Members: This is my first post.
DISCLAIMER
There has been lament regarding lack of availability of many
tracks on CD below. As a service, I wanted to call your
attention to the existence of this series.
Yes, they are gray market, however, they are also readily
available for those interested. To my mind, in this context,
bootleg status is irrelevant.
It is not a matter of stealing from the artists. In fact,
many of the performers have sanctioned the appearance and
historical preservation of their efforts, with the caveat
that the volume of 'unit shifting' remains under the radar
so as not to attract the (belated) attention of (otherwise
indifferent) label management.
Quite an irony, the desire for recognition and appreciation
of their talents leading to wink-wink-nudge-nudge under the
table "licensing" agreements but only if not TOO many people
become appreciative.
In Other Words: "We won't lift a finger until you show us
we can make a buck off this obscuro crap then we'll go back
and harass those who showed us there was a market for this
obscuro crap."
I am a capitalist, yet there are times when strict
marketplace considerations can be ethically disregarded.
A combination of indifference, incompetence and borderline
criminal neglect has contributed to this sad state of affairs;
that is, crucial tracks and versions thereof have fallen through
the cracks.
Bottom Line: whatever the bumbling antics (or rational economic
decisions) of those holding the rights to these songs may be,
many of the tracks in this series will still be providing
enjoyment long after the people responsible for withholding
them from the listener have faded into oblivion.
From my tastes, here are just a few examples of Label / Artist
idiocy and marketplace indifference contributing to the need
for this series and ones similar:
1) early Ministry. 'Nuff said.
2) Twist of Shadows era Xymox remixes, b-sides.
3) Secession, as a practical matter, unavailable.
Each of you has your own axes to grind in this regard, I'm sure.
The majority of the tracks below are (as of this writing) not on
officially sanctioned compilations or reissues in this form, to
my knowledge.
WHEN they are, I will purchase them (again) in those forms.
Within reason. I am NOT going to purchase (to use another
example) a butchered, redundant 2CD "Greatest Rehash" just to
get the officially sanctioned SATB Glamour mix of Dazzle.
Janet and the Icebergs will be retired AFTER they reissue
the original albums RIGHT.
Translation: ONLY IF they aren't lame rip-offs.
As with any comp series, a good % are useless but there are
also ESSENTIAL tracks I prefer to have as CD audio quality
rather than downloading them as MP3s.
If I could pull up Amazon or GEMM and have it be a REASONABLY
easy process to obtain some of these songs, I will / would do
so.
Enough clarification; scan the below and make your own
determinations.
Subculture: Rare New Wave Kult Klassix Vol.01
Fashion - Love Shadow 8:02
Frida - I Know There's Something Going On 5:25
Wide Boy Awake - Slang Teacher 5:23
Gabi Delgado - History of a Kiss 5:29
Elvis Costello - Party Party 3:12
Tin Tin - Kiss Me 5:30
Tears for Fears - Change 5:57
Tourists - I Only Want to Be With You 2:21
Cult Hero - I Dig You 3:22
Way of the West - Don't Say That's Just for White Boys 7:21
The The - Uncertain Smile 9:56
Naked Eyes - Always Something There to Remind Me 5:40
Fun Boy Three & Bananarama - It Ain't What You Do 5:48
Subculture: Rare New Wave Kult Klassix Vol.02
Comsat Angels - Will You Stay Tonight? 4:17
Fiction Factory - Feels Like Heaven 5:51
Nine Ways to Win - Close to You 3:43
Hawaiian Pups - Young Boys 2:50
B Movie - A Letter From Afar 8:07
Vision - Love Dance 6:32
Blue Zoo - Somewhere in the World There's a Cowboy Smiling 5:58
Echo & the Bunnymen - Killing Moon 9:06
Tin Tin - Hold It 5:55
Troy Tate - Love Is... 4:20
Kraftwerk - Tour de France 6:31
Sexbeat - Sexbeat 3:34
Total Coelo - I Eat Cannibals 6:33
Subculture: Rare New Wave Kult Klassix Vol.03
