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Just saw this:



http://www.play.com/Music/CD/-/27/30/-/ ... type=genre


Don't You Want Me (Special Extended Dance Mix) - The Human League
Gold (12'' Mix) - Spandau Ballet
The War Song (Ultimate Dance Mix) - Culture Club
Girls On Film (12'' Mix) - Duran Duran
Temptation (Brothers In Rhythm Remix) - Heaven 17
Genetic Engineering (Extended) - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
Sometimes (12'' Mix) - Erasure
Together In Electric Dreams (Extended) (2003 Digital Remaster) - Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder
Too Shy (12'' Extended Version) - Kajagoogoo
Icing On The Cake (Remix) - Stephen Duffy
It's My Life (Extended Mix) - Talk Talk
Loves Great Adventure (12'' Version) - Ultravox
Disc 2

Atomic (Diddy's 12" Mix) - Blondie
Love Missile F1-11 (Ultraviolence Mix) - Sigue Sigue Sputnik
Kids In America (D-Bop's Bright Lights Mix) (Edit) - Kim Wilde
Dancing With Myself (Extended Version) - Generation X
Wild Wild Life (Long E.T. Mix) - Talking Heads
Simply Irresistible (Extended Version) - Robert Palmer
Don't You (Forget About Me) (Jam And Spoon Remix) (Edit) - Simple Minds
Flesh For Fantasy (Below The Belt Mix) (2002 Digital Remaster) - Billy Idol
Reap The Wild Wind (12'' Version) - Ultravox
Ghost Town (Extended Version) - The Specials
Rat In Mi Kitchen (12" Version) - UB40
Tomorrow People (Reggae This Remix) - Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers
Disc 3

Some Like It Hot (12'' Mix) - The Power Station
Waterfront (Union Jack Remix Edit) - Simple Minds
Hot In The City (1988 Remix) - Billy Idol
Call Me (Original 12" Mix) (1999 Digital Remaster) - Blondie
Crushed By The Wheels Of Industry (Extended Dance Version) - Heaven 17
All Stood Still (12'' Version) - Ultravox
The Sound Of The Crowd (12'' Version) (Complete) - The Human League
Situation (12" Remix) - Yazoo
Is It A Dream (Extended Version) - Classix Nouveaux
Imagination (12'' Version) - Belouis Some
Today (Extended Mix) - Talk Talk
She Blinded Me With Science (US Mix) - Thomas Dolby
Disc 4

Solid (Special Club Mix) - Ashford & Simpson
Hangin' On A String (Original 12" Mix) - Loose Ends
Everybody's Laughing (12" Version) - Phil Fearon & Galaxy
Some Guys Have All The Luck (Extended Version) - Maxi Priest
Cherry Oh Baby (Dub Mix) - UB40
Every 1's A Winner (12'' Version) - Hot Chocolate
We Close Our Eyes (12' Version) - Go West
Union Of The Snake (The Monkey Mix) - Duran Duran
Christian - China Crisis
He Ain't No Competition (12'' Version) - Brother Beyond
True (12'' Mix) - Spandau Ballet
Summertime (Extended 12'' Mix) - Fun Boy Three

argh. These collections are getting ridiculous. At least half of these songs are on the 4-disc set Original 80s remix, and many of them are also on numerous other compilations. There are a couple of new finds, but how many times are we going to spend big bux on 4-discs worth of mostly rehashes? Meanwhile, the disc cover says 72 tracks and 6 CDs, and the track listing only shows 48 tracks on 4 discs. So maybe there are some more gems to be found on the other two discs.

