4. New Dawn Fades
5. Transmission
6. Atmosphere
7. Dead Souls
8. She's lost control
9. Love will tear us apart
10. These days
11. hours
12. Heart and Soul
13. Incubation
14. Isolation

Disc 2 - The John Peel Sessions '79

1. Exercice One (John Peel Show 31 Jan 79)
2. Insight (John Peel Show 31 Jan 79)
3. She's Lost Control (John Peel Show 31 Jan 79)
4. Transmission (John Peel Show 31 Jan 79)
5. Love Will Tear Us Apart (John Peel Show 26 Nov 79)
6. Twenty Four Hours (John Peel Show 26 Nov 79)
7. Colony (John Peel Show 26 Nov 79)
8. Sound of Music (John Peel Show 26 Nov 79)
9. Transmission (Recorded live for Something Else 4 Sept 79)
10. She's Lost Control (Recorded live for Something Else 4 Sept 79)
11. Ian Curtis And Stephen Morris Interviewed By Richard Skinner

Panic At The Disco: Pretty. Odd

Released on 24/03/2008

Panic release their second studio album while still working to escape the moniker of an emo band (they are signed to a record label owned by Pete Wentz of Fall Out Boy, a band considered by many to be emo.) This time around, the band are keen to emphasise a new, more mature sound than the digitalised spin that featured so heavily on their first outing, 2006’s A Fever You Can't Sweat Out. "It’s influenced by the music our parents listened to: the Beach Boys, the Kinks, the Beatles", says band member, Ryan Ross. "Our new songs are more like classic rock than modern rock. We got older and started listening to different music – and this seems like the natural thing to do right now."

Track List:

1. We're So Starving
2. Nine In The Afternoon
3. She's A Handsome Woman
4. Do You Know What I'm Seeing?
5. That Green Gentlemen
6. I Have Friends In Holy Spaces
7. Northern Downpour
8. When The Day Met The Night
9. Pas De Cheval
10. The Piano Knows Something I Don't Know
11. Behind The Sea
12. Folkin' Around
13. She Had The World
14. From A Mountain In The Middle Of The Cabins
15. Mad As Rabbits

Dream Theatre: Greatest Hit (... & 21 Other Pretty Cool Songs) (2CD)

Dreamtheatre: Greatest Hit (... & 21 Other Pretty Cool Songs) (2CD)

Released on 31/03/2008

In celebration of the band’s 20-year anniversary, Dream Theater returns with a best-of collection. Covering the years 1991-2005, the two-disc set contains rare single edits, B-sides and remixes. Referring to Dream Theater’s first and only major radio hit, “Pull Me Under,” the compilation’s tongue-in-cheek title is a testament not only to the band’s sense of humour but also highlights the acclaimed New York-based quintet’s ability to make music and cultivate a legion of fans on its own terms, without help from radio or MTV.

Track List:

Disc 1 - The Dark Side

1. Pull Me Under (2007 Remix)
2. Take The Time (2007 Remix)
3. Lie (Edited Version)
4. Peruvian Skies
5. Home (Edited Version)
6. Misunderstood (Edited Version)
7. The Test That Stumped Them All
8. As I Am
9. Endless Sacrifice
10. The Root Of All Evil
11. Sacrificed Sons

Disc 2 - The Light Side

1. Another Day (2007 Remix)
2. To Live Forever
3. Lifting Shadows Off A Dream
4. The Silent Man
5. Hollow Years
6. Through Her Eyes
7. (Alternate Album Mix)
8. The Spirit Carries On
9. Solitary Shell (Edited Version)
10. I Walk Beside You
11. The Answer Lies Within
12. Disappear

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