8CD - Limited Edition Box Set: The eight discs are packaged in two gatefold sleeves, together with a 60-page hardback full colour book with new sleeve notes from respected author and journalist Jude Rogers, plus rare and previously unseen photos. The whole package is contained in a 24cm x 24cm slipcase (161 Tracks).
Universal Music Recordings are proud to present a new eight disc boxset celebrating the career of British singer and songwriter Kirsty MacColl. It brings together 161 tracks recorded between 1979 and 2000, features 47 previously unreleased recordings, and includes her second album Real, recorded in 1983 but never released, it is presented here complete and sequenced for the first time.
Alongside all of Kirsty’s singles, this collection includes album favourites, extended versions, B-Sides and bonus tracks, previously unreleased demo recordings, live sets form the Glastonbury Festival in 1992, and the Jazz Café, London in 1999, plus studio sessions and live performances originally recorded for BBC radio and television. The final disc is a selection of collaborations with other artists, as either singer or songwriter, and further illustrates how in-demand and versatile Kirsty’s extraordinary talents were.
The eight discs are packaged in two gatefold sleeves, together with a 60-page hardback full colour book with new sleeve notes from respected author and journalist Jude Rogers, plus rare and previously unseen photos. The whole package is contained in a 24cm x 24cm slipcase. This collection was compiled with the full support of Kirsty’s estate, and with generous input from her family, friends and fellow musicians, who contributed to the sleeve notes, and made archive recordings available for the very first time.
Tracklist:
Disc 1: The Singles
They Don't Know
Keep Your Hands Off My Baby
There’s A Guy Works Down The Chip Shop Swears He’s Elvis
See That Girl
You Still Believe In Me
Terry
A New England
He’s On The Beach
Fairytale Of New York (The Pogues Feat. Kirsty MacColl)
Free World (Radio Version)
Days
Innocence (Remix)
Don’t Come The Cowboy With Me Sonny Jim!
Walking Down Madison (7" Mix)
My Affair (Radio Edit)
All I Ever Wanted (Single Mix)
Angel (Single Edit)
Caroline
Perfect Day (Kirsty MacColl & Evan Dando)
Mambo De La Luna (Single Edit)
In These Shoes?
Disc 2: 1979-1983
Turn My Motor On
I Don’t Need You
There’s A Guy Works Down The Truck Stop Swears He’s Elvis
Nothing To Do (The Clock Goes Round Demo)
Falling For Faces (Demo)
The Real Ripper (Demo)
Teenager In Love
Mexican Sofa
Until The Night
Over You
Queen Of The High Teas
Bad Dreams
Time
Sticked and Stoned
Annie
Camel Crossing
Berlin
Man With No Name
Lullaby for Ezra
Up the Grey Stairs
Roman Gardens
Disc 3: 1983-1989
Terry (Extended Version)
Quietly Alone
One Little Lie (Demo)
A New England (Extended Version)
Patrick
I’m Going Out With An Eighty Year Old Millionaire
Trouble With People (Demo)
Man Of Steel (Demo)
He’s On The Beach (Extended Version)
Please, Go To Sleep
You Just Haven’t Earned It Yet, Baby (She’s Having A Baby Version)
Closer To God
The End Of A Perfect Day (Original Demo Version)
La Foret De Mimosa
Fifteen Minutes
What Do Pretty Girls Do?
