[2020-02-28] Toyah "Solo" 7CD/1DVD box set including Amazon exclusive edition (Edsel UK)

Linda · **Posted:** Thu Jan 09, 2020 12:23 pm

Description
This 7 CD + DVD box set (the first Toyah box set ever) features six albums (Minx, Desire, Prostitute, Ophelia's Shadow, Take The Leap, Velvet Lined Shell) and 44 bonus tracks, including rarities, B-sides, collaborations, and several unreleased tracks, plus a DVD of promo videos and a brand new exclusive interview filmed in December 2019. In 1985, after five studio albums and two live albums with her band, Toyah decided to go solo, and signed to Sony's Portrait label. The album "Minx" contained two hit singles in "Don't Fall In Love (I Said)" and "Soul Passing Through Soul", as well as covers of Alice Cooper's "School's Out" And Rare Bird's "Sympathy". 1987's "Desire", on EG Records, featured appearances from Robert Fripp and Ron Wood and Toyah's cover of "Echo Beach", and now contains the previously unreleased outtake "Mesmerised". "Prostitute" (1988) was an arresting and fascinating departure from the pop formula, a trend continued by 1991's "Ophelia's Shadow". In 1994, "Take The Leap" featured new songs and intriguing revisits of several of her earlier pop hits. 2003's "Velvet Lined Shell" took Toyah back along a more commercial path. Amongst the bonus tracks are Toyah's collaborations with Tony Banks, Trey Gunn, German band Kiss Of Reality, Family Of Noise and This Fragile Moment. The lavishly-illustrated 48 page booklet features annotation about each album written by Toyah herself. Also featured is an essay on the period covered by the box by Toyah's official archivist and compiler of this box set, Craig Astley. As Craig says: "Eclectic is an often-overused word but is an accurate description of this intriguing and revelatory body of work. From unashamed pop and avant-garde to progressive rock and back to punk, the common factors throughout are Toyah's voice and lyrics but moreover, a sense of forging and following her own creative solo path." Toyah (together with fellow 80s star Hazel O'Connor) will be touring the UK throughout April 2020 under the banner "Electric Ladies Of The 80s".

The Amazon Exclusive Edition comes with a print signed by Toyah and is limited to 500 copies.

[tracklisting][CD1: Minx]
1. Soldier Of Fortune, Terrorist Of Love
2. Don’t Fall In Love (I Said)
3. Soul Passing Through Soul
4. Sympathy
5. I’ll Serve You Well
6. Over Twenty One
7. All In A Rage
8. Space Between The Sounds
9. School’s Out
10. World In Action
11. America For Beginners
12. Vigilante
Bonus Tracks:
13. Snow Covers The Kiss
14. Kiss The Devil
15. Don’t Fall In Love (I Said) [Extended Mix]
16. Soul Passing Through Soul [Extended Mix]
17. World In Action [Extended Mix]
18. World In Action [Action Mix]

[CD2: Desire]
1. Echo Beach
2. Moonlight Dancing
3. Revive The World
4. The View
5. Moon Migration
6. Love’s Unkind
7. Dear Diary
8. Deadly As A Woman
9. Goodbye Baby
10. When A Woman Cries
11. Desire
Bonus Tracks:
12. Echo Beach [12” Mix]
13. Plenty
14. Sun Up
15. Re-Entry Into Dance
16. Mesmerised
17. Lion Of Symmetry – Tony Banks and Toyah

[CD3: Prostitute]
1. Hello
2. Prostitute
3. Wife
4. The Show
5. Dream House
6. Homecraft
7. Obsession
8. Let The Power Bleed
9. Restless
10. Falling To Earth
11. Jazz Singers In The Trees
12. Vale Of Evesham
13. Ghosts In The Universe

[CD4: Ophelia’s Shadow]
1. Ophelia’s Shadow
2. The Shaman Says
3. Brilliant Day
4. Prospect
5. Turning Tide
6. Take What You Will
7. Ghost Light
8. The Woman Who Had An Affair With Herself
9. Homeward
10. Lords Of The Never Known
Bonus Tracks:
11. Harlequin (Holy Day) with Kiss Of Reality
12. Broken Special (The Island) with Kiss Of Reality
13. Face The Space (Vocal Version) with Kiss Of Reality
14. Symbiotic with Trey Gunn

[CD5: Take The Leap!]
1. Now I’m Running
2. Lust For Love
3. Invisible Love
4. Name Of Love
5. Winter In Wonderland
6. God Ceases To Dream
7. Ieya (Revisited)
8. Waiting (Revisited)
9. Neon Womb (Revisited)
10. Elusive Stranger (Revisited)
11. Our Movie (Revisited)
12. Thunder In The Mountains (Revisited)
13. I Wanna Be Free (Revisited)
14. It’s A Mystery (Revisited)
Bonus Tracks:
15. Requite Me (Demo)
16. Invisible Love (Demo)
17. Waiting (Alternate Mix)
18. It’s A Mystery (Weybridge Mix)

[CD6: Remixed, Revisited & Rare 1992-98]
1. Tears For Ellie (Demo)
2. God Ceases To Dream (Remix)
3. Poland (One Day On Earth) (Demo)
4. Now I’m Running (Remix)
5. It’s A Mystery (Whispered Elixir Mix)
6. Lust For Love (Demo)
7. Angel (Demo)
8. Rebel Run (Revisited)
9. Good Morning Universe (Revisited)
10. Be Proud, Be Loud (Be Heard) (Revisited)
11. Desire (Revisited)
12. Obsolete (Revisited)
13. Danced (Revisited)
14. We Are (Revisited)
15. Angel & Me (Revisited)
16. Believe In You (Demo)

[CD7: Velvet Lined Shell]
1. Every Scar Has A Silver Lining
2. Velvet Lined Shell
3. Little Tears Of Love
4. You’re A Miracle
5. Mother
6. Troublesome Thing
Bonus Tracks:
7. Experience
8. Killing Made Easy (with Family Of Noise)
9. In Estonia (with This Fragile Moment)
10. Fallen (with Yomanda)
11. Drinking From The Gun (with Dodson & Fogg)
12. Nine Hours (with Peter)
13. America For Beginners (Nocturne Blue Redux)
14. Step Into The New World [from Invasion Planet Earth]

[DVD]
Promo Videos:
1. Don’t Fall In Love (I Said)
2. Soul Passing Through Soul
3. Echo Beach
4. Fallen
5. Sensational
Bonus Feature:
6. Toyah talks about her solo albums[/tracklisting]

Amazon UK Exclusive Edition (shown above)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B083PG5X2J/?tag=imwan-21

Standard Edition
US - Available for pre-order soon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B083PG34TN/?tag=imwan-20
UK - https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B083PG34TN/?tag=imwan-21

Linda · **Posted:** Thu Jan 09, 2020 12:23 pm

Edsel's Amazon exclusives tend to sell out quickly (usually before the release date), so it's probably best not to wait:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B083PG5X2J/?tag=imwan-21

Linda · **Posted:** Fri Jan 10, 2020 2:11 pm

Bump: Added the packshot and tracklist to the first post.

[2020-02-28] Toyah "Solo" 7CD/1DVD box set including Amazon exclusive edition (Edsel UK)

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