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To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Island Records, a number of milestone releases on the label will be re-released as Deluxe Editions. Tom Tom Club's breakthrough debut album is one of the albums that get the Deluxe treatment, and will come out as a 2CD set with not just a bunch of bonus tracks: The package includes an entire bonus album, the bands 2nd record "Close to the Bone", which has never been released on CD before

Full tracklist for the "Tom Tom Club - Deluxe Edition" (to be confirmed):

CD1 - "Tom Tom Club" LP: Wordy Rapinghood, Genius of Love, Tom Tom Theme, L'Elephant, As Above so Below, Lorelei, On On On On, Booming and Zooming

Bonus tracks: Under the Boardwalk, On On On On (Remixed Version), Lorelei (Remixed Version), Spooks, Elephant, (You Don't Stop) Wordy Rappinghood

CD2 - "Close to the Bone" LP: Pleasure of Love, On the Line Again, This is a Foxy World, Bamboo Town, The Man With the 4-Way Hips, Measure Up, Never Took a Penny, Astababy! (Life is Great)

Bonus tracks: The Man With the 4-Way Hips (Extended Version), Pleasure of Love (Instrumental vesion), The Man With the 4-Way Hips (Dub Version), Yella! (Mr Yella)

http://www.talking-heads.nl/

It is about TIME Close to the Bone is released on CD, and the bonus tracks are a real...um...bonus...

Not too exciting on CTTB, I'd rather have the 7" remixed version of Pleasure Of Love than the instrumental.

I'm really looking forward to this -- about time TTC got a remaster and CTTB, well, finally got released!

THIS IS FANTASTIC FUCKING NEWS!


okay, i'll simmer down now. but i'm excited! i just listened to "close to the bone" last week!
anyone that has the first album on cd has a few of those bonus tracks already, but remastered is great.

hooray!

Finally..."The Man With The Four Way Hips" on cd! Easily my fave TTC song.

can't find the CD listed on amazon yet. wonder what the exact release date is.

yes, this does look great, i saw it a month ago!!

May 18th release date according to HMV and Amazon.

Well...it's an interesting release. Strange choice of bonus tracks on the eponymous album - my original CD has the extended Wordy Rappinghood and Genius of Love on them, but they've been missed off here. And then some strange 'single' versions (it's the B side of Wordy Rappinghood f'rinstance, there would've been room to put the A side on too!). Close to the Bone (always the better album anyway) is glorious although again, missing some 7" edits but at least all the 12"s are there. Nice packaging, nice reproduction and worth a 6 out of 10 for the incomplete first album and a magnificent 12 out of 10 for the marvellous Close to the Bone. All we need is a decent (ie accurate 7" versions) singles collection and the rest of their back catalogue given a decent overhaul.

Yes I agree - I much prefer the 12" mixes of Wordy Rappinghood and Genius Of Love to the album versions. I have that US Sire CD too and the sound is very thin on it, this edition is a huge upgrade in sound quality but not in choices of bonuses.

It is a long time since I've seen my 12" copy so I can't remember - but is there an extended version of Under The Boardwalk?

[quote][i]Originally posted by BigManRestless[/i]
<br>Yes I agree - I much prefer the 12" mixes of Wordy Rappinghood and Genius Of Love to the album versions. I have that US Sire CD too and the sound is very thin on it, this edition is a huge upgrade in sound quality but not in choices of bonuses.

It is a long time since I've seen my 12" copy so I can't remember - but is there an extended version of Under The Boardwalk?
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yes

well, tried to order my copy from Amazon this morning, the release date, but their site went from a release date of May 19 yesterday to now saying not in stock. Amazon has been doing this more and more lately. Has it been released and amazon just didn't bother getting copies in their warehouses yet?

I've noticed that with Amazon also. It makes me wonder if they only order one or two copies up front?

well, usually, if it IS released on time, some amazon marketplace sellers I buy from regularly have it listed immediately. When amazon says it's out of stock immediately, the only marketplace sellers who list it are overseas sellers, so I can only assume that means the domestic release has been postponed.