Frankie Say: Greatest

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Hi all,

Some of you may have been aware that there is some "new" Frankie Goes To Hollywood releases up & coming.

Here are the details:

Frankie Say Greatest - in either 1CD or 2CD

Disc 1

01)Relax
02)Two Tribes
03)Welcome To The Pleasuredome (Escape Act Video Mix)
04)War
05) The Power Of Love
06)Ferry Cross The Mersey
07)Is There Anybody Out There
08)Tag
09) Born To Run
10)Rage Hard
11)Warriors Of the Wasteland
12)Watching The Wildlife
13)Happy Hi
14)The Waves
15)Relax (Chicane Radio Edit)
16)Two Tribes (Hibauska)
17)Relax (Lockout)

Disc 2

18)Relax (Sex Mix)
19)Two Tribes (Annihilation)
20)War (Hidden)
21)Welcome To The Pleasuredome
22)Rage Hard (Freddie Bastone Remix)
23)Watching The Wildlife (Hotter)
24)Relax (Scott Stoch)
25)Suffragette City
26)Our Silver Turns To Gold
27)Get It On

Well it's a bit of a strange one this one, we have the usual suspects, two unreleased tracks (but well known to Frankie fans).

A couple of the new mixes included too.

No mention of being remastered & no detail of the dvd at present

Be curious to get feedback from others............

[unique]

i thought there was going to be more rarer stuff on it

there's also a promo of new remixes of relax

chicane radio edit 3.55
jody den broden radio mix 3.47
jody den broden club mix 7.39
jody den broden dub mix 5.39
LMC remix 5.18
lockout radio edit 3.31
lockout london mix 5.15
spencer & hill radio edit 3.21
spencer & hill remix 5.40
scott storch mix 3.45


the new remixes are similar to the last lot of remixes, just house/techno dance mixes, nothing exciting

i have every official fgth track, including all the remixes. i have a ton of crappy unnofficial remixes too. i was looking forward to a better compilation of rarer stuff

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Originally Posted by unique

i thought there was going to be more rarer stuff on it

there's also a promo of new remixes of relax

chicane radio edit 3.55
jody den broden radio mix 3.47
jody den broden club mix 7.39
jody den broden dub mix 5.39
LMC remix 5.18
lockout radio edit 3.31
lockout london mix 5.15
spencer & hill radio edit 3.21
spencer & hill remix 5.40
scott storch mix 3.45


the new remixes are similar to the last lot of remixes, just house/techno dance mixes, nothing exciting

i have every official fgth track, including all the remixes. i have a ton of crappy unnofficial remixes too. i was looking forward to a better compilation of rarer stuff

Yes I agree 100%

This compilation can't decide whether it wants to be for the casual fan or the hardcore fan.

My thoughts.

0) The cover is AWFUL, shouldn't matter had it not been the case that the ZTT releases tokk a lot ot care on the presentation

02) Why is the Hibauska mix of Two Tribes on the first (and single) disc?, when the Annihilation mix is relegated to CD2?

03) Is Relax going to be the usual version off of the LP or is it going to finally be the original 7"?

04) Why include Is There Anybody Out There from Liverpool?, seems a strange choice when we could have had Lunar Bay or Kill The Pain?

05) Are these remastered??, I think I know the answer.........

Anyway, Welcome To The Pleasuredome is being reissued next month, no extras just a standard disc

Union Square have said that they intend to reissue all the ZTT back cat next year, though to be honest, I don't hold much faith in the end result.

It's Warner Brothers hear we go again...........

[unique]

i've not seen the cover, i've seen the website with the countdown though. i presumed it would be something like that

what would have been nice is a compilation of the original 12" versions over two discs, with some of the rarer versions, rather than more new remixes

btw there are two different cd's of welcome to the pleasuredome, both have different tracks missing to fit on one disc

there's nothing on the compilation that i don't already have, they could have put more of the demos or really rare stuff on the second disc

i didn't know the rest of the ztt stuff was coming out. the hoodlum priest first album was interesting. i had all the ztt stuff to a point a long time ago, but some of it just became too avant garde

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Well apparently next year there will be a double WTPD CD & possibly one for Liverpool (not really an album that I've ever cared for).

Really all I need is a complete set of cd singles along the lines of the Duran Duran singles boxsets.

There are of course quite a few tracks that have never made it onto cd, amongst I'm thinking the b-sides of the second 12"inch of Power of Love, the Starfix & Pleasure fix versions etc.

& of course of the original 7 inch of relax (only available on the expensive Japanese box set from this year)

& then of course there is Propaganda........

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Oh & you want to see how awful the cover is??

Brace yourselves..........

