viernes, julio 25, 2025

New Music: Get Together

           

Belinda Carlisle has shared the official video of the cover of The Youngbloods’ classic hit Get Together.  The track appears on the forthcoming compilation LP ‘Nobody Owns Me’, I recorded Get Together back in the summer with the supremely talented and absolutely lovely Gabe Lopez and, as always, he knocked it out of the park with the production,” said Belinda. 

New Music: Dolce Vita

           

Sophie Ellis-Bextor shares joyful new single "Dolce Vita" way ahead of the release of her much-anticipated 8th., studio album Perimenopop, due on September 12th. About the single, is a sophisticated slice of sunshine written alongside Karma Kid, Baz Kaye and Clementine Douglas a combination of  breezy synths and luscious strings, it builds elatedly into a vibrant pop chorus about being somewhere new and the escapism that brings. Sophie says about the track: "'Dolce Vita' is inspired by the way you feel about yourself when you’re somewhere unfamiliar. You can reinvent yourself and no one knows your story. When I was writing it, I had this little subplot in my head of someone with a criminal past longing to flee and start again somewhere new! But it works too that it’s just the nostalgic pull of a foreign trip where you really got to escape for a little while.”

jueves, julio 24, 2025

New Music: In The Middle

           

White Lies have shared the video to their latest single, "In The Middle". Directed by Andreas Nilsson and shot in Bangkok, the band said of the video: “It brings us great pleasure to present our new – completely wild – video for ‘In The Middle’. This video is a return to collaboration with the incomparable Andreas Nilsson who made videos on the first album campaign – for ‘Death’, ‘Farewell To The Fairground’ and ‘To Lose My Life’. Andreas has gone on to become one of the world’s most creative and in demand directors so it’s a real pleasure for us that he’s made this happen. Shot in Bangkok in 24hrs only a few weeks ago, it’s as stylish and as unsettling a music video as you are likely to see. It’s pure cinema, we love it.” About the single, it's stylish and catchy at once.

New Music: Is It Worth It (Happy Birthday)?

           

Cate Le Bon has shared her new single "Is It Worth It (Happy Birthday)?" from her new album, Michelangelo Dying, out September 26. The new single serves as the album's centrepiece, with Le Bon powerfully evoking the simultaneous universality and mysteries of love. Lebon sings: "I thought about your mother / I hope she knew I loved her,". It’s at once striking, contemplative and vivid, weaving its way into your heart and letting you draw your own conclusions. The accompanying video was directed by H. Hawkline

In Memoriam: The Prolific Composer And Musician "Chuck Mangione" Has Died Aged 84

Chuck Mangione, the prolific composer and musician who released 30 albums in his career, died on July 22, according a confirmed statement from his family. He was 84.
 
"The family of Chuck Mangione is deeply saddened to share that Chuck peacefully passed away in his sleep at his home in Rochester, New York, on July 22, 2025," the statement, shared today July 24 with the Rochester (N.Y.) Democrat and Chronicle.
 
Magione was a celebrated composer and virtuoso flugelhorn and trumpet player, Mangione began taking music lessons at age 8 and played in a jazz combo with his pianist brother, Gap, during his high school years. He and Gap were both heavily inspired by Dizzy Gillespie, a family friend and jazz great, whom their father adored. Gillespie would join the Mangiones for dinner whenever he was in town and became one of Mangione’s biggest influences.
 
Gillespie was so impressed by teenage Mangione's musical prowess that he gave him one of his trademark upswept trumpets. Mangione went on to study at the Eastman School of Music, graduating in 1963 with a bachelor's degree in music education, later returning to teach and direct the school's jazz ensemble.
 
He then parlayed a musical upbringing into a successful solo career, selling millions of records and receiving numerous awards, including two Grammys: in 1977 for best instrumental composition "Bellavia" and in 1979 for best pop instrumental performance "The Children of Sanchez". The latter, a soundtrack for the movie of the same name, also won a Golden Globe.His 1977 single "Feels So Good," off an album of the same name, reached No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The album peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard albums chart in 1978, bested only by the "Saturday Night Fever" soundtrack.
 
"Feels So Good" also became an ongoing bit on TV's animated "King of the Hill," where it was frequently referenced, with Mangione himself nabbing a recurring voice-acting role. Mangione also composed "Give It All You Got," the theme song for the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, and performed it during the closing ceremonies to an audience of several hundred million viewers.
 
"Chuck's love affair with music has been characterized by his boundless energy, unabashed enthusiasm, and pure joy that radiated from the stage," his family’s statement reads: "His appreciation for his loyal worldwide fans was genuine as evidenced by how often he would sit at the edge of the stage after a concert for however long it took to sign autographs for the fans who stayed to meet him and the band."
 
