Gene Loves Jezebel cd reissues!

[Alfredo]

Gene Loves Jezebel

On 25 April, Beggars Banquet are re-issuing the first three Gene Loves Jezebel
albums in de-luxe, expanded editions.

Fronted by androgynous twins Jay and Michael Aston and featuring an evolving
cast of musicians (including All About Eve's Julianne Regan), the early
recordings had an experimental edge that has kept the music fresh today. The
Jezebels didn't follow the shiny, neutered pop yearnings of their
contemporaries but were always attuned to the darker side of romance and sex.
Like most early 80's bands, they had been weened on ‘Glam rock', but it was the
underground that was receptive to their punk-funk undertones and vision.
They're a reminder of a time when musical explorations were encouraged, indie
was actually alternative, maverick wasn't marketed and Gene Loves Jezebel just
might have been contenders.

Long unavailable (even on CD), these editions are mid price, double CD sets
which feature all the recordings released between 1982 and 1986. Disc one of
each set is the original UK album remastered from studio analog tapes and disc
two collects singles, mixes, rareties and unreleased tracks. As expected from a
Beggars Banquet re-issue, the packaging is comprehensive, with full track
details, lyrics, unseen photos and new sleeve notes.

* indicates tracks previously unavailable on CD

Promise

CD 1 - The album has been restored with the very rare original version of
"Wraps And Arms" which was substituted on all subsequent worldwide pressings
(and CD releases) with an alternative take. No one remembers exactly why.

Upstairs
Bruises
Pop Tarantula
Screaming For Emmalene
Scheming
Bread From Heaven
Influenza
Shower Me With Brittle Punches
Wraps And Arms *
Psychological Problems

CD 2 – Includes the first ever re-issue of the long deleted, 1982 debut EP
"Shaving My Neck" and early, alternate single versions.

1. Shame (original version) (unreleased) *
2. Influenza (relapse)
3. Stephen (original version) *
4. Walking In The Park *
5. Wraps and Arms (version 2)
6. Bruises (extended version) *
7. Punch Drunk
8. Brando (Bruises) (extended version) *
9. Scheming (original version) (unreleased) *
10. Screaming (for Emmalene) (single version) *
11. So Young (Heave Hard, Heave Ho)
12. No Voodoo Dollies
13. Shaving My Neck *
14. Sun And Insanity *
15. Machismo *
16. Glad To Be Alive *
* tracks previously unavailable on CD


Immigrant

CD 1 – Currently on offer second hand at Amazon for $50, this is an alternative
80's classic. Produced by John Leckie (contemporaneous with The Fall's ‘This
Nation's Saving Grace'), astute Stone Roses fans may find some of the drum
sounds familiar… It became an Indie no.1 album.

Always A Flame
Shame
Stephen
The Immigrant
Cow
Worth Waiting For
The Rhino Plasty
Deep South Wale
Coal Porter

CD 2 – featuring the full version of "Flame" produced by Steve Harley (Cockney
Rebel) as well as two early drafts for songs performed for a John Peel BBC
session.

1. Desire (extended version) *
2. Flame (extended Harley version) (unreleased) *
3. The Cow (extended version) *
4. One Someone
5. You Weaken Her (Cow) *
6. Shame (Whole Heart Howl) *
7. Thin Things
8. Gorgeous
9. Waves (BBC Session) (unreleased) *
10. Five Below (BBC Session) (unreleased) *
11. Always A Flame (Alternate version) (unreleased) *
* tracks previously unavailable on CD


Discover

CD 1 – A Top 40 UK chart entry, this was the album that got the band signed to
Geffen records in the USA and introduced the classic line-up.

Heartache
Over The Rooftops
Kick
White Horse
Wait And See
Desire
Beyond Doubt
Sweetest Thing
Maid Of Sker
Brand New Moon

CD 2 – The bonus disc includes some tracks never issued on vinyl, let alone CD,
which were only avilable on cassette single.

1. Desire (Come And Get It) (extended version) *
2. Sapphire Scavenger *
3. New horizons *
4. Message (Original version) *
5. Heartache (UK Club Mix) *
6. Before Doubt *
7. Suspicion (Original version) *
8. Deli Babies *
9. Vagabond *
10. Lipstime *
11. Down To The Water *
12. Heartache (part 2) *
13. Sweetest Thing (extended mix) (unreleased) *
14. Psycho 2 *
15. Sweetest Jezebel *

[Sean]

Are these US releases?

[bruiser]

wow! i wore "immigrant" [i]out[/i]!

"wait for her! did you see the COOOOOOOWWWWWWWW?"

(or at least that's what i sang)

[Sean]

It would be nice if they release a BEST OF GENE LOVES JEZEBEL DVD too.