The Innocents (1988)(2009 Remaster)

[Pughie]

Release Dates
UK 18 April 1988
Germany 18 April 1988
USA 24 May 1988

• A Little Respect [3:31]
• Ship Of Fools [4:01]
• Phantom Bride [3:31]
• Chains Of Love [3:36]
• Hallowed Ground [4:00]
• Sixty-Five Thousand [3:23]
• Heart Of Stone [3:19]
• Yahoo! [3:48]
• Imagination [3:27]
• Witch In The Ditch [3:43]
• Weight Of The World [3:38]






2009 3-DISC REISSUE TRACKLISTING

CD1
(Remastered Album)
• A Little Respect [3:31]
• Ship Of Fools [4:01]
• Phantom Bride [3:31]
• Chains Of Love [3:36]
• Hallowed Ground [4:00]
• Sixty-Five Thousand [3:23]
• Heart Of Stone [3:19]
• Yahoo! [3:48]
• Imagination [3:27]
• Witch In The Ditch [3:43]
• Weight Of The World [3:38]
• When I Needed You (Melancholic Mix) [4:22]
• River Deep Mountain High (Private Dance Mix) [7:02]

CD2
(Remastered B-sides, Remixes & Rarities)
• Ship Of Fools (Shiver Me Timbers Mix) [7:53]
• When I Needed You [4:00]
• River Deep Mountain High (7″ Version) [3:20]
• Chains Of Love (The Unfettered Mix) [8:28]
• Don’t Suppose (Country Joe Mix) [5:58]
• The Good, The Bad And The Ugly (The Dangerous Mix) [4:42]
• A Little Respect (12″ House Mix) [6:44]
• Like Zsa Zsa Zsa Gabor (Mark Freegard Mix) [4:56]
• Love Is Colder Than Death [2:13]
• Phantom Bride (live) [4:08]
• Heart Of Stone (live) [3:37]
• Hallowed Ground (live) [3:56]
• Witch In The Ditch (live) [3:53]

DVD
(Promotional Videos + The Innocents Live + TV Performances)
The Innocents Live at the NEC 15/11/88
• Chains Of Love [3:40]
• A Little Respect [3:30]
• The Circus [3:52]
• The Hardest Part [4:18]
• Push Me Shove Me [3:23]
• Spiralling [4:29]
• Hallowed Ground [3:20]
• Oh L’Amour [3:50]
• Who Needs Love Like That [3:18]
• Stop! [3:26]
• Victim of Love [3:18]
• Ship of Fools [3:42]
• Knocking On Your Door [4:02]
• Sometimes [2:49]
• Witch In The Ditch (previously unreleased) [4:02]
• Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (previously unreleased) [4:14]
TV Performances
• Ship of Fools (Going Live!) 27 Feb 1988 [3:34]
• A Little Respect (Top Of The Pops) 6 Oct 1988 [3:10]
• The Innocents (BBC Special) first broadcast 12/12/88 [35:46]
Promotional Videos
• Ship of Fools [4:00]
• Chains of Love [3:41]
• A Little Respect [3:33]

Smash Hits UK & US Reviews

[Pughie]

Mark Robotham backing tracks

[davekcmo]

Amazon US lists a version of "The Innocents" available for pre-order. Huh? Perhaps just a US/Sire reissue of the 2016 BMG reissue? Clicking through shows it as an "import".

[Pughie]

A small mention of the Innocents (ouch)

https://www.classicpopmag.com/2022/08/p ... &fs=e&s=cl

[Tin Soldier]

Amazon US lists a version of "The Innocents" available for pre-order. Huh? Perhaps just a US/Sire reissue of the 2016 BMG reissue? Clicking through shows it as an "import".

Being an import, I'd assume BMG restock. Sire cannot reissue as Warner shifted the US catalog reissues to Rhino, which would have the right to repress now.

Had Intervention's Wonderland audiophile pressing sold better, we would have gotten The Circus (almost went to press before being pulled), and maybe a new US pressing of The Innocents would've happened that way, but it was not to be.

A small mention of the Innocents (ouch)

https://www.classicpopmag.com/2022/08/p ... interview/

Nothing we hadn't heard before, but sad that it still touches a nerve. There's few things I want more than somehow, perhaps in a parallel dimension, Hague produces a new Erasure album.

[Pughie]

https://www.classicpopmag.com/2021/09/e ... hPZ3OUnJjE

[Pughie]

https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/bes ... k5aijp4bx0

[MikeyC]

^ Wow!!

[mrblue]

Interesting that Erasure beat PSB! I’m not sure I can agree with the author’s choice for #1 though. There are a lot of newer artists in that list that I’m not familiar with, so I’m going to give them a listen on Apple Music.