Even before his death, Mangione's wide-ranging music career was memorialized in the American songbook. In 2009, he donated a selection of his music memorabilia to the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. 

miércoles, julio 23, 2025

New Music: The Last Time I Saw The Old Man

           

Is the second track taken from our forthcoming album ‘Rainy Sunday Afternoon’ is the poignant and beautiful "The Last Time I Saw the Old Man".  "It's hard to talk about this song too much,"  Neil Hannon says. “My kind and intelligent father had Alzheimer’s for the last decade of his life. A cruel and all too usual punishment these days. The lyrics are a simple and unadorned observation of his final year. No profound statements. No poetry. The music does all the emotional heavy lifting. I suppose sometimes you just have to meet painful events head on. In order to accept them and move on." Rainy Sunday Afternoon is due on the 19th September.

New Music: Under The Water

           

Nation of Language is sharing the pulsating and gorgeous single "Under the Water," a new offering from Dance Called Memory, their forthcoming Sub Pop debut. About the single., Ian Devaney said: This was the last one to make the cut before we turned the record in. "We'd always had a lot of enthusiasm for the track, but the studio schedule had gotten a bit unwieldy over the holidays and an arbitrary deadline had been set…As such we'd turned in the final album mixes for mastering before getting on the plane and I'd resigned myself to saving Under the Water for some subsequent release down the line." But while trying to sequence the album clarity set in that despite our love for rigid adherence to the production calendar, we wanted it on there. So before soundchecks on the other side of the planet we hooked up all the synths we'd brought with us in the greenroom, remotely concocting the version you hear now.

martes, julio 22, 2025

In Memoriam: The Heavy Metal Star-Icon And Prince Of Darkness "Ozzy Osbourne" Dies At 76

Ozzy Osbourne, the gloomy lead singer and heavy metal pioneer of the band Black Sabbath, dies just weeks after farewell show. The heavy metal star reunited with his Black Sabbath bandmates on stage at Villa Park earlier in July. Died Tuesday, just weeks after his farewell show. He was 76.

A family statement said: "It is with more sadness than mere words can convey that we have to report that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne has passed away this morning. He was with his family and surrounded by love. We ask everyone to respect our family privacy at this time," a family statement said. In 2020, he revealed he had Parkinson's disease after suffering a fall.

Either clad in black or bare-chested, the singer was often the target of parents' groups for his imagery and once caused an uproar for biting the head off a bat. Later, he would reveal himself to be a doddering and sweet father on the reality TV show “The Osbournes.”

As he performed from a throne on stage at Villa Park less than three weeks ago, Osbourne told 42,000 fans: "You've no idea how I feel - thank you from the bottom of my heart." It was a gig put together with performances from some of his favourite acts, including Metallica and Guns N' Roses, for the star's "final bow". 

Osbourne and his fellow original Black Sabbath members - Tony Iommi, Terence "Geezer" Butler and Bill Ward - reunited for the first time in 20 years and were the last to appear on stage for the Back To The Beginning concert on 5 July. 

Born John Michael Osbourne on 3 December 1948 in Aston, Birmingham, he became known as the godfather of heavy metal. The self-styled Prince of Darkness pioneered the music genre with Black Sabbath before going on to have huge success in his own right. He was famous for hits including Iron Man, Paranoid, War Pigs, Crazy Train and Changes, both with the band and as a solo star.

Black Sabbath's eponymous debut album in 1970 made the UK top 10 and paved the way for a string of tracks. They went on to become one of the most influential and successful metal bands of all time, selling more than 75 million albums worldwide.The singer also found a different kind of fame thanks to noughties MTV reality show The Osbournes, which followed the Birmingham-raised star's somewhat chaotic life in Los Angeles with wife Sharon and two of their children, Kelly and Jack.

And he was also known for the famous anecdotes of hellraising during his rock star heyday - most infamously, the tale of how he bit the head off a bat while on stage. Black Sabbath fired Osbourne in 1979 for his legendary excesses, like showing up late for rehearsals and missing gigs. "We knew we didn't really have a choice but to sack him because he was just so out of control. But we were all very down about the situation," wrote bassist Terry "Geezer" Butler in his memoir Into The Void.

Osbourne re-emerged the next year as a solo artist with his album Blizzard of Ozz. In 1981, he released his second album Diary Of A Madman - both were hard rock classics that went multiplatinu

He had Parkinson's disease and had suffered other health problems in recent years, including complications from injuries sustained in a fall in 2019.

After being forced to cancel tour shows, he made a one-off surprise appearance on stage in Birmingham to close the Commonwealth Games in 2022. The Villa Park gig was announced earlier this year by Sharon, who said he was determined to give fans the "perfect farewell". During his career, Osbourne was inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame and the US Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame - twice for both, with Black Sabbath and as a solo artist. He also has a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame - as well as in Birmingham's Broad Street - an Ivor Novello, and five Grammy wins from 12 nominations. Plus, he received other honours such as the NME's Godlike Genius award, and Classic Rock's Living Legend prize, over the years.

