The Compilation: Industry And Seduction: A Thompson Twins Collection

Thompson Twins are to release a new compilation, Industry And Seduction: A Thompson Twins Collection, in October. It's the first "Best Of" to be approved by the band, with Tom Bailey and Alannah Currie selecting the tracklisting and Joe Leeway designing the artwork, with Currie.

In limited edition deluxe 3CD form, the compilation includes 40 songs from all eras of the band, including Bailey and Currie's final albums when they changed their name to Babble before splitting in 1998. 

The first CD – remastered by Frank Arkwright at Abbey Road – features 20 of their best-known tracks, while CD2 comprises 20 of their own favourite songs, including the B-sides "Passion Planet" and  "Beach Culture", as well as their cover of Cole Porter's "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" from 1990’s Red, Hot And Blue Aids charity compilation.

Having been released on vinyl for Record Store Day, the third CD is the audio from the 1984 VHS concert film Into The Gap Live, recorded at Del Mar Racetrack in California. However, there is no DVD or Blu-Ray element in the package, with Into The Gap Live remaining a VHS-only release, yet to be reissued in the 41 years since it came out.

Industry And Seduction is also available in single CD and 2LP coloured vinyl editions, which both replicate the 20 songs from CD1 of the 3CD. The package also includes sleevenotes (by this writer), with Bailey and Currie’s full 6,000-word new interviews discussing their whole career in the 3CD set or a 1,500-word cut-down interview in the single CD.

While the band didn’t oversee 1990's Greatest Hits, the new compilation includes a song first released on that hits set, "Roll Over", which is from the original self-produced sessions in Paris for what became Here’s To Future Days, before Nile Rodgers produced the eventually released version of Here’s To Future Days in New York.

Industry And Seduction is notable for not including any songs from 1987's Close To The Bone, while only one song each are included from Set and Babble’s final album, Ether and will be out on 31 October. 

Industry And Seduction: The Best Of  Track List: 

CD1:

1. Hold Me Now 2024 – Remaster (from Into The Gap)

2. If You Were Here – 2024 Remaster (from Quick Step And Side Kick)

3. Doctor! Doctor! – 2024 Remaster (from Into The Gap)

4. Lies – 2025 Remaster (from Quick Step And Side Kick)

5. Lay Your Hands On Me 7″ Version – 2025 Remaster (from Here’s To Future Days)

6. King For A Day – 2025 Remaster (from Here’s To Future Days)

7. You Take Me Up – 2024 Remaster (from Into The Gap)

8. Love On Your Side – 2025 Remaster (from Quick Step And Side Kick)

9. Sister Of Mercy – 2024 Remaster (from Into The Gap)

10. The Gap – 2024 Remaster (from Into The Gap)

11. We Are Detective – 2025 Remaster (from Quick Step And Side Kick)

12. In The Name Of Love – 2025 Remaster (from Set)

13. Future Days – 2025 Remaster (from Here’s To Future Days)

14. No Peace For The Wicked – 2024 Remaster (from Into The Gap)

15. Roll Over – 2025 Remaster (from Greatest Hits & US Here’s To Future Days)

16. Kamikaze – 2025 Remaster (from Quick Step And Side Kick)

17. Don’t Mess With Doctor Dream 7″ Version – 2025 Remaster (from Here’s To Future Days)

18. Revolution 7″ Version – 2025 Remaster (from Here’s To Future Days)

19. Nothing In Common 7″ Version – 2025 Remaster (from Nothing In Common soundtrack)

20. Breakaway – 2025 Remaster (from Here’s To Future Days)

 

CD 2: Deep Cuts and Babble

 

1. Politics (from A Product Of…Participation)

2. Squares And Triangles (from A Product Of…Participation)

3. Oumma Aularesso (from A Product Of…Participation)

4. Come Inside (from Queer)

5. She’s In Love With Mystery (from A Product Of…Participation)

6. Passion Planet (B-side of You Take Me Up)

7. Beach Culture (B-side of Lies)

8. Who Wants To Be A Millionaire (from Red, Hot And Blue compilation)

9. Take Me Away (from Babble’s The Stone)

10. The Downward Pull Of Heaven’s Force (from Babble’s The Stone)

11. Tribe (from Babble’s The Stone)

12. Beautiful (from Babble’s The Stone)

13. Strange Jane (from Queer)

14. Queer (from Queer)

15. You Kill Me (from Babble’s The Stone)

16. Just Like You (from Babble’s Ether)

17. Shake It Down (from Queer)

18. Queen Of The USA (from Big Trash)

19. Sugar Daddy (from Big Trash)

20. The Saint (from Queer)

 

CD 3: Into The Gap Live

 

Live at the Del Mar Race Track, USA

 

1. Intro

2. The Gap

3. Day After Day

4. Judy Do

5. Watching

6. You Take Me Up

7. Hold Me Now

8. No Peace For The Wicked

9. Sister Of Mercy

10. In The Name Of Love

11. Lies

12. Doctor! Doctor!

13. Kamikaze

14. Love On Your Side