711297536126

Landscape A Go-go (The Story Of Landscape 1977-83)

Landscape

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Format: 5CD

Cat No: COOKCD861

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Release Date:  21 July 2023

Label:  Cooking Vinyl Limited / Cooking Vinyl

Packaging Type:  Clamshell

No of Units:  5

Barcode:  711297536126

Genres:  Dance  

  • Description

    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 multitracks, 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.

    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.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 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
      • 11. Caterpillar Tracks (Live in Norwich)
      • 12. The High Window (Live in Norwich)
      • 13. Kaptin Whorlix (Live in Norwich)
      • 14. The Mechanical Bride (Live in Norwich)
      • 15. Highly Suspicious (Live in Norwich)
      • 16. Stranger (Live in London)

      Disc 2

      • 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
      • 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)

      Disc 3

      • 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 (US Mix, w/ Acoustic Drums
      • 8. It’s Not My Real Name 12-inch A Side (Original UK mix)
      • 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)

      Disc 4

      • 1. U2XME1X2MUCH
      • 2. Don’t Gimme No Rebop
      • 3. Sixteen
      • 4. Workers’ Playtime
      • 5. Nearly Normal
      • 6. Too Many Questions (Don’t Ask Me Why)
      • 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
      • 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)

      Disc 5

      • 1. Einstein a Go-Go (Einstein on the floor, 2023 remix)
      • 2. One Rule for the Rich (UK cassette album mix)
      • 3. Japan Extended Mix (B-Side to Einstein 12-inch)
      • 4. It’s Not My Real Name (UK 7-inch mix)
      • 5. Colour Code (UK cassette album mix)
      • 6. When You Leave Your Lover (UK Cassette album mix w/ Electronic Drums)
      • 7. (A Case of) Mistaken Identity (Extended ‘Real Name’ 12-inch B-Side
      • 8. Back on Your Heads (Extended 12-inch)
      • 9. (I’d Love to) Fly Away (12-inch version – unreleased)
      • 10. So Good, So Pure, So Kind (12-inch version)
      • 11. You Know How To Hurt Me (12-inch version)
      • 12. The Fabulous Neutrinos (12-inch version)
      • 13. Feel So Right (12-inch version)
      • 14. Norman Bates (short version without narration, 12-inch)
      • 15. It’s Not My Real Name (UK cassette album mix, incl. electric trombone solo)
      • 16. Einstein a Go-Go 7-inch (UK radio mix – AKA ‘no-phones intro)