Osbourne leaves behind his wife, Sharon, and their children, Aimee, Kelly and Jack, as well his two older children, Jessica and Louis, from his first marriage to Thelma Riley, and grandchildren

lunes, julio 21, 2025

New Music: Tina

           

Pulp shares their new single and video for "Tina" taken from their acclaimed album "More",   The video created in collaboration with Austrian artist and graphic designer Julia Schimautz, from the Berlin-based studio DTAN Studio, & featuring lyric-animation by Gaussian Studio. The clip blends digital creation with the authentic, physical imperfections associated with traditional printmaking to capture the song's portrayal of uncomfortable human emotions using string-led, swooning melodies. As Jarvis explains, "Tina" was one of the last songs written for "More". It's about obsession & fantasy. You should feel like you need a shower after listening to it.

viernes, julio 18, 2025

New Music: We Are Love

           

The Charlatans' new album, We Are Love, is set to arrive just in time for Halloween. Following a busy live schedule that included a 2023 North American co-headline tour with Ride and a 2024 series of anniversary shows celebrating their second album, Between 10th and 11th, the band is back with renewed energy. Eight years have passed since the release of their last album, "Different Days", in 2017. Their lead single and title track from the forthcoming 14th album, “We Are Love,” showcases this vibrant revival. From the opening moments, We Are Love is an invigorating collision of post-punk drumbeats and jangly indie rock guitar lines: a love letter to existence itself, spirited and direct.  Lyrically, We Are Love reflects a contemplative yet hopeful spirit, navigating themes of uncertainty, the weight of decisions, and contrasting perspectives on life. There’s an enduring optimism in facing darkness, a communal striving for truth and reconciliation amidst chaos. It revels in the complexity of human relationships, celebrating language as a healing force, a bridge across divides, and a gesture toward the profound power of mutual acceptance and love. Frontman Tim Burgess describes the track, one of the first to materialize for the album, as akin to “an open top car ride in the credits of your favourite movie, driving along the coast to somewhere amazing,” a vivid image that perfectly captures its buoyant optimism. “I think it’s wildly exciting as a track,”


New Music: A Little More Understanding

           

Bryan Adams has released his brand-new single "A Little More Understanding", the latest cut from his forthcoming album Roll With The Punches out August 29., The new single is a funky rocker from the celebrated Canadian singer/songwriter delivering a message that strives for unity in troubled times. The video directed by himself features Bryan performing the track amongst a party bursting with free spirits and dance moves powered by the song’s irresistible groove. Bryan Adams says, "For me, the sentiment of this song couldn’t come at a better time. We need to be able to see each other with a little more kindness and compassion, and what better way than if we take a walk in each other’s shoes. Go on, I dare ya'!

Rocktrospectiva: The Appeal, Dark And Moody "Crocodiles" Turns 45

Released on 18 July 1980 "Crocodiles" was the debut album by the English post-punk band Echo & the Bunnymen.  The album reached number 17 on the UK Albums Chart. And spawned two singles "Pictures on My Wall" and "Rescue" had previously been released as singles. 
 
Echo & the Bunnymen formed in 1978 and originally consisted of Ian McCulloch, Will Sergeant, Les Pattinson and a drum machine. They released their debut single, "The Pictures on My Wall", in May 1979 on the independent label Zoo Records. The band then signed with WEA subsidiary label Korova and were persuaded to employ a drummer. Pete de Freitas subsequently joined the band, and in early 1980 they recorded their second single, "Rescue". The single was recorded at Eden Studios in London and produced by fellow Liverpudlian and ex-member of Big in Japan Ian Broudie.
 
The music on Crocodiles is generally dark and moody: In 1980, the British music magazine NME described McCulloch's lyrics as "scattered with themes of sorrow, horror, and despair, themes that are reinforced by stormy animal/sexual imagery." The sound of the album was "pared and sparse." And the songs as being rooted in "doubt, anguish, despair" while the "tightness and brightness of their sound transmits contradictory sensations of confidence, vigour and euphoria."
 
The cover photograph is one of a series taken by photographer Brian Griffin in the woods near Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire at night. The photos show themes of introspection, despair and confusion. The album was originally released as an LP in the United Kingdom on 18 July 1980 by Warner Bros. subsidiary label Korova. Two tracks, "Do It Clean" and "Read It in Books", were included on the cassette but were initially omitted from the LP version of the album because the managing director of Warner Bros., Rob Dickins, mistakenly thought that they contained obscenities. After Dickins realised his error, the tracks were included on the American version of the album, which was released by Sire Records on 17 December 1980. 
 
