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HIRED HISTORY PLUS: 2CD EXPANDED EDITION (REMASTERED)
Label CHERRY RED
Catalog CDBRED742
Format CD
Discs 2
Category ROCK/POPS
Street Date 2019-04-19
Description
・ This 2 CD collection brings together the entire 1980’s recorded output of synth pop pioneers, Fiat Lux. The original “Hired History” album - and indeed all of the bonus tracks - are appearing on CD for the very first time *
・ Disc One features the band’s commercially released tracks including the band’s debut single for Cocteau Records and the five released by Polydor Records in a period spanning 1982-85.
・ Disc Two is the lost and previously unreleased second album “Ark Of Embers” as the band originally intended it when it was made with producer, Hugh Jones.
・ This collection includes the following singles:
‘Feels Like Winter Again’ released in 1982 on Bill Nelson’s Cocteau Records the A and B sides are featured.
‘Photography’- the previously unreleased Bill Nelson 12” version
‘Blue Emotion’ – 12” version plus its b/side ‘Sleepless Nightmare’
‘House Of Thorns’ – 12” version and its b/side ‘Three’s Company’
‘Solitary Lovers’ -12” version and the b/sides ‘No More Proud (Proud Mix)’ and ‘No More Proud (Dub Mix)’
‘Secrets’ – and its B-sides ‘Comfortable Life’ and ‘Aqua Vitae’
・ All the tracks have been sourced and re-mastered from the original production master tapes after months of searching tape archives and exhaustive listening sessions to trace the correct versions.
・ The CD booklet features the original album cover plus extensive sleeve notes written by band members Steve Wright and David Crickmore telling the band’s story from a unique perspective. There is also a foreword written by the producer of ‘Ark Of Embers’, Hugh Jones who has also worked with Echo & The Bunnymen, Del Amitri, Julian Cope and Bauhaus amongst others.
* All tracks appear on CD for the first time except Feels Like Winter Again that appeared on a long deleted See For Miles CD Compilation.
tracklisting
DISC ONE:
HIRED HISTORY PLUS
1. SECRETS
2. PHOTOGRAPHY
3. BLUE EMOTION (12” VERSION)
4. COMFORTABLE LIFE
5. SLEEPLESS NIGHTMARE
(12” VERSION)
6. AQUA VITAE
BONUS TRACKS
7. FEELS LIKE WINTER AGAIN *
8. THIS ILLNESS
9. PHOTOGRAPHY (UNRELEASED BILL NELSON VERSION)
10. COMFORTABLE LIFE (UNRELEASED BILL NELSON 12” VERSION)
11. HOUSE OF THORNS
12. SLEEPLESS NIGHTMARE
13. THREE’S COMPANY
14. HOUSE OF THORNS (12” VERSION)
15. SOLITARY LOVERS (12” VERSION)
16. NO MORE PROUD (PROUD MIX)
17. NO MORE PROUD (DUB MIX)
18. SALLY FREE AND EASY

DISC TWO:
ARK OF EMBERS (LOST ALBUM)
1. THE MOMENT
2. BREAKING THE BOUNDARY
3. BLUE EMOTION
4. EMBERS
5. NO MORE PROUD
6. PHOTOGRAPHY
7. SPLURGE
8. SECRETS
9. AQUA VITAE
10. IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT
11. SOLITARY LOVERS
 

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