2008 UK 121-track 4-CD album set - [title]Into Something Good[/title] covers all the UK and American hits, all the album and E.P. tracks, the film soundtracks, the B-sides, and ten previously unreleased performances! Also included are ten Peter Noone solo tracks including 'Oh You Pretty Things' featuring David Bowie [a UK No. 12 hit], and 2 previously unreleased Noone tracks; complete with a picture booklet containing extensive sleevenotes written by Spencer Leigh and featuring an interview with Peter Noone himself.

CD1:
1. Heartbeat
2. Travelin' Light
3. I'll Never Dance Again
4. Walkin' With My Angel
5. Dream On
6. I Wonder
7. For Your Love
8. Don't Try To Hurt Me
9. Tell Me Baby
10. I'm Henery The Eighth I Am
11. The End Of The World
12. Mrs Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter
13. I'm Into Something Good
14. Your Hand In Mine
15. Show Me Girl
16. I Know Why
17. Silhouttes
18. Can't You Hear My Heartbeat
19. Wonderful World
20. Just A Little Bit Better
21. Take Love Give Love
22. A Must To Avoid
23. The Man With The Cigar
24. Sea Cruise
25. Mother-In-Law
26. I Understand
27. Thinkin' Of You
28. Little Boy Sad
29. Story Of My Life
30. My Reservations Been Confirmed
31. Bus Stop
32. For Love

CD2:
1. Where Were You When I Needed You
2. All The Things I do For You Baby
3. Leaning On The Lamp Post
4. Dial My Number
5. Oo-Ee-Baby
6. Je suis Anglais (L'Autre Jour)
7. Listen People
8. You Won't Be Leaving (UK No. 20)
9. This Door Swings Both Ways (UK No. 18)
10. Hold On
11. George And The Dragon
12. Wild Love
13. What Is Wrong What Is Right
14. Bidin' My Time
15. Got A Feeling
16. Kansas City Loving
17. Gotta Get Away
18. Make Me Happy
19. There's A Kind Of Hush All Over The World
20. Saturday's Child
21. If You're Thinking What I'm Thinking
22. You Won't Be Leaving
23. Dandy
24. Jezebel
25. No Milk Today
26. Little Miss Sorrow, Child Of Tomorrow
27. Gaslite Street
28. Rattler
29. East West
30. The Future Mrs 'Awkins
31. Oh Mr Porter
32. Two Lovely Black Eyes
33. My Old Dutch

CD3:
1. I Can Take Or Leave Your Loving
2. Marcel's
3. It’s Nice To Be Out In The Morning
4. Holiday Inn
5. Ooh She's Done It Again
6. Lemon And Lime
7. The Most Beautiful Thing In My Life
8. Daisy Chain [Part 1]
9. Daisy Chain [Part 2]
10. The World Is For The Young
11. London Look
12. Museum
13. Upstairs, Downstairs
14. Busy Line
15. Moonshine Man
16. Green Street Green
17. Don't Go Out In The Rain (You're Gonna Melt)
18. I Call Out Her Name
19. One Little Pack Of Cigarettes
20. Last Bus Home
21. Ace, King, Queen, Jack
22. Sleepy Joe
23. Just One Girl
24. Sunshine Girl
25. Nobody Needs To Know
26. Somethings Is Happening
27. My Sentimental Friend
28. My Lady
29. Here Comes The Star
30. It's Alright Now
31. Years May Come, Years May Go

CD4:
1. Smile Please
2. Bet Yer Life I Do
3. Searching For The Southern Sun
4. Lady Barbara
5. Don't Just Stand There - Previously Unreleased
6. Mum & Dad - Previously Unreleased
7. Moonshine Man - Previously Unreleased
8. My Old Dutch / Show Me The Way To Go Home
9. Wings Of Love
10. Big Man - Previously Unreleased
11. Wait For Me, Here I Come - Previously Unreleased
12. Regardez Moi (Here Comes The Star)
13. A Year Ago Today - Previously Unreleased
14. The Colder It Gets - Previously Unreleased
15. Big Ship - Previously Unreleased
16. Oh You Pretty Things - Peter Noone featuring David Bowie
17. Together Forever - Peter Noone
18. Right On Mother - Peter Noone
19. Walnut Whirl - Peter Noone
20. Shoo Be Doo Ah - Peter Noone
21. Because You’re There - Peter Noone
22. Should I (Have Loved You) - Peter Noone
23. Each And Every Minute - Peter Noone
24. Green Rocky Road - Peter Noone - Previously Unreleased
25. I Do Believe (in Music) – Peter Noone - Previously Unreleased