Several critics described the album as "being probably the best album this year by a British band." The band delivered attractive melodies with dark and moody (but not obscure) personal lyrics, all turned into compulsive listening by a driving beat, ringing guitars and a hauntingly emotional voice." In the end, the band's sound still considered a pure nihilistic thrill, with Will Sergeant's desperate, mantra-like guitar summoning up a primal night of blinking hallucinations." 
 
Crocodiles Track List:  
 
1. Going Up
2. Stars Are Stars
3. Pride
4. Monkeys
5. Crocodiles
6. Rescue
7. Villiers Terrace
8. Pictures On My Wall
9. All That Jazz
10. Happy Death Men

Rocktrospectiva: The Influential And Seminal "Closer" Turns 45

 
Released on 18 July 1980 "Closer" was the second and final studio album by the English rock band Joy Division, produced by Martin Hannett, it was released two months after the suicide of the band's lead singer and lyricist Ian Curtis. The album reached No. 6 on the UK Albums Chart and peaked at No. 3 in New Zealand in September 1981. 

The songs on Closer were mostly written or structured during jam sessions in the band's practice room. The songs were drawn from two distinct periods. The earlier guitar-driven compositions were written during the latter half of 1979: "Atrocity Exhibition", "Passover", "Colony", "A Means to an End" and "Twenty Four Hours". All were played live during that year, with some being recorded for various radio sessions. The album's other songs were written in early 1980, and included more prominent use of synthesisers: "Isolation", "Heart and Soul", "The Eternal" and "Decades". "Atrocity Exhibition" features a Synare drum synth put through a fuzz pedal.

The significance influence on the lyrics was the fiction of J. G. Ballard especially The Atrocity Exhibition – a collection of "condensed novels" published in 1970 – which shares its title with the opening track.

Closer was recorded between 18 and 30 March 1980 at Britannia Row Studios in Islington, London. It was produced by Martin Hannett. His production has been highly praised. However, as with their debut album, both Sumner and bassist Peter Hook were unhappy with Hannett's work. Hook later complained that the track "Atrocity Exhibition" was mixed on one of his days off, and when he heard the final product he was disappointed that the abrasiveness of his guitar part had been laden with effects and toned down. 

The album cover was designed by Martyn Atkins and Peter Saville, with a photograph of the Appiani family tomb in Genoa's Monumental Cemetery of Staglieno adorning much of the sleeve. The photograph was taken by Bernard Pierre Wolff in 1978. In a 2007 documentary on the band, designer Saville commented that he, upon learning of singer Ian Curtis's suicide, expressed immediate concern over the album's design as it depicted a funeral theme, remarking "we've got a tomb on the cover of the album!"

The album, along with Unknown Pleasures and Still, was remastered and re-released in 2007. As with Unknown Pleasures and Still, the remaster was packaged with a bonus live disc, recorded at the University of London Union. Factory boss Tony Wilson was pleased with the final album and predicted it would be a commercial success. Sumner recalled him saying at the time, "You know, Bernard, this time next year you'll be lounging by a swimming pool in LA with a cocktail in your hand." Sumner was less optimistic and "just thought it was the most utterly ridiculous thing anyone had ever said to me."

Critics were mixed some thought the album were "dark strokes of gothic rock" on Closer. An exercise in dark controlled passion and wrote that its music and probably some of the most irresistible dance music we'll hear this year and a far cry for sure from the almost suffocating claustrophobic world of the debut album. The album is widely recognised as a seminal release of the post-punk era. Following the release of the non-album single "Love Will Tear Us Apart" in June 1980, the remaining members re-formed as New Order. It's "Joy Division's start-to-finish masterpiece; a flawless encapsulation of everything the group sought to achieve."
 
Closer Track List: 
 
1. Atrocity Exhibition
2. Isolation
3. Passover
4. Colony 
5. A Means To An End
6. Heart And Soul
7. Twenty Four Hours
8. The Eternal 
9. Decades

jueves, julio 17, 2025

New Music: Get Together

           

Belinda Carlisle has shared a new single, "Get Together" the new cut from her upcoming album, 'Once Upon a Time in California' due on August 29. The single is a a cover version of The Youngbloods' "Get Together". Remember her new album is a collection of studio covers, marking a return to her roots as a young singer in California.

