Godley & Creme - Body of work 1978 - 1988

Fab mastering work by Andy Pearce and Matt Wortham at Wired!
Never sounded better! Love it!

 

Great, but a pity about the track split.

 

Tempted, I only have an LP copy of Freeze Frame and with not every album easily available on cd the price is a steal. I may add it to my next amazon order.

 

Easy to fix, if you rip it!
if not, not so easy

 

Weird that this doesn't include Consequences, to completely cover their first era post 10cc work.

 

What happened?

 

tracklist

racklist CD1:

L:
01 The Sporting Life
02 Sandwiches Of You
03 Art School Canteen
04 Group Life
05 Punchbag
06 Foreign Accents
07 Hit Factory / Business Is Business

Freeze Frame:
08 An Englishman In New York
09 Random Brainwave
10 Pity Inanimate Objects
11 Freeze Frame
12 Clues
13 Brazilia (Wish You Were Here)
14 Mugshots
15 Get Well Soon

Tracklist CD2:

Ismism:
01 Snack Attack
02 Under Your Thumb
03 Joey's Camel
04 The Problem
05 Ready For Ralph
06 Wedding Bells
07 Lonnie
08 Sale Of The Century
09 The Party

Birds Of Prey:
10 My Body The Car
11 Worm And The Rattlesnake
12 Cats Eyes
13 Samson
14 Save A Mountain For Me
15 Madame Guillotine
16 Woodwork
17 Twisted Nerve

Tracklist CD3:

Birds Of Prey:
01 Out In The Cold

History Mix Part 1:
02 Wet Rubber Soup
03 Cry
04 Expanding The Business / The 'Dare You' Man / Hum Drum Boys In Paris / Mountain Tensio
05 Cry (Single Edit)
06 Love Bombs
07 Snack Attack
08 Wet Rubber Soup (Edit)
09 Golden Boy (Remix)
10 Light Me Up
11 Golden Boy (12'' Mix)

Tracklist CD4:

Goodbye Blue Sky:
01 H.E.A.V.E.N. / A Little Piece Of Heaven
02 Don't Set Fire (To The One I Love)
03 Golden Rings
04 Crime & Punishment
05 The Big Bang
06 10,000 Angels
07 Sweet Memory
08 Airforce One
09 The Last Page Of History
10 Desperate Times



Tracklist CD5:

Bonus Tracks:
01 Silent Running (B-Side Of An Englishman In New York)
02 Wide Boy (A-Side Single)
03 Submarine (A-Side Single)
04 Marciano (B-Side Submarine)
05 Babies (B-Side Wedding Bells)
06 Power Behind The Throne (B-Side Under Your Thumb)
07 Welcome To Breakfast Television (B-Side Save A Mountain For Me)
08 A Little Piece Of Heaven (Extended Mix)
09 Bits Of Blue Sky (B-Side A Little Piece Of Heaven)
10 Rhino Rhino (B-Side A Little Piece Of Heaven)
11 Hidden Heartbreak (B-Side 10,000 Angels)
12 Can't Sleep (B-Side 10,000 Angels)

 

Nah, Im happy as it is, should be more weird to have just a few songs from Consequences
Surely they could not include all of it, and by just including some songs you dont do
it justice. It needs to be listen to in full!

 

The promo LP was a pretty good listen-- Killed the plot of course, but at least it got all the (mostly very good) songs in one place.

What also kind of fits is the Mickey Jupp album (Long Distance Romancer) they produced and played on; their sound is all over it.

 

I agree that the promo version of Consequences (1 LP distillation, all songs, no narration) is a good listen.

 

"Music from Consequences" was released officially in a bunch of countries in 1978 and is also included on a 2004 Edsel 2-fer CD with "L". It's a little bit odd that it's not included in this set but maybe they have plans to re-issue "Consequences" in it's entirety separately.

Can anyone else chime in on the audio quality of this release other than OP? It's not that I don't trust you OP but I'd like to hear a few more opinions before I take the plunge. It's not overly expensive but I've already got at least one copy of all the included audio so unless it's somewhat of an upgrade, if only a little bit, I'll likely not bite.

 

I think I'll stick to those Edsel cd's... everything present and correct... bonus tracks.... Music from Consequences and L on one disc... others as 2-fers... good sound. Can't complain. No Goodbye Blue Sky in that series but that's not a favourite anyway.

 

That IS an odd track split.

 

If you have the Edsel reissues, you're pretty much good. HOWEVER, this collection has tasty remastering of Goodbye Blue Sky which was not included in the Edsel reissues. Worth the buy for that alone. My only gripe overall is that the 12" mix of "Cry" still has not been included in any of these reissue collections.

 

Did you mean “Thankfully” instead of “Weird”?

I just don’t like that multi lp set of dreck. But I freely admit this to be a case of “that’s just me”...

 

Thanks for posting about this! I have pretty much all of this in good sounding versions, but once I get home from this trip I'll double-check to see if there are some gaps this might help fill. Always good to see these albums staying in print on CD, one way or another.

 

Well maybe because that album is credited as Creme & Godley.

 

I have most of this on LP already, but that bonus disc of non-LP singles looks mighty tasty.

 

But that goes for 'L' as well, and that one is included!

 

So this differs from the 6.33 album version? I had no idea.
Incidentally, the fantastic 7" promo mix of 'Samson' is also missing in action on the new collection (it's on CD on the Master Series collection). Same for 'Strange Apparatus', the single edit of 'An Englishman in New York', which I like more than the full version.

 

This is it:



I have it on the original 12" vinyl single. It wasn't on any of the Edsel reissues and was surprised that it wasn't included on this new set either.

 

Loving this box set.

 

The 12" extended remix of Cry is included in the 2006 Japanese CD remaster of History Mix. But that CD does not include the regular single edit. I guess someone thinks that nobody wants 3 versions of Cry on a single CD, but I think they're mistaken.

I finally picked up both Body of Work and Before During After. I'm making my way through the 10cc box before going to Before During After. The same mastering team was involved in both box sets and I'm enjoying the 10cc set's sound so far. I'm looking forward to comparing the new set to both the Japanese and Edsel remasters.

 

years of looking in used bins and new bins and i have never ever found a single copy of 'ismism' or 'birds of prey'.

 

I found Birds once, albeit with slight water damage. Ismism I've seen 3-4 times. Usually Canadian pressings without the die cut. Found the die cut UK once. In US, it was titled Snack Attack and comes around in the bins once a year.

The record I've come across only once and passed on was Eric Stewart's first. It was between that and Consequences. I chose consequences. That was over 20 years ago. Should have hit the ATM.