Alphaville - Big in Japan 7:13
Earons - Land of Hunger 7:01
A Bigger Splash - I Don't Believe a Word 4:08
Intaferon - Baby Pain 5:58
Blancmange - Don't Tell Me 6:21
Torch Song - Don't Look Now 7:37
Vicious Pink - Cccan't You See 7:13
Ebn Ozn - Bag Lady I Wonder 4:37
APB - What Kind of Girl? 4:43
Paul Haig - The Only Truth 3:47
Secession - Touch Part 3 6:38
Frank Chickens - Fujiyama Mama 4:12
Crazy 8's - Johnny Q 4:02
Subculture: Rare New Wave Kult Klassix Vol.04
The Lover Speaks - Every Lover's Sign 5:52
Vitamin Z - Burning Flame 7:02
P4F - PMachinery / Relax Medley 6:42
Stephen Duffy - Unkiss That Kiss 6:41
Alphaville - Jet Set 6:27
DAF - Absolute Body Control 5:34
Secession - Michael 6:05
Boris Badenough - Hey Rocky! 6:53
Paul Haig - Heaven Help You Now 8:36
Big Audio Dynamite - C'mon Every Beatbox 5:46
Vindaloo Summer Special - Rockin' With Rita 3:59
Modern English - Ink and Paper 3:57
Subculture: Rare New Wave Kult Klassix Vol.05
Camouflage - That Smiling Face 6:01
That Petrol Emotion - Big Decision 4:37
Xymox - Imagination 6:30
Frazier Chorus - Typical 2:56
APB - When I Feel This Way 5:25
Pop Will Eat Itself - There is No Love Between Us Anymore 5:23
Peter Schilling - The Different Story World of Lust and Crime 6:40
Experimental Products - Experiment! 6:06
Crazy House - Burning Rain 6:35
Shona Laing - Soviet Snow 6:42
Flesh for Lulu - I Go Crazy 6:34
Secession - Sneakyville 6:16
Swans - Love Will Tear Us Apart 3:39
Subculture: Rare New Wave Kult Klassix Vol.06
Sinceros - Disappearing 3:43
Michael Des Barres & Holly Knight - Obsession 5:41
Tears for Fears - Pale Shelter You Don't Give Me Love 6:29
Nine Ways to Win - Close to You 4:37
Quando Quango - Love Tempo 7:50
Fiction Factory - Ghost of Love 5:16
Yello - I Love You 7:02
Simple Minds - I Travel 6:41
Industry - State of the Nation 4:30
Cure - Just One Kiss 7:45
Made For TV - So Afraid of the Russians 5:05
Hilary - Kinetic 5:09
Haysi Fantayzee - Shiny Shiny 4:33
Subculture: Rare New Wave Kult Klassix Vol.07
Kaja - Turn Your Back on Me 6:58
Belouis Some - Some People 7:36
KTP - Certain Things Are Likely 7:39
Big Audio Dynamite - Bottom Line 8:42
Magazine 60 - Don Quichotte 6:29
Ledernacken - Amok! 5:55
Digette - Fred From Jupiter 4:10
Beastie Boys - She's On It 4:18
Iggy Pop - Real Wild Child 8:27
Charlie Sexton - Beat's So Lonely 6:31
Burns Sister Band - I Wonder Who's Out Tonight 3:38
Michael Hutchence - Dogs in Space 2:54
Subculture: Rare New Wave Kult Klassix Vol.08
Ofra Haza - Im Nin 'Alu 5:38
Thrashing Doves - Jesus on the Payroll 5:15
Shona Laing - Glad I'm Not a Kennedy 5:09
Dead Milkmen - Instant Club Hit 5:08
Renegade Soundwave - Biting My Nails 4:06
Nitzer Ebb - Join in the Chant 5:22
Duran Duran - Decadance 7:56
Longsy D - This is Ska 5:13
Sinead O'Connor - Mandinka 6:02
Mighty Lemon Drops - Inside Out 5:26
Siouxsie & the Banshees - Passenger 8:05
Lucy Show - New Message 4:54
Ramones - I Wanna Be Sedated 5:11
Subculture: Rare New Wave Kult Klassix Vol.09
Bad Manners - That'll Do Nicely 4:13
Naked Eyes - Promises, Promises 5:31
Freur - Matters of the Heart 6:22
Ministry - I Wanted to Tell Her 7:07
Tears for Fears - Pale Shelter 6:44
Fun Boy Three - Our Lips Are Sealed 6:05
Danse Society - Danse/Move 8:40
INXS - The One Thing 6:03
Hilary - Drop Your Pants 3:29
Rockats - Make That Move 6:07
Intaferon - Get Out of London 8:01
Roman Holliday - Motormania 5:09
Subculture: Rare New Wave Kult Klassix Vol.10
Pogues - Haunted 3:33
Movieland - Postcard to New York 8:00
KTP - Certain Things Are Likely 7:37
Tabu D'Apache - Don't Believe in Love 6:44
Blancmange - Don't Tell Me 6:40
Aha - Sun Always Shines on TV 8:23
Dr Calculus - Killed By Poetry 5:12
Vicious Pink - Fetish 6:14
Propaganda - Duel 7:36
Lene Lovich - Breakin' the Rules 3:01
Blancmange - Living on the Ceiling 10:35
Subculture: Rare New Wave Kult Klassix Vol.11
Anything Box - This is My Oblivion 1:49
Crossfire Choir - Canary Song 4:46
Public Image Ltd - Seattle 4:36
Alarm - Rain in the Summertime 8:35
