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Landscape a Go-Go: The Story of Landscape 1977-83 5CD Boxset


Landscape a Go-Go: The Story of Landscape 1977-83 5CD Boxset

Postby drivel » Wed Mar 22, 2023 5:04 am

https://landscape.tmstor.es/product/111519

5CD set containing remastered 84 tracks; 52 tracks are on CD for the first time of which 22 tracks are previously unreleased.

Beautifully packaged in a high-quality clamshell box containing the 5 individual CDs in card wallet sleeves.

Featuring expanded versions of the band’s first three albums plus two additional discs containing their first two EPs, tracks by Landscape III and a comprehensive selection of 7” edits, 12” extended versions, remixes, B-sides, instrumentals and live tracks.

With a fully illustrated 52-page perfect bound book containing brand new sleevenotes, lyrics, biographies, archive photos, original artwork, press cuttings and more.

All tracks were mastered from high-resolution digitisations of the original analogue master tapes. The ‘previously released’ tracks from the analogue stereo two tracks, the ‘remixes’ and ‘instrumentals’ from digitisations of the original analogue multi-tracks, and the ‘live’ tracks were mastered from edited digitisations of the original analogue stereo live recordings.

Released with the full involvement of all the original band members.

The first 500 copies will come with an exclusive art print signed by all the members of the band.

Landscape – Richard James Burgess, Chris Heaton, Andy Pask, Peter Thoms and John L. Walters – is best known for the ground-breaking electro-pop of ‘Einstein a Go-Go’ and ‘Norman Bates’, which were made into memorable and influential videos. Formed in London, the band toured the UK constantly during the mid-to-late-1970s, playing jazz, punk and rock venues and releasing instrumental EPs on its indie label Event Horizon before signing to major label RCA Records.

The group used electronic processing, synthesizers, electronic drums, and music computers, and from the late 1970s focused on making records in the emerging genre of synthpop.

After signing to RCA, they released their debut album ‘Landscape’ in 1979. Their next album in 1981, ‘From the Tea-Rooms of Mars...to the Hell-Holes of Uranus’, included the Top 5 UK hit "Einstein a Go-Go" and "Norman Bates”. Their third album was 1982's ‘Manhattan Boogie-Woogie’. After release of this album, Heaton and Thoms left the band and they became a trio, composed of Burgess, Pask, and Walters.
Renaming the band Landscape III, the members went on to release the singles "So Good, So Pure, So Kind" and "You Know How to Hurt Me".

In 1984 the trio went their separate ways.

All five members of the band went on to work in multiple areas of the music business, academia and publishing.

Track Listing:

CD 1 Landscape

LANDSCAPE (1979)

1 Japan
2 Lost In the Small Ads
3 The Mechanical Bride
4 Neddy Sindrum
5 Kaptin Whorlix
6 Sonja Henie
7 Many's the Time
8 Highly Suspicious
9 Gotham City
10 Wandsworth Plain

LIVE IN NORWICH 1979

11 Caterpillar Tracks **
12 The High Window **
13 Kaptin Whorlix **
14 The Mechanical Bride **
15 Highly Suspicious **

LIVE IN LONDON 1977

16 Stranger **

** First release on any format

CD 2 From the Tea-Rooms of Mars … to the Hell-Holes of Uranus

1 European Man
2 Shake the West Awake
3 Computer Person
4 Alpine Tragedy ¶
5 Sisters ¶
6 Face of the 80s
7 New Religion
8 Einstein a Go-Go
9 Norman Bates
10 The Doll's House
11 From the Tea-Rooms of Mars … a) Beguine ¶
12 From the Tea-Rooms of Mars … b) Mambo ¶
13 From the Tea-Rooms of Mars … c) Tango ¶

BONUS TRACKS

14 When the Chips Are Down **
15 European Man [7-inch] ±
16 Norman Bates [7-inch with narration] ±
17 Electro New Religion **
18 European Man [12-inch] ±
19 Einstein a Go-Go [12-inch] ±
20 Norman Bates [12-inch without narration] ±

** First release on any format ± First CD release ¶ Medley. First CD release as separate tracks

CD 3 Manhattan Boogie-Woogie

1 One Rule For the Rich
2 Manhattan Boogie-Woogie
3 Colour Code
4 The Long Way Home
5 It's Not My Real Name
6 Bad Times
7 When You Leave Your Lover

BONUS TRACKS

8 It's Not My Real Name [12-inch] ±
9 Back On Your Heads [7-inch B-side] ±
10 (A Case Of) Mistaken Identity [7-inch B-side] ±
11 Manhattan Boogie-Woogie [instrumental mix] **
12 The Long Way Home [instrumental mix] **
13 Bad Times [‘Good Times' instrumental mix] **
14 One Rule For the Rich [instrumental mix] **

** First release on any format ± First CD release

CD4 Before and After

U2XME1X2MUCH EP (1977)

