Monday, August 11, 2014

AVERAGE WHITE BAND - ALL THE PIECES: THE COMPLETE STUDIO RECORDINGS 1971-2003 (BOX SET)

A huge run of funky soul from The Average White Band – a group who were already well above average at the start, then just got better and better as their music grew during the 70s! The package is the first we've ever seen to honor the group in this way – and includes all their important studio albums, plus lesser-known gems from later years – and 2-CDs' worth of rare material too – all in a box with a special 52 page book! Albums include Show Your Hand, How Sweet Can You Get, Average White Band, Put It Where You Want It, Cut The Cake, Soul Searching, Person To Person, Benny & Us, Warmer Communications, Feel No Fret, Shine, Volume VIII, Cupid's In Fashion, Aftershock, Soul Tattoo, and Living In Colour – plus those 2CDs of bonus alternates and rarities! 197 tracks in all – and very nicely done. 

All The Pieces features the band’s entire catalogue of recorded material on a 19CD box set, which includes all of the original studio albums (and ‘spoilers’ ‘Put It Where You Want It’ and ‘Volume VIII’) in mini-vinyl replica wallets, alternate versions and selected mixes, in this 172-track collection.

The box set includes the collectable re-packaged debut album ‘Show Your Hand’ – ‘Put It Where You Want It’ – whilst ‘Person To Person’ is packaged as a 2 disc gatefold wallet – to reflect the original 2LP set, ‘Feel No Fret’ is packaged as a gatefold release.The bonus CDs wallet artwork has been created by the legendary John Pasche.
  
Track Listing
CD 1: SHOW YOUR HAND (1973)
1. The Jugglers
2. This World Has Music
3. Twilight Zone
4. Put It Where You Want It
5. Show Your Hand
6. Back In ’67
7. Reach Out
8. T.L.C.

CD 2: HOW SWEET CAN YOU GET?
aka The Clover Sessions (2003)
1. Person To Person
2. Keepin’ It To Myself
3. There’s Always Someone Waiting
4. McEwan’s Export
5. Got The Love
6. Work To Do
7. Just Want To Love You Tonight
8. Pick Up The Pieces
9. I Just Can’t Give You Up
10. How Sweet Can You Get?
(first version)

CD 3: AVERAGE WHITE BAND (1974)
1. You Got It
2. Got The Love
3. Pick Up The Pieces
4. Person To Person
5. Work To Do
6. Nothing You Can Do
7. Just Want To Love You Tonight
8. Keepin’ It To Myself
9. I Just Can’t Give You Up
10. There’s Always Someone Waiting

CD 4: PUT IT WHERE YOU WANT IT (1975)
1. How Can You Go Home?
2. This World Has Music
3. Twilight Zone
4. Put It Where You Want It
5. Show Your Hand
6. Back In ’67
7. Reach Out
8. T.L.C.

CD 5: CUT THE CAKE (1975)
1. Cut The Cake
2. School Boy Crush
3. It’s A Mystery
4. Groovin’ The Night Away
5. If I Ever Lose This Heaven
6. Why
7. High Flyin’ Woman
8. Cloudy
9. How Sweet Can You Get?
10. When They Bring Down The Curtain

CD 6: SOUL SEARCHING (1976)
1. Overture
2. Love Your Life
3. I’m The One
4. A Love Of Your Own
5. Queen Of My Soul
6. Soul Searching
7. Goin’ Home
8. Everybody’s Darling
9. Would You Stay 5
10. Sunny Days
(Make Me Think Of You)
11. Digging Deeper (Finale)     

CD 7a & CD 7b: PERSON TO PERSON (1976)
1. Person To Person]
2. Cut The Cake
3. If I Ever Lose This Heaven
4. Cloudy
5. T.L.C.
6. I’m The One
7. Pick Up The Pieces
8. Love Your Life
9. School Boy Crush
10. I Heard It Through The Grapevine

CD 8: BENNY AND US (1977)
1. Get It Up For Love
2. Fool For You Anyway
3. A Star In The Ghetto
4. The Message
5. What Is Soul
6. Someday We’ll All Be Free
7. Imagine
8. Keepin’ It To Myself

CD 9: WARMER COMMUNICATIONS (1978)
1. Your Love Is A Miracle
2. Same Feeling, Different Song
3. Daddy’s All Gone
4. Big City Lights
5. She’s A Dream
6. Warmer Communications
7. The Price Of A Dream
8. Sweet And Sour
9. One Look Over My Shoulder
(Is This Really Goodbye?)