Please note that this pre-order link is for the European (EMI International) pressing, currently scheduled to come out before the UK version and priced about $15 lower:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001BE0M7A/?tag=imwan-20

You know what just made me have a chuckle right now? The thought of me at about the age of 7 or 8 and listening to Herman's Hermits outtakes and the vision of me scratching my head and going "Now just what is this stuff?" I could see the vision of me figuring it out eventually and then letting the collecting DNA of my inner self take over as I grew over time. Here I am at 46 all of these years later and I think I'm going to end up plinking down for a copy of this so that I can listen to the alternates and outtakes because this is my evolutionary state.. I find it interesting that this box is also being billed as a new mastering as well. Too bad the track listing isn't up at this current time. Once again, thanks for passing this along Linda.

Its a mixed bleesing these recent EMI Brit Invasion sets. Its the last ( and sometimes first) time these tracks will ever be available but they ALWAYS sound like pure stinking crap.

It's the last time they'll be available in physical format (and complete) from EMI, but EMI has been no-noising reissues at least since the Shadows 2-CD fatboy cased comp in 1990. Don't forget it was BGO, not EMI, that first reissued the Hollies' '60s back catalog on CD. So when EMI stops the reissues, and providing that they are willing to license their music to specialist labels, there are plenty of those that are more than willing to take a chance with Herman's Hermits, in fact Repertoire has reissued a couple of the later albums on CD for the first time.

There are already 4-5 different Herman's Hermits comps in the Archives, along with some of the Repertoire reissues. I'll wait and see if this box set shows up at 'Rama or elsewhere. (Hey, wasn't that a Zappa album--Rama or Elsewhere?)

Jimbo,
Do you think I should hold off on getting this? Word has swirled around at certain internet forums where Peter Noone has supposedly only given his sonic blessing of approval to one Herman's Hermits comp where he felt like there was justice done soundwise. It would just be nice to have something where some outtakes and alternates of some of their big songs would be on a comprehensive box. Hopefully, this is the case with this one. I'm actually kind of hoping that Noone or somebody from the Hermits camp who's still around had a hand in getting this upcoming box to be a least a little bit up to snuff.
I already have the ABKCO SACD hybrid. I have considered possibly investing in the Repertoire Blaze reissue in the past.
Concerning EMI stuff that has been reissued: I didn't think the expanded Truth album from Jeff Beck from a couple of years back sounded terribly bad compared to many other CD titles I've heard over the years. I don't know. My hearing may be a lot different from you guys because of my impairment.

I think I'm still siding on getting this anyway. It would be nice to have this with the outtakes and alternates. Plus, with how short Hermits albums were back in the day, I'm sure that the whole Blaze album (or at tleast the great majority of it) will be on this box. I do hope, however, that there will not be different track listings between the EMI International edition and the U.K. version.

But why(with the release date being less than a month away) is EMI so reluctant to reveal the song line-up on either the Herman's Hermits or Swinging Blue Jeans 4-CD box sets? Why all the secrecy?

I hope it's not as bright sounding at the EMI Gerry & The Pacemakers 4CD set. That one made my ears bleed. Heck, I'll probably get it anyway.... I'm sick.

Here are full details for the Swinging Blue Jeans box:

http://www.imwan.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=31566

Hey Steve:

What, me advise somebody to not buy a CD? Perish the thought!

There's a 2 week postponement(Until August 4th) on the Herman's Hermits box.

Now it's showing as August 12th at both Amazon USA and Amazon UK ...

I noticed the delay when I put in my order. I figured perhaps it was a typo.

Bump ~ added tracklisting to the first post.