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by **skinnytie** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 6:01 am

Does anyone know if the first two Thompson Twins albums ("A Product Of..." and "Set") are or were available on CD? I know the first album released in the USA ("In the Name of Love") was on CD, but was just a compilation of some of the tracks from these 2 albums. There was some really good stuff on these first two records, before they changed their sound to mostly synthesizers.

by **fritzb** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 10:47 am

I would think it highly unlikely that they ever were. Back then only a few "back catalog" albums were ever released on CD due to the limited CD production facilities available worldwide. I remember a time when all CDs came from one of 4 or 5 plants worldwide (1 in Germany, 1 in the USA, several in Japan).

Those two Thompson Twins releases were never particularly successful commercially and, like you said, most of that material was made available on "In The Name Of Love" CD in the USA (albeit a Japanese pressing).

by **skinnytie** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 3:33 pm

Now that you mention it, the CD was manufactured in Japan, but the rest of it looks like it was made in the USA. Impressive call!

by **InvisibleMan** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 8:34 pm

The only songs I liked by them were Hold me know and Doctor doctor... and thats on their greatest hits!... everything else was very disposable 80's new wave-pop... nothing memorable enough to last. The detectives song was pretty annoying actualy. lol but MTV played the heck out of them in the 80's

by **obs** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 4:45 am

Having rediscovered Here's to Future Days several months ago, I thought this was a decent album. It's not as catchy as Into the Gap but I quite like it.

An outdated TT page with an informative discog: http://www.gt350mustang.com/ttwins.shtml

by **siouxmoux** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 5:23 am

I remember seeing in the late 80's those album on cds from japan for double tariff price of $38.99 for the each of them.

http://geeklinks.net/ttvm - Where Tech TV Lives On.

by **Ollie Stench** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 4:50 am

http://www.sharoma.com/ttwins/download.htm

Not that I advocate illegally obtaining music, but the above link might help answer your questions.

by **siouxmoux** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 5:06 am

Too Bad there is NO .torrent files for TT Videos Albums.[V]

http://geeklinks.net/ttvm - Where Tech TV Lives On.

by **obs** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 8:03 am

Anyone able to connect to the tracker?

by **googoomuc** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 8:55 am

Posted - 02/28/2006 : 15:35:31
just found a Thompson Twins discography torrent with all albums and early singles. I think it was a box set. Great stuff
mininova.org

by **obs** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 9:10 am

The ones at Mininova are the same (with same tracker problems).

BTW, you can delete the posts in the other thread and just paste the text in your post above.

by **googoomuc** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 10:14 am

what tracker problems....
It worked for me..

by **Jimbo** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 12:42 pm

[quote][i]Originally posted by Ollie Stench[/i]
http://www.sharoma.com/ttwins/download.htm

Not that I advocate illegally obtaining music, but the above link might help answer your questions.
[/quote]

Ollie, whomever did that site is GOD LIKE! [^]

by **obs** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 4:41 pm

[i]what tracker problems....
It worked for me..[/i]

I only had one of them working once, and now it doesn't anymore. There's obviously issues with the tracker since you can't see the stats on Mininova except for one of torrents.

by **Ollie Stench** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 3:35 am

I was able to grab the discography torrent just fine. Took about 6 hours.

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