Belouis Some - Animal Magic 6:54
Frazier Chorus - Typical 4:39
Westworld - Sonic Boom Boy 5:25
Anything Box - Living in Oblivion 5:55
Age of Chance - Don't Get Mad... Get Even 5:21
Men Without Hats - Pop Goes the World 7:47
Aztec Camera - Somewhere in My Heart 7:08
Marc Almond - Tears Run Rings 7:07
All That Jazz - Cruel Summer 3:21
Subculture: Rare New Wave Kult Klassix Vol.12
Belle Stars - Iko Iko 4:48
Ministry - Work for Love 6:26
Blondie - Rapture 6:26
Freeez - Pop Goes My Love 8:11
Endgames - First, Last, for Everything 5:24
Laid Back - White Horse 5:42
SPK - Metal Dance 7:19
The Beat - I Confess 5:43
Kissing The Pink - Watching Their Eyes 5:26
Units - A Girl Like You 4:03
Combo Audio - Romanticide 3:36
Major Thinkers - Avenue B 3:27
Electric Guitars - Wolfman Tap 4:46
Jools Holland - Bumble Boogie 2:06
Subculture: Rare New Wave Kult Klassix Vol.13
Level 42 - Something About You 7:36
Ampersand - Traction 8:00
East Wall - Eyes of Glass 7:03
The Vels - Look My Way 4:45
Tabu D'Apache - Colours 6:38
OMD - So in Love 5:40
New Order - Subculture 7:25
Al Corley - Square Rooms 3:37
Alarm - The Chant Has Just Begun 5:11
Figures on a Beach - Breathless 5:43
The Quick - Bed of Nails 7:08
Aha - Take on Me 4:44
Subculture: Rare New Wave Kult Klassix Vol.14
Eurythmics - Beethoven 5:17
When in Rome - The Promise 6:26
Crazy House - Burning Rain 7:16
Duran Duran - All She Wants Is 7:18
I Start Counting - Lose Him 7:15
Camouflage - Great Commandment 6:11
Red Flag - Broken Heart 5:38
Secession - Promise 5:12
Xymox - Obsession 6:34
Malcolm McLaren - Something's Jumpin' In Your Shirt 7:38
NoHo - Touch 6:28
Cure - Hey You!!! 2:21
Subculture: Rare New Wave Kult Klassix Vol.15
Monyaka - Go Deh Yaka 6:33
Third World - Try Jah Love 9:16
Howard Jones - New Song 5:27
Cabaret Voltaire - Yashar 7:26
Duran Duran - Fame 3:16
Higsons - Run Me Down 7:21
Twelve Drummers Drumming - We'll Be the First Ones 4:32
Dalek I Love You - Ambition 3:40
Syl Sylvian - Formidable 4:08
Affairs of the Heart - Waterloo Sunset 5:25
Novo Combo - City Bound 5:08
Velveteen - Wild Rain 5:18
Devo - Theme From Doctor Detroit 6:02
Subculture: Rare New Wave Kult Klassix Vol.16
Dr. Calculus - Perfume From Spain 5:17
King - Alone Without You 4:37
Hipsway - Honeythief 4:38
Fiction Factory - No Time 5:58
Torch Song - Tattered Dress 5:02
Aha - I've Been Losing You 7:02
OMD - Talking Loud and Clear 6:10
Eurythmics - Missionary Man 6:47
Karon Finley - Tales of Taboo 5:46
Midge Ure - If I Was 6:40
Dead or Alive - Misty Circles 9:12
Adventures - Send My Heart 6:12
Subculture: Rare New Wave Kult Klassix Vol.17
Sinead O'Connor - I Want Your Hands on Me 4:50
Cabaret Voltaire - Here to Go 6:56
Echo & the Bunnymen - Bedbugs and Ballyhoo 6:15
Figures on a Beach - Accidentally 4th Street 7:03
Loveland - When You Dress Up 7:09
Red Flag - Russian Radio 4:41
I Start Counting - Lose Him 5:25
Lloyd Cole - My Bag 6:38
Creatures - Standing There 10:08
Mission - Wasteland 7:28
Red Box - Chenko 6:51
Subculture: Rare New Wave Kult Klassix Vol.18
Pete Shelley - Witness the Change/I Don't Know What It Is 8:17
The Belle Stars - Sign of the Times 5:35
Bill Nelson - Flaming Desire 6:22
Public Image Ltd - This is Not a Love Song 4:26
November Group - Put Your Back to It 5:42
Units - The Right Man 4:06
Dalek I Love You - Ambition 7:38
Strange Advance - Love Games 4:49
Machinations - Pressure Sway 4:55
Seona Dancing - More to Lose 6:01
Kissing the Pink - Love Lasts Forever 6:18
Howard Devoto - Rainy Season 5:01
Maurice and the Cliches - Soft Core 4:21
Subculture: Rare New Wave Kult Klassix Vol.19
Floy Joy - Weak in the Presence of Beauty 5:12
Echo & the Bunnymen - Bring on the Dancing Horses 5:45
Angel Chorus - Devil on My Shoulder 7:38
Few Boys - Secret Times 5:33
Until December - Heaven 6:58
Bryan Ferry - Don't Stop the Dance 5:45
Paul Haig - The Only Truth 7:12
Mike Mareen - Love Spy 8:33
Boys Don't Cry - I Wanna Be a Cowboy 6:02
B-Movie - Switch On Switch Off 7:03
Xmal Deutschland - Matador 7:49