1 U2XME1X2MUCH ±
2 Don't Gimme No Rebop ¶ ±
3 Sixteen ¶ ±

WORKERS PLAYTIME EP (1978)

4 Workers' Playtime ±
5 Nearly Normal ±
6 Too Many Questions (Don't Ask Me Why) ±

LIVE IN LONDON UNRELEASED (1977-78)

7 The Camera Never Lies **
8 Bagel Street Blues **
9 Sleazy Feet **
10 Eugenie **
11 Watt is Knott **
12 Goldilox and the Jelly Bean Shuffle **
13 Tribute **

LANDSCAPE III (1983)

14 So Good, So Pure, So Kind [7-inch] ±
15 The Fabulous Neutrinos [7-inch] ±
16 You Know How To Hurt Me [7-inch] ±
17 Feel So Right [7-inch] ±
18 (I'd Love To) Fly Away [7-inch] **

** First release on any format ± First CD release ¶ Medley

CD5: Excursions 2 Other Versions

1 Einstein a Go-Go [‘Einstein on the floor', 2023 remix] **
2 One Rule For the Rich [UK cassette] ±
3 Japan [12-inch] ±
4 It's Not My Real Name [UK 7-inch] ±
5 Colour Code [UK cassette] ±
6 When You Leave Your Lover [UK cassette] ±
7 (A Case of) Mistaken Identity [12-inch B-side] ±
8 Back On Your Heads [12-inch B-side] ±

LANDSCAPE III

9 (I'd Love to) Fly Away [12-inch] **
10 So Good, So Pure, So Kind [12-inch]
11 You Know How To Hurt Me [12-inch]
12 The Fabulous Neutrinos [12-inch] ±
13 Feel So Right [12-inch] ±

BITS AND PIECES

14 Norman Bates [short version without narration, released as 12-inch] ±
15 It's Not My Real Name [UK cassette] ±
16 Einstein a Go-Go 7-inch [UK ‘no phones' radio mix] ±
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Re: Landscape a Go-Go: The Story of Landscape 1977-83 5CD Bo

Postby discoginfo » Fri Mar 24, 2023 12:23 pm

Great news! Ordered!
But "Eastern Girls" is missing! Also the 12" version...
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Re: Landscape a Go-Go: The Story of Landscape 1977-83 5CD Bo

Postby BigManRestless » Mon Mar 27, 2023 6:11 am

I wonder if it has been excluded because someone somewhere objected to the lyrics?
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Re: Landscape a Go-Go: The Story of Landscape 1977-83 5CD Bo

Postby postpunkmonk » Mon Mar 27, 2023 7:12 am

BigManRestless wrote:I wonder if it has been excluded because someone somewhere objected to the lyrics?

Most likely Richard Burgess himself!
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Re: Landscape a Go-Go: The Story of Landscape 1977-83 5CD Bo

Postby magnum » Mon Mar 27, 2023 4:57 pm

Great to see an extensive collection of their stuff all on one release
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Re: Landscape a Go-Go: The Story of Landscape 1977-83 5CD Bo

Postby discoginfo » Sat May 20, 2023 2:48 pm

If they disliked the lyrics to Eastern Girls so much, they could at least have included instrumental versions by simply removing the vocals...?
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Re: Landscape a Go-Go: The Story of Landscape 1977-83 5CD Bo

Postby Passing_Stranger » Sun May 21, 2023 5:55 pm

What? Is it a typo or did they really drop "Eastern girls"?! While not a masterpiece by any stretch of imagination it's a fun little song not offensive to anyone of the sane mind. Only truly pathetic "persons" can object to it. I'm very disappointed.
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Re: Landscape a Go-Go: The Story of Landscape 1977-83 5CD Bo

Postby discoginfo » Mon May 22, 2023 1:07 pm

That track is still not listed here, and there was also a 12" mix but that, too, is not listed.
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So, 1 miss could be a mistake, but 2 misses is most likely intentional.
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Re: Landscape a Go-Go: The Story of Landscape 1977-83 5CD Bo

Postby drivel » Thu May 25, 2023 1:37 am

"Eastern Girls" has just recently been excised from the streaming versions of 'Manhattan Boogie-Woogie'.

The theme of "Eastern Girls" is the fetishization of Asian women, which is then parodied by the call and response lyrics near the end of the track (however this is played somewhat as a joke). I thought "Eastern Girls" was a bit cringy when it came out and it has definitely not aged well, but feel short-changed that it's not included in the boxset.
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Re: Landscape a Go-Go: The Story of Landscape 1977-83 5CD Bo

Postby Passing_Stranger » Thu May 25, 2023 12:58 pm

drivel wrote:The theme of "Eastern Girls" is the fetishization of Asian women

Very forward-looking for 1982 - could be something of a soundtrack to the latest 10-15 years. They should've been proud for being so insightful, this attempt at rewriting history is pathetic.
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