Seeing how some of you seem to gloss over the page and missed the link:
http://media.play.com/ContentDocs/11439623.pdf


Disc 5
1. 19 (12'' Version) - Paul Hardcastle
2. The Politics Of Dancing (Extended Version) - Re-Flex
3. Set Me Free (12'' Version) - Jaki Graham
4. Living In A Box (12'' Club Mix) - Living In A Box
5. Respectable (Club Mix) - Mel & Kim
6. Mony Mony (12'' Mix) - Amazulu
7. Whatever I Do (Wherever I Go) (Extended Version) - Hazell Dean
8. I Thank You (Club Mix) - Adeva
9. Ain't Nobody Better (Groove Corporation Remix) - Inner City
10. Labour Of Love (12'' Version) - Hue And Cry
11. The Reflex (Dance Mix) - Duran Duran
12. It's A Miracle/Miss Me Blind (US 12'' Mix) - Culture Club

Disc 6
1. (Keep Feeling) Fascination (Extended Version) - The Human League
2. I'll Tumble 4 Ya (US 12'' Remix) - Culture Club
3. Chant No 1 (I Don't Need This Pressure On) (12'' Version) - Spandau Ballet
4. (We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang (Rapino Club Mix) - Heaven 17
5. Is There Something I Should Know (Monster Mix) - Duran Duran
6. Telegraph (Extended) - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
7. Hyperactive! (Heavy Breather Subversion) - Thomas Dolby
8. The Circus (Remix) - Erasure
9. Life's What You Make It (Extended Mix) - Talk Talk
10. And She Was (Extended Mix) - Talking Heads
11. Shattered Dreams (12'' Extended Mix) - Johnny Hates Jazz
12. The Telephone Always Rings (12'' Extended Mix) - Fun Boy Three

It's certainly worth buying and a for a tenner that's a good price. Only thing being and budaniel mentioned it is that the vast majority of these mixes have been used on other compilations and using modern remixes just doesn't work in the case of Simple Minds where they could have quite easily stuck on the original 12inch mixes.Why Christian By China Crisis is on there is anybody guess they must be trying to pass this of as a 12 inch mix they way they used to keep doing with Wishful Thinking.

It is a very mixed bag.

The strengths of the Retro Active series is that tought goes into it.

You can listen to it without skipping tracks.

oh well. The track lists for the last 2-discs didn't make it any better. Pretty much ALL of that stuff has been on CD already.

Aren't a lot of these remixes actually from the 1990s? And someone please tell me that "Diddy's 12" mix" of "Atomic" isn't what I think it is.

[quote][i]Originally posted by thefxc[/i]
<br>Aren't a lot of these remixes actually from the 1990s? And someone please tell me that "Diddy's 12" mix" of "Atomic" isn't what I think it is.
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Heh. I have a poster of Debbie Harry(under the name Blondie) that advertises the diddy mix of Atomic.

Are these worthwhile remixes, or is it just the same tired old formula for mixes where they stretch out the intro, play the main title vocal, then play the song, and near the end, studder the vocals?

no, the diddy mix was done in the mid-90s on the Blondie: Remixed, Remade Remodeled CD, or whatever it was called. The entire album was hardhouse/progressive/deep house mixes mixed by popular dance remixers of that time.

I wonder what 12 inch version of We Close Our Eyes by Go West they have put on this. I hope it's the Total Overhang Mix that was on the original 12 inch and on the recent The Original 80s Remix Box Set and not the Total Overhang Club Mix which was on Bangs & Crashes.Need to wait for track times or sound samples to be certain. If it is the Total Overhang Mix obviously that has been mastered from vinyl so why couldn't they do that with more mixes that haven't been released on cd before instead of the vast majority of mixes on this that have appeared on other compilations numerous times. Yeah and Original Hits 80s 12" with five 90s mixes on it go figure.

What does it have later club mixes of Simple Minds mixed in with 80's mixes, that is kind of strange.

What does it have later club mixes of Simple Minds mixed in with 80's mixes, that is kind of strange.

I noticed on other compilations they keep using the 90s mixes of the Simple Minds and Heaven 17 tracks to name but two. Must be something to do with licensing is all i can think of then again i don't think Simple Minds are too keen on releasing there original 12 inches after they put the block on this http://www.simpleminds.org/sm/discog/tpc/tpccd1.htm buggers.

It can't be licensing as Simple Minds and Heaven 17 80s 12" mixes appear often enough on compilations. Can only think it's a mistake or the price is too low for Simple Minds and Heaven 17 to allow their best mixes onto the album. Either way EMI just seemed to have trawled their catalogue for 12" mixes by 80s artists and thrown them onto 6 CDs in no particular order...