New Music: Taxes

           

New York indie rockers Geese have released a new single with a stunning work of artistsic misdirection, "Taxes". accompanied by a cool video directed by Noel Paul, who takes us down, down, down into this slow yet inevitable descent into madness and chaos, with all the bloody violence of a mosh-pit from the depths of hell, and the painterly sensibilties of a baroque-period master. "The idea of a crowd in a small rock club going crazy came from the band." says Noel of the video's concept. "My approach was to take inspiration from medieval paintings of damned souls writhing in hell and chiaroscuro Caravaggios of people getting tortured and stuff." Observant viewers will be able to pick out all kinds of nods to mostly baroque artworks, emerging out from the tenebrous blackness of the dancefloor; Rubens, Carravaggio, and even some Francisco Goya. But even if you don't catch every musuem-worthy reference, the real intention of all this mayhem is just straight vibes. "Taxes" arrives as the lead single off of Geese’s third studio album Getting Killed, which is due out in September. 

martes, julio 15, 2025

New Music: The Sofa

           

Wolf Alice have released their second new single from "The Clearing" the band's new album out August 22. The track's music video, directed by Fiona Jane Burgess, finds bandleader Ellie Rowsell lounging on a couch that moves across town. About the single: "It's about not trying so hard to figure everything out, reflecting on getting older and trying not to agonize over things that have or haven’t happened in your life,"  "It's also about trying to get to grips with the polarizing aspects of one's life when you're in a band.

lunes, julio 14, 2025

The Compilation: David Bowie "I Can't Give Everything Away (2002-2016)"

A decade after Five Years was announced, Parlophone will release the sixth and final David Bowie ‘Era’ box set. I Can’t Give Everything Away 2002-2016 documents the last fourteen years of David’s musical endeavours and adventures.

Despite releasing nothing for around nine years of this period, Bowie still managed to put out four studio albums – Heathen (2002), Reality (2003), The Next Day (2013) and Blackstar (2016) – and as these 13CD and 18LP vinyl box sets demonstrate, there’s plenty of additional live material and non-album tracks available to fill things out.

As well as those four records on CD and vinyl, the I Can’t Give Everything Away box sets include:

  • MONTREUX JAZZ FESTIVAL (2CDs or 4LPs) – Previously unreleased and recorded on the 18 July 2002. Amongst the 31 tracks are an almost full performance of 1977’s Low. This is also exclusive to the box set.
  • A REALITY TOUR (2CDs or 3LPs) – Released before, but this is resequenced to “better reflect the set lists of the Dublin shows”. The vinyl version of the album is pressed in transparent blue, as per the original.
  • RE:CALL 6 (3CDs or 4LPs) – 41 non-album / alternative versions / b-sides and soundtrack songs including some ‘SACD’ only stereo mixes from Heathen. Exclusive to the box.

On LP, The Next Day is actually the 17-track deluxe version (to fill out four sides of vinyl) while the CD edition sticks to the 14-track version. Fear not though, because the three ‘missing’ tracks (‘So She’, ‘Plan’ and ‘I’ll Take You There’) are added to The Next Day Extra E.P. on CD (which is 10 tracks compared to the vinyl version’s seven).

The 4-track No Plan E.P. is also included. This features Bowie’s last three released recordings: No Plan, Killing A Little Time and When I Met You, which were first debuted on stage by the cast of Lazarus. With a running time of 18 minutes (which includes a repetition of the 6 minute album version of ‘Lazarus’) eyebrows might be raised at this being giving this its own disc when the three unique tracks could perhaps have been squeezed onto Re:Call 6. Especially on vinyl where side two of No Plan is ‘etched’.

Re:Call 6 does a good job of rounding up random tracks and includes David Gilmour’s live version of ‘Arnold Layne’ that Bowie sings on, which was issued as a single in 2006 (reaching No 19 in the UK charts).

As mentioned, the Montreux Jazz Festival is exclusive to the box and it’s worth pointing out that the other exclusives in previous boxes (The Gouster, Lodger 2017 Mix, Never Let Me Down 2018 and Dance) have never been issued separately, so the label have kept to their word – so far!

Like the previous ’90s set Brilliant Adventures, I Can’t Give Everything Away 2002-2016 is massive 18 LPs on vinyl (the first three were 13LPs, Loving The Alien was 15LP and Brilliant Adventure was 18LP). These vinyl sets are lovely but it does rather show up the limitations of the format when it requires seven records to deliver two live shows.

Also, actual studio albums take up only five of the 18 records in I Can’t Give Everything Away, which is around 28 percent of the content. If you include Toy, Brilliant Adventures had 61 percent studio albums (11 out of 18 LPs), Loving the Alien 30 percent (5 out of 15), A New Career in a New Town and Who Can I Be Now? both 38 percent (5 out of 13) and Five Years 54 percent (7 out of 13). Depending on your point of view, you could say this means more ‘padding’ than ever, or more welcome bonus material. It’s not really Parlophone’s fault that Bowie only made four albums in this period but if they’d skipped A Reality Tour (issued as a 3LP set in 2016) and squeezed the No Plan E.P. tracks onto Re:Call 6, we’d be back down to a more manageable – and more affordable – 13LPs. On the other hand A Reality Tour is excellent, it was Bowie’s last tour, and period live shows have always been a part of these sets (think Ziggy Stardust: A Motion Picture, David Live, Glass Spider, BBC Radio Theatre).