Dancing In Limbo
You And Me Baby
Happy
El Paso
Still Life
Disc 4: 1989-1992
Innocence (The Guilt Mix)
No Victims (Guitar Heroes Mix)
Clubland
Other People’s Hearts
One Good Thing
He Never Mentioned Love
The Hardest Word
My Way Home
My Affair (Olive Groove Mix)
All The Tears That I Cried
A New England (Live At Glastonbury 26/06/92)
Innocence (Live At Glastonbury 26/06/92)
You Just Haven’t Earned It Yet, Baby (Glastonbury)
Fifteen Minutes / Don’t Come The Cowboy With Me, Sonny Jim! (Glastonbury)
Happy (Glastonbury)
Tread Lightly (Glastonbury)
Train In Vain / Walking Down Madison (Glastonbury)
Free World (Glastonbury)
There’s A Guy Works Down The Chip Shop Swears He’s Elvis (Glastonbury)
Disc 5: 1993-1996
Soho Square
Last Day Of Summer
Can’t Stop Killing You
Titanic Days
Big Boy On A Saturday Night
Angel (Stuart Crichton Piano Edit)
King Kong (Demo)
Dear John (Demo)
Fabulous Garden
Touch Me
Free World (Solana Beach)
Miss Otis Regrets (Solana Beach)
Irish Cousin
The Butcher Boy
As Long As You Hold Me (Electric Version)
Eu So Quero Un Xodo
In These Shoes? (Demo)
Things Happen (Demo)
Treachery (Demo) (a.k.a. Stalking A Fan)
Siempre Tu Rosa (Always Your Rose)
Disc 6: 1999-2000
Mambo De La Luna (Mint Royale Mix)
In These Shoes? (UR Crazy Remix)
Good For Me
Autumngirlsoup
Us Amazonians
Nao Esperando
Wrong Again
I Believe In Love
Sun On The Water (Demo)
Here Comes That Man Again (Jazz Cafe)
Head (Jazz Cafe)
Celestine (Jazz Cafe)
England 2 Colombia 0 (Jazz Cafe)
Designer Life (Jazz Cafe)
Days (Jazz Cafe)
Walking Down Madison (Jazz Cafe)
How Insensitive (Jazz Cafe)
My Affair (Jazz Cafe)
Disc 7: BBC recordings 1981-2000
I Don’t Wanna Play House (Something Else)
Queen Of The High Teas (Something Else)
You Can Have My Husband (Something Else)
Don’t Come The Cowboy With Me Sonny Jim! (BBC Radio 1 session 1)
What Do Pretty Girls Do? (BBC Radio 1 session 1)
Don’t Run Away From Me Now (BBC Radio 1 session 1)
Still Life (BBC Radio 1 session 1 )
There’s A Guy Works Down The Chip Shop Swears He’s Elvis (BBC Radio 1 Session 2)
Walk Right Back (BBC Radio 1 Session 2)
Darling, Let’s Have Another Baby (with Billy Bragg) (BBC Radio 1 Session 2)
Angel (Later, BBC TV 1))
Can’t Stop Killing You (GLR Session 1)
Soho Square (GLR Session 1)
Bad (GLR Session 1)
My Affair (BBC Radio 1 Session 3)
Miss Otis Regrets (with the 1st Battalion Irish Guards) (Later, BBC TV 2)
Caroline (GLR Session 2)
Free World (GLR Session 2)
A New England (Acoustic) (BBC Radio 1 Session 4)
He’s On The Beach (Acoustic) (BBC Radio 1 Session 4)
Tread Lightly (Live at The Fleadh)
I Wanna Be Sedated (Live at The Fleadh)
In These Shoes? (Later, BBC TV 3)
Disc 8: Other People’s Songs (Guest Appearances & Collaborations)
Darling Annie (with Peggy Seeger)
Breaking Down The Walls Of Heartache (with Jane Aire & The Belvederes)
Shutting The Doors (with Jools Holland)
You Broke My Heart in 17 Places (with Tracey Ullman)
Greetings To The New Brunette (with Billy Bragg &Johnny Marr)
Make Believe Mambo (Orisa) (with David Byrne)
The Manchester Rambler (with Ewan MacColl
Hallelujah (MacColl Mix) (with Happy Mondays)
Invisible To You (with Mary Coughlan
Wishing You Were Here (with Alison Moyet)
Boyfriend ’65 (with Holly Johnson)
Darling Let’s Have Another Baby (with Billy Bragg)
Welcome To The Cheap Seats (Naked Mix) (with The Wonderstuff)
Song For Someone (with Engine Alley)
Red Jeans (with Anthony Thistlethwaite)
Libertango (with Sharon Shannon)
People Uniting (with Chucho Merchan and Phil Manzanera)
Sail Away (with Ghostland)