Play.com (UK) : Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Frankie Say Greatest : CD - Free Delivery

[unique]

that is a bad cover

yeah, the pleasurefix etc mixes from the gatefold POL 12" would be nice on cd. it's hard to keep track of everything as you get slightly differrent versions on the cassette singles and cd singles. relax, two tribes and power of love cassettes were edited together like a mixtape, the rage hard cd was similar, and the 7"s had different mixes, two 7"s of rage hard, was it a 10" or picture disc of pleasuredome that had a different mix to the 12", etc etc

it's a shame they waste space on the cds with the "new" remixes and putting the same old stuff on instead of some of the mixes that hadn't been on cd before. you have the great live tube version of born to run from the ZTT sampler LP, the MSG live version of two tribes and the live version of relax from the cassette that came with the computer game

propaganda didn't have quite as many remixes but i think they put most if not all of them on cd a while back

i think they put all the videos on the last frankie dvd, so i don't know what else they could put on a new one. perhaps the original video for relax with the pre trevor horn demo version and some clips from the tube, TOTP and other tv shows would be nice

i met nash a couple of years ago, the friend i was with used to hang out with the band back in their hey day and watch them rehearse, so she recognised him in the bar and we hung out for a bit before losing them on the way to the next bar. he was wanting to write a memoir/book but couldn't remember most of what they did so asked my friend to help him remember stuff. frankie reformed for abit without him and holly, but he is still in touch with him (no, he didn't die of aids!). there has been on and off talk of them reforming, but i think holly isn't interested. if spandua ballet and ABC can do it, so can they, but i wouldn't expect much from a new album. apparently the rest of the band were working on one. i dread to imagine how bad it would be. liverpool was a major dissapointment after pleasuredome

[LostFanBoy]

first band I saw live ..Manchester Apollo

[PJTX100]

They should've done it in some form of 5.1 too.

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Originally Posted by PJTX100

They should've done it in some form of 5.1 too.

Have you tried

Rage Hard:The Sonic Collection: Frankie Goes to Hollywood: Amazon.co.uk: Music

It's on Amazon at a stupid price, but you can still pick it up much cheaper

[russ123]

Was looking at this at the weekend and as suspected I have pretty much all of it already, even looking at the 2 discer.
However has anyone seen the Itunes version???
It adds covers of Do You Think I'm Sexy and Every Kind Of People
The first appears to be Hollyless and the second more a redundant Holly solo outtake.
I've only listened to the 30second sample but that's enough. Thank god they never made a 3rd album if that was where they were headed

[unique]

Originally Posted by russ123

Was looking at this at the weekend and as suspected I have pretty much all of it already, even looking at the 2 discer.
However has anyone seen the Itunes version???
It adds covers of Do You Think I'm Sexy and Every Kind Of People
The first appears to be Hollyless and the second more a redundant Holly solo outtake.
I've only listened to the 30second sample but that's enough. Thank god they never made a 3rd album if that was where they were headed

i never knew about this, but if it was hollyless then it would be nashless too, so it's just half the original band with another singer. mind there is the rumour that the blockheads played on the first album as fgth couldn't play, so it may well have the most fgth input of any album

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Originally Posted by unique

i never knew about this, but if it was hollyless then it would be nashless too, so it's just half the original band with another singer. mind there is the rumour that the blockheads played on the first album as fgth couldn't play, so it may well have the most fgth input of any album

My understanding of the Blockheads contribution was that their bassplayer provided the original bassline to Relax, however it was a sample of the first couple of beats of Talking Heads (Burning Down The House I think) that was used for the New York Mix.

Also there was a session take with the Blockheads, but this proved unsatisfactory.

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Originally Posted by unique

that is a bad cover

yeah, the pleasurefix etc mixes from the gatefold POL 12" would be nice on cd. it's hard to keep track of everything as you get slightly differrent versions on the cassette singles and cd singles. relax, two tribes and power of love cassettes were edited together like a mixtape, the rage hard cd was similar, and the 7"s had different mixes, two 7"s of rage hard, was it a 10" or picture disc of pleasuredome that had a different mix to the 12", etc etc

it's a shame they waste space on the cds with the "new" remixes and putting the same old stuff on instead of some of the mixes that hadn't been on cd before. you have the great live tube version of born to run from the ZTT sampler LP, the MSG live version of two tribes and the live version of relax from the cassette that came with the computer game

propaganda didn't have quite as many remixes but i think they put most if not all of them on cd a while back

i think they put all the videos on the last frankie dvd, so i don't know what else they could put on a new one. perhaps the original video for relax with the pre trevor horn demo version and some clips from the tube, TOTP and other tv shows would be nice

i met nash a couple of years ago, the friend i was with used to hang out with the band back in their hey day and watch them rehearse, so she recognised him in the bar and we hung out for a bit before losing them on the way to the next bar. he was wanting to write a memoir/book but couldn't remember most of what they did so asked my friend to help him remember stuff. frankie reformed for abit without him and holly, but he is still in touch with him (no, he didn't die of aids!). there has been on and off talk of them reforming, but i think holly isn't interested. if spandua ballet and ABC can do it, so can they, but i wouldn't expect much from a new album. apparently the rest of the band were working on one. i dread to imagine how bad it would be. liverpool was a major dissapointment after pleasuredome

Propaganda did indeed include the majority of mixes on Outside World,

However the few tracks were mastered from VINYL, I kid you not.

Also the UK & German versions have differences, but that's for another thread!

The only thing that the Hard On dvd missed is the the full length "Destructo" version of Two Tribes, choosing to use the edited version instead.

It was the second 12" of WTTP that had another mix "Fruitness", the sleeve had a bowl of fruit on it. It had Geffrey Palmer doing the narration, fab stuff!

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Originally Posted by soundstory

however it was a sample of the first couple of beats of Talking Heads (Burning Down The House I think) that was used for the New York Mix.

Actually, now I think about it, it was Psycho Killer