As ever, both box sets come with books. These are 128 pages in the CD box and 84 in the vinyl set, with previously unseen notes, drawings and handwritten lyrics from Bowie and photos. There are also “technical notes” about the albums from co-producer Tony Visconti and design notes from Jonathan Barnbrook. The CD box has Japan-style vinyl replica CDs, with the discs being gold. The vinyl box contains 180g vinyl – all black, except for A Reality Tour, which is blue.

I Can’t Give Everything Away 2002-2016 will be released on 12 September 2025, via Parlophone.

13CD box set

CD 1: Heathen
 
1. Sunday
2. Cactus
3. Slip Away
4. Slow Burn
5. Afraid
6. Iʼve Been Waiting For You
7. I Would Be Your Slave
8. I Took A Trip On A Gemini Spaceship
9. 5:15 The Angels Have Gone
10. Everyone Says ʻHiʼ
11. A Better Future
12. Heathen (The Rays)
 
CD 2: Montreux Jazz Festival
 
1. Sunday
2. Life On Mars?
3. Ashes To Ashes
4. Cactus
5. Slip Away
6. China Girl
7. Starman
8. I Would Be Your Slave
9. I’ve Been Waiting For You
10. Stay
11. Changes
12. Fashion
13. Fame
14. I’m Afraid Of Americans
15. 5:15 The Angels Have Gone
 
CD 3: Montreux Jazz Festival
 
1.  ‟Heroes”
2. Heathen (The Rays)
3. Everyone Says ‟Hi”
4. Hallo Spaceboy
5. Let’s Dance
6. Ziggy Stardust
7. Warszawa
8. Speed Of Life
9. Breaking Glass
10. What In The World
11. Sound And Vision
12. Art Decade
13. Always Crashing In The Same Car
14. Be My Wife
15. A New Career In A New Town
16. Subterraneans
 
CD 4: Reality
 
1. New Killer Star
2. Pablo Picasso
3. Never Get Old
4. The Loneliest Guy
5. Looking For Water
6. She’ll Drive The Big Car
7. Days
8. Fall Dog Bombs The Moon
9. Try Some, Buy Some
10. Reality
11. Bring Me The Disco King
 
CD 5: A Reality Tour
 
1. Rebel Rebel
2. New Killer Star
3. Reality
4. Fame
5. Cactus
6. Sister Midnight
7. Afraid
8. All The Young Dudes
9. Be My Wife
10. China Girl
11. The Loneliest Guy
12. The Man Who Sold The World
13. Fantastic Voyage
14. Hallo Spaceboy
15. Sunday
16. Under Pressure
17. Life On Mars?
18. Battle For Britain (The Letter)
 
CD 6: A Reality Tour
 
1. Fall Dog Bombs The Moon
2. Ashes To Ashes
3. The Motel
4. Loving The Alien
5. Breaking Glass
6. Never Get Old
7. Changes
8. I’m Afraid Of Americans
10. ‟Heroes”
11. Bring Me The Disco King
12. Slip Away
13. Heathen (The Rays)
14. Five Years
15. Hang On To Yourself
16. Ziggy Stardust
 
CD 7: The Next Day
 
1. The Next Day
2. Dirty Boys
3. The Stars (Are Out Tonight)
4. Love Is Lost
5. Where Are We Now?
6. Valentine’s Day
7. If You Can See Me
8. I’d Rather Be High
9. Boss Of Me
10. Dancing Out In Space
11. How Does The Grass Grow?
12. (You Will) Set The World On Fire
13. You Feel So Lonely You Could Die
14. Heat
 
CD 8: The Next Day Extra E.P.
 
1. Atomica
2. Love Is Lost (Hello Steve Reich Mix By James Murphy For The DFA)
3. Plan
4. The Informer
5. I’d Rather Be High (Venetian Mix)
6. Like A Rocket Man
7. Born In A UFO
8. I’ll Take You There
9. God Bless The Girl
10. So She
 
CD 9: ★ (Blackstar)
 
1. ★(Blackstar)
2. ’Tis A Pity She Was A Whore
3. Lazarus
4. Sue (Or In A Season Of Crime)
5. Girl Loves Me
6. Dollar Days
7. I Can’t Give Everything Away
 
CD 10: No Plan E.P.
 
