[2025-05-02] Kirsty MacColl "Kite" and "Electric Landlady" 2CD Deluxe Editions (Edsel UK)

Linda · **Posted:** Fri Feb 07, 2025 9:59 pm

Kite

Amazon USA
Available for pre-order soon:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DWGPFWG9/?tag=imwan-20

Amazon Canada
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Amazon UK
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Description
* 2CD deluxe 7" gatefold packaging
* Bonus CD containing alternate mixes, singles and B-sides
* 8-page booklet

Kite flew out in the world in the spring of 1989, a whole decade after Kirsty MacColl had released her first single. It also came seven years after her last album, her debut, Desperate Character. In the interim, she had a top ten hit with her harmony and jangle drenched version of Billy Bragg's A New England in 1985, an evergreen Christmas hit, 1987's Fairytale of New York, with The Pogues and two sons, Jamie and Louis, with her producer husband Steve Lillywhite. Kite arrived like a bold, glossy statement of intent, full of songs she had written herself and with dear friends like Pete Glenister and Johnny Marr, plus one glistening Kinks cover, which felt like an appropriate choice. In finger clicking country, Smithsy pop, ballads and modern protest songs, Kirsty was Ray Davies' natural successor in song writing, observing fame, love and modern life with a sparkling, sensitive eye. Kite also contains flourishes of what was to come later for Kirsty. Dancing in Limbo hints towards her later work's Latin flavours. Finale You And Me Baby prefigures the glorious soundworld of 1993's Titanic Days. Throughout the album, there is a confidence that bristles and burns, the sound of a woman finally seizing the day and having her time. Double CD deluxe edition, featuring a bonus disc of alternate mixes, B-sides and singles, housed in deluxe 7" gatefold card packaging with booklet containing lyrics, photography and a liner essay from Jude Rogers.

Tracklist
[CD1]
1. Innocence
2. Free World
3. Mother's Ruin
4. Days
5. No Victims
6. Fifteen Minutes
7. Don't Come The Cowboy With Me Sonny Jim
8. Tread Lightly
9. What Do Pretty Girls Do?
10. Dancing In Limbo
11. The End Of A Perfect Day
12. You And Me Baby

[CD2]
1. Closer To God?
2. The End Of A Perfect Day (Original Demo Version)
3. You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby
4. La Foret De Mimosas
5. Happy
6. El Paso
7. Still Life
8. Please Help Me, I'm Falling
9. Innocence (Single Remix)
10. Clubland
11. Don't Run Away From Me Now
12. Innocence (Guilt Mix)
13. No Victims (Guitar Heroes Mix)
14. Other People's Hearts
15. Complainte Pour Ste Catherine
16. Am I Right?
17. You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby (She's Having A Baby Soundtrack Version)

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Electric Landlady

Amazon USA
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https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DWH1NGY3/?tag=imwan-20

Amazon Canada
Available for pre-order soon:
https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0DWH1NGY3/?tag=imwanca-20

Amazon UK
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DWH1NGY3/?tag=imwan-21

Description
* 2CD deluxe 7" gatefold packaging
* Bonus CD containing alternate mixes, singles and B-sides
* 8-page booklet

Wit, liveliness and crackling musical ideas, jumping between global genres with relish - Kirsty MacColl's third album, Electric Landlady, has all of them. It also has quite the title, as her friend and occasional songwriting partner Johnny Marr writes over e-mail. "We spent a lot of time together [then] hanging out, listening to records late at night and then making our own records during marathon recording sessions. I lived in her flat in Shepherds Bush which is how we came up with 'Electric'." Travelling the world with her husband, producer Steve Lillywhite, had given her exposure to big bands like the Rolling Stones and Talking Heads, with whom she gladly sang backing vocals. But her friends and voracious appetite for new music is what drove her creativity. Electric Landlady also saw the love of Cuban and Latin American rhythms in her life, which had been fired in her childhood by her brother's record collection. World renowned artists like percussionist José Mangual Jr, trumpeter Angel Hernandez, timbalero Mark Quinones and bassist Sal Cuevas joined her band, enhancing and enriching her glorious songs with a tropical, sunshine register. Many collaborations light up this LP. The defiant country swing of All I Ever Wanted was a result of a writing partnership by post, exchanging tapes with American musician Marshall Crenshaw. He Never Mentioned Love, written with The Pogues' Jem Finer, is a more mature, wry take on Kirsty's earlier girl group flavoured pop. The Hardest Word, written with her older brother Hamish, is also about their late father, the renowned folk singer Ewan, with whom she had a tough relationship. Double CD deluxe edition, featuring a bonus disc of alternate mixes, B-sides and singles, housed in deluxe 7" gatefold card packaging with booklet containing lyrics, photography and a liner essay from Jude Rogers.

Tracklist
[CD1]
1. Waking Down Madison
2. All I Ever Wanted
3. Children Of The Revolution
4. Halloween
5. My Affair
6. Lying Down
7. He Never Mentioned Love
8. We'll Never Pass This Way Again
9. The Hardest Word
10. Maybe It's Imaginary
11. My Way Home
12. The One And Only

[CD2]
1. One Good Thing
2. The Hardest Word (Alt Take 3)
3. Walking Down Madison (6AM Ambient Mix)
4. Walking Down Madison (7" Mix)
5. Walking Down Madison (Extended Urban Mix)
6. Walking Down Madison (Ye Olde Originale Mix)
7. Walking Down Madison (Club Mix)
8. Walking Down Madison (Urban Mix)
9. Darling, Let's Have Another Baby (ft. Billy Bragg)
10. All The Tears That I Cried
11. My Affair (Ladbroke Groove Mix)
12. My Affair (Bass Sexy Mix)
13. My Affair (Olive Groove Mix)
14. My Affair (Single Edit)
15. Don't Go Near The Water
16. All I Ever Wanted (Re-Recorded Single Version)

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Linda · **Posted:** Mon Feb 24, 2025 12:03 am

Update: Added descriptions, tracklists and packshots to the first post.

RackleNut · **Joined:** 07 Nov 2006 **Posts:** 1356

hmmm... somebody needs to convince me that i should replace my single-disc remaster of "Electric Landlady" with the double-disc

[2025-05-02] Kirsty MacColl "Kite" and "Electric Landlady" 2CD Deluxe Editions (Edsel UK)

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