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Erasure – I Say I Say I Say - (2CD Deluxe Hardback Book Album)





Originally released in 1994, the band’s sixth album, ‘I Say I Say I Say’ was produced by Martyn Ware (Human League / Heaven 17) and was the band's 4th UK number one album.
Featuring the hit singles ‘Always’, ’Run To The Sun’ and ‘I Love Saturday’, the deluxe 2CD is released in hard back book format with exclusive photos by the Douglas Brothers and brand new sleeve notes by Mat Smith.
Disc one features the original album (with new 2021 mastering), plus the six original B-Sides, whilst disc two Includes 16 tracks including rare and unreleased remixes, BBC recordings, alternate mixes and demos.
"Erasure – I Say I Say I Say" is out Friday, 5th November 2021 on BMG and available for pre-order now.

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Track Listing

CD1

Take Me Back
I Love Saturday
Man In The Moon
So The Story Goes
Run To The Sun
Always
All Through The Years
Blues Away
Miracle
Because You're So Sweet
B-Sides
Tragic - Live Vocal
Tenderest Moments
Ghost
Truly, Madly, Deeply
Dodo
Tragic

CD2
Always (Extended Mix)
I Love Saturday ( Ian Levine Remix)*
Run To The Sun (Beatmaster's Intergalactic Mix)
Always (Cappella Club Remix - Edit)
Because You're So Sweet (BBC Radio 1 Session)*
Heart Of Glass (BBC Radio 1 Session)*
Siempre
Run To The Sun - Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun Mix (Chris & Cosey Remix)
I Love Saturday (Demo Version)
Miracle (Later With Jools Recording)*
Because You're So Sweet (Later With Jools Recording)*
Always (Acoustic Version)
So The Story Goes (Choral Mix)*
I Love Saturday (Flower Mix)
Run To The Sun (The Diss-Cuss Mix)
Always (X Dub Cut - Full Length Version)
*previously unreleased
Format: 2CD Deluxe Hardback Book Album
Barcode: 4050538664386
Catalogue Number: XLCDSTUMM115
Label: Mute / BMG
Release Date: Friday, 5th November 2021

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At last! The full-length X Dub Cut of 'Always' finally gets a digital release! It's what everyone has been waiting for.

kwerty wrote: Fri Sep 10, 2021 6:05 pm At last! The full-length X Dub Cut of 'Always' finally gets a digital release! It's what everyone has been waiting for.

A statement I never thought I’d see.
Thankfully it’s the last track,we can skip.

So what happened to this?

Joking aside, I am glad the full-length X Dub mix is there (I don't dislike it as much as some), and it is one of the few mixes that hasn't already had a digital re-release. Especially glad to see the digital release of the Diss-Cuss* and Intergalactic mix here like I hoped/suspected they would be, although the inclusion of the Cappella Club Remix EDIT of Always is a bit of a surprise.

Overall though it's pretty much what I expected of it - just a two disc affair, what with there being no live concert from the time to include, and the BBC radio sessions and Jools Holland performances are present and correct like I thought they would be, as are the Jools Holland performances (although we already had the latter in video form on the Total Pop Deluxe DVD. I guess now though they also end-up available for download too - that seems to be how this all works).

I notice though that there is a break in the format with this release - b-sides that were not already on an original CD have been added to Disc 1 for the first time around. I'm fine with that if it means putting more onto Disc 2. (Although the remasters have always been a little inconsistent on how they are compiled anyway).

I'm looking forward to hearing the grand total of two new remixes. No doubt both will end up on YouTube well before the CD is dispatched.

No sign of Vince's mix of Blues Away though (Edit: like I notice @Pughie has mentioned) - I guess that's going to be another Record Store Day thing like his Blue Savannah remix we thought was going to be part of the Wild! remaster.

*EDIT Somehow I missed that the Diss-Cuss mix was on the track list and originally posted lamenting its omission. But it is there after all! Yay!

Something just occurred to me and I had a thought about the Blues Away remix...

Every time they release one of these remasters, I think "Ooh! Maybe they'll release a track as a single/EP like they did with The Innocents and the Phantom Bride EP." Of course they never do.

I guess I must have become resigned to the idea of it never happening again so didn't even think about it this time. But then I suddenly remembered that, just like The Innocents, ISISIS has that 'mythical' fourth single that we never saw. So now I'm wondering again if such a thing could be on the cards, and that's where we will get to hear VC's Blues Away remix! (and I've probably just jinxed it by remembering).

kwerty wrote: Fri Sep 10, 2021 10:06 pm Something just occurred to me and I had a thought about the Blues Away remix...

Every time they release one of these remasters, I think "Ooh! Maybe they'll release a track as a single/EP like they did with The Innocents and the Phantom Bride EP." Of course they never do.

I guess I must have become resigned to the idea of it never happening again so didn't even think about it this time. But then I suddenly remembered that, just like The Innocents, ISISIS has that 'mythical' fourth single that we never saw. So now I'm wondering again if such a thing could be on the cards, and that's where we will get to hear VC's Blues Away remix! (and I've probably just jinxed it by remembering).

Well, Mike Cosford himself confirmed the fourth single was indeed to be Blues Away, and that the winter art was for it.

Yet, it need not be fulfillment of destiny that we get Blues Away as a single. Paul Khera confirmed Innocents panel #4 art was from Hallowed Ground single art he'd been commissioned for, and not Phantom Bride. Still, we saner folks knew what had to be...even though it took years.

I do hope that if ISISIS Deluxe gets a single, that Mike's original work will be released, or that he's been called in to finalize it.

I said there are two new remixes on this remaster - but someone on the Facebook questioned me on that and wondered if they are just previously unreleased mixes, and I wonder if they are right. There is no mention of them being 'new'. just 'previously unreleased'.

If so, it makes me curious then what the Choral Mix of So The Story Goes was for. From the name, I'm pondering if it could just be a simple, stripped back acapella version - just Andy's vocals with the choir. Getting shivers down my spine just imagining it!

kwerty wrote: Sat Sep 11, 2021 9:58 am I said there are two new remixes on this remaster - but someone on the Facebook questioned me on that and wondered if they are just previously unreleased mixes, and I wonder if they are right. There is no mention of them being 'new'. just 'previously unreleased'.

If so, it makes me curious then what the Choral Mix of So The Story Goes was for. From the name, I'm pondering if it could just be a simple, stripped back acapella version - just Andy's vocals with the choir. Getting shivers down my spine just imagining it!

That would be beautiful!

Okay, I am saying it. The remasters have been alright, I think a proper remix would have been a better option, very close to the originals, but with a bit more oomph. Chorus was still lacking in sound quality, still a bit flat. Of the extra tracks only a few really were exciting. Lets move on to Atmos mixes for the next lot