1. Lazarus
2. No Plan
3. Killing A Little Time
4. When I Met You
 
CD 11: Re:Call 6
 
1. Slow Burn (Single Edit)
2. Wood Jackson
3. When The Boys Come Marching Home
4. Safe
5. Sunday (Moby Remix)
6. A Better Future (Remix By Air)
7. Slip Away (SACD Mix)
8. Slow Burn (SACD Mix)
9. I’ve Been Waiting For You (SACD Mix)
10. 5:15 The Angels Have Gone (SACD Mix)
11. A Better Future (SACD Mix)
12. Safe (SACD Mix)
13. Everyone Says ‘Hi’ (Radio Edit)
 
CD 12: Re:Call 6
 
1. Sunday (Tony Visconti Mix)
2. Everyone Says ‘Hi’ (Metro Remix Radio Edit)
3. Heathen (The Rays) (Live In Berlin, 22/09/02)
4. Hop Frog — Lou Reed Featuring David Bowie
5. Saviour — Kristeen Young Featuring David Bowie
6. Isn’t It Evening (The Revolutionary) — Earl Slick Featuring David Bowie
7. Bring Me The Disco King (Loner Mix) — David Bowie Featuring Maynard James Keenan And John Frusciante (Taken From The Underworld Motion Picture Soundtrack)
8. New Killer Star (Radio Edit)
9. Love Missile F1-11
10. Fly
11. Queen Of All The Tarts (Overture)
12. Never Get Old (Single Edit)
13. Waterloo Sunset
14. Rebel Rebel (2003 Re-Record) (Taken From The Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle Motion Picture Soundtrack)
15. New Killer Star (Sessions @ AOL Live Version, 23/09/03)
 
CD 13: Re:Call 6
 
1. Days (Live)
2. 5:15 The Angels Have Gone (Live)
3. Rebel Never Gets Old (Radio Mix)
4. (She Can) Do That — David Bowie With BT (Taken From The Stealth Motion Picture Soundtrack)
5. Life On Mars? (Live At Fashion Rocks, 08/09/05)
6. Wake Up (Live At Fashion Rocks, 08/09/05) — David Bowie With Arcade Fire
7. Five Years (Live At Fashion Rocks, 08/09/05) — David Bowie With Arcade Fire
8 .Arnold Layne (Live At The Royal Albert Hall, 29/05/06) — David Gilmour Featuring David Bowie
9. Love Is Lost (Hello Steve Reich Mix By James Murphy For The DFA Edit)
10. Sue (Or In A Season Of Crime) (2014 Version)
11. ’Tis A Pity She Was A Whore (2014 Version)
12. Lazarus (Radio Edit)
13. I Can’t Give Everything Away (Radio Edit)

viernes, julio 11, 2025

The Compilation: Now 12" 80s (1985)

The Now Music continue their year-themed remix series with a 4CD set that targets 1985.
 
NOW 12″80s: 1985 – Part One come strong as you’d expect with contributions from many, many classic artists including Queen, a-ha, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Phil Collins, Eurythmics, ABC, Go West, Nik Kershaw, Simple Minds, The Power Station, Bryan Ferry, Arcadia, Propaganda, New Order, Level 42 and more.

There's 46 extended versions, in total, across the four discs. NOW 12″80s: 1985 – Part One is out now, while the Part Two is expect to be later this year

Now 12"80s: 1985 Track List: 

CD 1

1. Queen – One Vision (Extended Version)
2. Philip Bailey And Phil Collins – Easy Lover (Extended Dance Remix)
3. Eurythmics, Annie Lennox, Dave Stewart And Aretha Franklin – Sisters Are Doin’ It For Themselves (ET Mix)
4. Simple Minds – Don’t You (Forget About Me) (12″ Version)
5. The Power Station – Some Like It Hot (Mix) (12″)
6. Billy Idol – White Wedding (Pts. 1 & 2 – Shotgun Mix)
7. Pat Benatar – Love Is A Battlefield (Extended Version)
8. ZZ Top – Legs (Dance Mix)
9. Laura Branigan – Spanish Eddie (New Extended Remix Version)
10. Tina Turner – We Don’t Need Another Hero (Thunderdome) (Extended Version)
11. Bryan Ferry – Slave To Love (12″ Remix)
12. Scritti Politti – The Word Girl / Flesh & Blood (Version)
 
CD 2
 
1. Frankie Goes To Hollywood – Welcome To The Pleasuredome (An Alternative To Reality)
2. A-ha – Take On Me (Extended Mix)
3. Billy Ocean – Loverboy (Extended Mix)
4. Five Star – All Fall Down (M & M Remix)
5. Ashford & Simpson – Solid (Special Club Mix)
6. The Pointer Sisters – Dare Me (12″ Dance Mix)
7. Baltimora – Tarzan Boy (Summer Version)
8. Bananarama – Do Not Disturb (Extended Version)
9. Go West – Don’t Look Down (The Stratospheric Mix)
10. ABC – Vanity Kills (The Mendelsohn Mix)
11. Nik Kershaw – Wide Boy (Extended Mix)
12. King – Love & Pride (Body And Soul Mix)
 
