Cherry Red Records this summer will release a new nine-disc deluxe box set compiling the five albums Aztec Camera released on WEA between 1984 and 1995 as well as four discs of singles, B-sides, live material, remixes and vinyl-only rarities.
The 112-track Backwards and Forwards: The WEA Recordings 1984-1995 is due out Aug. 27, and can be pre-ordered now.
The box set collects all but the first album by Roddy Frame’s Scottish indie-pop favorites, as 1983’s High Land, Hard Rain originally was released by Rough Trade. The set includes 1984’s Knife, 1987’s Love, 1990’s Stray, 1993’s Dreamland and 1995’s Frestonia.
Each of the albums is appended with a series of bonus tracks, and there are four more discs, including two live albums and two CDs worth of singles, B-sides, remixes and other assorted tracks
Full tracklist below.
Aztec Camera, Backwards and Forwards: The WEA Recordings 1984-1995
Disc 1: Knife
1. Still On Fire
2. Just Like The USA
3. Head Is Happy (Heart’s Insane)
4. The Back Door To Heaven
5. All I Need Is Everything
6. Backwards And Forwards
7. The Birth Of The True
8. Knife
Bonus tracks:
8. All I Need Is Everything (7″ Edit)
9. Jump
10. All I Need Is Everything (Latin Mix)
11. Jump (Loaded Version)
Disc 2: In Concert, 1984
1. Walk Out To Winter (Live in Glasgow)
2. The Bugle Sounds Again (Live in Glasgow)
3. We Could Send Letters (Live in Glasgow)
4. Backwards And Forwards (Live in Glasgow)
5. Oblivious (Live in Glasgow) 6 All I Need Is Everything (Live in Glasgow)
7. The Boy Wonders (Live in Glasgow)
8. Mattress Of Wire (Live in London)
9. The Bugle Sounds Again (Live in London)
10. The Birth Of The True (Live in London)
11. Backwards And Forwards (Live in London)
12. Walk Out To Winter (Live in London)
Disc 3: Love
1. Deep & Wide & Tall
2. How Men Are
3. Everybody Is A Number One
4. More Than A Law
5. Somewhere In My Heart
6. Working In A Goldmine
7. One And One
8. Paradise
9. Killermont Street
Bonus tracks:
10. Bad Education
11. The Red Flag
Disc 4: Remixes, B-Sides and Live 1986-1988
1. Somewhere In My Heart (12″ Remix)
2. Somewhere in My Heart (Eric Calvi Remix)
3. Somewhere In My Heart (The Alternate Mix)
4. Deep & Wide & Tall (Breakdown Mix)
5. Deep & Wide & Tall (LP Edit)
6. Everybody Is A Number One (Boston ’86 Version)
7. Working In A Goldmine (Sax Version)
8. Working In A Goldmine (Live At Pinewood)
9. Somewhere In My Heart (Live At Pinewood)
10. Killermont Street (Live in LA)
11. Pillar To Post (Live in LA) 12 How Men Are (Night Network Live)
13. Down The Dip (Live in Glasgow)
14. Jump (Live in Glasgow)
15. I Threw It All Away (Live in Bristol)
16. Interview
Disc 5: Stray
1. Stray
2. The Crying Scene
3. Get Outta London
4. Over My Head
5. Good Morning Britain
6. How It Is
7. The Gentle Kind
8. Notting Hill Blues
9. Song For A Friend
Bonus tracks:
10. Salvation
11. True Colours
Disc 6: Remixes, Rarities and Live 1990
1. Do I Love You?
2. Good Morning Britain (7″ Mix)
3. Good Morning Britain (Laylow Posse Hypno- Mix/Kitsch ‘N’ Sync Mix)
4. Good Morning Britain (Laylow Posse Hypnomental/ Instrumental Mix)
5. Good Morning Britain (Laylow Posse Hypno- Edit/Vocal Remix)
6. Good Morning Britain (Mendelsohn Single Mix) 7 Good Morning Britain (Morning Acid Mix)
8. Consolation Prize (Live at Glasgow Barrowlands, August 4th, 1990)
9. Good Morning Britain (Live at Glasgow Barrowlands, August 4th, 1990)
Disc 7: Live at Ronnie Scott’s
1. Birth Of The True
2. Song For A Friend
3. Killermont Street
4. Spanish Horses
5. Stray
6. The Bugle Sounds Again
7. Dolphins
8. How Men Are
9. Sister Ann
10. Good Morning Britain
11. Mattress Of Wire
12. Let Your Love Decide
13. Orchid Girl
Disc 8: Dreamland
1. Birds
2. Safe In Sorrow
3. Black Lucia
4. Let Your Love Decide
5. Spanish Horses
6. Dream Sweet Dreams
7. Pianos And Clocks
8. Sister Ann
9. Vertigo
10. Valium Summer
11. The Belle Of The Ball
Bonus tracks:
12. (If Paradise Is) Half As Nice
13. Just Like The USA (Live in Barcelona)
14. Let Your Love Decide (Edit)
Disc 9: Frestonia
1. Rainy Season
2. Sun
3. Crazy
4. On The Avenue
5. Imperfectly
6. Debutante
7. Beautiful Girl
8. Phenomenal World
9. Method Of Love
10. Sunset
Bonus tracks:
11. The Crying Scene (Live At The Phoenix Festival, 1995)
12. Black Lucia (Live At The Phoenix Festival, 1995)
13. We Could Send Letters (Live At The Phoenix Festival, 1995)
14. Rainy Season (Live At The Phoenix Festival, 1995)
PREVIOUSLY ON SLICING UP EYEBALLS
- Aztec Camera’s Roddy Frame debuts ‘Forty Days of Rain’ off upcoming ‘Seven Dials’
- Aztec Camera’s ‘High Land, Hard Rain’ to receive expanded 30th anniversary reissue
- Roddy Frame to perform Aztec Camera’s ‘High Land, Hard Rain’ at 3 U.K. shows this December
- Aztec Camera to reissue all 6 studio albums with bonus B-sides, remixes, live disc
I am guessing this is not remastered? I think only the debut has been remastered and that was by Domino.