CD 10: FEEL NO FRET (1979)
1. When Will You Be Mine
2. Please Don’t Fall In Love
3. Walk On By
4. Feel No Fret
5. Stop The Rain
6. Atlantic Avenue
7. Ace Of Hearts
8. Too Late To Cry
9. Fire Burning

CD 11: SHINE (1980)
1. Our Time Has Come
2. For You, For Love
3. Let’s Go Round Again
4. Whatcha Gonna Do For Me?
5. Into The Night
6. Catch Me
(Before I Have To Testify)
7. Help Is On The Way
8. If Love Only Lasts For One Night
9. Shine

CD 12: VOLUME VIII (1980)
1. Kiss Me
2. Love Won’t Get In The Way
3. Love Gives, Love Takes Away
4. Growing Pains
5. Pick Up The Pieces
6. Person To Person
7. Cut The Cake
8. A Love Of Your Own
9. Queen Of My Soul

CD 13: CUPID’S IN FASHION (1982)
1. You’re My Number One
2. Easier Said Than Done
3. You Wanna Belong
4. Cupid’s In Fashion
5. Theatre Of Excess
6. I Believe
7. Is It Love That You’re Running From
8. Reach Out (I’ll Be There)
9. Isn’t It Strange
10. Love’s A Heartache           

CD 14: AFTERSHOCK (1988)
1. The Spirit Of Love
2. Sticky Situation
3. Aftershock
4. Love At First Sight
5. I'll Get Over You
6. Later We'll Be Greater
7. Let's Go All The Way
8. We're In Too Deep
9. Stocky Sachoo-A-Shun

CD 15: SOUL TATTOO (1996)
1. Soul Mine
2. Back to Basics
3. Livin' On Borrowed Time
4. Every Beat Of My Heart
5. When We Get Down To It
6. Oh Maceo
7. Do Ya Really
8. I Wanna Be Loved
9. No Easy Way To Say Goodbye
10. Love Is The Bottom Line
11. Welcome To The Real World
12. Window To Your Soul
13. You Shoulda' Known

CD 16: LIVING IN COLOUR (2003)
1. Check Your Groove
2. Down To The River
3. Living In Colour
4. One Of My Heartbeats
5. Close To You Tonight
6. Half Moon In The Crescent City
7. Think Small
8. I Can't Help It
9. I'm Gonna Make You Love Me
10. Love Won't Let Me Wait

CD 17: ALTERNATE VERSIONS & RARITIES
1. Reach Out
(first version – recorded 1971)
2. The Jugglers
(first version – recorded 1971)
3. It Didn’t Take Me A Minute
(recorded 1971)
4. In The Beginning
(recorded between 1971/1972)
5. Look Out Now
(recorded between 1971/1972)
6. White Water Dreams
(recorded between 1971/1972)
7. Walk Tall - Recorded live in 1976
(first released in 2005)
8. I’m Gonna Make You Love Me
Recorded live in 1976
(first released in 2005)
9. Wasn’t I Your Friend
10. Miss Sun - Recorded 1980

CD 18: THE MIXES
1. Back In ’67 (first version -
Recorded between 1971/1972)
2. The Spirit Of Love
(Radio Short Version)
3. The Spirit Of Love (Dance Mix)
4. Let’s Go Round Again
(The Brothers Mix)
5. Livin’ On Borrowed Time
(DJ Slok Remix)
6. Things (DJ Philly P & Joey M Remix)
7. Stop The Rain (Supreme One Mix)
8. Let’s Go Round Again
(Cosmic Village Mix)
9. Let’s Go Round Again (12” Version)

 




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