Wednesday 4 May 2011

Erasure to re-issue 'Wonderland' and 'The Circus' in new deluxe editions


Don't you just love re-issues of your favourite albums? All the goodliness of the original record you fell in love with, but now with a whole heap of extra content. It's like Christmas. Of late, deluxe editions have become increasingly fancy: super-glossy packaging, expanded booklets, bonus DVDs; we've seen it all.

So, for any Erasure fans out there (myself included), the news that the band will be re-issuing their classic 80s albums Wonderland and The Circus is something to get rather excited about. Each album will come as a three-disc set containing the original album, b-sides and remixes on the second disc, and a third disc of video content including Top of the Pops performances. You can even order extra-exclusive version of the re-issues from the band's official store here.

The tracklisting of the two albums is as follows:



Wonderland

CD ONE (original album +) - Who Needs Love Like That / Reunion / Cry So Easy / Push Me Shove Me / Heavenly Action / Say What / Love Is A Loser / Senseless / My Heart… So Blue / Oh L'Amour / Pistol / Say What (Remix) / March On Down The Line (Remix) / Senseless (Remix)

CD TWO (b-sides, mixes and sessions) - Who Needs Love Like That (Mexican Mix) / Push Me Shove Me (Extended As Far As Possible Mix) / Don't Say No (Ruby Red Mix) / Heavenly Action (12" Mix) / March On Down The Line / Oh L'Amour (PWL Funky Sisters Say 'Ooh La La') / Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (Remix) / Cry So Easy (Radio 1 Session: Bruno Brookes, 15/11/85 *) / Who Needs Love Like That (Radio 1 Session: Bruno Brookes, 15/11/85 *) / Senseless (Radio 1 Session, 5/12/85 *) / Heavenly Action (Radio 1 Session, 5/12/85 *) / Say What? (Radio 1 Session, 5/12/85 *) / Push Me Shove Me (Radio 1 Session, 5/12/85 *)

DVD (promo videos and concert footage) - Who Needs Love Like That (promo video) / Heavenly Action (promo video) / Oh L'Amour (promo video) + 'Live at Karlsson, Stockholm' a previously unreleased concert filmed on 8/8/86 and featuring live versions of Pistol / Senseless / Heavenly Action / Reunion / Sometimes / Who Needs Love Like That / Cry So Easy / My Heart…So Blue / March On Down The Line / Say What / Sexuality / Oh L'Amour / Push Me Shove Me / Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (* = previously unreleased)



The Circus

CD ONE (original album +) - It Doesn't Have To Be / Hideaway / Don't Dance / If I Could / Sexuality / Victim Of Love / Leave Me To Bleed / Sometimes / The Circus / Spiralling / In The Hall Of The Mountain King (From the Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 Opus 46 by Greig. Arranged by Erasure) / Sometimes (12" Mix), It Doesn't Have To Be (Boop Oopa Doo Mix)

CD TWO (b-sides, mixes and sessions) - Sexuality (12" Mix) / Sometimes (Shiver Mix) / The Circus (Bareback Rider Mix) / Who Needs Love Like That (Betty Boop Mix) / It Doesn't Have To Be (Cement Mix) / The Soldier's Return (The Return Of The Radical Radcliffe Mix) / Victim Of Love (Vixen Vitesse Mix) / If I Could (Japanese Mix) / The Circus (Radio 1 Session, 10/3/87) / Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (Radio 1 Session, 10/3/87) / Spiralling (Radio 1 Session, 10/3/87) / Phantom Bride (Radio 1 Session, 10/3/87)

DVD (promo videos, performances and concert footage) - Sometimes (promo video) / It Doesn't Have To Be (promo video) / Victim Of Love (promo video) / The Circus (promo video) / Sometimes (TOTP, 20/11/86) / It Doesn't Have To Be (TOTP, 19/3/87) / Victim Of Love (TOTP, 5/6/87) / The Circus (TOTP, 22/10/87) + 'Live At The Seaside', a concert recorded at The Dome in Brighton on 17/4/87 previously released on VHS but now available on DVD for the first time. The concert features live versions of Safety In Numbers / Victim Of Love / It Doesn't Have To Be / Don't Dance / Who Needs Love (Like That) / Leave Me To Bleed / If I Could / Oh L'Amour / The Circus / Say What / Sometimes / Spiralling / Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (* = previously unreleased)

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