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 Post subject: [2017-04-14] Marc Almond And Soft Cell "Hits And Pieces: The Best Of" 2CD set including new track (Mercury)
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Hits And Pieces - The Best Of Marc Almond And Soft Cell traces Almond's singles career from Soft Cell through to his solo work and collaborations. Almond has always excelled at recording superb singles - he has secured a body of work that encompasses truly outstanding originals, covers and duets. Highlights of Hits And Pieces include Tainted Love, What!, Say Hello Wave Goodbye, the Number One reaching Gene Pitney duet Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart, his interpretation of Scott Walker's cover of Jacques Brel's Jacky with its epic kitchen sink production from Trevor Horn, a cover of Donna Summer's I Feel Love with Bronski Beat, Melancholy Rose and Ruby Red from the Mother Fist album, a Tony Visconti produced nugget The Dancing Marquis, last year's superb The Velvet Trail, the glam stomper Varieté and another unforgettable cover in the form of The Days Of Pearly Spencer. To complete the package is the newest track on this compilation: the previously unreleased A Kind Of Love, three effortlessly breezy minutes that hint at Almond's past - the 'light summery psychedelic sounds' on that mid-60s transistor radio, the Northern soul scene that inspired Soft Cell to cover Tainted Love and What! without really sounding much like anything Marc Almond has recorded before.

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[CD1]
1. Memorabilia (Soft Cell)
2. Tainted Love / Where Did Our Love Go (Original 12" Version) (Soft Cell)
3. Bedsitter (Soft Cell)
4. Say Hello Wave Goodbye (Soft Cell)
5. Torch (Soft Cell)
6. What! (Soft Cell)
7. Where The Heart Is (Soft Cell)
8. Soul Inside (Soft Cell)
9. Down In The Subway (Extended Single Version) (Soft Cell)
10. I Feel Love (Full Length Version) (Bronski Beat with Marc Almond)
11. Black Heart (Marc & The Mambas)
12. Stories Of Johnny
13. Melancholy Rose
14. Tears Run Rings
15. Ruby Red
16. Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart (Marc Almond with Gene Pitney)
17. A Lover Spurned

[CD2]
1. The Desperate Hours
2. My Hand Over My Heart
3. Jacky
4. The Days Of Pearly Spencer
5. What Makes A Man (Live)
6. The Idol
7. Adored and Explored
8. Brilliant Creatures
9. Child Star
10. Tragedy (Take A Look And See)
11. Glorious
12. Variety
13. Burn Bright
14. The Dancing Marquis
15. Bad To Me
16. Scar
17. A Kind Of Love (Full Length Version) (New Track)
18. Tainted Love (Marc Almond with Jools Holland and the Rhythm & Blues Orchestra)

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PostPosted: Fri Mar 03, 2017 4:46 pm 
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One of my favorite songs of his is Tears Run Rings. Have the CD single which has different mixes one of them that was heard on LI radio back then. It's the only version I can listen to.

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This 2CD collection ended up being released domestically last week. The USA price is good, about the same as the price for the UK pressing:

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https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MTB6ZV8/?tag=imwan-20

Amazon UK
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01MTB6ZV8/?tag=imwan-21

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This is currently $9.70 USD including shipping at AmazWAN UK.

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Guess what? I just ordered one and searched for this thread to alert ICErs to the deal. But DanO beat me to it by a few minutes. :D

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Jimbo wrote:
Guess what? I just ordered one and searched for this thread to alert ICErs to the deal. But DanO beat me to it by a few minutes. :D

The early bird gets...the almond?

I grabbed one as well :D

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DanO wrote:
Jimbo wrote:
Guess what? I just ordered one and searched for this thread to alert ICErs to the deal. But DanO beat me to it by a few minutes. :D

The early bird gets...the almond?

I grabbed one as well :D


Me three :thumbsup: Thanks DanO. :wink:

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Mine arrived today. :D

Actually heard Tears Run Rings on XM Radio Saturday night heading to the movies.

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