CD 3
 
1. Dead Or Alive – You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) (Performance Mix)
2. Bronski Beat – Hit That Perfect Beat (12” Version)
3. Sheryl Lee Ralph – In The Evening (Original Extended Mix)
4. Hazell Dean – They Say It’s Gonna Rain (Indian Summer Mix)
5. Animotion – Obsession (Dance Mix)
6. Bonnie Tyler – Holding Out for A Hero (Club Mix)
7. Jan Hammer – Miami Vice Theme (Extended Version)
8. Harold Faltermeyer – Axel F (Extended Version)
9. Colonel Abrams – Trapped (12″ Regisford Vocal Mix)
10. Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam And Full Force – I Wonder If I Take You Home (Extended Version)
11. Chaka Khan – This Is My Night (12″ Extended Version)
12. Princess – Say I’m Your No.1 (Full Length Version)
 
CD 4
 
1. Tears For Fears – Shout (UK Version / Extended Version)
2. Arcadia – Election Day (Consensus Mix)
3. Propaganda – Duel (Bitter-Sweet)
4. New Order – The Perfect Kiss (12″ Version)
5. Sheila E – The Belle Of St. Mark (Dance Remix)
6. Level 42 – Something About You (Shep Pettibone Remix)
7. Sharpe & Numan – Change Your Mind (Extended Version)
8. Howard Jones – Things Can Only Get Better (Extended Mix)
9. Stephen Duffy – Icing On The Cake (Remix)
10. Red Box – Lean On Me (Ah-Li-Ayo) (Dogmatix)

News: Battleship Potemkin Centenary Celebrated With Special Edition And Cinema Release Featuring Pet Shop Boys Score

To mark the centenary of Sergei Eisenstein's legendary silent Battleship Potemkin, a special edition of the film – in a restored version made by Deutsche Kinemathek, with the celebrated score by Tennant and Lowe of Pet Shop Boys – will be released for the first time in cinemas and in a two-disc Blu-ray and CD package by the BFI

On 22 August 2025, Battleship Potemkin. Music by Pet Shop Boys will open in selected cinemas in the UK and Ireland. Ahead of a week-long run, a special double screening event, at BFI Southbank on Friday 5 September 2025 at 6.30pm, will begin with Pet Shop Boys’ feature film It Couldn’t Happen Here (1988), in memory of its late director, Jack Bond, followed by a Q&A with Neil Tennant, hosted by Paul Tickell, and then a screening of Battleship Potemkin.

5 September is also the release date of the BFI’s Blu-ray package of the film, containing both a Blu-ray disc and a CD of the score, along with extra features and an illustrated booklet. Simultaneously, Parlophone will release the score on remastered CD and on vinyl for the first time on a double LP. All three formats are available to pre-order now from the official Pet Shop Boys store.

A fixture in the critical canon almost since its premiere, Eisenstein’s film about a 1905 naval mutiny was revolutionary in both form and content. Battleship Potemkin is renowned for its dynamic compositional strength and editing of such frame-perfect precision that it’s hard not to be swept along. The set-piece massacre on the Odessa Steps still packs a sledgehammer punch.

First revealed at a free outdoor live performance and screening in front of an estimated 25,000 people in London’s Trafalgar Square on 12 September 2004, Pet Shop Boys' score, performed with the Dresdner Sinfoniker conducted by Jonathan Stockhammer with orchestrations by Torsten Rasch, blends electronic beats with orchestral grandeur to create a rousing contemporary cinematic experience. 

Since the premiere, Pet Shop Boys with Dresdner Sinfoniker have performed the music with the film in European cities including Frankfurt, Bonn, Berlin, Hamburg, Dresden, and Segovia, Spain. On May 1, 2006, Pet Shop Boys with the Northern Sinfonia, performed the music with the film at a special event at Swan Hunter’s shipyard, Wallsend. The first UK cinema screening with the recorded Tennant/Lowe score took place at BFI Southbank as part of the 2013 Meltdown Festival curated by Yoko Ono. 

The special features on Battleship Potemkin / Pet Shop Boys (Blu-ray & CD), which can be pre-ordered from HMV and other retailers now, are:

  • Hochhaussinfonie (2017, 68 mins): a multimedia musical production by the Dresdner Sinfoniker orchestra and Pet Shop Boys, conceived by Markus Rindt and directed by Sven Helbig, on the evening of July 20, 2006, in Dresden

  • Trafalgar Square Highlights (2004, 4 mins): a behind-the-scenes film when Pet Shop Boys performed their newly composed score for Battleship Potemkin, accompanied by the Dresdner Sinfoniker orchestra in Trafalgar Square, London 

  • Trailer (2025)

  • **Limited Edition** Illustrated booklet featuring new writing by Chris Heath and Sarah Cleary, and archive pieces by Neil Tennant and Michael Brooke