5013929849525

The Stars We Are (Expanded Edition, Capacity Wallet)

Marc Almond

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Format: 3CD

Cat No: QSFE085T

Format Details: Expanded Edition, Capacity Wallet

Release Date:  22 January 2021

Label:  Sfe / Cherry Red

Packaging Type:  Fat Double (a 2.5cm thick jewel case, fits several CDs)

No of Units:  3

Barcode:  5013929849525

Genres:  Pop  

  • Description

    • This is the first expanded edition re-issue of Marc Almond’s 4th solo album, “The Stars We Are”, since its original release in September 1988. This re-issue is a three disc set that, on its first disc, couples the original 10-track album with its initial release’s CD and cassette only bonus tracks and with the B-Sides of its associated singles. A second CD features all known extended and remix versions of the album tracks. A third disc, a DVD (Region 0, PAL), compiles all six of the promotional videos filmed for the album, including the Tim Pope directed ‘Bitter-Sweet’ and the alternate U.S. version video of ‘Tears Run Rings’ as directed by Peter ‘Sleazy’ Christopherson of Coil and Throbbing Gristle fame.
    • “The Stars We Are” was the first of two albums recorded for Parlophone and was Marc Almond’s return to a highly infectious and chartable pop. The first single ‘Tears Run Rings’ confirmed the revitalised, unabashed pop that characterised the record and reached #26 on the UK Singles Chart. But it was the third single, ‘Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart’, a duet with the 1967 hit song’s original singer Gene Pitney that provided the commercial zenith of the album; the single reaching #1 in the UK Singles Chart for 4 consecutive weeks in early 1989.
    • The album was recorded with an assembled band ‘La Magia’ which comprised of former Willing Sinners members Annie Hogan, Billie McGee and Steve Humphries as a core unit. The album is a shimmering arc of musical textures, compulsive melodrama and euphoric uplift. As well as further singles ‘Bitter-Sweet’ (UK#40) and ‘Only The Moment’ (UK#45), the album contains an homage to goth sensibilities in ‘Your Kisses Burn’, a duet with Nico (her last ever studio recording), as well as an extravagant mini-operetta, ‘Kept Boy’, a duet with cult chanteuse Agnes Bernelle.
    • Packaged in a mini-LP style capacity wallet, this expanded edition contains sleeve notes from celebrated cult poet and biographer, Jeremy Reed as part of a richly illustrated full colour 36 page lyric booklet.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. The Stars We Are
      • 2. These My Dreams Are Yours
      • 3. Bitter-Sweet
      • 4. Only The Moment
      • 5. Your Kisses Burn
      • 6. The Very Last Pearl
      • 7. Tears Run Rings
      • 8. Something’s Gotten Hold Of My Heart
      • 9. The Sensualist
      • 10. She Took My Soul In Istanbul
      • 11. The Frost Comes Tomorrow
      • 12. Kept Boy
      • 13. Everything I Wanted Love To Be
      • 14. King Of The Fools
      • 15. Real Evil

      Disc 2

      • 1. The Stars We Are (Full Length Mix)
      • 2. Tears Run Rings (12â€� Version)
      • 3. Bitter-Sweet (12â€� Version)
      • 4. Only The Moment(All The Time In The World Mix)
      • 5. These My Dreams Are Yours (Through The Night Mix)
      • 6. Tears Run Rings(Justin Strauss Remix)
      • 7. Bitter-Sweet(The Big Beat Mix)
      • 8. The Sensualist(Ultimate Ecstasy Mix)
      • 9. She Took My Soul In Istanbul (The Blue Mosque Mix)
      • 10. Tears Run Rings(The ‘la Magia’ Dance Mix)
      • 11. Something’s Gotten Hold Of My Heart (Solo Version)

      Disc 3

      • 1. Tears Run Rings (Dvd)
      • 2. Bitter-Sweet (Dvd)
      • 3. Something’s Gotten Hold Of My Heart (Dvd)
      • 4. Only The Moment (Dvd)
      • 5. The Stars We Are (Dvd)
      • 6. Tears Run Rings (U.S. Version) (Dvd)

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