Back To The Good Old Gay 80s...

Fans of Bronski Beat and Communards are celebrating christmas early this year. Just look what is coming out on June 25th!

Bronski Beat was formed in London in 1983 by Steve Bronski, Larry Steinbachek andJimmy Somerville and signed to London Records. They had immediate success with their first single “Smalltown Boy” which reached # 3 in the UK. This was followed another Top 10 hit in “Why”, which paved the way for Top 5 album “The Age Of Consent”. Further hits came with “It Ain’t Necessarily So” and another Top 3 single with a version of Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love” (with Marc Almond on guest vocals), before Jimmy Somerville left to form The Communards in 1985 with Richard Coles.

This slip-cased 2 CD edition features as many of the non-album single sides and remixes as can be fitted on (including all of the remix album “Hundreds And Thousands”), selected by Somerville expert Heiko Bollman. Many tracks appear on CD for the first time.

The booklet contains the lyrics, photos, singles sleeves, and a note from Jimmy.

CD 1 

     

1                            Why?

2                            It Ain't Necessarily So

3                            Screaming

4                            No More War

5                            Love and Money

6                            Smalltown Boy

7                            Heatwave

8                            Junk

9                            Need-a-Man Blues

10                          I Feel Love/Johnny Remember Me

11                          Smalltown Boy [7” edit] (Bonus Track)

12                          Why [remix] (Bonus Track)

13                          I Feel Love Medley (Source Mix) (Bonus Track)

14                          It Ain’t Necessarily So [12” version] (Bonus Track)

15                          Red Dance

CD 2  

    

1                            Heatwave [Goldberg remix]

2                            Why? [Goldberg remix]

3                            Run From Love [Meita remix]

4                            Hard Rain [Goldberg remix]

5                            Smalltown Boy [Goldberg remix]

6                            Junk [Goldberg remix]

7                            I Feel Love [Fruit Mix] (Bonus Track)

8                            Hard Rain [demo] (Bonus Track)

9                            Screaming [demo] (Bonus Track)

10                          Signs (And Wonders) (Bonus Track)

11                          The Potato Fields (Bonus Track)

12                          Run From Love [radio version] (Bonus Track)

13                          Puit D’Amour (Bonus Track)

14                          Close To The Edge (Bonus Track)

15                          Cadillac Car (Bonus Track)

Having achieved immediate success with Bronski Beat and “Smalltown Boy”, Jimmy Somerville left after their first album and formed Communards in 1985 with multi-instrumentalist Richard Coles. First two singles “You Are My World” and “Disenchanted” charted, but were topped by the Europe-wide # 1 hit version of Harold Melvin and The Blue Notes’ classic “Don’t Leave Me This Way”. Featuring Sarah-Jane Morris as co-vocalist, it became the biggest-selling UK single of 1986.

This slip-cased 2 CD edition features as many of the non-album single sides and remixes as can be fitted be on, selected by Jimmy Somerville expert Heiko Bollman. Many tracks appear on CD for the first time.

The booklet contains the lyrics, photos, singles sleeves, and notes from Jimmy and Richard.

CD 1   

   

1                            Don't Leave Me This Way

2                            La Dolarosa

3                            Disenchanted

4                            Reprise

5                            So Cold The Night

6                            You Are My World

7                            Lover Man

8                            Don't Slip Away

9                            Heavens Above

10                          Forbidden Love

11                          Breadline Britain

12                          Disenchanted (Dance)

13                          Judgement Day (Bonus Track)

14                          Don't Leave Me This Way [Son Of Gotham City Mix 1986] [Part 1] 

                             (incorporates Sanctified)

15                          When The Walls Come Tumbling Down [live] (Bonus Track)

CD 2      

1                            You Are My World ['87 Single Version]

2                            Don't Leave Me This Way [Son Of Gotham City Mix] [Part 3]

3                            So Cold The Night [Remixed Club Version]

4                            Heavens Above [10” version]

5                            Johnny Verso

6                            Sentimental Journey

7                            The Message

8                            Disenchanted [instrumental]

9                            So Cold The Night [instrumental]

10                          Never No More

11                          Sanctified

12                          When The Walls Come Tumbling Down

13                          The Multimix (inc. Don’t Leave Me, So Cold The Night,

                              Disenchanted)

14                          Annie

After the huge success of the first Communards album and the Europe-wide # 1 hit “Don’t Leave Me This Way”, Jimmy Somerville and Richard Coles returned in 1987 with second album “Red” and another smash hit with their Hi-NRG version of “Never Can Say Goodbye”.

This slip-cased 2 CD edition features as many of the non-album single sides and remixes as can fitted be on (including all of the live ‘album’ “Storm Paris”, originally released on three 12” singles), selected by Somerville expert Heiko Bollman. Many tracks appear on CD for the first time.

The booklet contains the lyrics, photos, singles sleeves, and notes from Jimmy and Richard.

CD 1 

     

1                            Tomorrow

2                            T.M.T. Love T.B.M.G.

3                            Matter Of Opinion

4                            Victims

5                            For A Friend

6                            Never Can Say Goodbye

7                            Lovers And Friends

8                            Hold On Tight

9                            If I Could Tell You

10                          C Minor

11                          For A Friend [unplugged] (Bonus Track)

12                          Never Can Say Goodbye [San Paulo Mix] (Bonus Track)

13                          Romanze For Violin, Piano & Hedgehog (Bonus Track)

14                          There’s More To Love [Jalapeno Mix] (Bonus Track)

15                          Tomorrow [extended 12” version] (Bonus Track)

16                          Zing Went The Strings Of My Heart (Bonus Track)

CD 2      

1                            Never Can Say Goodbye [Shep Pettibone Extended Mix]

2                            When The Boy In Your Heart Is The Boy In You Arms

3                            I Just Want To Let You Know

4                            Scat

5                            Piece Of Saxophone

6                            Never Can Say Goodbye [San Paulo Dub Mix]

7                            For A Friend [remix]

8                            Victims

9                            Don’t Leave Me This Way

10                          Heavens Above

11                          You Are My World

12                          So Cold The Night

13                          For A Friend

14                          Never Can Say Goodbye

15                          Hold On Tight

16                          Spanish Rap (El Amor No Es Solo Un Hombre Y Una Mujer
                             (Bonus Track)

17                          Never Can Say Goodbye [Instrumental Mix] 

                             (Bonus Track)